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gravy··on AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
Seems to be the MO around here - create and profit off of horrors beyond our wildest imaginations with no accountability and conveniently disappear before shit hits the fan. Not before writing an op-ed though.
gravy··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
Didn't I read somewhere that serif fonts are better for dyslexia
gravy··on The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)
It never occurred to me that a rebuttal to "not using lines of code or bugs solved because it can be gamed" is just to point out productivity is literally always gamed
gravy··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Dang please let me filter politics
gravy··on Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
I almost decided to preface this with "for those of you who can just buy what you want..."
gravy··on Support for team members who are mistreated in their country
Love the meta
gravy··on Support for team members who are mistreated in their country
Should it be 1-3?

Please hire me as QA.

Edit: Anyways I like this. Love the idea of companies taking over for helping out the underrepresented in their ranks. This is a natural progression from remote work.

gravy··on How We Fixed the Ozone Layer
How* We Fixed The Ozone Layer
gravy··on You're naming a file, but the name doesn't matter. what do you usually call it?
test.txt
gravy··on Clip: Connecting Text and Images
Do you recommend any beginner courses?
gravy··on Clip: Connecting Text and Images
Sometimes I look at stuff like this and sit in despair that I'm not learning anything that will let me work these kinds of problems while I work at a defense contractor maintaining 20+ year old code.
gravy··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Maybe combine with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25254772 ?
gravy··on Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows
The only person doing this mental chase here is you. Why don't you just come out and say what you mean?

If you're really this confrontational about "the color" black being tied to darkness since pre-history (not much of a stretch there) and the significance of darkness being the physical manifestation of something like "evil" (also since pre-history) EDIT: and why "evil" is "intimidating", then nobody should take your contributions to this discussion seriously.

EDIT: I just don't understand how your response of "if black is intimidating, why do they paint them tan for military use" is in any way an honest argument. Did you simply not even think of camouflage? There are more important tactical advantages in warfare than intimidation. And now I feel like I did the job that darkserside was trying to avoid.

gravy··on Advocates want to name heatwaves like hurricanes to raise awareness of dangers
What if they just assigned "categories" like they do to Hurricanes?
gravy··on Stop worrying and start loving the Electoral College
Don't the heads of state for the EU decide who the EU council president is? Should each head of state's vote be given equal weight considering the vast differences in population of each EU country?
gravy··on Remdesivir will cost insurers $520 for a single vial. Production cost: 93 cents
> You don’t get to socialize the costs and privatize the revenue.

Why not? Corporations are still taxed on their profits.

gravy··on How to prepare for losing your programming job
I really appreciate this resource. Thank you!!
gravy··on How to prepare for losing your programming job
Back in my teens (mid 20s now), I was very (very) interested in Photoshop to the point where I would consume dozens of tutorials a day and just work on projects for things like forum signatures or post headers and graphics. My "graphic design" career never took off, but to this day I still have muscle memory of certain tasks and actions I've created and still set up my workspace in the same way.

Now that I'm a programmer I rarely find the itch to dive into things like this again. Every now and then, I'll want to create some silly website with a game or something and again I'd find myself spending late nights just working on it. I've realized that the fact that I "know something" isn't what drives me, it's that I'm interested in what I want so much that I'll learn anything just to get to do it.

Lately, I've been starting to feel the itch for doing something related to baseball (again, something I love), like data analytics or amateur scouting or something. I have no idea how to get started, but I just know I want to. I hope I find tutorials from people who are just as excited to share information as I am to absorb it.

gravy··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
It has been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083121
gravy··on Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy
You're right, athletes voluntarily choosing to go to schools to play sports is the same as slavery.
gravy··on FEMA says it may bill fire victims if it can’t get $4B from PG&E
A) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/20... B) I think you misunderstood the comment. C, D) See B)
gravy··on Crows love cheeseburgers and are getting high cholesterol
Then why mention high cholesterol at all?
gravy··on Living Near Trees, Not Just Green Space, Improves Wellbeing
Do Bonsai trees count?
gravy··on Equifax endangered millions. It’s now hoping you won’t seek $125 in compensation
Is it weird that I don't trust the settlement link at the end of the article?
gravy··on ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases
See discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20377427
gravy··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Ah yes, the best way to combat "hackers" is to purge them to darker corners of the web and remove their space to play freely and openly.
gravy··on US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries
I think a) we may have different definitions of "military aggression" and b) China and the US have different "priorities" when it comes to the military.
gravy··on Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
Is it touchscreens that are distracting or screens in general?
gravy··on The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unreported F-35 problems
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/4xJBvKJht78 (The F-18: Just how good is it? (1980))
gravy··on Why Linked Lists Are an Interview Staple
So here's something I've been thinking about recently. I'm 2.5 years into my first job out of college and I think I'm starting to pick up on things like "oh let me guard against something that could return null" or "let me guard against calling .at() out of bounds". I'm starting to feel really thankful that my work has me thinking like this, because I can actually see it as a sign of getting better as a developer.

So -- instead of wondering what kinds of problems will get me through interviews, do you think some way I can train myself to be able to see things like that more often? "Defensive programming" or something?

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