whynotminot

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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I think it’s designed around that easily replaceable and very commonly found battery. Which is an appreciated and surprisingly un-Apple move. Despite some physical limitations this imposes, I applaud it.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Yes? That’s what I said.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I don’t know what the solution is, because a fourth branch of government also could be problematic. But it’s becoming a very obvious problem that the justice department is not separate from the executive.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I think you're kind of (completely) missing my point. Who signs two year leases at a motel? Obviously someone with a kid enrolled in school and locked into a long-term lease is not transient and has a comparable amount of skin in the g
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Most places I know of let you vote if you have that kind of persistent record of living somewhere. I don’t know your specific situation.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Sure but there’s degrees to this. If you’re a day laborer renting a room at the local motel, it’s a lot easier for you to say “screw this place I’m going to the next town over” than for someone who has their kids enrolled in the highschool
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I don’t know man but I also know that loopholes get exploited. I think local voting should be for actual locals. To your point that so few people actually vote, it doesn’t take much to sway a local election.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
I don’t want someone drifting through town in the local motel to be able to meaningfully vote to change the city I am rooted in.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
It’s not like they were summarily executed. They are much freer now outside of corporate control to speak their minds as they please. The only real question is if anyone deems them worth listening to.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
As far as I can tell, no one seems to think much of value was lost.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Honestly the scary part is that we don’t really even need one more Opus. If all we had for the rest of our lives was Opus 4.5, the software engineering world would still radically change. But there’s no sign of them slowing down.
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
Yeah, I might be early to this. And certainly, I still read a lot of code in my day to day right now. But I sure write a lot less of it, and the percentage I write continues to go down with every new model release. And if I'm no long
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by whynotminot 9mo ago
> The hard thing about engineering is not "building a thing that works", its building it the right way, in an easily understood way, in a way that's easily extensible. You’re talking like in the year 2026 we’re still writi
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
It feels like we all signed up to be ICs, but now we’re middle managers and our reports are bots.
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
What they said sounded pretty direct to me.
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
> create pointless complexity My exact thought. A lot else has failed in your system, from access control to API design, if this becomes a problem. Security by obscurity isn’t the answer. If the only thing between an attacker and your DB
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
You guys must really hate running (and love missing the point). It wasn't even intended to be a "bad straw man" -- I literally would be fine running a 5K. If it was a documented example of a way I could meet their expectation
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
True it’s all kind of hand wavy at the end of the day for a lot of this performance review stuff. This just seems to be especially hand-wavy , with an additional whiff of ideological litmus testing thrown on, which could go sideways in mor
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
It’s weird to have vague, non-business expectations built into a yearly performance review. If you can give me some more examples I’m happy to hear them. So far, commentators have listed: (1) dietary considerations for team meals. (2) part
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
> If you remove a reaction to politics and/or management practice, this is quite an obvious question, no? Why are we putting questions that could very easily elicit a political reaction into corporate yearly performance reviews?
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
I feel like there’s already HR processes in place for someone who is creating a hostile workplace? I prefer my yearly company expectations to be quantifiable with clear metrics. And instead this is the kind of squishy question that eludes a
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
While there’s a lot of this era that’s deeply unfortunate, this kind of question on my yearly review would be incredibly vexing to me: > What impact did your actions have in contributing to a more diverse and inclusive Microsoft? What do
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by whynotminot 10mo ago
How many times would appease you?
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
Ok cool man. I guess we’ve had a different cultural experience. shrug
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
where did you work where this was a thing? I know lots of people who joke about it -- "haha not human until I've had my cup" -- but I've never been anywhere where people treat it like a competition.
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
It’s kind of a meme to dunk on Electron, but here’s it’s been for years. It’s part of the furniture at this point, for better or worse. Maybe don’t bet on it, but certainly wouldn’t be smart to bet against it, either.
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
The size here is actually important too. I think the PS5 is monstrously large and ugly. I do not want it in my living room. If this little box is roughly PS5 power and reasonably priced (we shall see) then that might hit just right.
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
Yall forgetting they literally made an amazing iPhone Mini that no one bought
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
It’s always funny to me when people on hackernews assume that all technology created is intended for their use.
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by whynotminot 11mo ago
Maybe they should only offer MacBook Pros, then.

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