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Nicksil··on South Dakota Bans TikTok
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>on state-owned or state-leased devices

Nicksil··on The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video]
>I work in the industry and all I see around me everywhere are skilled and talented people doing their level best to ship the best and most useful products to their customers at the lowest prices. The theory that the whole industry was scared off from its former evil plan by the TED talks of a bottom-shelf sci-fi author strikes me as highly unlikely.

Your hyperbolic and insulting annotations degrade your assertion.

>highly unlikely

So, plausible?

Nicksil··on The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video]
>So much longer. Go read any of the warnings that Cory Doctorow has been writing for 20+ years about the imminent war against general purpose computing, how DRM will end our right to use our own CPU, and then look at the date lines, and then ponder whether literally any of his predictions have come true. Some people have made entire careers out of talking about this.

Can you say for certain that his writings didn't contribute to those predictions not coming true?

Nicksil··on Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Nicksil··on Passengers in Europe can use the phone while flying
>This sounds awful: flying is already a terrible experience, and people suck. On my flight last week, some asshole had to be repeatedly told by a stewardess he had to use headphones to watch a video, instead of making everyone within 10 feet listen to it. Loud phone calls will definitely improve this experience.

This was my reaction as well. I'm not concerned with radio interference as I am the behavior of the humans making phone calls. Every time I go to the grocery store, there's at least one person walking around with their speaker phone on and headset to their mouth just carrying on as if they're the only one around; I can hear their entire conversation 4 isles over.

Nicksil··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
>Some trivia: Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page wrote about this in their 1998 paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". [...]

Doing a Google search for "cellular phone" now returns those poor-quality results.

Google's just... not good.

Nicksil··on Musk claims Twitter is now faster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797896

Submitted 30 min. ago.

Nicksil··on Ask HN: Has Hacker News banned posts about Twitter?
Shit, I wish.

If you click through the previous pages ("more" link at bottom of page) you'll still find plenty. Though I don't know why the search isn't returning those results.

Nicksil··on Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
>Your comment is dangerous

Your comment is nonsense.

Nicksil··on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew
>You should get out more. No offense.

This is an unnecessary comment.

>Incremental pain, delivered early, is both corrective and less expensive over the long run. If you need to remain version-locked for a specific reason, that reason is likely to be locally scoped rather than global, in which case TFA describes an attempt to address your problem.

This rests on the assumption of a relatively homogenized software development industry without any consideration for, at least, critical systems building. There's a broad range of disciplines in this industry which do not -- and cannot -- adhere to the practices you mention.

Nicksil··on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew
>the majority of its users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling.

I haven't met a single software developer who wants this. That's not to say your statement is incorrect -- I have no evidence stating otherwise -- but the idea boggles my mind.

Nicksil··on [dead]
I don't know what this is but it doesn't seem to meet the criteria for what should be submitted.
Nicksil··on Air Force, FBI raid homes in probe of Area 51 website
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_(airline)
Nicksil··on My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
Nicksil··on Layoff spree in Silicon Valley spells end of an era for Big Tech
>Apple, Microsoft, Amazon?

Ads.

Nicksil··on TikTok Blocks Z-Library Hashtag Pending Piracy Investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Nicksil··on Ask HN: Can we have a 30 day moratorium on Musk/Twitter posts?
>I see a lot of submissions that get a few votes and then disappear. If you hate it go submit 20 articles about something else, just not all at the same time.

That would be contributing to something I'm clearly opposed to.

Besides, you can't look at the frequency of posts concerning Twitter, Elon Musk, and the like, the last weeks and honestly say that thing's are normal. It'd be one thing if these posts actually contributed something new and noteworthy, but the overwhelming majority are either a low-quality regurgitation of some random individual's contempt or re-posts just minutes or hours apart.

Nicksil··on Ask HN: Can we have a 30 day moratorium on Musk/Twitter posts?
>Huh? I see one article about Twitter on the front page right now and one article that might be tangentially related. New is getting spammed with that stuff but not a lot is floating to the top. It’s like that quote from the movie The China Syndrome: “the system worked”

Can't tell if you're just having a go or not, but it's been awful around here the last couple weeks or so.

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

- https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Insanity, actually. This is what insane people do.

Nicksil··on Ask HN: Can we have a 30 day moratorium on Musk/Twitter posts?
Yes, please. My god.
Nicksil··on HBO Cancels Westworld
You've amplified it by quoting that specific statement; it's a lot easier to pick out from your comment than if it had remained buried in text.
Nicksil··on Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)
>Are we really at the stage where we simply downvote people who say things that are hard to hear?

This behavior is ubiquitous and has been for some time. Though the frequency has seemed to have increased exponentially somewhat recently.

It's a form of punishment.

Nicksil··on Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
>Imagine how much better the program could be if it were directly funded by the government instead of being indirectly funded by the government and enriching the world’s biggest arsehole in the process

There are plenty of other threads on HN where you can talk about how much you hate Elon Musk and the like. This is not one of those threads. Just let people enjoy things.

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>I guess Musk just doesn't care about the lower income countries out there.

Is this really a priority for the lower income countries out there?

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>I'm guessing you haven't worked at a big valley tech company. But this may be your chance!

A "big valley tech" company? No. A big company? Yes. But you didn't explain why that mattered.

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>Hiring new engineers while the CEO is busy boiling some of its engineers alive [...]

But that's just your anecdote and has no actual affect on the time necessary to hire new software developers.

And the time it takes to hire has always been there; it isn't anything novel and certainly isn't stopping anybody from applying/hiring.

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>Do we know for sure they still have to prove they are who they claim?

Do they not already?

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>So if [insert celebrity here] decides not to pay, I can now pay $20 to officially impersonate them as backed by Twitter.

Do you have the necessary documentation to prove this identity? Aren't you concerned with violating federal laws?

Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
What's to say there isn't just as many, equally capable people looking for a job there? They'll be fine. Most people are going no where and those that leave will be replaced immediately.
Nicksil··on Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification
>A number of Twitter users have been correctly pointing out that anyone who pays $20/mo is more opening themselves to being dunked on than anything else.

That says a lot about those Twitter users.

Nicksil··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
>Ha, there's at least as many fanboys here. It's not a lopsided discussion.

In this particular discussion? Do you see the amount of vitriol? I am genuinely surprised to see the behavior in this thread. As if Elon Musk were some sort of rationality time-bomb implanted in the majority of those commenting.

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