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by salt-thrower 4mo ago
The resource consumption is huge and it provides relatively little to the surrounding community compared to its intake. For most residents who live near one it’s a net loss. Qualify of life decreases and utility bills go up so that a Silico
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by salt-thrower 6mo ago
The interesting difference here is that other hedonic activities do bring people back even after the first time they build up a tolerance and get bored. But many of these AI "creative" apps seem like a one-and-done thing. Once the
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by salt-thrower 7mo ago
This resonates with me. I used to live in a medium-sized US city which prided itself on its public transit. The buses were SO slow, and it's because they would sometimes literally stop every two blocks on a major through street. (This
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by salt-thrower 7mo ago
They shouldn’t be, especially with the recent lessons of Iraq and especially Afghanistan. It will be a catastrophe.
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by salt-thrower 9mo ago
Another example: the complete surrender of the Xbox platform. They spent the last 10 years buying up game studios and then closing them, failing to develop any good exclusive titles, and letting Sony eat their lunch. Now they are officially
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by salt-thrower 10mo ago
Nope, that wasn't me. I have the Node, React, Typescript etc. buzzwords in droves (that's been the bulk of my career experience). Maybe emphasizing AI more would help like you mentioned, or maybe I need to be looking in different
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Ask HN: Recruiters, does contractor vs. FTE matter?
9 points by salt-thrower 10mo ago|3 comments
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by salt-thrower 1y ago
At my current workplace, we do have a roadmap for the business, but the actual backlog of tickets to implement work is all waiting on other siloed teams to make decisions that we are downstream of. This ranges from our infrastructure model
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by salt-thrower 1y ago
At every company I’ve ever worked for, the bottleneck is not “how fast can we spit out more code?” It’s always: “how fast can the business actually decide what they want and create a good backlog?” Maybe startup development will significant
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by salt-thrower 1y ago
Dropbox and Google Drive work for Obsidian on the desktop version, but the iOS version does not seem to support them.
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by salt-thrower 1y ago
The trouble is: broadly speaking, no one uses those.
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by salt-thrower 1y ago
Your argument is so out of touch I can only assume it’s being made in bad faith. Many of the pro-Palestinian protesters are also Jewish. Equating all Jewish people with Israel and Zionism is insidious and misleading.
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Well luckily for them, I’d imagine they don’t think too hard about it.
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Love this. I’ve had the same thought for years and I’m glad to hear there’s a name for it.
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Going out on a limb here: nope. Do I wish otherwise? Of course. Will anything of the sort happen? Nope.
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
What?
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
A “gaming headset” with a built-in microphone. The sound quality was fine but the build quality was terrible. It broke apart while I was wearing it, after owning it for less than a year. Now I just use a pair of Sennheiser studio headphones
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Beautifully written and fun to read. Blog posts like this give me a boost of mental strength to keep going during my worst episodes of burnout.
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Ask HN: Revitalizing a career: how do I escape CRUD hell?
12 points by salt-thrower 2y ago|10 comments
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Are you aware of any software developer unions? I’ve never encountered any in my 9 year career so far
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by salt-thrower 2y ago
Non-sycophant employees are shut down and ignored once the whole corporate culture has bought in to the hype du jour. If you are the sole dissenter, it can even make you look like a “bad” employee for not recognizing the “opportunity” that
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Fair point that a lot of Reddit is already astroturfed, but this is definitely the final nail in the coffin. Now SEO is coming for the forums, too. Wonderful.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Not just rocks and dirt. Mining waste is often toxic - heavy metals, acid, that sort of thing.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Sad. I had no idea “dump it in the water” was still a waste disposal practice in any developed nations. As per the article, only three countries on earth still grant licenses for this: Turkey, Papua New Guinea, and Norway.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Love this site. I’ve been reading it periodically since high school. Glad it’s still around.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Please elaborate.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
As someone else already mentioned, this is especially ironic to bring up in the case of Libya because Libya gave up their nukes to appease Western powers. Then were invaded and toppled by those same powers later on.
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Plenty of internally stable nations have been toppled by imperialism. It's not really a good metric for how well you can "prevent external forces."
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by salt-thrower 3y ago
Not that odd of a take. It's difficult to have internal stability when you face externally-sourced "reorganizations" every generation or so.

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