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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices on Sunday May 05, 2024 @09:37PM (#40270319)
"The only middle-eastern democracy"
Re:Helio: Libre Music Composition Software on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:04PM (#38973233)
Having both is still important in tempered instrument notation. Even if they sound the same, they aren't from a music theory standpoint.
Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:30PM (#38490374)
Lol just use Linux already
Re:Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal? on Saturday November 18, 2023 @10:58AM (#38320913)
>It has deep implications for the trajectory

Lol no, CEOs are overated, they don't contribute much to anything. Open AI will be just fine.

Yeah, maybe depending on totalitarian untrustworthy communist states isn't a good idea after all...
The extremes people will go rather than just learning to use the superior FOSS alternative, Godot
Talking about the interview process...I know you are talking about suspect police interviews, but job interviews is another space where crackpot pseudo-science and shit propietary tech such as IA pre-screening have a prominent say as well, for the worse
Propietary garbage shouldn't be used for these kinds of public affair stuff
Re:China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next? on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:38PM (#37211987)
Now we wait for the evil regime to collapse
Re:Telemetry on Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Monday August 21, 2023 @09:28AM (#37209322)
Hence why I only play 90's games...you know, when the industry was actually good
P vs NP-like problem is solved for non-computer devices through advanced techniques
Re:VirGL on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:44PM (#37127187)
Imagine still using Windows in 2023
Tell me you've just read a philosophy Wikipedia article for 5 minutes without telling me you've just read a philosophy Wikipedia article for 5 minutes. This is not what platonism and nominalism means lol
Re:KPIs for Software Engineers on Monday July 17, 2023 @08:18AM (#36757326)
...and attitudes like these are why most Software Engineering theory is BS. We refuse to measure things in a reproducible way, and would rather stick with subjective pre-scientific concepts such as "clean code" and hit-or-miss rules of thumb for project estimation. You need an objective way of measuring and testing whether your hypothesis (be it that clean codes improves maintainability, or that X strategy is reducing dev churning) is true, and good KPI's are that.
Re:How Bad a Nuclear War Would Actually Be on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:12PM (#36537596)
What will happen regarding food: we (third world countries) will receive a massive wave of immigrants from those civilized first world countries who just mutually annihilated themselves like savages. This almost certainly will trigger further wars and famine around here. So yes, as the article says, there will be no winners. The entire world will lose.
The CCP stealing western intellectual property, as usual.
Also, no official Vulkan/OpenGL support. Garbage Metal instead. They really try their hardest to drive away gamedevs from their lame walled-garden platform.
Re:The continuing tragedy of CSS on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @08:40AM (#36309388)
"Hopefully, I won’t regret saying yes to speaking at UX London. I certainly haven’t regretted saying yes to speaking at CSS Day eight years ago, not least because Peter-Paul and Krijn kindly offer me a badge for each subsequent edition"

Geez, what a humblebrag. "Look how I am such an authority that every major UI/UX conference in the world invites me, I hope I don't regret accepting them, I am such weak-willed".

Tim Sweeney cries about Apple's garbage walled-garden but he sure loves to make it grow. So much for a free ecosystem...
GPT being used by candidates is not a problem, it doesn't need fixing. Candidates are only defending themselves from a garbage pseudo-scientific, long, and needlessly excruciating recruiting process. Now, THAT needs to be fixed.
Sounds nice. I want to believe. But, let's get real...Apple doing something good for humanity? I still remember the separate charger shitshow. There must be a catch here as well.