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bastardoperator··on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
Cobra is such a huge slap in the face too for most people. We know you just lost your income as of today, but do you wanna buy this health insurance plan for 3K a month?
bastardoperator··on Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanent bans
What's egregious to you? I personally don't mind if doxxers, racists, or criminals(war thunder leak?) get the ban hammer immediately.
bastardoperator··on Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states
I agree and they already do to some extent. I could easily do my own taxes. I pay for a service because they take on liability when it comes to my tax return being correct. If they screw up, and they have, they fix it. That is worth 50-100 dollars to me...
bastardoperator··on Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
Interstate commerce? Just spitballing...
bastardoperator··on Google Proposes New Mseal() Memory Sealing Syscall for Linux
I worked with a well know hacker/author at a company and while most people wouldn't step foot near them I saw it as an opportunity to maybe learn more. They were brutally honest in code review, but never personally mean. Yeah, I had some code reviews that looked just like this, but it motivated me to try harder. I learned a lot from this person and eventually gained trust and some friendship on top of additional knowledge. Don't be scared of a code review, be happy that code reviews will give you new insights even if that means the work you have now is wrong or requires refactoring.
bastardoperator··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
I can agree with you to an extent, but the model doesn't scale and they're getting beat by alternatives that are seemingly better for the majority.
bastardoperator··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
Who cares, people with homework need help too. They're beginners so asking them to formulate a perfect question or conduct research is basically a non-starter. If the barrier to entry is become a professional first, it's no wonder why the company and its user base are shrinking.
bastardoperator··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
Not chatgpt:

"Yes, that was a duplicate question, but that's absolutely fine! I'm here to help with any questions you have, whether they're duplicates or not. If you have any more questions or need information on any topic, please feel free to ask."

bastardoperator··on LinkedIn laying off nearly 700, mostly from core engineering teams
And? You'll be doing the same thing when your number gets pulled...
bastardoperator··on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
I blame the unpaid volunteers to some extent. Sometimes they're overly rude, not always, but we've all seen it. You never have that problem with AI. You can ask all the questions you want and it will at least try to answer them.
bastardoperator··on Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
MSFT also does volume discounts and if you have enough spend they'll give you GitHub for free when renewing VS licenses. I'll take GH anyday over Atlassian when it comes to collaboration.
bastardoperator··on Email and Git = <3
Yes, you can transmit messages via SMTP using TLS, but you don't need any special tools to read the email once it's reached its destination which is the point you seem to be missing. And before you scream PGP, almost nobody uses it.
bastardoperator··on Email and Git = <3
I don't know, sending sensitive information over plain text doesn't scream security to me. So no, unlike a mail server.
bastardoperator··on Email and Git = <3
No clue, I prefer to use a monster that actually has security mechanisms, and protocols in place designed by professionals.
bastardoperator··on Email and Git = <3
I have absolutely no desire to send all of my companies intellectual property to a mail server. It could be the best workflow in the world, but if one email address gets breached, you're leaking everything and that's really unacceptable.
bastardoperator··on Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories
It's been a trend, and you can do it yourself aka stem extraction.

https://www.lalal.ai/

bastardoperator··on That's a Lot of YAML
We most certainly have a problem with our society, the internet has turned from being a place of information and sharing, to boldly whining about things that impact nobody. This is the 6th time over the course of 5 years someone has shared this link on hackernews. We get it, tools aren't perfect.

Do we have mods on HN that can get rid of these dupe posts?

bastardoperator··on Unions work
Power, greed? Why do CEO's make 100x their employees? Some things just don't make sense.
bastardoperator··on Unions work
What's nonsensical is your bad take. First and foremost, if workers say they're happier, you have no method of disputing that and every study that captures the employees perspective is literally saying the exact same thing. Find me some data that says humans want to work longer hours, we will all wait...

It also sounds like you're not familiar with simple ideas like Parkinson’s Law. Listen to yourself, you don't think people are fucking off at work? It's business hours and you're on hacker news not doing work, case and point.

bastardoperator··on Unions work
Studies have shown time and time again that a 4 day work week results in higher productivity and happier employees. Happy employees also do better work.
bastardoperator··on macOS Sonoma is available today
This is my exact use case. I need up to date software and I don't want to wait for a package or roll my own package.
bastardoperator··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Apparently hating on homebrew is super popular right now. I run brew on osx and linux and have zero issues.
bastardoperator··on Google's 25th Birthday
Eh...
bastardoperator··on 9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who rape traveler
The TSA was literally arguing for more rape, what planet do I live on...
bastardoperator··on US Government IT contractor could face death penalty over espionage charges
NSA seems to have a major problem vetting people.
bastardoperator··on Unity's oldest community announces dissolution
Why would I even want to build a game if I'm going to have to give between 4-8% of everything I make to steam and unity? I completely understand why nearly every AAA studio builds their own client and game engine, it's cheaper in the long run.
bastardoperator··on GitHub Actions could be so much better
act would also be helpful here in terms of debugging and development of Actions workflows.

https://github.com/nektos/act

bastardoperator··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
Gabe Newell aka Gaben, Founder and CEO of Valve, is alive and well.
bastardoperator··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
Press F in chat to pay your respects to Gaben/Steam.
bastardoperator··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
That's what I was wondering about when it comes to this acquisition. Can Cisco make Splunk even more expensive? I have faith they can, I know for many folks, Splunk tops the leaderboards when it comes to spend.
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