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by wincy 4y ago
I’d assume we’re arguing about general principles, not about specific jobs, it seems like navel gazing if we’re truly having a discussion strictly about “who is more valuable a garbage man or a McKinsey consultant”. It’s merely an illustrat
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by wincy 4y ago
It’s great for getting general outlines for software design documents and then “hang the meat” onto the outline.
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by wincy 4y ago
Maybe I was being a little dramatic and hyperbolic for effect. I don’t mean I never leave the house. I go to concerts and the zoo with my kids and whatever. I went on vacation across the country the other day. None of those things are helpi
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by wincy 4y ago
My lived experience is I sit safely in my suburban home with my children, comfortably collecting a salary to argue points of planning for software development. I work from home and very rarely leave the house. I am unwilling to go down to t
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by wincy 4y ago
It doesn’t require coordination any more than a flock of birds requires some “master bird” to tell it which way to turn. When all your friends are journalists, and all your Twitter friends are journalists, and you have to think about what y
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by wincy 4y ago
Definitely, and those people were filled with righteous conviction that they were the good guys.
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by wincy 4y ago
This seems like a weird metric, CPU market share seems to only include actual drop in CPUs that go with motherboards, right? If that’s the case, wouldn’t the overall CPU market be shrinking as we get things like the M-Series MacBooks and Ma
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by wincy 4y ago
I agree, and also very much doubt we are talking about the same side. Funny how that works.
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by wincy 4y ago
Gustav Holst’s Jupiter always does it for me. It’s absolutely sublime. I have to skip it when I’m working because otherwise I’ll have to take a break to bask in the glow of the song’s crescendo.
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by wincy 4y ago
I was of this mind at one point. I didn’t take ADHD medication through my teens or early 20s. It wasn’t until I got married and had a kid that I found myself struggling to provide for my family in a very real way that I saw a psychiatrist a
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by wincy 4y ago
It only works if you have more money than the other side, anyway.
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by wincy 4y ago
There was a chip shortage for old machines, bigger fabrication sizes, and because car manufacturers and others stupidly canceled their contracts with chip makers, anticipating a downturn when instead there was a huge boom in demand. Apple w
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by wincy 4y ago
We use this joke at work all the time, any time a Microsoft service is down we call it “Microsoft 359”. It’s the work equivalent of a dad joke.
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by wincy 4y ago
What do you mean, Microsoft 358 is an excellent product that has uptime for exactly what they’ve got on the label!
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by wincy 4y ago
In retrospect I think World of Warcraft was the only socializing I could really handle after some really traumatic events in my life. I excelled at the raiding aspects and was in a top guild; I became an officer which was a whole different
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by wincy 4y ago
I’m having a lot of fun with Duolingo right now. They definitely gamified the process of learning words (if not conversation, but I have a Spanish speaking friend who is cheering me on), I keep gaining experience and I have no idea what the
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by wincy 4y ago
I was super poor working at Target and managed to play 100+ hours a week of World of Warcraft.
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by wincy 4y ago
I guess maybe the people trashing on resorts just had a better upbringing than me. Lazing next to the gently lapping ocean in a salt water pool and chatting with my wife while my small children splash around happily in the 82°F weather whil
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by wincy 4y ago
I became a teenager right airline the time Napster showed up and could download anything I wanted. I had a music collection in the 10s of gigabytes, and I’d never heard of the Beatles except in passing. Certainly nobody was pushing me to li
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by wincy 4y ago
So, do normal people not feel like they’re going to throw up literally the entire train ride? I had a hard time taking a half hour train ride, much less a long one, but I also have a hard time being in the back seat of someone else’s car. I
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by wincy 4y ago
If you’re talking about my statement, I’ve been carrying a balance. Dumb reasons and I make enough that I’m getting my head above water now. I paid off the balance on a few of the cards and they almost instantly upped my credit limit by tho
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by wincy 4y ago
I wouldn’t advise this after seeing what Carmack did to that guy he got in a headlock. [0] “That was the tap part”, makes me laugh every time. [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X68Mm_kYRjc
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by wincy 4y ago
I just recently started attacking my credit card debt, paying off cards. As I’ve paid off each balance two of the cards have immediately raised my limit to double or even 10x(!) my previous limit. Which surprised me, the credit card compani
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by wincy 4y ago
Like how taking acid reducers seems like a great idea in the short term, when doing so leads to earlier onset of dementia because viruses and bacteria might slip through due to a less acidic digestive tract?
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by wincy 4y ago
Hah well thanks for humoring me and my apologies for making a mountain out of a molehill.
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by wincy 4y ago
If you watch Corridor Crew on YouTube (some special effects guys who I think are really on the cutting edge), they’ve got some excellent videos showing how much better the AI/ML de-aging is compared to doing it by hand. I think there’s
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by wincy 4y ago
Just curious, and this is hacker news so I feel emboldened to ask about linguistic quirks, do you pronounce “CGI” in a way that necessitates an “an” instead of “a” preceding it? If so where are you from and what accent would you say you hav
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by wincy 4y ago
If I can become rich instead of someone else, and the damage will be done either way, it seems perfectly rational if I can avoid any actual legal punishment (I don’t care about people on Twitter being angry with me, Twitter isn’t real life)
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by wincy 4y ago
How are you going to effectively regulate a white paper? Or Stable diffusion? These things can be trained on readily available, easily purchased by the average citizen commodity GPU hardware. Heck, there’s rumors NVIDIA has an RTX titan in
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by wincy 4y ago
If it happens even once those “lives saved” gains will be wiped away. If the stock market is rising for a hundred years then literally goes to zero, you’ve still lost the long game, buying short term gains at the expense of the long term. I

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