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lkschubert8on Ask HN: What made you finally grok Git?

Playing through this game https://learngitbranching.js.org

lkschubert8on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Out of curiosity what do you think is a reasonable number?

lkschubert8on Ask HN: Is AI for online segregation ethical?

The point of shadowbanning isn't generally to keep engagement for KPIs, but to slow down the rate of just moving on to the next account.

lkschubert8on People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis

Honest question, why? Is it your stance that people should work until they absolutely can't anymore unless they can privately save for retirement?

lkschubert8on Micron picks Syracuse for computer chip plant that would bring up to 9k jobs

Are gun rights particularly related or is this just an axe to grind?

lkschubert8on Gridfinity 3D Printed Storage and Organization Catalog

As someone into gridfinity the selling point for me is less of the general purpose storage , that as you point out has cheap and durable solutions available, but the ability to be tailored to quick access to specific tools. A good example of this is the original creator of gridfinity made a workstation for his dremel and all of its bits that can be popped out to go work on a project and then popped right back into its home.

lkschubert8on Arduino IDE 2.0

As I understand it this is really just a specifically configured vs code fork for arduino.

lkschubert8on NeuralPi: Raspberry Pi guitar pedal using neural networks

I believe this already existed in a proprietary implementation with https://neuraldsp.com/quad-cortex.

lkschubert8on The tyranny of the rocket equation (2012)

I think you have a typo here > Momentum scales linearly with speed, whilst momentum scales quadratically.

lkschubert8on Almost half of cancer deaths are caused by smoking, alcohol, or obesity

There is a pretty strong relationship with HPV and a few different cancers.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120915/#:~:tex....

lkschubert8on Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate

Can you provide some of these sources for folks open to educating themselves?

lkschubert8on The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance

Id love to know what the potential reasons are for it being infeasible. Intuit doesn't want us to?

lkschubert8on Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

Its hugely asymmetrical in terms of amount of time spent in a setting where there is already a large amount of asymmetry.

lkschubert8on OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner

I'm really curious about the whole paragraph about Lvteci. My Latin studies are way behind me so pardon me if I'm getting things wrong but I thought a) there was a point in time where the latin alphabet only had uppercase characters and b) U or u was not in the alphabet at the time and uppercase V was always the vowel and the consonant.

lkschubert8on Productivity porn

The JIT Productivity Method. You'll have it written just as soon as someone goes to read it.

lkschubert8on Ambition as an anxiety disorder

Honest question, how do you know they are lying?

lkschubert8on ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

Yeah I guess I was thinking of "ill intent" through a certain societal lens of their intent not their own personal lens. Which is admittedly a pretty subjective view. But, I would still argue someone doing something like a politician acting against the interests of their constituency for monetary gain to be ill intent regardless of their own moral justification. And that exact example seems to happen a lot.

Edit: Also to be clear I agree that the vast majority of people aren't these actors. The problem is it is very easy for someone with ill intent to get things moving in the direction they want. Very few systems stand up to real world abuse by a sufficiently motivated bad actor.

lkschubert8on ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

My understanding is after being found in contempt you then try to appeal that. Disclaimer: Definitely not a lawyer by any definition.

lkschubert8on ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

I'm hard pressed to believe that there aren't some folks who have ill intent. The problem is weeding them out from people who are just using crappy metrics and people who just barely know what's going on.

lkschubert8on Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

The gist is the original yc debut of Dropbox had a comment that described a pretty technical way to get the same functionality as drop box. It's commonly referenced when folks on hackernews dismiss a product when they can do the same with 10 unix commands, not realizing they might not be the target customer. Interestingly I think this situation is the exact opposite, Kvass seems to be more complicated for a non technical user than file systems as the top level comment responded with.

lkschubert8on Ask HN: What is the job market like for niche languages (Nim, Crystal)?

Yeah it's probably more accurate to say "learn enough of the syntax and runtime to write/edit code in a few days".

lkschubert8on Ask HN: What is the job market like for niche languages (Nim, Crystal)?

I think "any experienced programmers should be able to pick up a language in a few days" is true for a lot of surface level things, but expertise is entirely different. A language isn't just the syntax and runtine, but the idioms, patterns, package ecosystem, and tooling that surround it, which you will likely not learn in a few days.

lkschubert8on Embed is in C23

Wouldn't the include still need some templating functionality? Or are people using vue that heavily for just importing static html?

lkschubert8on Norway to track all supermarket purchases?

I think they are more likely referring to being able to create a fingerprint of what you purchase. If you purchase via card enough times its not unreasonable that a model could be created to link your cash transactions back to you.

lkschubert8on Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture

The question is what are the merit only tests, and how do you have a transparent and merit based promotion path? Honestly if you have the solution for that you don't need to be CEO for a day, start a consultant shop teaching your methods and I'm sure plenty of places will bite.

lkschubert8on Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?

One small correction, they offer 20 weeks paid for the parent who gives birth and 6 for any parent that doesn't.

lkschubert8on The industry has been sizing kayak paddles wrong

Last I remember looking into it is the hard 90 degree offset is for wind resistance in open water.

lkschubert8on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

How about the lowest common leader?

lkschubert8on IBM's Asshole Test

Maybe it's just me, but the interviewer not knowing the solution is extremely off putting.

lkschubert8on Twitter is adding an edit button

This completely ignores the complexity of scale. For one given tweets up until now were immutable there are likely tons of systems with that assumption baked in that you now have to reevaluate/rework. Think caching layers and data storage. Do they need to store an audit history (I assume this requires a few different legal teams in different countries)? How does that scale? The picture is far bigger than the three main variables you mention.