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Re:Bill Gates 2024 Predictions on Sunday December 24, 2023 @06:01AM (#38752665)
I know HN will rip this to shreds because it's Gates and this is HN but I look forward to reading his annual letter each year. It's nice to read a optimistic take on the worlds direction once in a while, among the daily pessimistic domerism.
Re:RAG to Riches on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:26AM (#38662974)
Drax, is that you?
A blow for the common man!
I agree with you, but it might not be completely irrational to buy an about to be bankrupt company. If the assets on book is sufficiently larger than the stock price, investors might get a payout when it gets sold off after fees. When Enron was liquidated, the last investors that bought the stock ended with an 8x RoI (according to an Acquired episode). Still an insane gamble obviously.
Re:Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:53AM (#37219518)
How?
Re:Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:56AM (#37190032)
A friend of mine just delivered a MAUI project and his opinion is that it is not production ready. He said that fundamental things like correct back button behavior is broken. I don't know any more specifics, but do serious critical research before choosing MAUI.
Re:X, the moonshot factory on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:13PM (#36853589)
Wrong X
Re:Never waste your midlife crisis on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @03:23AM (#36769011)
Amen
I think he means that you just don't tell anyone that you now only work 6 hours a day instead of the 7.5 hours you used to. If your productivity is approximately the same no one will be able to tell. Requires you to be in a position where you are not strictly supervised of course.
Maybe because it is useful for the whale to know if it suddenly entered freshwater? Idk
Re:Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @09:41AM (#35439427)
I'm on my first reread. Despite some pacing problems, I really enjoy the feelings of hope hpmor inspires in me. That humanity can conquer death and overcome our problems, and that in the far future our ascendants will look back on the struggles we faced here in our cradle with wonder. I have never found another work like it. Maybe hn can recommend me something?
I'm not sure why billionaires don't put more money into it. Maybe they do? We can go to Mars after we eliminate death from old age
Re:Vimium – The Hacker's Browser on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:51AM (#34966762)
That also works in vimium afaik, just a quicker scroll instead of jumps though.
Re:Ask HN: Why is hiring so dehumanized, and what can be done? on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:54AM (#34908380)
He probably means that when it comes time to hire they will ask existing employees if they know any good candidates before they start making posts on job boards
At least you and I read it :)
Re:Show HN: Tate or Confucius? on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:39AM (#34579397)
Old vs modern writing style gives it away most of the time. Maybe get chatGPT to rewrite the style into something similar
I am selfhosting TimeTagger on a Hetzner vps with backups to a hetzner storage box. No issues so far and TimeTagger is great.
Re:Ask HN: How have you been tracking your work each week? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:43PM (#33425593)
I selfhost TimeTagger on hetzner with nginx basic auth in front. For backups i copy the timetagger sqlite file to a Hetzner storage box once a day. No issues so far, can recommend.
Then nothing is, as the sun will burn out at some point (since we are nitpicking :) )
But probably not .2% of HN
Re:Ask HN: How have you used GitHub Copilot so far? on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:55AM (#31693397)
I use copilot when writing new apps / scripts. For instance, i had to parse a tsv file into json recently, which i wrote a small python script for. I can never fucking remember how to read and write files in python, so copilot helped with that. After the writeheavy work is done, and only the adjustment work remain, i turn copilot off because the suggestions are distracting.
Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:43AM (#25749357)
The rest of the world didn't have to because if the Brussels effect. When the EU legislates it is basically cheaper for companies to just fall in line rather than create separate production lines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect