deckard1

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by deckard1 8mo ago
ah, hacker news. Such a reliable source of the dumbest fucking takes on the entire Internet. But no, don't let me stop you from justifying your hatred of certain people through the ever-convenient excuse of "evolution".
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by deckard1 8mo ago
it's a real shame no one warned us this would happen when a bunch of corporatists and opportunists wrested the term "open source" from the advocates of true freedom in the late '90s. https://www.fsf.org/
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by deckard1 8mo ago
The day I stopped giving half a fraction of a shit was the day Google served me malware in an ad. It was one of those fake "Download" buttons on a very popular open source tool. I wonder how many people have been harmed by that. &
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by deckard1 1y ago
It pretends to be. But in reality it's always been a VC honey pot. I've stopped commenting here. I've made it a personal rule to only speak out against this tyranny and never talk about tech fluff, which is 100% of the front
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by deckard1 2y ago
you have a lot of faith that Big Balls hasn't been compromised. Because surely none of them are using their personal smartphones or laptops and are following strict access protocols. Seeing that they are so so careful with everything e
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by deckard1 2y ago
The deal still has me scratching my head. They tossed out the brand name and logo. Elon already had the X name and domain. For much less than $44B I feel like you could clone Twitter and come up with a strategy to acquire users. Hell, for
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by deckard1 2y ago
I know it's fashionable to use flatpak, Docker, etc. but I'd still rather not have 30 instances of Gtk running for every GUI app I decide to run. Consider that we still run on Raspberry Pi, etc. > aren’t these shared libraries
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by deckard1 2y ago
There was also Kahn, which was a similar competitor. I remember playing Duke3d over the internet. I was completely giddy as me and my friends all flew around with jetpacks on trying to kill each other with pipebombs. The downside was that t
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by deckard1 2y ago
sounds like Slow Horses. Though I could easily see it being a 007 plot line
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by deckard1 2y ago
EVs are the worst proposition for a car rental. When you rent a car, you're planning on driving it. Much more than the car that sits on your driveway and only takes you to work and back every day. But it doesn't help that Tesla is
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by deckard1 2y ago
I can understand why people wanted that, and the benefit of doing that. With that said, I also see benefit in having limitations. There is a certain comfort in knowing what a tool can do and cannot do. A hammer cannot become a screwdriver
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by deckard1 2y ago
you can have ten comments about the name of a variable, but no one bats an eye at a new npm package introduced. Also, devs that wrote code that Google depends on can't pass the leetcode gate check to get a job there. Our industry is a
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by deckard1 2y ago
You say all this after recent documents were revealed about Facebook intercepting and analyzing Snapchat encrypted traffic via a man-in-the-middle conspiracy.
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by deckard1 2y ago
someone added a script written in Rust to our project. They compiled it for ARM. So only people on Macbooks can run the damn thing. Nice one Rust bro.
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by deckard1 3y ago
yes, but the Senior Principle Staff Engineer that has two whole years of experience doesn't know the difference.
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by deckard1 3y ago
Here's a good video from Jason Cammisa about the new (at the time) mk8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbPHp6QfkQ I had a mk7 and it is the best interior + UX I've seen in a car. Everything is as simple and ergo
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by deckard1 3y ago
There are lots of reasons why Half-life was a success. You shouldn't discount stupid luck, as well. Their first iteration was awful, as mentioned in the YouTube video. They essentially had to start over with a "cabal" and pul
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by deckard1 3y ago
Amazon is already there. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-is-quietly-building-th... Interestingly, Amazon's move to ad placement seems to coincide with how terrible Amazon's search is. It's a pay-to
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by deckard1 3y ago
I'm sure internal politics plays a large role. Managers knee-capping each other and so forth. But there is another way to look at it. A company of Google's size will not be satisfied by a "small" $10M ARR business or per
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by deckard1 3y ago
> Google lasted a good 10 years not sure what event you're thinking of, but Google was a public company before 10 years and they started their first ad program just barely more than a year after forming as a company in 1998.
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by deckard1 3y ago
We already know some of the smartest people are willing to sell us out. Because they work for FAANG ad tech, spending their days figuring out how to maximize the eyeballs they reach while sucking up all your privacy. It's a post-"
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by deckard1 3y ago
I'm imagining more of an AI that takes a standard movie screenplay and a sidecar file, similar to a CSS file for the web and generates the movie. This sidecar file would contain the "director" of the movie, with camera angles
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by deckard1 3y ago
> rather have you listening uncritically to ChatGPT than to a lot of crap on the internet This, to me, seems to be an amusing reversal of trends. Before the internet there was the "mainstream media". NBC, CBS, ABC run by the bi
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by deckard1 3y ago
You're assuming bad code is code that throws errors. SQL injection is bad code that "works". Most security issues come from bad code that just "works". I can't believe I have to say this, on HN of all places, b
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by deckard1 3y ago
I'd definitely say LLMs are stuck on step 3: "Failure to live up to the hype" They are certainly impressive, but their utility-to-hype/gimmick ratio is incredibly low right now, which could cause a crash. The greater the
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by deckard1 3y ago
Nestjs is my least favorite framework I've used in the past 10 years. Just a step below RxJS. It's an ORM which means performance you may as well forget it. It's such a memory hog. On top of GraphQL, which can easily cause
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by deckard1 3y ago
> People can also live closer to work Not in America. We have a thing called "suburbs" here. That's where people live. For cost, quality of life, school, etc. reasons. Some cities don't even have a center, such as LA
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by deckard1 3y ago
why would a software dev have a portfolio? The comparison to design or writing doesn't make sense. A graphic designer can point to logos or marketing material that is publicly available. I'm not going to put proprietary code on a
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by deckard1 3y ago
Some companies seem to lie about their top range number as well. If you pass the interview and ask you for a figure and you come back with their top range number, suddenly there are reasons you shouldn't be making that. I strongly susp
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by deckard1 3y ago
1980s kids too. I remember after tee-ball my entire team would hop into the back of the coach's pickup and ride to get ice cream.

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