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by windward 2y ago
Is this a mean trick to snipe HN users into thinking about algorithms for hours? I have a friend who wants to know.
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by windward 2y ago
The translation built into Chrome regularly misinterprets Japanese as Chinese (despite this being objectively, trivially detectable for any significantly long string based just on the codepoints) and offers no way to correct it. This is a n
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by windward 2y ago
Both have anime adaptations, neither are anime original.
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by windward 2y ago
Discord search thinks it knows better than you and won't let you search verbatim.
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by windward 2y ago
An example of the worst-of-both-worlds 'always needs updates' like a website but 'takes over your screen (while strobing your taskbar) so you can't multitask' like a desktop program.
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by windward 2y ago
Skype is ending this year. Some founders and investors won but only thanks to greater fools. (notable that three of the four greater fools in your post are Microsoft)
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by windward 2y ago
>If walking "a few kilometres with a 3kg gaming laptop on your back" is a problem for you This is disingenuous. It's not a problem, just less desirable.
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by windward 2y ago
People who can't grok email aren't making useful changes to PuTTY
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by windward 2y ago
A few comments also mention experience being out-of-date. I expect that's true in webdev, but an embedded C developer could take a 10 year break and still be using the same compiler version. It varies a lot with context. Manager isn&#x
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by windward 2y ago
Skill is irrelevant: the output is a small, low-priority feature.
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by windward 2y ago
You can see this when you join a (disfunctional) new team, notice the friction, then suggest improving it.
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by windward 2y ago
>I can commit small features strategically (like if a partner team isn't getting a lot of love but we're under-resourced) Like a 10X (cost) intern?
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by windward 2y ago
It got 1700 points.
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by windward 2y ago
Those perceived to be doing good are often used to lessen the blow of those perceived to be doing bad. Like how it's not so bad if your train sinks of faeces if there's a bus you can take instead. Losing the safe alternative makes
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by windward 2y ago
Lab and hub are different words.
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by windward 2y ago
Are they? Their incentive is to maintain their revenue stream, almost all of which currently comes from Google. That source is now under threat so, to continue being able to pay the bills, they need to find another. And it's a big hole
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by windward 2y ago
From my experience of messing around with cheats in other games, things like this are a great way to permanently ruin the fun for yourself.
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by windward 2y ago
I think a good chunk of services I receive from small businesses are underpriced due to people not realising the business they're starting has an upside similar to being an employee but with much greater personal financial risk and wor
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by windward 2y ago
We're still icing and elevating? I've always felt dubious about our attempts to rectify our bodies evolving inflammation. It doesn't seem like any great evil to let the body part get more blood, signals to stop us using it, a
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by windward 2y ago
AI coding tool implementers seem to be fans of novel editor fonts.
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by windward 2y ago
Insufficient patent office jobs? The money stifles. There's not enough money for everyone who wants a Very Large Array of their own. People don't have money to sit around thinking all day. There needs to be some system of deciding
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by windward 2y ago
Hardly a quality of the working environment then. You get the same just by working in the vicinity of the institution.
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by windward 2y ago
Impelementing the grammar is the easiest 0.1% of programming language dissemination. Adding explicit non-const to g++ would be so, so easy. But pointless.
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by windward 2y ago
Doesn't matter, anyone knowledgable enough to buy a VPN has reduced their marketing entropy.
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by windward 2y ago
Did you choose not to give the reverse analogy upon discovering that EEs working on medicine are already called medical engineers?
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by windward 2y ago
Yet I write software 3:
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by windward 2y ago
I have an EE degree. Pleasure to meet you.
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by windward 2y ago
Having the same IP is a pretty good indicator of shared context!
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by windward 2y ago
Strong agree. Failure to grok what comes with Vim often results in a permenent Nerdtree pane.
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by windward 2y ago
4 and 1.b: extra silion being used by G PUs. CPU performance isn't that important anymore. I know, I know: all the software you use is slow and awful. But it's generally bad thanks to a failure to work around slow network and dis

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