fabianholzer

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by fabianholzer 2mo ago
> I think we, very naively, thought that some hypothetical life of zero-thought pure-leisure was not only achievable, but desirable. May I recommend Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" to you?
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
The reason for the existence of bloated bureaucracy is political will not the technical inability to automate processes before the advent of the current wave of AI.
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
Capable is the loadbearing word, the directors were all PhDs in math, science and engineering fields. I dont subscribe to the strawman argument that engineers would naturally strive on their own, but neither does simply any form of manageme
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
I think the website of James Sinclair has some great typographical choices, see the colophon for details: https://jrsinclair.com/about/
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
Bell Labs is an outlier in basically every aspect. Mr Kernighan lists stability of the environment with regard to funding, structure, mission as well as technical competence of the management as main drivers of the culture. This is just not
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
I did not yet have a positive "oh shit" moment, but when the corporate manager types that could not deliver a "Hello world" if their live would depend on and would have had a sour look on their face when asked to pay lic
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by fabianholzer 3mo ago
I was researching frameworks for building progressive web apps and stumbled over "Hacker News as a PWA" ( https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas ).
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by fabianholzer 4mo ago
> What we don't need to do is to give everybody a Fisher Price toy with a "make it sound awesome" button. A sincere thank you for this metaphor.
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by fabianholzer 4mo ago
> I'm picturing Germany as Sideshow Bob walking right into another rake. Speaking as a German with children: Completely apt image. Yet I would name several dozen of policies that are more serious "rakes in your face" than
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by fabianholzer 4mo ago
This is nothing particularly new. People above a certain age without kids are paying a higher percentage from their income into the social security since 2005 when Gerhard Schröder was chancellor, and that's more than twenty years ago.
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by fabianholzer 5mo ago
I use IntelliJ at work on a daily basis, and I assume that holds for a significant chunk of folks, who use Java in a professional capacity.
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by fabianholzer 5mo ago
Be that as it may, the jurisdiction I am living in has an explicit right to refuse to testify against a spouse. It is wild to me that one can construct a crime out of that, let alone one that warrants a decade of incarceration.
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by fabianholzer 5mo ago
Probably to be a high-church Anglican/episcopalian?
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by fabianholzer 5mo ago
I do not want to distract from the content of the article, which is highly relevant for folks who built UIs with frameworks that are conceptually based on signals, but the way that the reading experience is designed really great, in particu
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by fabianholzer 6mo ago
Plenty, but few of them can be solved by writing and deploying an app somewhere. Some of them are actually made worse by the latter. And how to make money is mostly orthogonal to solving the problems of the world.
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by fabianholzer 7mo ago
I find this knee-jerk reaction, that everything that shows certain stylistic choices is put under the suspicion of "might be generated", to have become a tedious cliché. Unless the author had live-streamed the writing process, how
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by fabianholzer 7mo ago
> It can be gutted or extended at the discretion of a user. Something that would give a user meaningful agency. You, sir, are a hopeless romantic. ;)
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
Mine doesn't meet the criterion on HN points, but well, maybe someday: https://holzer.online
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
> I wonder at what point these countries will loose any moral ground against the likes of Russia, China etc. When arbitrary extrajudicial killings happen at some scale on a regular basis?
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.ht...
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
That is an argument to authority. There is a large enough segment of folks who like to be confirmed in either direction. Doesn't make the argument itself correct or incorrect. Time will tell though.
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
> nobody serious is promising that There is a staggering number of unserious folks in the ears of people with corporate purchasing power.
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
> Am I wrong to feel this? Why would a feeling be invalid? You have one life, you are under no obligation to produce clean training material, much less feel bad about this.
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
The iron curtain wasn't so iron from the beginning. The Berlin wall was built in 1961, that is 12 years after the east German republic was founded. 16 years worth of able workers draining from the soviet-occupied part to Western German
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
> Well, at some point you'd learn by maxing out your credit card on your cloud bill, or getting hacked and losing all your users' data, or... ...go to jail?
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by fabianholzer 8mo ago
If I use the same codebase and the same compiler version and the same compiler flags over and over again to produce a binary, I expect the binary to be the deterministically be the same machine code. I would not expect that from an LLM.
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by fabianholzer 9mo ago
> It’s disappointing when you see leaders and so-called stewards of taste farming out that part of their voice. The bland platitudes of corporate management were mindbogglingly boring drivel already in the era before LLMs went mainstream
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by fabianholzer 9mo ago
Why would anyone with an ounce of self-respect try to beg an stranger with enough internet point to look if their question is worthy of being asked? Do you not realize how the proposal must sound to someone who is not already in the SO in-g
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by fabianholzer 9mo ago
Ward Cunningham once, of all places in an Github issue [0], explained how the original C2 Wiki was seeded. > Perhaps I should explain why wiki worked. > I wrote a program in a weekend and then spent two hours a day for the next five y
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by fabianholzer 9mo ago
Well, technically, it is also Charles III last term as king.

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