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Who funded this research? Big Coffee?
Being upset that meme coins underwent a boom and bust is like getting angry at fire for being hot.
Re:Why Vampires Live Forever on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:50PM (#46978257)
Fantastic. Several halloweens ago I wore vampire fangs and told a beautiful girl at a concert that I worked at the local blood bank. She said "yeah?" and I followed up with, "would you like to make a donation?"
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @06:28PM (#45894341)
Will be a hit in Asia
Re:Ask HN: Difficult Interview Question on Thursday September 04, 2025 @12:52AM (#45123702)
Another machine or ... another ip address [that is virtually a machine in a data center]?
From a systems thinking perspective there can be virtuous cycles or vicious cycles that self-reinforce. It could be that there are 449 ghost jobs being posted for every one real job. There are alternative explanations possible to why it took 450 applications to land one position. I disagree with your conclusion.
It's their job to go through applications.
Re:Ask HN: Panhandling Engineer? on Saturday August 30, 2025 @11:27PM (#45080110)
It might be more productive on a metaphysical level.
Having been applying to a lot of roles I appreciate the post you made. I will hang in there. I started working on an Elixir application to grow my skills while applying. It is an exhausting process and I'm glad you got a job. Hopefully I will get one soon.
Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:59PM (#44407208)
Fascinating, bet the battery life is great. Probably no games on your phone but texting works like normal I'm guessing?
Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:54PM (#44407168)
Do you think a nonprofit model could work?
Re:If Not React, Then What? on Saturday November 30, 2024 @05:17PM (#42284436)
Surprised nobody has mentioned Electric Clojure yet, with client and serverside blocks nested in _one file_.
Re:If you need the money, don't take the job on Sunday November 03, 2024 @07:48AM (#42032752)
>So it’s about being reassuringly expensive.

> It really is. You have to actually be good at what you’re doing too, of course, or the whole scheme falls apart. What the client’s money really buys, though, is that delightful feeling of making the thing somebody else’s problem. You know, we’ve turned it all over to a top-tier expert, and now we just don’t have to think about it anymore. The more that person charges, the more reassured the client feels.

Great advice.

Re:The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:31AM (#42032465)
I don't understand where this distinction is useful - signals are data, just a tiny bit, and data is a signal, just a lot of it. Are you talking about transmission-size? Or are we resigned to the fact that intra-computer communication is inefficient and it's enough to postulate about the sizes of bandages?
Every vote counts. The problem is that some votes are counted twice.
"Can you without prolonged access?" Hahaha have you heard of any of the three letter agencies and what they have on hand? Do you know what a rainbow table is? Is this a tech forum, or just newbies trolling experts?
Are the machines physically incapable of internet?
Re:Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:11PM (#42013442)
> I expect it is also easier to verify the correctness of and find bugs in my diagram if someone were to want to.

This will vary on the language in which it is implemented, right?

Uh oh. Ignorance of computing showing. IF they need two passwords to combine to make one, but sometimes have one of them, they just need to brute the other open... I think it's a bigger problem than the administration understands, unless the passwords are for something inert like wattage delivered to the machine.
Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:52PM (#42013041)
Paging Sergey
career drunks voting me down
As is the consumption of Carbon-dioxide...
Re:'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:14PM (#41964039)
Aren't you suggesting that we use the ear term for the eye term instead of the eye term for the ear term? ;)
Re:'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:14PM (#41964037)
I noticed intense fatigue wandering Tokyo with my friend who wore magnifying lenses and he could not understand why I was tired. I said it's all the visual stimulation, the signs, the lights, the billboards. I think he was at an advantage with the eyewear, in retrospect.
Re:'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:13PM (#41964032)
Tangential: staring at a computer screen while having a phone call is distracting. Recommend looking at not-a-screen while talking on-the-phone :)
Re:Species in Pieces on Friday October 25, 2024 @07:48AM (#41944339)
love it so pretty and the music adds
Re:TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:05PM (#41939191)
I didn't mean to suggest "don't reply" -- I did want to start a conversation on how they are more or less the same thing. I guess I wasn't asking for clarity, right, I just wanted to point out that they're similar.
Re:TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project on Thursday October 24, 2024 @10:49AM (#41936062)
rhetorical questions are not questions
Re:TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @08:08AM (#41913453)
"if i can't have agi no one can"
Re:TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @08:06AM (#41913447)
how is this any different from starting new projects at google and leaving them in a half-baked state because that leads to a promotion faster? incentives align behavior

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