hackthemack

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by hackthemack 10d ago
The user base on Hacker News has really gone down hill. Voting down my comment above has no basis in the guidelines or the strictly information content of post, and hence, I have to conclude people just vote down opinions they do not like.
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by hackthemack 10d ago
Let me clarify one point I was trying to make. It is my belief nobody is going to give you UBI. I offered up Keynes prediction as a little bit of evidence about human nature. The United States could have easily built infrastructure and safe
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by hackthemack 10d ago
Me too. Here is some history to back up how absurd the statement is. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay title "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" He predicted that in 2030, technology, productivity, capitalism
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by hackthemack 29d ago
I had similar? thought many years ago when strong typing became another one of the programming mantras touted on the internet. Even dynamically type programming languages will layout what types the languages has. But that is usually the con
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What do we know about the effectiveness of digital advertising? (2019)(thecorrespondent.com)
3 points by hackthemack 1mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
The Freakonomics podcast goes into events that happened before 2020. It mentions the following article, for example. https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
This has been known a long time. Freakanomics did a two part podcast on does advertising actually work. It is long but well worth a listen if you want to hear some science about advertising. https://freakonomics.com/podcast&
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
Just my personal anecdata, it took my a while to put a finger on it, but it seemed like something started to change in products in the 90s. Bag of chips started to fill up with more air and less chips, candy bars got smaller, airlines start
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
One of the arguments I have heard that he did not have a proof is the following. He wrote his note in his copy of Arithmetica around 1637. He most likely wrote his proof for the case of n=4 in the 1640s. He sent letters to other mathematici
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
Yep. We can go around and around. Like, does health care count for some of the discrepancy? Or the more generous time off that Europeans typically have? I do recall some reports that concentrated on just workers that had unions in the Unite
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by hackthemack 1mo ago
These topics are just so difficult to debate. They are filled with feelings and one person's perspective or anecdote, and it is difficult to drill down into what is true or what is not true. You wrote "Modern tech workers arguably
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
I agree. No matter how complicated, or unnecessary, or unintuitive a piece of software or technology is... There is always this contingent of people who pop in and say "It is not that hard!" and furthermore tend to express a view
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The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI(france24.com)
3 points by hackthemack 2mo ago|0 comments
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
I guess I am officially old and no longer know what the cool "it" is any more. The C++17 example seems much more clear to me. It is more typing, but so what? It is not that much more typing, and it looks like code that people have
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
Ah! Thank you for the more in depth explanation. I was not aware that codeberg had such a system. As others pointed out, it is probably iocaine.
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
Thank you. I went and looked at what else it could do and it does have a much larger feature set.
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
Is your complaint about Anubis? I see the "checking if you are human" kind of text too when going to codeberg, but it is usually only a second or two. It is because I run a bit of obfuscation and resistance to browser finger print
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by hackthemack 2mo ago
Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more a
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by hackthemack 3mo ago
When news broke about the affair, I remembered, 6 months prior, watching an episode of the Daily Show where Jon Stewart interviewed Paula Broadwell and they even made jokes about if her husband was jealous of her spending so much time inter
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by hackthemack 3mo ago
I sort of agree with the idea that LLMs are great (sometimes) at distilling all the quantifiable things they have churned through into something similar or, perhaps, putting together things that someone has not thought of putting together y
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
Agreed. The best time to form a union was 20 years ago (Especially because Tech Workers had leverage because they were in demand). The second best time to form a union is today.
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
I jumped to a similar conclusion right away and popped over here to comment only to find you have beaten me to the punch. I use to keep a work wiki page of common problems the team encounters over and over again. Years ago, I stumbled upon
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
It is a tale as old as time (in the industry) I wrote a while back, Most of the executives I have met really have no clue. They just go with what is being promoted in the space because it offers a safety net. Look, we are "not behind t
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
I love fossil. Something about it's opinionated workflow that matches what I think. But network effects. I just can not bring my team to use fossil. They have to share code with others. Other departments. And everyone (99%+) uses git.
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
I prefer the full quote by Douglas Adams. I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the
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by hackthemack 4mo ago
Many years ago. Maybe 2005 to 2015? I had a friend who used cpanel to run a web hosting company. He made quite a bit of money doing that. He was not a programmer, but he could setup up wordpress and install plugins. I remember asking him on
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
I always liked looking at the maps different people have made over the years. It is interesting how they can come out looking different but represent the same latent space. https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
You wrote "I don't understand what is missing" ipv6 was standardized in 1995 6to4 was standardized in 2001 6to4 is not used in any meaningful way today. What was missing was ipv6 should have had 6to4 (but better) in it, in 19
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
The embedding I believe you are referring to is not a part of the global routing model. (maybe I am wrong?) What I am describing is making that kind of declaration central to the system in a deterministic, network wide mapping of ipv4 to th
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by hackthemack 5mo ago
Opening a dual stack ipv4 and ipv6 does allow the service to accept both ipv4 and ipv6 connections. But I do not think that is what zadikian is getting at? It does not address the network level identity and reachability. There is no default

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