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by allendoerfer 12d ago
Having secure browsers, encryption etc. actually clearly benefits the world. No “but think about the children/terrorists” please.
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by allendoerfer 14d ago
Research has shown that people like to walk counterclockwise (right to left) through supermarkets, which is why they are arranged like this for maximum profit.
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by allendoerfer 1mo ago
"I may have been early, but I am not wrong!" "It's the same thing, Michael! It's the same thing!"
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by allendoerfer 4mo ago
How?
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by allendoerfer 5mo ago
> In my team, my rule is: if it’s better than what’s on master, you approve and merge. This causes unnecessary code changes later on, code changes mean new code, new code has bugs. The team should try to get it close to perfect on the fi
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by allendoerfer 6mo ago
ChatGPT thinks, that in the US social security makes up about 30-40% of the retirement income of a typical American, while the German system makes up about 80-85% of a retired German. Home ownership rate in Germany is also way lower. German
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by allendoerfer 6mo ago
Here in Germany they also ignored the demographics, so our social insurance systems (retirement but also health) are heading towards a catastrophe, because there is no capital backing them. They are fundamentally relying on the next generat
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by allendoerfer 1y ago
What if the user wants to use the file outside the browser, where they do not have access to the HTTP headers?
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by allendoerfer 1y ago
Images almost always do.
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by allendoerfer 1y ago
What about file extensions?
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by allendoerfer 1y ago
Cultural imperialism.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
> My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
While it is not Django's responsibility to unite the Python ecosystem, continuing to rely on a tool a sizeable share of the community deems inferior to a popular alternative will keep these discussions open and results in the fragmenta
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
Type hints are were the whole Python ecosystem is going, so using them is more integration at a deeper level than using an integrated framework, which is not relying on them. SQLAlchemy was historically a much better ORM than Django's.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
Do not disturb my deep work phases with your HN comments!
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
New Zealand is also 4 places ahead of the US in terms of human development[0]. It would not make sense for the US to look at a country this much more developed. It should rather compare itself to its peers, e.g. Slovenia. /s [0]: http
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
The original topic of this thread was environmentalism and Apple having a greener image than they deserve, while they are just a corporation (like all others), which is following its incentives. Now, I never said I wanted to outlaw branding
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
From a European perspective, I would never suggest making information about individuals public, not even criminals. Even though where I am from, we seem to swing to far in the other direction when it comes to protecting the rights of perpet
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
What you are describing would be totally fine, if corporations would not be able to spend money on branding and/or humans were not susceptible to that.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
In Germany there is § 138 BGB [0], forbidding a "conspicious misproportion" of price and service. I assume other countries must have similar laws. [0]: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__138.html
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
It looked more and more like you wanted to say that morals are not an "all or nothing" thing from where it is easy to leap to being apologetic to just a little bit of (systematic) wrongdoing. But judging from your reaction, this
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
You are carefully trying to stay vague and are avoiding to name even a single counter-example. You are just claiming that my examples are wrong. This is the definition of a "No true Scotsman" fallacy. Name one non-capitalistic sys
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
So you would say these systems are no true scotsmen ?
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
We have tried systems based on some seemingly absolute moral codex. Some parts of the world are still doing it. Unfortunately it always comes with brutal ways to kill arbitrary groups of people.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
I am not suggesting that airlines should see their operations as non-critical (and let a third party make arbitrary untested updates to their critical systems). But maybe some organizations using air travel can learn from this. I am still h
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
Stopping air travel has probably canceled a lot of unnecessary meetings and slowed down global warming. Maybe events like this provide value in that they indentify which systems are actually mission critical.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
> Makes me wonder if there's a missing format out there that should be built into browsers that describes shapes and connections. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
Why does it matter which Americans are dying? Other countries are not uniform either, averages are still applicable.
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
"The US has a poverty problem. People are dying." "Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states. We have to divide our analysis of the United States: Over here in California - you now were the people we care about
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by allendoerfer 2y ago
You did. In your above post.

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