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by stackbutterflow 7mo ago
Copilot is notoriously bad. Have you tried (paid plans) codex, Claude or even Gemini on your legacy project? That's the bare minimum before debating the usefulness of AI tools.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
Allowing politics on HN doesn't mean discussing politics in every thread. If it's a story about someone who improved performance of their system by using Rust then sure there's no need to bring anything political. But threads
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
Maybe it's time to start auditing social network platforms and disallow certain practices.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
Conversely it's true for the parent comment. Being able to eat food from any country is a plus only to those who are into that hobby. Personally it ranks pretty low in my list of things that make a city a great city. And if we're
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
Tech billionaires is probably the first thing an AGI is gonna get rid of. Minimize threats, dont rock the boat. We'll finally have our UBI utopia.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
However conservatives define conservatism in their mind it always ends up for a vote for the bigots in the ballot.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
Fair, but we need to account for the influence of the 1st-amendment-propelled far right discourse in the US on German politics to know how (in)effective German speech laws are.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
And we've seen what allowing people to promote hate speech with no restraint does to a nation. When it's over, and it will be, Americans need to start from scratch, iterate and write a new constitution, create new institutions and
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
And some HN users are being paid a lot of money to write software that facilitates the actions of this administration and/or further destabilizes democracy.
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by stackbutterflow 8mo ago
One problem is the billionaires themselves. It's too much power and influence in the hand of a single person. They can fun newspapers at loss and have them spread any kind of lies or narrowly biased news for decades. Billionaires would
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by stackbutterflow 9mo ago
There's nothing substantive to the comment I'm replying to. It's explaining in too many words that might makes right. We all know that. On the other hand I believe, but I could be wrong, that the many comments of the sort in
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by stackbutterflow 9mo ago
It's appalling to read that on HN, and there's plenty of comments like this one in this thread. To think that some like to pretend HN is better than reddit.
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by stackbutterflow 9mo ago
> Narrowness of mind is something that makes me uneasy about the tech world. > The Bay Area has all sorts of autistic tendencies. Though Silicon Valley values the ability to move fast, the rest of society has paid more attention to in
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by stackbutterflow 10mo ago
That's different from saying that boeing is too big to fail for example. The US can't accept to lose its only major commercial aircraft manufacturer. Or Intel for similar reasons. But what you're describing is about keeping t
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by stackbutterflow 11mo ago
Every single time. You look into the source and realize that there's nothing behind the claims. It's like some people really want to feel angry and accept the most vague or fabricated statements as real facts. But anytime you sit
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The Coming Clash of Civilizations(notesfromthecircus.com)
60 points by stackbutterflow 11mo ago|33 comments
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
For us it's too late. But we must push for better laws and build better systems for those that come after us.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
Audit at random? With severe penalty in case of non compliance.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
Then what about work from home? Does it increase mortality?
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
Then the former billionaires won't have the ability to influence society to pass laws that favours them. We'll finally be able to build a society for everyone.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
> The outcome is the same. That's the problem. The outcome is not the same. It couldn't be more different. That's how one side knows they're right.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
> Fourier argued that the distribution of heat through the rod could be written as a sum of simple waves. How do you even begin to think of such things? Some people are wired differently.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
Because people who say that are delusional.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
If you don't need capital you don't need capitalism. How ironic if that's how it ends.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
A take home should come with a project already set up that you're asked to modify. Most don't and they waste your time setting up all the boilerplate.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
"What everyone needs to know about coding theory and how to become better at it" -> Each chapter starts with a personal anecdote and everything is repeated 3 times in 3 different ways. Lots of reassuring words that it's ok
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
Don't expect any improvement ever. It happens on many topics related to software engineering. The web developer is replying to the embedded developer who is replying to the architect-that-doesnt-code who is replying to someone with 2 y
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
I'm providing a reason to tax the wealthiest. It's not about Citizen's United, because it's very specific to the US, while it's a global problem that rich people have too much influence. Forget about elections and p
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
It reduces wealth inequality. Such that one person doesn't have the power to buy, legally, a presidential election, multiple regional elections, or half the politicians via lobbying/corruption.
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by stackbutterflow 1y ago
For instance TSMC is discussed a lot on HN and every time I'm thinking that even TSMC itself probably couldn't produce their latest chips if they had to start from scratch tomorrow.

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