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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and might itself have been a corruption of
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Isn't military work mostly done by private contractors? It's not like the USAF actually owns and operates its own plane factories. Some companies do approximate market operations internally, any company that has a notion of intern
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
No, why do pro-EU people lie about this so frequently? The rules say that to join you must adopt the euro. The EU has chosen not to enforce this rule on legacy members for now, but certainly would enforce it on Britain and anyway good luck
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Brexit had literally no impact on this, and will likely help significantly. Remember that the eurozone has been an economic disaster for most of Western Europe outside of Germany, and now Germany is sputtering out too. The UK was "allo
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Those rates don't include all the "economically inactive" people who are on long term benefits. Around 5 million at last count.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
There are a lot of people who don't believe in local control or the concept of an independent nation state. They imagine that in their preferred future all governments are merged into one, and regional differences are reduced to food,
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Has there ever been a non Oop GUI toolkit in those days? Even Win32 was kinda "c with objects".
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
It doesn't? It says judges openly advertise things like "I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist" along with many other positions. It also says they routinely award wins simply becaus
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
They weren't doing that before EME either, were they?
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
> a category of ineffective, bitter malcontents and that’s not what we are There are enough top voted people demanding harassment in this and other threads to say that well, maybe that's what HN is, actually.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Isn't the big win of superconductors that you can build batteries with them? Like, you just pump them full of power that goes round and round forever with no or trivial losses. I always heard that this was why they were interesting.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Yes, fully agree. There are a lot of unstated but unintuitive assumptions and intuitions going on in the AI risk/ethics community. It's useful to surface those.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
This article segues from the failure of 80s style expert systems (in many domains) to a generic argument for x-risk and superintelligence explosions. But it doesn't address any of the obvious counter-arguments except one about the defi
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Google do that all the time simply because they dislike your opinions or even your fact based arguments.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Nah, they just realize that the sort of rank ideological hatred they're gonna get from the sort of people posting here isn't representative of the software industry as a whole let alone the wider world. The iPhone is a bastion of
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Lol yep sure, almost every website out there uses Recaptcha, Cloudflare and similar services, but they all totally hate the guys who work on stuff like that. The bubblethink here is out of control. A clear majority of website operators woul
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
What I meant is, a lackadaisical approach to billing and asking for money was common at Sun for everything software related, same thing for Java which was definitely a line item.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Maybe that approach to licensing is why Sun ran out of money and had to sell itself?
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
It's not that Germany is uniquely bad at software. It's that the USA is uniquely good. A culture in which software people are considered to be really low status is pretty much the global default and is still common today, even i
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
It does lead to real customer facing problems. A jungle of different systems won't have transactionality between them at all, it's all a mess of rec scripts, so customers will see a lot of weirdness like the bank being unable to d
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Not the same poster but as airlines have come up, this German IT dysfunction appears there too. At some point Lufthansa bought Swiss. Swiss previously had a pretty competent website. It worked fine, so of course, they ported it to the Lufth
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Why does that make no sense? Sounds a lot like how Google and Facebook were both born along with many other businesses. Rearden is never said to run the whole business himself after all, just do the experiments to develop the new tech.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
So many levels of meta-irony in this thread. You're laughing at a non-existent strawman you've been fed by the media. The people saying Let's Go Brandon are perfectly happy to say Fuck Joe Biden. That's how the whole thi
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Very. All laws start with good intentions (as perceived by the lawmaker). Yet, the world is full of bad law.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Making a fork of ChromiumOS is easy, the hard part is getting laptop makers to use it. If you fork Chrome you lose all the integrations with Google services and those are valuable to users. Think auto translation, Google account sync, other
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Maybe it's the answer containing the phrase "equal to themselves" that triggers it. The transcripts people are showing in this thread are reaching some sort of woke Darwin Award level. Have Meta really spent tens of millions
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Is it possible you ran out of context window so it couldn't make a longer answer?
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Why's it got an answer structure so similar to ChatGPT? Was it trained on GPT logs or do the sort of people these companies hire to do rating just love the high school essay answer type.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
There are ads on Google Maps in Switzerland. Example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pfister+Z%C3%BCrich+Letzip... Scroll around Zürich and you should see several.
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by nvm0n1 3y ago
Tab groups are old. Maybe saving them not?

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