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by silver_silver 9mo ago
Fair and just societies thrive in refugee camps after all
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by silver_silver 9mo ago
My counterpoint is that it’s not possible to buy appliances which last for decades anymore, because the entire industry has changed. Consumers eventually don’t have a choice
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by silver_silver 10mo ago
> 500,000,000 people paying $80/mo Simply not going to happen
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by silver_silver 10mo ago
To be fair, most forks - especially of Wine - are more like testing branches. The useful stuff tends to find its way upstream eventually
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by silver_silver 10mo ago
Can second this. Am the only tech worker among my friends and family and every single one of them reacts to AI the same as to crypto or NFTs
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by silver_silver 10mo ago
They’re (genuinely) gearing up to release Half-Life 3 at the moment, and not as a VR exclusive
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by silver_silver 1y ago
There are still a couple of locations around the UK: https://location.wimpy.uk.com/ It's also going strong in South Africa: https://locations.wimpy.co.za/
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by silver_silver 1y ago
“Works on my machine” actually isn’t a good enough response in this case, or to the comment about the video of the man being shot. LLMs are infamously easy to jailbreak and children are very good at getting around guardrails. You should at
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by silver_silver 1y ago
> You can install your own OS on iPhone hardware No you can’t? Things like Project Sandcastle barely function on a single model. It can’t even access the network
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by silver_silver 1y ago
The middle path is limiting (not ending) migration while actually trying to help these counties (in particular victims of one’s past colonial ambitions) through aid, investment, and free/subsidised education for their youth. I say this
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by silver_silver 1y ago
Realistically, a white collar job market collapse will not directly lead to starvation. The world is not 1930s America ethically. Governments will intervene, not necessarily to the point of fairness, but they will restructure the economy en
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by silver_silver 1y ago
To be fair, once bundling is part of the equation, using typescript becomes effectively free. The frameworks are another story but typescript itself is one of the more reasonable choices. JSDoc would be unequivocally the superior choice if
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by silver_silver 1y ago
I was told by a local while living there a major factor was Google and Meta (and others) buying out entire buildings to house their staff
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by silver_silver 1y ago
What an insanely callous and shallow take. I don’t even know where to start. You’re trying to claim the moral high ground by complaining that a privileged child didn’t suffer and die? Do you even understand the point of reducing poverty?
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by silver_silver 1y ago
> the position you're implying, that the Depression was caused by the lack of a NATO-type alliance Not caused by, but the economy didn’t fully recover until all the wartime production started, and the measures that had been put in p
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by silver_silver 1y ago
> The US was doing absolutely fine prior to WW2, back when we didn't feel Europe was our problem. Our economy was going like gangbusters during that period in fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
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by silver_silver 1y ago
Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built, its sequel, and to a lesser degree her Wayfarer series are very hopeful. Not exactly hard sci-fi so maybe not to HN’s taste but they check a lot of good tech boxes. A plot device in the former is
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by silver_silver 2y ago
I have (older, but that generation) colleagues who simply stop working if there’s something wrong with the build process because they don’t understand it and can’t be bothered to learn. To be fair to them, the systems in question are massiv
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by silver_silver 2y ago
If this annoys you as a software developer consider that you’re now experiencing what the artists have been going through
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Not great that this corporate nothingspeak is coming from what’s intended to be a step towards AGI.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> The site's terms of service prohibited the sale of certain items. When the Silk Road marketplace first began, the creator and administrators instituted terms of service that prohibited the sale of anything whose purpose was to &qu
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by silver_silver 2y ago
I’ve never heard this claim before, where are you getting this?
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by silver_silver 2y ago
He was serving 2 life sentences + 40 years, not one. Even the prosecutors only asked for 20. What he did was wrong, but the sentence was disproportionate. The judge intended to throw away his life to make a point.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
His sentence was excessive and cruel to make an example out of him. There’s a serial child rapist in the same prison serving less time.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
You don’t have to have “something going on” for your life to be worth living or have value
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> Because almost everything the right says is a lie of one kind or another, but almost everything the left says is either mostly or wholly grounded in fact. I am not “right wing” by any definition but this is naive and bubbled to the poi
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The current state of web development is unfortunately a perfect example of this quality crisis. The tangle of dependencies either directly causes or quickly multiplies the inefficiency and fragility we’ve all come to expect from the web. Th
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Yes and they’re far less efficient and require far more maintenance than an equivalent electric or even diesel engine, where equivalent power is even possible
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by silver_silver 2y ago
We can’t really call the field engineering if this is the standard. A fundamental understanding of what one’s code actually makes the machine do is necessary to write quality code regardless of how high up the abstraction stack it is
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by silver_silver 2y ago
You’re paying Google via the profile they have of you. Remember there’s no such thing as a free lunch while you’re feeling so superior

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