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by pyb 19d ago
The thing is, perhaps they'd be more successful in exporting other things if they were part of the EU.
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by pyb 1mo ago
Because OP's email is in their bio, for one.
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by pyb 2mo ago
Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.
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by pyb 3mo ago
"Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.
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by pyb 3mo ago
If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
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by pyb 3mo ago
To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018) If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.
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by pyb 3mo ago
Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.
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by pyb 4mo ago
and Disney
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by pyb 4mo ago
I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations. However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, second only to "Kingston".
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by pyb 5mo ago
Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS
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by pyb 5mo ago
They are mostly blaming their shift to vibe coding for their problems. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
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by pyb 5mo ago
Is this the OpenClaw effect?
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by pyb 5mo ago
Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...
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by pyb 7mo ago
Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.
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by pyb 7mo ago
Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.
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by pyb 7mo ago
It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by pyb 7mo ago
Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/ ) "There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last
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by pyb 7mo ago
How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.
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by pyb 7mo ago
Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!
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by pyb 8mo ago
Not for me.
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by pyb 10mo ago
If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.
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by pyb 10mo ago
I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.
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by pyb 10mo ago
The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error checking, and to restart the misbehaving componen
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by pyb 11mo ago
This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.
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by pyb 1y ago
Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.
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by pyb 1y ago
Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
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by pyb 1y ago
What's your location?
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by pyb 1y ago
The paradox of politics : are hated whilst actually doing what the majority wants. As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.
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by pyb 1y ago
A company invented the role of "forward deployed engineer" to solve this problem.
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by pyb 1y ago
There are 300 random candidates but probably only 3 viable candidates.

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