finnthehuman

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by finnthehuman 7d ago
A lot of those exist because of fairly strong “don’t get close to this” rules or culture. There are certainly areas where our democracies had good properties that slowly erroded too.
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by finnthehuman 9d ago
Physical operations is the “you had one job” of running a stadium. Gillette even has their own wastewater plant. Some basic rack and stack for IT infra that they could offsite next to all the IT infra they can’t offsite should be child pla
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by finnthehuman 1mo ago
There was a talk at defcon about this. I’m on mobile but you should be able to find the esp32 firmware for their detector on github.
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
Bit rude to armchair psychoanalyze. Also wouldn’t change anything about whether the firing was justified.
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
Oh. I see the disconnect between us. To me, either the culture bubble is extremely strong in your area, or being able to admit alignment with ideas shared by a major political party in an area where another party is more popular is an very
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
I feel like this thread is full of two camps: People who think it's sweet that their colleague is taking vacation to visit family at the end of august this year. And people who understand exactly why they told that lie.
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
>I'd like the people I work with to feel safe talking about their family, their disabilities, their religion, their culture or subculture Yes, you want to feel like the people around you feel safe to share it. Everyone with things
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
"psychological safety" in the workplace? Auzla always lies. HR always lies. HR always lies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYs-aM8I8U
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
> not sure how to square this with the dramatic improvement in LLM capabilities A good tech demo doesn’t matter to the business if the products don’t become profitable at the scale the investment chased.
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
> we don’t even expect humanity from big tech since that’s what we’ve become accustomed to seeing. There is a difference between humanity in communication and saying the problem was a human choice. You can have humane communication about
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
I can not agree harder. A rando that knows a little therapy language and has good intentions is dangerous. Turn and run.
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
> The hearsay is essentially repeating what was announced publicly. Their job listing might as well have said, “now seeking applicants for total shit show”. It’s bad form for us to say this out loud. It's a good thing to point out t
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by finnthehuman 2mo ago
The bit about stream viewers is interesting. What is the typical viewer experience? I assumed watching streams is similar to watching vs participating in sports. I played a few as a teen, got quite good at one. As much as I like watching
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
I also find it frustrating that articles expressing personality spicier than “safe for work milquetoast” are treated like out of pocket ranting.
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
Wasn’t that a story with ffmpeg a few months ago? And people were getting roasted for even the suggestion that google should contribute patches?
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
> It was true in 2005, but still? As I described in another post here, a modern strategy is to get a beefy server than can run the same ABI I’m already sitting at an expensive computer, if everything else were equal I’d rather cross comp
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
Software projects are too large to be left to licensed practitioners if you want to ensure quality. It would require the producing company to follow a formal quality management system. Discussing individual licensing is a distraction unti
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
I think articles like this are roundabout arguing something different from their text. It’s not about how much to half ass our hobby projects that were often halfassed without AI. Over years professional development has reached many context
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
Agreed. I wear headphones because open offices suck and I like music. I’m not trying to avoid anyone.
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by finnthehuman 3mo ago
>I can assure HN that they want to be on the grid as quickly as possible. In a conversation about negative externalities, I don't see the purpose of such a statement. If everything else were equal, nobody would choose negative exte
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by finnthehuman 4mo ago
It doesn't prevent people from outsourcing their thinking to AI. People don't bother preparing to discuss topics beyond what AI told them. If they have access to their computer during the conversation they'll ask AI rather
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by finnthehuman 4mo ago
> What’s the logic here Tenuous connection between unrelated topics to fit them into larger ingroup/outgroup dynamics is the junkfood of persuasion tactics. Bad for you but addictive anyway. If you look for it you'll see it a
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by finnthehuman 5mo ago
I appreciate that it allows people to engage with and discuss the work without immediately feeling boxed out by pretentious poppycock. I also think obviousness is overindexed as the indicator of bad art because it's often the easiest p
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by finnthehuman 5mo ago
>Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that&
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by finnthehuman 5mo ago
You know the meme that goes: "Be yourself. No, not like that." It is possible for someone to have a goal of changing themselves into a person who can fit in socially, and be effortlessly comfortable while doing so. After building
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by finnthehuman 6mo ago
Yeah, why be such a tryhard? Keeping PR friction down is what matters. Just let the codebase slowly deteriorate. It'll be fine.
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by finnthehuman 7mo ago
Graybeards love to yap. Just talk to them or consume the wide amount of material already out there. It takes curiosity on your part though. Handwaving about practical concerns taking priority is a path to never getting around to it. &quot
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by finnthehuman 1y ago
>The lesson is taught early and often. It often sort of baffles me when other people are baffled at how often this happens in science, Math and some sciences have the aura of definitive right and wrong, so even though by college everyone
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by finnthehuman 1y ago
I don't think they're not recognized for it, they just don't brand themselves as it. For as long as broadcasting has been a thing, major broadcasters were involved in pushing the technology forward. For most of it's his
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by finnthehuman 1y ago
Bleh, that attitude ruins merch. If all you care about is maximizing the number of walking billboards then you're satisfied because it's impossible to calculate the ROI of making available designs that people actually want to wea

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