gecko6

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by gecko6 1y ago
Individual republicans may well love science, but the Republican party is and has been anti-science for a long time, and aggressively so.
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by gecko6 1y ago
Listening to the Christmas lectures was a high point of my childhood, and everyone in my family still remembers and talks about the ones we watched.
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by gecko6 1y ago
I was startled when I was interviewed by an AI interviewer, since I wasn't expecting anything like that (perhaps I'm naive). It asked a series of questions about my job experience and technologies I had not worked with, then at th
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by gecko6 1y ago
CS Lewis on the dangers of caring too much: "It is one of the evils of rapid diffusion of news that the sorrows of all the world come to us every morning. I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it ca
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by gecko6 1y ago
Is the company DataAnnotation? I ask because the feeling I get from comments on the Internet is that they are not a real company - they might just be collecting people's contact information for their own reasons. Just my opinion.
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by gecko6 1y ago
I don't have kids, and will never have kids, but even so I don't see people whose children are being denied food as a problem that the children's parent's caused. I see hungry kids who can't learn because they'
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by gecko6 1y ago
Could this be it? TLS 1.3 connection, with every field in the packets labelled: https://tls13.xargs.org
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by gecko6 1y ago
That may be the first time I've heard of AI actually creating jobs, rather than abolishing them.
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by gecko6 2y ago
This is how I got laid off. Working on legacy software, sole person on the team, eventually management decided that it could be replaced by AI or some such pixie dust.
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by gecko6 2y ago
And it was 1971 when the last chemical castration as a 'treatment' for homosexuality was performed in the US.
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by gecko6 2y ago
Uhuh. Let me guess, you're a heterosexual white male? the Republicans have been very explicit about making my existence a crime since the 1980s. These are the despicable people who made jokes about my friends dying of AIDS, who now wan
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by gecko6 2y ago
> None of that is "opposed to Open-source". You're quite right. Open-source vs. non-open-source is irrelevant to the question.
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by gecko6 2y ago
I do use a desktop environment. I don't use many additional productivity tools, though, and that is likely why I have a blind spot about that part of the software market. My question was more geared towards the seeming lack of a robust
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Ask HN: Are people still writing commercial software for desktop PCs?
5 points by gecko6 2y ago|10 comments
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by gecko6 2y ago
I have an interview question: step 1: the candidate is shown the specification for a method and the results of running the test suite on an obfuscated version of the method. All tests pass. The test suite is minimal, and test coverage is a
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by gecko6 2y ago
I _hated_ The Green Brain, but that was mostly because he had all the characters say everything in Portuguese, then repeat themselves in English. It was as if there was an echo in the room.
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by gecko6 3y ago
I am a dog breeder, and I endorse this message :-)