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by bbarn 4d ago
It's definitely one of the saddest stories in our industry. Peter Norton's books literally taught me to program as a teenager, and now his name is synonymous with mal/bloatware.
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by bbarn 19d ago
Not sure how it would affect home mortgages but the majority of icelanders are on mortgage plans that the principal remaining rises with inflation(I forget the name, I left a few years ago) - and will never likely pay them off.
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by bbarn 20d ago
Because they don't license it for and support it running on millions of different combinations of models, hardware, etc. MacOS can be clean only because it has such limited scope of what it has to handle compared to windows/linux
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by bbarn 25d ago
I live in a rural area and have only seen a Waymo a few times when travelling for work. Does Waymo require the user to have a driver's license? If they did, and get agreement of responsibility, that's one thing, but generally if
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by bbarn 25d ago
You should be in your project description stating something like I know you are not a lawyer but use your best effort to help me find supporting legal information as by law I am allowed to represent myself. I did this for a demand letter fo
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by bbarn 28d ago
Exactly this. I've seen production level trading systems grind to a halt over a simple bug and no matter what tests you have in place, it happens.
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by bbarn 4mo ago
Uber is especially bad here. I live rural, but when I travel I use it (and uber eats sometimes) when I'm out of town. At this point I uninstall the app and only install it when I know I might use it because it's so invasive with
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by bbarn 5mo ago
I can't remember, could you buy a math coprocessor for it? I know my 286 you could pair with a 287 next to it.. not sure if it really made a difference you could discern outside of hyper-specific uses though.
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by bbarn 7mo ago
If anyone doesn't know where to start - start in places you're stuck next to people. Like in line to check out at the grocery store. I have struck up dozens of conversations looking at the belt and guessing what they're mak
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by bbarn 7mo ago
I still use it on iOS, and I've tried to remove all other keyboards, but Apple still just seems to "make up" keyboards I don't know are installed. Or switch keyboards on me mid-typing a word to a weird native one I also
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by bbarn 8mo ago
Working for London startups in the past, I've found they're much more polite, but much less honest and straightforward. There's a layer of britishness you have to get past sometimes to get to what people really want instead
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by bbarn 9mo ago
Except the impact of even gas prices going up has added to costs in basically anything delivered by truck. Every tax you put on that just eventually ends up in consumer hands.
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by bbarn 9mo ago
It was very much on and off for many years. It was intended to cover the costs then go away. Instead they installed stream lined overhead tolls to not have to wait at the toll booth anymore and now it's just a perpetual tax. It'
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by bbarn 9mo ago
I had a similar issue living abroad. My wife had a work visa (which was the reason we we moving) and I was allowed to go being a spouse, but once there getting a permit to work for myself was impossible without a job, and a job was impossi
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by bbarn 9mo ago
I mean, as a hiring manager, a fresh grad with multiple bug bounties tells me a lot about their drive and skill, so I'd agree. It's a great differentiator.
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by bbarn 10mo ago
I think the cultural norm of a stance like this for attendees will condition people over time to follow the opposite side of things.
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by bbarn 1y ago
I think it's just an unfair comparison in general. The power of the LLM is the zero risk to failure, and lack of consequence when it does. Just try again, using a different prompt, retrain maybe, etc. Humans make a bad choice, it can
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by bbarn 1y ago
That was the point of the article. Users with knowledge of how it works can do it fine, but new users can't. Your average dev who's never used vim or vi will start frustrated by default.
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by bbarn 1y ago
I can in here to be snarky about this because it drives me nuts and screams "I'm so artsy" that it's aggravating. But you beat me to it.
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by bbarn 1y ago
Honestly, if you're not doing it now, you're behind. The sheer amount of time savings using it smartly can give you to allow you to focus on the parts that actually matter is massive.
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by bbarn 1y ago
The thing is, it is replacing _coders_ in a way. There are millions of people who do (or did) the work that LLMs excel at. Coders who are given a ticket that says "Write this API taking this input and giving this output" who are
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by bbarn 1y ago
They will also not be offended or harbor ill will when you completely reject their "pull request" and rephrase the requirements.
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by bbarn 1y ago
Assuming power stayed automated, I wonder if all life on earth just vanished, how long AIs would keep talking to each other on reddit? I have to assume as long as the computers stayed up.
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by bbarn 1y ago
My late father in law worked with them engineering the previous version of this car. It's about maximizing performance and engineering challenges. Many of the engineers are seasoned veterans of large car company's engineering te
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by bbarn 1y ago
My late father in law worked with them in developing the previous generation, and he was 6'4".
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by bbarn 1y ago
I think his statement could have benefited from and/or implicitly in the list of titles. I certainly care very deeply about my people, and letting someone go is a last resort after trying to work things out. My boss cares that I care.
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by bbarn 1y ago
Yeah, the fact that 40% get them regardless makes the slight increases seem.. statistically irrelevant?
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by bbarn 1y ago
Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions. So, I r
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by bbarn 2y ago
The difference is HN is a community curated feed, not an advertiser and for profit curated feed.
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by bbarn 2y ago
The issue at hand is despite federal rulings forcing all states to have some level of "shall issue" concealed permits, and laws on the books, California's process has left it to county sheriffs to follow the evaluation criter

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