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groffee··on Tim Cook to take 50% pay hit after shareholder feedback
Would you work for nothing?
groffee··on Natives in Tech asks Apache Software Foundation to change name
You need to get out into the real world more.
groffee··on Ask HN: What to do about contractors lying about their exp. working on your co.?
Can they do the job you hired them for? That's all that matters.
groffee··on Which books or courses to recommend to beginners for learning coding in 2023?
How long is a piece of string?

It depends very much what kind of projects you want to create. Embedded systems? Kernel? Websites? Apps? Games? AI?

There's a universe of infinite possibilities out there.

Generally though, avoid frameworks until you know the language, and learn the fundamentals. And learn the tools, testing and pipelines etc.

groffee··on Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
That's the parents responsibility. Not the states, and not the websites.
groffee··on When will Twitter collapse? (Elon Musk firings)
> What evidence do we have for this?

If you use the site you can literally see new changes daily, not all of them are great but at least it's not a stagnated mess like before.

groffee··on Up to the 1990s, raw salmon sushi was not eaten in Japan
Salmon. Not raw fish.

Proper source: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-n...

TL:DR "Traditionally Japanese do not eat salmon sushi and it was invented in the 80's by the Norwegians to to try to sell more of their over abundance of Salmon."

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31148527

groffee··on Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
> shit like phrenology was real in that world

Ask pretty much any AI model, it still is.

groffee··on Archaeologists devise a better clock for Biblical times
> There are far less contemporaneous sources for Alexander the Great than there are for Jesus of Nazareth.

Tell me you're completely uneducated about a subject without telling me you're completely uneducated.

groffee··on Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Pretty much the only thing I use my Alexas for is timers (for cooking) and the weather.

You're right that I wouldn't pay for just that functionality directly, but I pay for Prime, and spend a fair chunk on AWS every month. And if amazon abandons Alexa then I'll just move everything to another ecosystem.

groffee··on Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala
Lost to who? Ask the locals and they'll know all about it.
groffee··on Ask HN: Why aren't people medicated to fear death less?
'If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?' - Epicurus
groffee··on Ask HN: How do you overcome decision paralysis when shopping?
It really is ridiculous, even if you're 'loyal' to a brand, even that one brand can have hundreds of variations of a single product, why??

There has to be logic behind it but I don't understand it. It does make choosing something almost impossible.

groffee··on Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
Because they're supposed to be working on their browser, not dicking around with social media.
groffee··on Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
That "person" was Rousseau and his writings contributed to the French Revolution.
groffee··on P-22 has been euthanized
Cree Indians: "When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money."

Humans are just a cancer on this planet.

groffee··on Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news
> But I am skeptical of micropayments ever working.

It works fine with sites like fansly and onlyfans. 'creators' lock their posts behind a subscription or a tip, you tip and get access.

Reddit has the same, with awards (although they keep it all for themselves) Twitch has the same with points etc, it's here.

All you do is top up your wallet, scroll your feed, see a post you like, press the tip button send them a $1 (virtual points from your account to theirs) then they can cash out.

The hardest thing is making sure you're not falling afoul of the money laundering laws or accidentally financing 'terrorism'.

Hopefully we see more of it on the mainstream platforms, but on other platforms it's been here for years already.

groffee··on Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world
He never was. The real rich people you'll never hear about or see in media.
groffee··on The growing debate over spaying and neutering dogs (2019)
Birth control in women also controls their mate preferences.

I don't think people understand what an absolutely huge issue this is, hormonal birth control literally changes people's personality. But we blindly tell millions of people all over the world to take it, the damage done is incalculable.

And with regards to the article, I mean 'duh' you stop any animal from fulfilling its natural function of course it's going to be detrimental, just like genital mutilation in humans.

groffee··on A man who cracked the knuckles only on one hand, wins Nobel Prize for it (2009)
Length constraint on the title.
groffee··on Show HN: Trade on Elon's Tweets
If you have to get your information on trades from Twitter, it's already too late. And like the other comment says, why not just use Twitter itself?
groffee··on Ask HN: What career should bright 22 y/o people pursue in 2022?
Makes the most sense in context of what? Do what you're passionate for.

And forget about the market being crowded, most 'engineers' can barely switch a computer on, you need to actually learn the fundamentals.

Be one of the people who writes frameworks (tools or whatever) and not one of the people who uses them and that alone will put you above 99.9% of other 'developers'.

groffee··on Show HN: A Website Dedicated to Jobseekers
None of the links ON YOUR WEBSITE work. Should have been clearer.
groffee··on Ask HN: Recently posted directory of personal sites/blogs?
Search your browser history?
groffee··on Iran set to freeze bank accounts of women who refuse to wear a hijab
Iranians: What do you mean you've seen this? It's brand new!
groffee··on Ancient human relative used fire, discoveries suggest
Of course they did, even birds use fire [0]

[0] https://wildlife.org/australian-firehawks-use-fire-to-catch-...

groffee··on Show HN: A Website Dedicated to Jobseekers
None of the links work!
groffee··on Bugpilot: Fix bugs without asking questions
> Bugpilot automatically collects screenshots, screen recordings, steps to reproduce, user info, and console logs, so you don't have to ask.

Sounds nice, most of my bug reports are "it doesn't work", and that's literally it! and of course most times the software is perfectly fine and it's the user that's "broken".

groffee··on Tell HN: ChatGPT can reply like a specific Reddit or HN user, including you
Would be interesting-ish to test it against https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
groffee··on Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?
That's my secret, Captain
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