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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
"Would you like to try the digestive tract remapping first? It's a lot less invasive, but, if it doesn't work you'll be depressed the entire time you're making a mess of yourself."
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Today is the day that florianwueest learns that "spoken language" is actually a really controversial topic lol Seriously though, I bet finishing up this project felt great, then posting it to HackerNews was a huge dopamine rush, a
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
the point here being: the perception of being surveilled by "language police" on its own is either anxiety inducing or the result of an existing anxious disposition. The actual act of "language policing" is also going to
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
RIP. Likely the Platonic Ideal of an abrasive programmer. I'd put mid 00s Linus Torvalds as the apotheosis. Despite being an incredibly abrasive person, he has left a mark on history.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
literally right there in the comment. "swore at regularly". Anyways, I definitely agree that swearing isn't the same as abrasive, but swearing at people is definitely an abrasive trait. Also agree that some of the biggest dic
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
"Oh, THEY are policing my language. THEY are watching everything I say!" You're reading the idea of language policing as some actual thing, like people are hanging over someone watching every word they say. It certainly might
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281... It's really not a big leap, though. People who are afraid of violating a code of conduct because they're "under the watch of lang
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
The best programmers I've worked with swore at their coworkers regularly, but never in their code. They were not great people, and I'd happily kick them in the face if I would encounter no legal or professional repercussions, but,
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're an arts supporter writing satire, or a bean counter who is serious.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
... you completely missed the relevant part with the "1999" part. The relevant part is the "2012" part. Things used to get better, do more, and faster. The last 15 years, the "do more" part has been less and le
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
so, I can't reply to your latest message because it's too far down but... Let me just hop on my wifi and browse the web. Lets do it on a computer from 1999. 2000. 2001. 2002. 2003. 2004. 2005. 2006. 2007. 2008... etc, etc. Why is
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Sure does. Does the switch to 64 bit slow things down enough to explain what happened between Windows 2000 and XP? Does the operating system have to support virtual machines? Seems easy enough to install vmware then run operating systems in
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
no, no, and no. Lets see if we can petition Microsoft to add them, and then we'll see if Win2000 still runs decently fast on a P4 with 4gb of ram. My guess is: yes, it will. Somehow, in the past 15 years, "progress" seems to
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Windows 2000 was peak Windows, minus security. Security is miles and miles better today. Nothing will change my mind about this, ever. It's been downhill since then.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
I don't know... I've been on there on and off all day, and it's honestly better today than it has been for a long, long time.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Well, with Canada giving billions of dollars to whoever asks (or threatens to stop construction, after finishing 10% of a project) for it, it's not much of a surprise.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
And once that hardware is selected for a given range of vehicles, it's literally impossible to change. Updates to some parts of the software stack are also basically impossible at a certain point.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
ah, there is some regulatory oversight and there's awareness of the safety aspects. Not much, but, there is some. After working on infotainment, I'm doing my best to avoid purchasing a car with an infotainment system. I had to com
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
I worked on an infotainment system some years back. Trust me: we hated the response times more than you do, and I'm sure you hate them a lot. There were, and are, layers and layers of issues leading to it.
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
You can have perfect crypto on your devices, and great operations, and your messages can still be intercepted several ways. The feds are almost never in a rush. If they want you, they'll get you. If they want you enough, they'll s
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Some of the higher tiers of AWS enterprise support are INCREDIBLE. They're close the level of support I'm contracted to provide as a full time IC. Stuff like turnaround within hours? 30 minutes for critical issues? It just sounds
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
You're not wrong, or the other half of the Lebowski quote, honestly. It's just going to be another one of the recent (~15 years back) technology items that are pushing the general public toward transparent lives. I guess it's
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Just imagine this as a subscription service. Lovely! When a loved one dies, you donate their cellphone and provide delegated access to their messages to their social media, and allow a LLM to train. Now, it's a subscription service to
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Yes, it is. And in a grocery store, how is a product handled when it comes in on a shipment and doesn't match the previous shipments and/or bills of lading? By a person, in every single grocery store everywhere on the planet. Alth
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
It's armchair quarterbacking, for sure. Nobody at Amazon is going to read some random news article, even if they are here slacking at work, and say "That's the ticket! Lets do that!" They either fix it, or they don'
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by blarghyblarg 3y ago
Not to be argumentative, but... that's the second option. Algorithmic. The initial implementation would be simple. One point, two points, three points. Then, some categories turn out to have significant change requirements, some change
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by blarghyblarg 4y ago
I can't reply to the deeper comments, so I'll reply here. The "store branded" products are also sometimes the exact same stuff, but they pay less (or the premium brands pay a premium) to have "first run" rights
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by blarghyblarg 4y ago
MD in your 30s, early 30s especially, is possible. Some schools happily accept nontrad applicants, and most will take you if you have a strong background and clear interest. Now, starting down the MD in your late 40s? Early 50s? Yeah, proba
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by blarghyblarg 4y ago
It consumes sugar and creates carbon dioxide. I know this might seem facetious, but I'm actually curious... are the greenhouse emissions lower?
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by blarghyblarg 4y ago
this whole thread should be nuked and moved to Reddit. This has nothing to do with anything related to Hacker News.

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