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by vladms 1y ago
If a project does not have several hundreds of bad ideas, then probably it is not popular. I don't follow that many projects in detail, but all that I follow get a lot of bad ideas in time. I think being qualified as a jerk or not is o
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by vladms 1y ago
I do agree on the points, but I think the root cause it's more connected to the use of the resources available. US has lots of resources and is willing to "bet" most of them on risky things. One implication is that they don&#
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by vladms 1y ago
I find this a strange way of thinking on a site called "hacker" news... In my opinion there is NO problem. We have powerful tools that give you freedom and the possibility of tinkering. Some people will use it in ways one doesn&#x
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by vladms 1y ago
While I don't agree with other points, things got clearer once I reached the following: > Marketers, content editors, SEOs, designers – they’re all locked out of the process. Because now, even simple tasks require technical fluency.
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by vladms 1y ago
Why hate them though? They can be great for some things, like messaging, maps, shopping lists and taking pictures. I never consider them "the ultimate computer", and I wouldn't want them to be, mostly because mobile stuff ca
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by vladms 1y ago
Average healthy life years was 71 years in Denmark (source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-a... ). By looking at the map it varies a lot between countries, and I assume between regions and o
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by vladms 1y ago
It wasn't about simply questioning. I do not want to repeat his stories as I did not live them and it would defeat the purpose. I just encourage you to meet people and talk to in person to them rather than think in "classes":
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by vladms 1y ago
Let's not ignore though that there are some people with some control. These systems do not appear because of a small conspiracy but because a lot of people think they are OK and don't bother to understand the issues and organize t
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by vladms 1y ago
Gaming on Linux using steam works great for me. There are more games than I have time to play and I don't even need to worry how they work (emulation vs native) as I had to do many years ago.
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by vladms 1y ago
Not all areas had a hiking app 10 years ago. I doubt is the case even today. And then, if you were "different" than the average preference, you had to put the effort to select the stuff good for you. Not that different to "f
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by vladms 1y ago
I honestly think we have more tools and they are more powerful than "before". I would give an example: find a weekend hike. Before (20-30 years ago): you need to have a book (for profit, curated) or a map (for profit, less info).
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by vladms 1y ago
My reply was directed to someone that seemed to suggest "there is not so much violence". I think the first step to discuss a topic is to understand what is there. If the statement would have been "I am fine that police in the
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by vladms 1y ago
Not sure how we define violence, but I found 2 links that show that in USA there are quite some more police killings per capita than in western Europe. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124039/police-killings-..
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by vladms 1y ago
For me the last 20 years showed the opposite. You should plan infrastructure considering current tech and adjust if required. There were so many promises not fulfilled and surprises where there were no promises that I don't see the poi
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by vladms 1y ago
I don't think "the findings" are the only thing that comes out of CERN. In the end we are communicating (and doing many other things) over something that originated as a CERN innovation ( https://home.cern/scie
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by vladms 1y ago
> LLMs will happily hallucinate. LLMs will happily tell you total lies with complete confidence. Perhaps we should avoid anthropomorphizing them too much. LLMs don't inhabit a "real world" where they can experiment and lea
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by vladms 1y ago
While agree with the whole analysis, I do wonder if most/enough/all the ones supporting the regime change in US are really conservatives ("embraced extreme conservatism") or they just feel/are "left behind&quot
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by vladms 1y ago
I think in some countries people understand all these issues and some do change their behavior, but it takes much longer than you would assume (reference: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-consumpti...
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by vladms 1y ago
Besides not being a one time activation, it was not a "one key". The game would ask you for "N-th word on the M-th paragraph on P-th page", at each start for example. We are talking about an age where you would not have
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by vladms 1y ago
I would claim that many people would be fine using something else because they use 30% of the features of the respective applications. They end up using Windows (or Android, or iOS) also because because that is the only option when you go i
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by vladms 2y ago
I think in real life there are more constraints. For example there are people that sleep better at a lower temperature than the daily one (so leaving the thermostat at the same temperature it's a minus for them). Regarding "what i
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by vladms 2y ago
I completely agree and would add that different people have different social needs. I love learning by myself. I don't need an example, I do it for fun. In the universities I studied, I have seen LOTS of people that were learning becau
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by vladms 2y ago
Too generic terms become an issue at some point. "Government" and "market" are not one thing that you can easily measure to "big" or "small" or "good" or "bad". To make a technical
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by vladms 2y ago
And what is the actual impact? Don't get me wrong, I don't think it is not bad, but then again abusing information could be done already by the said providers (ex: hike insurance rates based on previous conditions, taking advantag
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by vladms 2y ago
Regarding "what else has to happen": I would say something catastrophic. Nothing comes to mind recently. Security is good, but occasionally I wonder if technical people don't imagine fantastic scenarios of evil masterminds do
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by vladms 2y ago
The field exploded though, both in terms of complexity and of number of people involved. I know many engineers that can do from compiler optimizations to web apps. I also know "programmers" that don't want to learn a new libr
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by vladms 2y ago
All tech or all physical tech? For now software managed to somehow go in the opposite direction. In the '90s many / lots of operating systems / tools / libraries were paid / hard to access, today we have lots of (o
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by vladms 2y ago
Legislation usually tries to catch up with technology. In the times when people paid cash at a ticket office and they would not have had hundreds of options many of the things mentioned would not have happened - life was slower, there were
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by vladms 2y ago
From a forum with technical people (that build stuff) I would have hoped to see more ideas that would propose replacing advertising with something better (sorry, if I missed any replies, but did not see that). Advertising can be useful (to
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by vladms 2y ago
There is no claim that each drug costs 1$ billion. If you stop after 1-2 years of development you might have wasted some millions, if you stop after 3-4 years you wasted tens of millions and so on. The 10% success is still very low, because

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