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by xingped 5d ago
One of the many reasons I refuse to even speak to recruiters anymore.
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by xingped 8d ago
Every time AI is used it is a theft from artists, programmers, writers, and all creative workers whose work was used to train it without permission or compensation and are now unable to find work or buyers. It is absolutely theft and you&#x
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by xingped 10d ago
Yeah that's not really a brag...
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by xingped 11d ago
Did the IPO invitations ever actually happen? I did receive an email about it but then it was nothing but crickets, so I assumed it was their attempt to somehow fleece their users with "oh we triiiied to care about our users, it's
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by xingped 11d ago
Yes, this is quite common and is usually referred to as "it's expensive to be poor". That said, unfortunately these days it's very difficult to know which brands are still actually quality anymore and which are the ones
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by xingped 12d ago
Yeah, the teleporting was an exceedingly annoying and un-fun mechanic. In games, players don't like when something happens without warning and are unable to react to it. This is why we have telegraphing. Dev, if you want to keep the me
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by xingped 12d ago
Using browser history is a pretty bad way to handle changing the figurine. I don't want to use the back button a dozen times to exit the exact same page I've been on the whole time.
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by xingped 13d ago
Wow, screw me for actually being honest, I guess. I'll remember to sound more authoritative next time so no one questions my statements rather than trying to honestly invite others to share additional clarifying information. Thanks! Yo
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by xingped 13d ago
> Once you come to terms with the idea that translating an exact specification into decent code isn't a unique skill any more, you can start looking at the larger set of problems that you face as a software engineer and realize that
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by xingped 13d ago
It is possible to intercept text messages and phone calls in such a way that the recipient never even knows a text message or phone call was sent to them in the first place. SMS is an extremely insecure channel for handling authentication c
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by xingped 15d ago
Okay and where are yours or literally anyone else's citations in this thread? Because I don't see any citations on any other comments and every other explanation could be just as equally as wrong without them. Why don't you g
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by xingped 15d ago
I thought I heard once it was because diesel might be more polluting than regular gas and thus has extra taxes on it? I could be entirely wrong though.
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by xingped 15d ago
I think a lot of HN commenters are way too disconnected from the average person. You're making a big assumption that a user will even connect the dots until the same thing happens multiple times, if even then. The average computer user
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by xingped 18d ago
Why would they? They're firmly in the "too rich to care what the peasants think" bucket as well as not being culturally relevant for 20 years. Honestly, the fact that someone even posted here is pretty cringeworthy.
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by xingped 18d ago
Once in a while I decide to try letting an AI solve a programming problem for me. I have rarely had it actually manage to do so without immediately careening off the road into a ditch and then refusing to get out of the ditch because this i
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by xingped 19d ago
You have to be super careful about how insidious "both sides are the same"/"what-about"-ers can be with false equivalences.
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by xingped 19d ago
That has never stopped companies from spamming me with marketing even when I didn't agree or even explicitly disagreed (unchecked). Not a single company has been or ever will be held accountable so they just keep doing it.
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by xingped 24d ago
I love how most any RTO-proponent always presents RTO as "well I'm glad you're back in the office with me because that's better for me". Ask most any WFH-proponent about going to the office and the answer will read
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by xingped 25d ago
The last time it wouldn't update an app, I could see in the app store and on the website that my app had a new version, but no matter what I did, I could not make it update the app. I don't know what I was doing "wrong",
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by xingped 25d ago
This is not me simping for Google, I would honestly prefer literally anyone else with an acceptable app store experience, but I can honestly say I've never had that experience with the Play Store. If there's an update, it updates.
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by xingped 25d ago
I have not, but honestly, at this point, I just don't really care anymore. I can only try and be rebuffed by a product so many times.
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by xingped 25d ago
I've honestly never understood why F-Droid even still exists. Every time I've tried to use it (as recently as half a year ago) it's still a shitshow and never displays or updates apps correctly. Half the time an app showed up
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by xingped 26d ago
I think the problem is with the word feel . Reducing how much you get while saying it'll feel like you're getting more isn't usually a good thing. It's very weasely wording hoping most people will miss that and think wh
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by xingped 26d ago
Found the manager.
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by xingped 26d ago
It's not like they ever hesitate to do that to you when it benefits them in some way.
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by xingped 28d ago
As usual, the automated HN title mangler strikes again.
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by xingped 1mo ago
As far as I could tell from everything I've read from multiple sources, every Pixel since Pixel 4 _has_ the chip, it's just not enabled and you can enable it with rooting. https://xdaforums.com/t/global-pixel-
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by xingped 1mo ago
Pixel phones bought outside Japan supposedly can if you do a little adb hacking to enable it, but I don't have a Pixel to try it myself.
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by xingped 1mo ago
>...sustainable engineering, correctness, and keeping DuckDB open and MIT-licensed for everyone Hah. Never have I ever heard a sentence that described Amazon less.
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by xingped 1mo ago
Thanks for saving the rest of us the time of day.

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