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by bmink 2mo ago
Not to mention that the bombs dropped on Japan were primitive and small fission bombs and pale in comparison to today's thermonuclear warheads.
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by bmink 4mo ago
To be fair, few could have anticipated that Tesla and Musk would be unaffected by valid scrutiny and criticism. This is also addressed in the article: > E. DON’T TRY TO SHORT SPACEX!! > Elon Musk is a cult figure. Moreover, he has ag
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by bmink 4mo ago
Yes, while the article makes some good points the first paragraph was puzzling.
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by bmink 4mo ago
> Unfortunately, they're blinded by their beliefs and can't think things through even one step further. Yes, our new generation of overlords seem to be socially and emotionally stunted and exhibit an alarming naivete about the
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by bmink 8mo ago
May be too specific but as a European in the US, I would love to be able to see temperature in F and C at the same time!
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by bmink 9mo ago
> Bias towards action. Ship. …The quest for perfection is paralyzing. Unfortunately for users this is more often used as an excuse to ship buggy / badly done software.
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by bmink 1y ago
Nowhere is this urge (and the reward for it) stronger than HN. In the majority of comment sections, the top comment is one that pounces on a few words from the posted article, however tangential or self-serving.
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by bmink 1y ago
I feel this so much. I am always amazed how so many software engineers seem to dislike coding, which seems to be a major underlying theme in the AI-coding cheerleading. Coding never feels tedious to me. Talking to a chatbot, now that’s ted
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by bmink 1y ago
Yeah, I use goto all the time in C, mostly in the “goto cleanup before return” pattern but sometimes in jumping to different points of a loop. And I know I’m not the only one.
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by bmink 1y ago
> The authors of the study also propose alternative ways of thinking about the dog-human bond, blending the characteristics of different human relationships – not only the child-parent relationship, but also friendship and partnership -
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by bmink 1y ago
I love the Apollo 11 computer stories but by today’s standards it was more of an MCU than a computer. And sure, in the embedded space it is true that in a lot of cases error recovery doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and it makes more sense
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by bmink 1y ago
> These seats will increase passenger capacity on airlines by 20 per cent > Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary […] wants his Boeing's 737 and 800 fitted with 10 rows of them, and 15 rows of traditional seats. > Michael has suggested
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by bmink 1y ago
It’s really not a book review either.. I posted this to give people an idea of what the article is and is not. I was disappointed how little of the actual letters there is in this 4000 word word salad.
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by bmink 1y ago
> I discovered interesting music like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Portishead, Tricky, Orbital, Takako Minekawa, Hooverphonic, Poe, Veruca Salt all from sporadically listening to one college radio station in my hometown and, once a week, wa
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by bmink 1y ago
> wishful thinking that AI will stop before whatever they're good at What is AI good at already — I mean apart from making a few people very rich and using tremendous amounts of resources to generate slop?
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by bmink 1y ago
> The cynical view of America’s educational system—that it is merely a means by which privileged co-eds can make the right connections, build “social capital,” and get laid—is obviously on full display here. If education isn’t actually a
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by bmink 1y ago
Weather forecast is best told as a narrative and reducing it to a sports score like temperature / rainfall will always be problematic for many regions. I’m in SF and I have not looked at a “TV/app style” forecast in years. Instead
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by bmink 1y ago
If you were an immigrant with legal status who lives in the US, would you feel OK traveling? What precautions would you take, what information would you memorize?
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by bmink 1y ago
Age is another differentiator. Take young men out of the equation and you get a much better picture. Another interesting stat is that the majority of motorcycle crashes are single vehicle accidents, ie. the rider going down by themselves. W
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by bmink 1y ago
Tbh it’s not just nostalgia (at least for me). That machine (and related machines) had such a unique combination of limitations and possibilities that 35 years on, I still find a lot of inspiration in code and optimizations that were/a
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by bmink 1y ago
Exactly this, though for me a lot of boilerplate is actually a comfort zone that I often look forward to, the way an athlete might to a light jog. Earbuds in, forget about everything, crank it out. (That said your point is valid — there is
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by bmink 1y ago
> It's like having a thoughtful and impossibly fast colleague who's always available to help me develop and sharpen my ideas. More like an absolute bumbling idiot of a colleague that you have to explain things over and over aga
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by bmink 1y ago
The hype is that “cloud” is and makes everything magically better / easier / more secure / more efficient etc. Many companies jumped head first into large-scale cloud migrations and buildouts without any thought about where a
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by bmink 1y ago
I’m actually working on code for esp-idf / SSD1309 right now, a little bigger than the 1306. I went through a similar arc as OP. I was actually surprised / disappointed by the poor quality of the drivers out there. If you instrume