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deprecative··on Oxide Cloud Computer. No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud
Grift pricing denotes a grift. If there's no price then the price is made up.
deprecative··on State Farm won't renew 72,000 insurance policies in California
Sure, though traffic is an issue of population density and lack of reliable affordable mass transit.
deprecative··on The IRS Has an Answer to TurboTax
Two Santa Claus theory.
deprecative··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
You always dream. That's the thing. Unless something is seriously wrong you dream every night. You might not want to remember them but you'll dream all the same.
deprecative··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
HN is great but it's only illusory that it has smarter people than Reddit. We're all just people rising to our incompetence to the limit the system allows.
deprecative··on Reddit's Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
He did teach us that nothing will change because we don't want it to. I think that, at least, is significant.
deprecative··on Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police
It's fascinating how people who appear to be so smart are so very confused by systemic causes of criminality. The bullet is a bandage. It does not cure the illness. And even then murder for something so insignificant is beyond reprehensible.
deprecative··on Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
Mozilla is funded by Google. Mozilla doesn't seem to have much of a clue what it ought to be doing, either. I use Firefox, but I wouldn't trust anything else to last unfortunately.
deprecative··on How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work
If you don't have standup how does the PM waste an hour of your workday talking about their pet? That seems to be what standups are for at every job I've had with standups.
deprecative··on How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work
No, but I've seen folks get laid off as a result of this. Granted they were in a PIP but they'd met the conditions established within with exception for accepted PRs, y'know points. So when their PR wasn't approved before standup the following day (end of sprint) they were let go that afternoon despite having done their work to the satisfaction of the PIP such as they could.
deprecative··on Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates
Not sure why you were downvoted but I can only imagine it might because folks mistook what you said? I don't know.

Suspension is a punishment only in that it removes them from the environment so they cannot harm others. The legal system will need to be involved. All of that said, these kids seem to be quite young. I doubt much will actually happen to them legally - and that's probably fine. As long as the kids learn their lesson and never do it again. I hope this also is used as a teaching moment for everyone that we now need to contend with images that are created not only of adults but of children.

deprecative··on Florida middle-schoolers charged with making deepfake nudes of classmates
Just to continue this: it is the school's responsibility to ensure their students (and faculty) are safe. It is not their responsibility to punish anyone beyond that scope. If there is to be punitive punishment that would come from the legal system.

Though, personally, it'll be interesting to see what crime was committed in the making of the content. To me this sort of behavior isn't unexpected. It's yet another example of technology outpacing geriatric capacity.

deprecative··on Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
Something like 99.99% of our own galaxy has no idea humans exist. Our radio signals haven't had time to reach that far. There's actually an interesting hypothesis that as a civilization progresses it is only radio emissions noisy for a brief period of time before technology advances and the radio signals effectively stop much like we see with our development here on Earth.

All that to say, no. Even if they were listening they'd not know we were here to begin with, at least yet.

deprecative··on New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns
Nintendo is a litigation company pretending to be a game developer.
deprecative··on Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
Todd is in shambles that he can't use the name.
deprecative··on Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)
I get so jealous that people can absorb information via books as an adult. I can read the same chapter a hundred times and nothing sinks in.

I know this is off topic but do you, or anyone passing, have a system or tips for how y'all do this? I've got so many programming books but they only collect dust after I read through them without benefit.

deprecative··on How to be a good listener
Well, yeah. It is manipulation. It's at best benevolent manipulation but that's what it is. That's what most human interaction is, though.
deprecative··on Ask HN: How do you find employment opportunities in 2024?
I'll be honest this is almost me as well. I have 10 YoE and I got laid off at the start of this cratering and have been since. About two ish years now. If I could do anything else and that something else paid anywhere near what this field does (did) I'd probably have left. I've been in the first or second round of layoffs at several companies and have had to job hop where I haven't to get paid decently. It's soul crushing but there's nothing I can do. I've always had great reviews, I'm decently personable, and all the normal office politics jazz. Anyway, I just wanted to empathize. Hope you find success wherever you end up.
deprecative··on Show HN: Pinkary.com – one link for all your socials
What do you mean by again? PHP powers most of the Internet. It's really only in FAANG land where it's not the case.
deprecative··on Proposed Bill Would Give Americans $5k to Shop American
That describes basically every single policy in existence. It's not a useful metric to try to determine these things. Besides, it'd have to be bipartisan. So everyone is paying people to vote.
deprecative··on It's Official: We Can Pretty Much Treat Covid Like the Flu Now
COVID taught the CDC that nobody gives any shits about what they have to say. Everyone immediately ignored them during the early days of COVID. Now they serve the public by allowing unrestricted economic activity.
deprecative··on Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over alliance with Microsoft
But by seeking profit OpenAI will be able to help humanity at greater levels.
deprecative··on More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests
Really, this is the truth of it. I would love to be in better shape. I am not willing to sacrifice half of my free time a day, or alternating days, to do this. Then to get home and cook and clean and all that? I'd do nothing but chores, work, eat, work out, sleep, repeat. I have done what I can with calorie restrictions but now that it's not working anymore I'm just the weight and fitness that I am.
deprecative··on California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]
A car that can drive itself will always be the better option to the companies that can afford the market share. Nobody cares about how automation will remove jobs for folks. These things are important to note. Your opinion as a customer is secondary to the cost to the provider.
deprecative··on California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]
Yeah, but public transit is socialist and helps the poor and minorities so we can't have that in the states beyond the massive cities that more or less force the issue.

The distinction is absolutely important between public and private transit. However to most folks they'll be the same thing in the end. Maybe local governments can buy cars for private public transit, which could be nice depending on funding and all that.

deprecative··on California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]
It's pedantic to most, I'm sure. Just FYI, though, antisocial is to be opposed to society - like Timothy McVeigh. Asocial is probably what you're looking for.
deprecative··on Overwhelmed? Just Say 'No.'
Great advice if you can get a job in two weeks. This sounds like a great way to get fired yesterday. Employment is adversarial and should not be treated in good faith.
deprecative··on Tech Layoffs Keep Coming. Why Is Head Count Barely Budging?
Pump the numbers and hire new scrubs in the next quarter for less than what the previous person was making. Do it industry wide and you reset baseline pay which drives profit up further.
deprecative··on The True Rate of Unemployment
It's sort of like how if you do not have a job and stop looking suddenly according to the data you're employed again.
deprecative··on Why are there no stricter rules to restrict ultraprocessed / engineereed foods?
The FDA and USDA desperately need more funding and to have their duties sorted out. It's basically regulation by vibes.
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