DavidPiper

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by DavidPiper 19d ago
Excerpts from a response to "human nature" arguments (source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZDCXpEsSZZ ) >>> Arguments based on human nature are nearly always awful. ... It's human nature to care
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by DavidPiper 1mo ago
I agree with you too, but I don't think it's necessarily a gross over-exaggeration: it's possible that the majority of the buying population are extremely vulnerable to manipulation. "Average" doesn't necessari
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by DavidPiper 1mo ago
Remember when Firefox was the first browser to have "tabbed browsing"? Obviously UBO isn't a first party feature - but if only Firefox could generate as much traction about ad blocking as they did with tabs.
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by DavidPiper 1mo ago
At the start of this year I wrote down "Get rid of your Airpods" as a New Years Resolution. This was basically my proxy for "stop filling every spare moment with audiobooks and podcasts". I still haven't done it, an
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by DavidPiper 1mo ago
> The person [is not super fired up and] doesn’t just want to act as a soldier for their team This pulled me into a tangential thought: Has anyone else noticed that a lot of people just CAN'T be wrong? They might be contrarian, cyni
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by DavidPiper 1mo ago
and hexaflexagons are the bestaflexagons
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by DavidPiper 2mo ago
When I was 11, I pulled a book off the shelf at the nearby library called "Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days". I remember thinking the title was clearly nonsense, but if I could even learn a fraction of it, that would be pretty cool.
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by DavidPiper 2mo ago
> Vulkan - I don't even want to know Almost 1000: https://github.com/Overv/VulkanTutorial/blob/main/code/15_he... (From Chapter 15 of the Vulkan Tutorial from vulkan-tutorial.com)
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by DavidPiper 2mo ago
Very happy JamCorder customer here. I've started playing in improv shows since I bought it too, and it's nice to have those on record! It's rare that I come across a product I have literally zero complaints about, or any feed
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by DavidPiper 2mo ago
FWIW I don't think it's pathetic at all, and I have the same reaction as you to a lot of things on HN. There are a wide variety of topics that bring out various biases and other cognitive blind spots in people, and bots. Space tra
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by DavidPiper 2mo ago
Oh that hit me more than I thought it would, thank you.
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by DavidPiper 3mo ago
> Pop-ups! Pop-ups everywhere! This part, at least, is satire, right? The rest I largely agree with :-)
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by DavidPiper 3mo ago
And their reputation suffered so much that we're calling it out on an internet forum decades later.
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by DavidPiper 3mo ago
> But I can’t help but feel that the effort meant something. Each person that put in the effort is one additional review point. Thinking, Writing, Editing, Proofing, Publishing, Distributing, Selling... At every step, a human had the opp
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by DavidPiper 3mo ago
I love(?) that he absolutely predicted a global disaster between 2020-2025, he just got the wrong type. Which is very JavaScript.
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by DavidPiper 3mo ago
Sadly it doesn't quite go away even when you've turned everything off: https://davids.town/dear-apple-please-fix-ios-music
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
Everyone got real loud when Windows 10 was killed off. And it happened anyway. I expect the same will happen this time, as do Microsoft. Might be time to go back to a second, air-gapped machine so I can actually use all the software I paid
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
Slightly facetiously, but also completely seriously: I thought the speaker was talking about a "solution" that explicitly frames the students as the "problem" - and the students noticed.
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
Not sure I agree with some of your points, but also not sure they're downvote-worthy. As a non-American, the only thing I could probably argue against in good faith with enough context is Point 2. I took from the 10 stories that everyb
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
Another opportunity to recommend "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45" by Milton Mayer. The audiobook is great too. A critical but empathetic look at how fascism rises and spreads through, and alongside, ordinary peop
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
Assembly for the correct architecture is only one part of getting an executable running on a machine. - Dynamic libraries (e.g. for calling into the kernel, but also user space dynamic libraries) are OS-specific (.so for Linux, .dylib for m
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by DavidPiper 4mo ago
I really enjoyed OP's story, and the way they told it. Knowing the location of Richmond Hill is really not the point.
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
Who said AI taking your job is "the most likely" case? Even by those extreme estimates of 30% unemployment or whatever - that still leaves ~65% of jobs not lost to AI.
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
You don't have any idea what job they have, how good they are at it, what their company does, what industry they work in, whether their income is backed by labour, knowledge work, emotional connection, government relationships, capital
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of comments like this lately: "Oh well, we were in an anomalous time of social growth, time to go backwards! We won't even need to read or write or think! It's all just too bad, but that's just the
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
Nope, looks like someone's angling for some sweet domain parking money. Or a lawsuit, given macOS is a trademark.
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
That is the question society is currently asking with articles like this one. Given that (allegedly) "your salary" won't be the answer for a significant chunk of the population soon, and all that money will instead (allegedly
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
I am not at all proposing that "people with billions of dollars" somehow directly pay for "the needs of the population as a whole". I'm considering "actual power", rather than "actual income".
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
I wholeheartedly agree with and encourage this kind of academic distinction. However... Until people with billions of dollars behind them do something with that money to offset the financial hardship that they're knowingly - and gleefu
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by DavidPiper 5mo ago
This analogy only works if the toddler buys their own lego and, while assembling it, the neighbour's toddler - whose parents can't afford to buy lego - chokes to death. It is possible to build things that don't hurt people. I

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