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GenerocUsername

2,254 karma · joined February 26, 2014

Over a decade of Software engineering and solution architecture centered in the PNW.
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GenerocUsername··on Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Define taking off then. Everyone knows Firefox and some people even like it
GenerocUsername··on RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines
He ousted the whole group which does have more standing than singling someone out. And reasoning can be as simple as conflict of interest... Eg being unwilling to challenge pharma lobbyist current state directives
GenerocUsername··on RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines
Illegal?

The committee is under the control of HHS Secretary... JFK. He literally has the authority to do what he did.

Changing a plan you inherited but now own is not illegal.

GenerocUsername··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Holy cow that's bad. 2 slightly different grids overlaid with transparency feels like a joke but here t is
GenerocUsername··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
Yes, I do believe the global majority can infact be wrong and misled.
GenerocUsername··on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
At a macro level, people from the former group might be doing better than you think.

I have gone from Senior II, to Lead Architect, to Principal Engineer in the years LLMs have been available.

It's not literally a 100x multiplier, but I have leveraged their ability to both fill in details where I lack specific knowledge, and as a first point of contact when researching a new space.

LLMs have enabled me to widen my sphere of influence by deepening my abilities at every point of my T-shaped knowledge curve.

GenerocUsername··on Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears
I had to scroll to far too find sanity in this thread.

I suspect the opposition party is literally just fear-bombing social media with what ifs and AI slop to further divide folks.

But if some conferences or even colleges full of people susceptible to that kind of misinformation begin to fail, I'm all for it.

GenerocUsername··on Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components
Thanks. I was skimming article but it seemed like it was missing some critical context
GenerocUsername··on Settling the File Structure Debate
Blog has a unique voice, but also the clear outline structure of a ChatGPT response.
GenerocUsername··on Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year
You'd think a well running A/B system would not be seeing 47% declines in a yoy basis
GenerocUsername··on Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated
When a wikipedia page has a whole section dedicated to how massive of a issue construction was then it's result may still be good even if the project was a big failure
GenerocUsername··on Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated
Even if it succeeds on its current trajectory, it will be studied for 100 years as a massive failure.
GenerocUsername··on First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials
Traditions have nothing to do with it. In America we have liberty and your worldview is not compatible with our constitution. Wars have and will continue to be faught to preserve my version
GenerocUsername··on First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials
I for one reject your social contract and despise the self-righteousness of people who think a social contract overrides personal liberty.

You want others to partake in your social contract, but you would probably be appalled if that contract demanded people not be overweight (affects others wherever healthcare is in limited supply), or maybe the contract demands people not be gay (lowers birth rates and therefore societies GDP… also increases disease transmission). Social contracts come and go with time and yours is as wrong tomorrow as my proposed one is today

GenerocUsername··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
These companies could choose to invest in the US instead and not have to worry about any of this.

Tariffs are only usable as extortion if the companies have outsourced the manufacturing that gutted our middle-class.

Externalizing variables comes with risk. This risk should be factored into planning in the future. Just because a politician in the 90s promised cheap labor through globalization, a president 30 years later can flip the script

GenerocUsername··on Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)
The next iteration of The Anarchist Cookbook going to include a trans protagonist so it becomes unbannable
GenerocUsername··on X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company
A lot of big tech CEOs are promising full driving this year, they just don't have the cajones to say it. Elon is just saying the quiet part out loud
GenerocUsername··on Timeframe of 8-hour restricted eating irrelevant to weight loss
Yes. It is important that every american eat grain-heavy meals every 4 hours. Same regimen as pigs I bet.
GenerocUsername··on US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
And who defines that process? Oh right, the government.
GenerocUsername··on Reasons veterans are especially hard-hit by federal cuts
Ah, because the VA has been widely regarded as providing great care up to this point. Surely cutting out the bloated and inefficient administrative class will lead to short term reductions, but it also provides the vacuum for better processes to grow back into.
GenerocUsername··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Despite all the rage in these comments, the base of the right largely views this as best possible outcome.
GenerocUsername··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Thank you. Agree. This post only makes me like HN less.
GenerocUsername··on Dogs may have domesticated themselves because they liked snacks, model suggests
You must deep down actually hate yourself or all of humanity to feel such remorse for the impact we have had on nature/dogs. Doesn't sound healthy
GenerocUsername··on Fabric and craft retailer Joann to go out of business, close all of its stores
I want this to make sense... But that doesn't make sense.

Wouldn't the chinese dropshippers be hit with Tariffs

GenerocUsername··on Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
Is this true or are you just speculating based on nothing
GenerocUsername··on BleachBit is a free and open-source disk space cleaner
Still a scandal. Gov officials purposefully deleting data AFTER a subpoena is criminal.

And given this is Hillary Clinton we are talking about, the lack of follow through is a major reason we even have the current right wing leadership... It's in many ways direct blow back to the abuses swept under the rug for so many years

GenerocUsername··on Opposing arrows of time can theoretically emerge from certain quantum systems
Doubtful, but also perhaps a matter of perspective.

Time does not exist so we experience it, our experience of existence is a function of our brains integrating and recalling state via entropy. Therefore, our moment of consciousness is sliding along in the direction of entropy, and our entanglements with the universe around us are likewise evolving with entropy

GenerocUsername··on Opposing arrows of time can theoretically emerge from certain quantum systems
OP here, and no, that's not what I mean.

What I mean is that since our brains store memories and generally process information utilizing entropic systems, we perceive time as always moving forward. There is no fundamental physical direction to time... But since our experience slides along an axis of increasing entropy, we perceive the whole universe sliding on that axis as well.

GenerocUsername··on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
This. Just because things are always getting worse does not mean things are not literally at their worst
GenerocUsername··on Opposing arrows of time can theoretically emerge from certain quantum systems
Our brains operate on the principle entropy, therefore we experience time as the macro evolution of the universe along the dimension of increasing entropy.

Time itself does not exist, we merely experience it because it is how our consciousness experiences reality

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