ascotan

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by ascotan 1mo ago
>>>Recent research shows that developers—especially women and older engineers—face a “competence penalty” when using AI and why did this study (performed in China I might add) find that women and “mature age” (which is not defined
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by ascotan 1mo ago
Oof. All coding standards have to be written as an RFC document?
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by ascotan 1mo ago
“virtually all” - said the three anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
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by ascotan 2mo ago
correct. the push for dispensaries has been financial not medical. now that we are getting large scale trials there will be more real evidence to show the public health effects. my guess: it will go the way of smoking eventually. realiza
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by ascotan 2mo ago
i thought apple is already doing this on all it's devices?
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by ascotan 2mo ago
its the definition of precise geolocation data in the va code: https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title59.1/chapter53/sect...
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by ascotan 3mo ago
The article is misleading. The sale of geolocation data can still take place but not for precise locations. The bill prevents the sale of data that can identify you within 1750ft. You can still be tracked just not precisely. i.e. companie
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by ascotan 3mo ago
so.. hand over your data to china to spite orange man. yes excellent move.
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by ascotan 3mo ago
yep. and anyone not aligning to the anti-american reddit rants here get downvoted. shows you where HN is going.
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by ascotan 3mo ago
The implications are far reaching beyond cell phones. any service that stores location data for it's user is subject to 4th amendment expectations _regardless_ of an opt-in. The court specifically rejected the argument that by opting
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by ascotan 4mo ago
this proposal is an extension of the WH crackdown on what it sees as misuse of USG funds for things that are deemed not in the best interests of the USG. Among other things this proposal attempts to prevent: 1. prevention of DEI related gra
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by ascotan 4mo ago
my 2cents: FUD will AI displace jobs: yes undoubtly. But it's not equal even across the tech sector. Outsourcing jobs are extremely at risk. Companies have been offshoring to vietnam, india, malaysia, etc for decades because they&#x2
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by ascotan 4mo ago
clickbait. they knew what they were doing. there's a long history of X is dead posts. PHP is dead, Java is dead, jquery is dead, unix is dead, REST is dead, graphql is dead, microservices is dead. and of course none of those things ar
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by ascotan 4mo ago
here's the uncomfortable truth. most software engineers are good enough to hire. i've seen a few interview types in my time: 1. technical interviews run by nontechnical or junior engineers who can't judge technical talent. th
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by ascotan 4mo ago
DeepSeek's official privacy policy explicitly states: “To provide you with our services, we directly collect, process and store your Personal Data in the People's Republic of China.” US companies dont sell AI services in China (as
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by ascotan 4mo ago
Actually i think AI makes junior devs dumber. Senior devs learned over the gigantic mountains of failed projects they've built. I still get people telling me to build flat file databases - nope. Build me a micro service architecture
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by ascotan 4mo ago
Love reading all the TDS comments about Americans are the new Nazis and Orange Man is bad. However, this article isn't very good: NIH has publish guidance: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files&#x2
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by ascotan 5mo ago
The real reason for the “cartels” in the US is because of the cost of infrastructure versus the subscribers cost. Because the United States is so large there are only a few companies that can create the infrastructure required to service la
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by ascotan 5mo ago
I don’t think this is correct. This is about German politics. Their central bank has been attempting to repatriate gold since 2013 in an effort to centralize their holdings. It’s also not just about the US. In theory, Germany could move all
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by ascotan 3y ago
Alzheimer's is a prion disease. Prions are proteins that cause other proteins to misfold. What's interesting is that most prion diseases are transmitted through ingestion or physical contact - possibly there's a correlation
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by ascotan 3y ago
Idempotentancy on POST isn't just about preventing double posting. For POST the RFC says you can return 303 when the call to create a resource would have resulted in generating an existing resource. You need a Location header for allow
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by ascotan 3y ago
I don't think this is a reflection on performance. seems like the key word here is "obligated" to work after hours. this is due to managers pushing deadlines on their reports. honestly this isn't much of a surprise. If
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by ascotan 3y ago
I think the definition of "productivity" is part of the problem. Managers view "productivity" as the ability to bounce ideas off each other and working collaboratively to get traction on hard problems. This isn't ho
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by ascotan 3y ago
it's a millennial thing. they grew up working on laptops and their dream office is to make the workplace look like starbucks. Open seating, no cubicles, a barista. It's a knee-jerk reaction to the old office place standard of &
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by ascotan 3y ago
No ,when money is cheap people buy assets. Doesn't really matter what it is as long as it goes up in value. Bitcoin, Homes, NFT, who cares. This isn't quite the same thing as inflation. Inflation is the cost of milk and eggs. That
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by ascotan 3y ago
What makes this satire interesting is there is a conflict here. People sitting on $4 million homes in Palo Alto want to see more affordable housing. Just not here and not now.
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by ascotan 3y ago
You forgot about people building homes to be used as airbnb's.
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by ascotan 3y ago
There is a reason these places are uninhabited.
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by ascotan 3y ago
https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf So i think the trendline in terms of homeownership rates seems to be gently decreasing for all age groups, but there's a big spike during the
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by ascotan 3y ago
Here's are a few charts tracking home prices vs the consumer price index: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-vs-inflation/ https://www.bankingstrategist.com/housing-prices-hpi-vs-cpi

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