Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What should an entrepreneurial CS student focus on this summer?
Build things, get critical feedback on them, improve them, repeat. HN is a great source for that type of feedback. Start tiny and just build as much as you can. Nothing will teach you more faster than just building.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years
It will never get fined because it’s how the people who legislate fines are making (and keeping) their money and control.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: RedisRaft
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Lifestyle design from first principles
I agree. There’s beauty in suffering. There’s lessons in it. It sucks but when you come out the other side I wouldn’t trade the lessons I got for anything.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Deseret Alphabet
Ah, I see someone went on a deep dive of Utah lore after reading the PornHub ban thread
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: New York to ban natural gas, including stoves, in new buildings
> feels like it will lead to a pyrrhic victory at best by making your average Joe more skeptical of government overreach
This is basically how all climate regulations are perceived at the end of the day, and it’s the primary fuel for my most doompilled opinions for sure.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety
The 2022 SO survey puts it as one of the most popular languages, and spark or ada don’t even make the list
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Software detective debunked Mike Lindell’s election fraud claims, awarded $5M
Of course he was hired by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Of course he was.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Sweden launches research rocket, accidentally hits Norway
The graveyard of bedroom sets
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting
AGI: “What is my purpose?”
Me: “You create blog-spam for a Fortune 50.”
AGI: “Oh my god.”
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: I Have a Dirty Secret. I’m a Software Craftsman
Counter-point: I’ve dealt with engineers who certainly would’ve considered themselves this article’s brand of “craftsman”. But all it really meant was that they tolerated their own TODOs in the code and no one else’s. Theirs were obviously justified and smart and correct TODOs and yours were just nonsense, trivial, brutish TODOS.
Too frequently this attitude is just a bad cover for acting like your shit don’t stink.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
Their guidance to treat it like a security has clear tax implications, im obviously not saying they control the tax legislation itself.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
But crypto _is_ regulated. The SEC has been clear about how to treat and tax crypto.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: SS64 Password Generator
For the love of god people don’t use any website to generate passwords, it’s practically begging to be compromised.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: How to give yourself time to think
Fucking sigh. This is just a thinly-veiled advertisement for this company’s “creative retreats”.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Facing brutal climate math, US bets billions on direct air capture
Ironically enough Covid showed us how fast emissions could be curbed and how quickly nature started to reclaim space when it was given room to breathe. The canals in Venice flowed clear for the first time in decades, air quality the world over improved drastically, etc… we all saw it, and nobody gave a fuck.
Everyone is too concerned with their bottom dollar and it’s gonna be too late to change once the collapse starts.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services
Already happened to Tupac at Coachella.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: NYPD Can Now Shoot GPS Trackers at Your Car
It’s already the norm in the US too. License plate readers have existed for like, a decade, and most cop cars I see in my state have them visibly mounted.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: Is there a canonical source for “the argument for AGI ruin” somewhere
I didn’t mean my comment about this tweet exchange as an example, I was only trying to speak to the comment I replied to about a general trend. This particular exchange is not the problem; it’s the inability for the public to gauge when it’s not like this, though, if that makes sense.
Cardinal7167
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2 years ago
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on: How close are we to the holy grail of room-temperature superconductors?
I typically agree but I also have to remind myself that change happens very slowly, then all at once.
