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uncurable mlady posted:i went and read the blog in question and it read more like someone who was ESL rather than GPT-3 but i guess if he was doing minor edits to it then that makes sense. I can actually understand why that poster got downvoted for saying it was gpt-3 because even thought it seems like it's just filler and it doesn't really make sense, it's hard to believe that a computer wrote it.
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I can't believe what he wrote it!
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quote:Longer copyright times would incentivize more investment in artists.
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Chris Knight posted:I can't believe what he wrote it!
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I was gonna write a novel, but knowing that my great grandchildren can't continue to claim royalties 75 years after my death made me decide it just wasn't worth it Now 85 years after I die and my great great grandchildren can still profit, now you're talking about an incentive
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a hacker rediscovers sane release practices, thinks they were invented by react devs rafaelturk 3 hours ago | parent [–] | on: React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features I wish this approach to be followed by all major repos and maintainers and become a new trend across all the tech industry. By creating `bridge` release, the React community created a safe, well know and stable release that works as bridge for the upcoming complex, feature rich, release. So: Complex Release -> Stable `bridge` Release -> New Complex Release. Anyone can stay as long as they want in the bridge release, others can quickly move forward to the next release cycle.
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hn thread: I can't believe it's not anti-fascist! e: brainfart alexandriao fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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mystes posted:I saw it on hn but didn't read it because it sounded like a generic content farm article. Now that I know what it is, I went and read it and I'm actually kind of terrified at how similar it really is to a content farm article. the main thing it reveals is that we're so used to reading content farm filler that there's nothing obviously off about a thousand word article which says nothing
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how would HN people recognize decent writing anyway? I saw this article at #2 this morning. I think my favorite quote is "books can teach us many things."
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Makeout Patrol posted:I think my favorite quote is "books can teach us many things." lol
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Makeout Patrol posted:"books can teach us many things." hosed-up if true!
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Yup. That's me. I hate lovely band-aid code. I love perfection. I'm Michelangelo - but that by definition makes me a loner. I love staring at my code and contemplate on it's beauty just like the result of the code working. I'm perfect at one-man projects. I hate processes, standups, scrums and all that team playing bullshit. I love customers and bosses who are trusting and freedom giving. I love beers, steaks, good food and team gatherings - and i love people whom i am "working" with - but everyone knows i am working on something that is NOT "let get this poo poo done quickly and push this out of the door by next friday". That's not me. Although I'm the one my boss comes to with "i don't know how but can you do something about it tomorrow"? I'm good and super sharp focusing and delivering on my own. If i need help - I'll ask. I'm all for skunkworks. I debug my code myself, using techniques i polished myself over the years and I'll end up with lightbulb that will last 100 yrs. Not the one that cost $3 and requires full replacement after 3.5 weeks of light usage. I try not to buy stuff made in China. I love stuff made in Europe or Japan. So, don't push guys like me into your "processes" and "change managements" wasting pipeline bullshit. I won't fit. I speak at conferences. I do evil harmless things. I violate countless stupid compliance rules. I take risks no one knows about. I don't follow rules, and pretty much skip reading them when i can. I do my best to deliver masterpieces. One piece at a time. Downvote me.
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the 10x developer posts his manifesto
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Qwertycoatl posted:Yup. That's me. Funny, I didn't even realize that Axe Body Spray came in text form?
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Qwertycoatl posted:Yup. That's me. This person smells.
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Depends on whether society thinks you’re doing it for a good cause. Laws should serve people. If “the people” think they’re unfair, they will allow lots of technically illegal actions to change them. Mahatma Gandhi did that, and society nowadays thinks he was within his rights. Uber also did that, but isn’t universally acclaimed for it (¿yet?) (There’s a large legal difference in that the Gandhi was a person and Uber a company, but Uber somewhat got away with its actions. That’s an indicator that society isn’t unanimous in condemning those actions) This could and, I think, will be similar. This strong protest by Epic will lead to change.
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suffix posted:Depends on whether society thinks you’re doing it for a good cause. Laws should serve people. If “the people” think they’re unfair, they will allow lots of technically illegal actions to change them. reading this post: yes... yes exactly... wait what oh no
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It's like you're dating a hot girl and you like showing her off. Then you find out the next week she cheated on you then you dump her. Wouldn't you do the same thing in Apple's position?
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A zero-carbon lifestyle is completely unattainable for the simple reason that we breathe out CO2.
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salisbury shake posted:A zero-carbon lifestyle is completely unattainable for the simple reason that we breathe out CO2. how many potted plants do you have to own to offset that 🤔🤔🤔
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humans exhale about 800 pounds of carbon a year, and the average hardwood tree growing outdoors in good light absorbs about 50, so i guess it depends on your house plants
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how many pounds of carbon do we fart
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All the carbon you exhale from metabolism comes from plants or animals that ate plants so it's already carbon neutral aaaaaaaugh this argument is so stupid why am I wasting my life.
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mrmcd posted:All the carbon you exhale from metabolism comes from plants or animals that ate plants so it's already carbon neutral aaaaaaaugh this argument is so stupid why am I wasting my life. individual responsibility, bithc oh no another oil spill, oh well
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rjmccall posted:humans exhale about 800 pounds of carbon a year, and the average hardwood tree growing outdoors in good light absorbs about 50, so i guess it depends on your house plants I remember reading a stack exchange about a human's chance of survivial in a sealed room of (I don't remember the dimensions) with plants inside, and someone did the math and it worked out at few days even without the plants, and then they went further and calculated the amount of plants needed to replenish, but that was maybe 3 years ago and I don't remember enough unique keywords to dig it up, sigh.
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carry on then posted:individual responsibility, bithc if your group is so numerous nobody can figure out who to blame so everyone gets off scott for free individual responsibility
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alexandriao posted:I remember reading a stack exchange about a human's chance of survivial in a sealed room of (I don't remember the dimensions) with plants inside, and someone did the math and it worked out at few days even without the plants, and then they went further and calculated the amount of plants needed to replenish, but that was maybe 3 years ago and I don't remember enough unique keywords to dig it up, sigh. i think it varies a lot based on light; if those plants aren’t under basically grow lights then they reach an equilibrium where they respire as much co2 as they take in during photosynthesis . i don’t know how much that changes based on co2 concentration carry on then posted:oh no another oil spill, oh well oil spills are much better for atmospheric co2 than actually using the oil mrmcd posted:All the carbon you exhale from metabolism comes from plants or animals that ate plants so it's already carbon neutral aaaaaaaugh this argument is so stupid why am I wasting my life. happy to help
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rjmccall posted:oil spills are much better for atmospheric co2 than actually using the oil it's all fun and games until somebody sets the ocean on fire
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rjmccall posted:oil spills are much better for atmospheric co2 than actually using the oil isn't it going to end up oxidizing in one way or another on a timespan of decades? or maybe not if it sinks into the deep ocean.
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decades is a lot better than weeks, yes
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Maximo Roboto posted:I've been saying it for a while now. The winds are shifting. The current tech boom is slowing down, layoffs are rising, and people are starting to get pissed at the dilution of their shares into utter toilet paper. There was a thread a few months ago where some VC dumbass posted a fluffy praise of joining startups over larger companies, and the comments were just angry rebuke after rebuke by devs who've been burnt by startups too many times. Even if the response there was to "screw your startup scam, I'm joining FAANG", it's at least a furious response at the grifter nature of the industry. Looks like they're at it again. The marks are waking up. though again their response seems to be either join FAANG or start their own company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198228
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Maximo Roboto posted:Looks like they're at it again. The marks are waking up. though again their response seems to be either join FAANG or start their own company the last 7 years have been extremely good for employees in terms of hiring in tech. a lot of lovely business models failed in the pandemic/lockdown so there's suddenly a flood of bootcampers and the like who essentially were in demand. I don't expect bootcamps to survive unless they can convince new marks of their "ability to get hires"
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These idiots are finally going to wake up to the correct course of action (loving UNIONIZE) long after the horse has bolted and management already has too much leverage for it to be at all easy to pull off. It's not quite that bad yet but it will be quite soon and they're still not waking up and smelling the coffee really. If only somebody had warned them ahead of time, like say any time in the last
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Maximo Roboto posted:Looks like they're at it again. The marks are waking up. though again their response seems to be either join FAANG or start their own company kristopolous 6 hours ago [–] For me I'm far too naturally transgressive to work at a large company. I really wish I could, life would be easier, less work, less stress, pay better... None of them will take me so I keep help building and (sometimes) exiting startups. It's really exhausting. 20 years of this... I wish more companies would value those who "challenge the book" instead of "follow the book" or that I could find a way to obediently follow it instead of challenge it. I've honestly thought about figuring out how I could put things on ice for a few years and get a PhD, because then I'd have the proper paperwork to allow for my disposition and could finally stop this exhausting startup life. reply
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trivially insightful thought: my experience teaches me that I don't fit in at a lot of organizations minor insightful thought: although I reflexively blame other people for this, it is possible that my own attitudes and reactions play a role in my inability to fit in galaxy-brain insightful thought: I will get a PhD so that I can keep acting in the same problematic ways, not grow as a person, and won't get in trouble
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can’t handle bureaucracy at a large company decides a phd is a good choice instead lol
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the hackers are trying to explain X11 to our own X11 expert
eschaton fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:
unfortunately they’re actually correct but missing that you need to get tenure and be running a lab before fully embracing this attitude and the odds of getting that far are slim
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quote:formerly_proven 1 day ago [–] fake edit: unrelated comment I saw on another post: quote:jl6 14 minutes ago [–]
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people seem to get really excited about being able to use x11 on a computer on the other side of the world, as if you could do this without wishing you were dead. it's worse than any other way of sending screen contents long-distance except that it narrowly beats out having your elderly mother explain to you over the phone what she's seeing on her screen
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