freetinker

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by freetinker 23d ago
Exactly. Answer: How universities of yore have “prepared” founders thus far. The premise of PG’s otherwise insightful prose is on shaky ground - or at the very least - debatable. (I hope PG isn’t outsourcing his thinking to some agentic wor
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by freetinker 1mo ago
I’d expect (which I grant is selfish/entitled) someone with 12k+ well-earned karma points to set a high bar for tone and constructive discourse. This feels unreasonably antagonistic.
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by freetinker 2mo ago
I think you may have missed the point. Law enforcement isn’t some 100% effective panacea. And getting to the point of a class action = a lot endured. Which is OP’s point.
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by freetinker 2mo ago
And so begins the enshittification. I hope my comment ages like unpasteurized milk on a hot summer day, but I’m afraid it will age like an sp3 hybridized allotrope of carbon.
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by freetinker 3mo ago
Heartbreaking. Sorry for your loss.
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by freetinker 4mo ago
We’ve known about this for a while I feel from dimples on a golf ball.
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by freetinker 8mo ago
You’re self-questioning and self-reflective. Totally not worried for you or by you. Keep it up.
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by freetinker 8mo ago
To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to prioritize something when his salary depends upon his not prioritizing it.”
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by freetinker 11mo ago
Waymo solved San Francisco. Non-trivial, imo. Is London more complex?
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by freetinker 11mo ago
This is an evolved view. Let’s put achievements on currency, not humans. Of course, this is no panacea - “achievement” is ambiguous enough to be open to interpretation, and therefore political capture. But it’s a step forward.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Apple Vision Pro.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Emails are optimized for COA record-keeping, not efficient communication.
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by freetinker 1y ago
PR budgets exist to _prevent_ exactly this sort of response.
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by freetinker 1y ago
This is an astute point. I’m a mid-40s mech engineer in the Bay Area. HN is my tribe, by and large. I’ve been bombarded with perspectives that ADHD medication is the answer. (Not officially diagnosed, but I’m confident I meet the criteria a
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by freetinker 1y ago
The comma makes it more human-readable. What separator would you suggest?
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by freetinker 1y ago
This is a largely correct, but incomplete take imo. Cultures are neither “good” nor “bad”. Some are better than others at optimizing different outcomes. Of course, culture A might be objectively better or worse for you vs culture B - depend
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by freetinker 1y ago
This, 100%. Look East (assuming a Western reference point) for copious evidence that supports this POV. Education is a means to an end, and the only way out of abject poverty (personal experience). Studying the classics and poetry (arguably
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by freetinker 1y ago
This.
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by freetinker 1y ago
More gullible fodder to influence via handheld screens.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Could you share a little bit about your journey - how you got started, your motivations? (I’m trying to teach myself programming/development, hence the curiosity.)
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by freetinker 1y ago
An elegant solution to this problem would be to enforce a very low speed limit entering the turn. “Sharp turn ahead, reduce speed to 5 km/h”
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by freetinker 1y ago
True problem solvers. They solved a political problem, but created a real one. Certainly not engineering ethos torch-bearers. However, they did meet spec. I’d fire leadership first. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something
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by freetinker 1y ago
Terrible. Interaction loop is too slow. Not ergonomic.
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by freetinker 1y ago
People lack nuance. Nuanced views are computationally expensive.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Drones are delivering. Ukraine?
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by freetinker 1y ago
Apple does not owe Android users a superior non-Apple experience. Android a pretty damn huge platform, right? Way bigger than Apple, I hear? Blame Google. Google failed to compete.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Underrated comment.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Astute observation, and spot-on IMO.
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by freetinker 1y ago
Great app, love the privacy policy too. How’re you planning to monetize this? Or just giving it away free?
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by freetinker 1y ago
Excellent points both. I need to ponder this…

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