yourenotsmart

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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
DNA is extremely flexible, there's no macroscopic form or shape it can't take, as various insects camouflaging themselves as sticks and leaves and what not shows. So the idea we'll see some vastly different concepts with diff
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
The example of convergence between fish and dolphins, birds and insects, the infamous "why does everything evolve into crabs" study and so on should tell us that while we should be open for radically different forms of life, the m
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
There's nothing about TODO lists that says you have one list per person. And "TODO lists don't work, unless you have many of them" is counterintuitive and misleading at best.
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> To get things done, you have to decide on the one or few things you should be working on at a point in time. A todo list doesn't help with that. If you have 100 things to do, certainly a list helps you at least not forget most of
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Are companies expected to follow laws the day they get signed, even if it might take over an year to implement compliance? Think about it. Because here's what happened: > The penalty is the result of a 2018 complaint by French priva
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Do you know what the phrase "throw the book at them" means. It means you have a rich set of laws, which punish various offenses which look fine on paper, but in practice everyone violates just to do their regular job, so they&#x27
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
I did call the argument delusional, yes. But even if I decided to call the commenter names, that wouldn't be ad hominem (link above on details). It's rude, it's uncivilized maybe, we can have qualifications like that. But it&
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
While from purely monetary perspective this seems like it tips the scales more to a balance, from systematic perspective, this is more corruption on top of corruption. You have politicians colluding with businesses to save them a billion in
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
I think people's reaction to Copilot betrays their own shortcomings. * If you have so little care, agency and skill that using Copilot results in you generating mountains of code you don't understand, that's on you. * If you
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
What web developers think: - User: "This site is broken. Fuck Safari, I want Chrome on my iPhone!" What users actually think: - User: "This site is broken. Fuck it, I'll go to another site." Safari isn't THAT B
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Ah yes, the Facebook Browser Engine... (?)
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Microsoft recently abandoned their own browser engine and switched to Chromium. What are they supposed to lose again?
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
That's not ad hominem. You have it backwards. Ad hominem doesn't mean "don't say bad words about me and my opinions". Ad hominem would be disregarding an opinion not by discussing the opinion, but by discarding the
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
No one builds a RFID system because one guy really needed water that one time , can we at least be serious here? No one is discussing some hypothetical situation where someone knocks on your home, either. We're talking about a problem
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
What you suggest actually can't work, it means applications have no control themselves what engine they run on. Browser engines can't just be a config setting, you're basically asking for chaos. Also you should review what &q
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
So which parties are "losing money" here?
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
So your answer to all specific problems I stated is "I reject your world and substitute my own". Not one reasonable and intellectually honest person expects that the average phone user out there even knows what a browser engine I
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
So in a nutshell, the author's argument is that Safari is "killing the web" because apps written specifically for Chrome, may not run on Safari. I find it cringeworthy to even have to explain the problem here. "The web&q
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Users can't make an informed choice about what browser engine they use. They don't understand what a browser engine is, and what impact it has on their security, battery performance and so on. So no, you can't choose. When we
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Apple allows alternate browsers on iOS. Good luck having bunch of lawyers figure out what the impact of a browser "engine" is. And honestly good luck having regular users care about this, either. The reason Apple won't have a
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
How can you say "I assume" things which are literally SAID in the parent comment? Do you know what "assume" means? As for the "all we know" thesis, for all you know the Sun might not rise tomorrow. But odds are
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> I've always been baffled by why Google search — the flagship product by the world's largest tech company — has so many totally undocumented features. If I can speculate on their overall behavior, there's no intent behind
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
So is your thesis going to be that attracting groups of homeless people in your restaurant is positive or neutral with regards to attracting customers, staff dealing with problems, additional maintenance and so on? Surely if you had a resta
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Programming is unbounded, it spans the range from so easy, a child can do it untrained, to impossibly complex. So "it's hard" is the natural outcome, given we always strive to optimize our efforts, therefore we keep pushing p
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> You're refuting a different point than the one the parent comment made. They didn't claim that no water is ever shipped. They just claimed that these types of drinks machines don't work that way. Really? And how do they
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Let's see: - They have feedback from every venue, sales data, and dispenser use data, and these teams have been running the company for years, some decades. - And we have A SINGLE TWEET, and 30 seconds for a hot take during a coffee br
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
> But if they could solve the same problem for 1 cent, they would do that - independent of the data. > Eg. A unique QR code on the underside of the cup. Let's have a QR scanner below the cup, where people constantly spill their d
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
Hmm, someone downvoted you for asking a good question, for shame, Hacker News. A printed QR code adds few complications to the process: - You can't print the QR code with the rest of the cup, as it has to be unique. So we need a separa
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
It's pretty cheap. Until everyone is just getting free refills, including non-paying customers, and suddenly you need RFID chips on your cups. These "free T-shirt" kind of schemes have always the same loophole. They rely on p
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by yourenotsmart 5y ago
You think it's unlikely that water is packaged and shipped? What do you think bottled water is? Whether you think someone is cheating with tap water at the source is beside that point. Some do, some bigger brands don't as they hav

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