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by xwdv 3y ago
I think the year 2122 will be closer to Dune than any of these more optimistic articles. Or maybe Fahrenheit 451 if we don’t totally screw up the environment, with a dose of Harrison Bergeron.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Personally I’d rather be a scientist doing a stint in Antarctica than be any kind of astronaut, although I know there is no use for a software engineer over there.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I wish there was a way we could automatically garnish any gratuities a debtor makes and put them toward a debt instead of the original business. With credit cards it should be more possible to do this.
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by xwdv 3y ago
A nice small SaaS will also almost always die quick. IMO, it is foolish to hinge the decision of taking VC money or not based on potential lifespan alone. VC money could kill your startup quickly, but you could potentially make a lot of sta
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by xwdv 3y ago
Just goes to show when devs push back, push harder.
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by xwdv 3y ago
They will use it, but they don’t know it’s Windows or what an OS is. They’ll just say it’s a Microsoft computer or PC. Or “not Apple”. Maybe even Android.
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by xwdv 3y ago
> There is no one orchestrating this. There wasn’t before. There is now. Lobbyists are pushing for it. Big investment firms like Vanguard and Blackrock that have a lot to lose if the commercial real estate market collapses are pushing co
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by xwdv 3y ago
Why stop at Taxis? You could be required to watch a short ad before pumping some gas or entering a restroom.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t think you really owe people anything to put the punchline first like this. Sure it helps ease some people’s anxiety, but there have been times where I’ve purposely taken an opposite approach, meandering through various vivid details
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by xwdv 3y ago
I doubt it. First of all, if I fought back, they would perceive it as a challenge to their dominance, and then they would beat the fuck out of me without holding anything back. Previously they would beat me up just enough that I could live
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by xwdv 3y ago
HN regular conducts DDoS attacks on small weak websites.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I never dared to fight back because I was weak and I knew it wasn’t going to be enough to just win a fight anyway. If I fought back they’d beat me up even harder, I really felt like I was going to die in middle school, and no one would care
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by xwdv 3y ago
I got the shit beaten out of me nearly everyday in middle school, and it contributed to my bitter cynicism about the world and justice in general, and shattered my ethical compass.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Not really. Space is a really chill environment. The worst that could happen is your spaceship blows up, but we’ve gotten pretty good at not doing that lately. The bottom of the sea is far harsher and less forgiving. Everything about it tel
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by xwdv 3y ago
Not really, there’s just nothing to gain from doing so and a lot to lose.
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by xwdv 3y ago
That’s it then, there must be some kind of life in those vents on Europa.
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by xwdv 3y ago
What comes after Zoom? A regression to simpler lightweight tech. Most people here don’t even turn on their cameras. There’s no point. It wastes bandwidth, makes people self conscious, and adds little to no value. Increasingly, we see the us
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by xwdv 3y ago
See that’s the thing about being a global company: You can pay off the fines in one country as part of an expense for a branch in another, where it can then be deducted from taxes in that foreign country. So yea, fuck you courts.
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by xwdv 3y ago
There’s gotta be some financial engineering that ultimately results in deduction somehow.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Fines like this are a nice little tax write off, just another business expense.
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by xwdv 3y ago
To me it’s far more magical to setup your workspace like some panopticon of code and somehow observe everything all at once.
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by xwdv 3y ago
No it’s not. I guarantee you I can jump damn near instantly to any tab or application window I want faster than you could turn your head. It’s like the difference between pushing your mouse a couple inches to carefully click some element, v
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by xwdv 3y ago
Why do you need a long code window? You should always be a couple key strokes away from anywhere in the code base. This makes having to see everything all at once irrelevant. Visually seeing all that code doesn’t increase productivity, ju
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by xwdv 3y ago
Back in the days of office work having multiple monitors was mostly a power move, a sort of status symbol like having a corner office with windows. There’s really no need for anything more than a single screen. I don’t even work off anythin
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by xwdv 3y ago
Might seem counterintuitive but the productivity gain of having more screen real estate has diminishing returns very quickly beyond one screen and any perceived gains are mostly placebo.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I am almost certain Asians (not Indians etc) look more alike than other races. Sure, there may be differences that let you identify an individual, but at a distance of say 20 feet, can you resolve those differences and identify who you’re l
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by xwdv 3y ago
I don’t think it’s worth worrying about or changing your writing style. I’m tired of these people who blanche in the face when you write something in a way that isn’t how they expect and where they are haunted by the possibility of a double
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by xwdv 3y ago
If it had not been surged price, it would have been a hell of a deal.
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by xwdv 3y ago
That sounds like a much more convincing explanation than “we simply don’t have this material”.
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by xwdv 3y ago
So you’re saying there’s a way.

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