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by hudon 3mo ago
I agree, but HN doesn't like metacomments that just complain on how an article/comment is being upvoted, hence you being downvoted. See guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Just downvote an
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by hudon 6mo ago
The single folk envy the married and the married envy the singles. Life is suffering either way.
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by hudon 8mo ago
Canadians would commit to guerrilla warfare? For decades? Have you met Canadians?
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by hudon 8mo ago
No, I didn’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93China_relations
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by hudon 8mo ago
As Canada is separating from the US, it is growing closer with China. This makes Canada a threat to the US. This makes the US a threat to Canada. This makes the US more likely to grab Canada's arm and pull it back in its circle by forc
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by hudon 9mo ago
and a teacher is hired to teach, but some self-improve so they may become headmaster
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by hudon 10mo ago
A gun is a good tool easy to shoot yourself in the foot with
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by hudon 1y ago
I don't know if it's intentional, isn't this the ultimate form of liberalism? To give the individual full autonomy, unshackled from the dependencies of family, neighbors, community, and any other local associations individual
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by hudon 1y ago
yes, because he forgot about the car. The reason we don’t befriend our neighbors is because as soon as we leave our home, we put ourselves in a metal cage, ensuring no one will talk to us if we don’t want them to. Befriending your neighbors
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by hudon 1y ago
This isn’t satire.
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by hudon 1y ago
An image is a projection, it lacks at least one dimension of that which is projected
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by hudon 1y ago
> they're not strictly necessary. We know this because humans can drive without a LIDAR and propellers on a plane are not strictly necessary because birds can fly without them? The history of machines show that while nature can some
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by hudon 1y ago
After the operating system and the spreadsheet, most software is toys.
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by hudon 1y ago
This is a distinction without a difference. Even if you take a rudimentary raw cloth comparison like cotton vs heavy wool (the latter being fire resistant and used historically used by firemen, ie. “Safety critical”), the machines’ output q
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by hudon 1y ago
“ …by the mid‑19th century machine‑woven cloth still could not equal the quality of hand‑woven Indian cloth. However, the high productivity of British textile manufacturing allowed coarser grades of British cloth to undersell hand‑spun and
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by hudon 1y ago
What caused textile machines to replace the manual labor wasn’t the quality of their output, it was quantity. In fact, manually made clothing was of higher quality than what was machine-produced.
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by hudon 1y ago
The environmental problem is enough for us to pump the brakes. By the end of this year, AI systems will be responsible for half of global data center power demand… 23 gigawatts. For what? A more useful search engine, a better autocomplete,
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by hudon 1y ago
I interpreted his post as saying it's not binary safe/unsafe, but rather a spectrum, with Java safer than C because of particular features that have pros and cons, not because of a magic free safe/unsafe switch. He's adv
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by hudon 1y ago
If the carpenter owns weapons, a lot of my farmland, a lot of shares in my farming business, and my debt… I will learn to build my own crossbow
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by hudon 1y ago
Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortages_related_to_the_COVID...
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by hudon 1y ago
the gist is: When you can manufacture ships, you can also manufacture warships. When you can manufacture warships, you can protect your economy. or: If all you sell are financial services, and a pandemic hits and you need to protect your pe
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by hudon 1y ago
Here’s some food for thought from Anders Hejlsberg https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc... Error results and checked exceptions are more similar than either is to unchecked exceptions.
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by hudon 2y ago
here is the "goal" page: https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (with related paper & talk)
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by hudon 2y ago
“ Cash is Censorship-Resistant, meaning it cannot be blocked by banks or governments” No crypto is large enough to be useful as cash and yet still censorship resistant. Governments can and have censored developers, miners, and exchanges. Mo
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by hudon 2y ago
It’s not a common use case though, dipping into an unfamiliar tech stack only to dip out after committing the code. Typically, when you learn a new stack (eg. for a job), you’ll be living in it for at least a few months, and at that point,
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by hudon 2y ago
There’s substance under the brashness, though. He’s just upset that his reason is contradicting what everyone around him is saying, struggling to cope with the dissonance. Like being gaslighted. It’s a natural reaction, but I agree, annoyi
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by hudon 2y ago
You can run VS Code in Blink and then connect it to GitHub Codespaces. I think this is the best option available nowadays.
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by hudon 2y ago
similar boat. Been doing software for 15 years and I used to love it. Learning new languages, side projects, contributing to open source, you name it. At every job I became less enthusiastic, like the technical problems all became the same.
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Australian Securities Exchange blockchain: seven years of sunk cost fallacy(davidgerard.co.uk)
3 points by hudon 2y ago|0 comments
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New Flow Language Features for React(medium.com)
3 points by hudon 2y ago|0 comments

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