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workingpatrickon IBM sues Airbnb for patent royalties

What on Earth could make someone so GREEDY to go through the hassle of doing this?

FTFY

workingpatrickon Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

2020

workingpatrick on Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

It's more than possible, it's expected. While all of these things do happen, they are preventable and should not be treated as excusable, people need to be held accountable and systems / processes need to be put in place to ensure that these things don't reoccur.

workingpatrick on Ask HN: Ever worked with a service that can never be restarted?

Came here to post something similar. Why jump through all these hoops to unfuck some inherently fucked system.
It's a bunch of work and time and effort to reverse engineer it just to get back to the point of still having a piece of shit legacy system.
Honestly this is effectively natural selection at play for businesses. They put themselves in this situation, if it dies and destroys the business ... good fucking riddance, the people who let this situation occur need to fail hard, it's the only way they will ever learn.
Just walk up to the machine and plug in a USB kill for 2 seconds, remove it, and get on with your life.

workingpatrick on Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

I agree about having fewer workers stacked with upgrades seems to be the "meta" but I found that the upgrades don't seem to stack linearly. For example, one Dev with 51x mechanical keyboards is not significantly faster than 2x Devs with 1x mech. keyboards each, and costs orders of magnitude more $.

workingpatrick on Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

For the Observation Training, your worker seems to work X tasks in a row when you manually click them to assign a task, where X is their "Observation Training" level.
So that automates their work if you assign it to them manually.
The self-starter training seems to take effect when you've not manually assigned a task to them. They will search for a single task to complete X times in a row, with a slight delay between each task, where X is equal to their "Self-Starter Training" level.
When their tasks are started automatically via this skill, the "Observation training" seems to be ignored.

workingpatrick on It's raining plastic: microscopic fibers fall from the sky in Rocky Mountains

Reading this scares me to the point I want to wear a Surgical Mask everywhere like I'm in a Tokyo subway station.

workingpatrick on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

I also just typed in a non-existent gmail address and it worked.

workingpatrick on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature

If you don't want to provide your email address I put the article here https://pastebin.com/kKSNFnm8

workingpatrick on Forests and climate change: pine trees dying in France

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/07/24/la-sechere...

workingpatrick on AI is supercharging the creation of maps around the world

My first thought is wondering what data FB hopes to acquire from making this tool available.

workingpatrick on Show HN: A browser extension that makes switching between tabs easier

Is there a FF version tho?

workingpatrick on Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think

Re: the title - How could it be MORE beneficial than we think? Who thinks that literally saving the world is anything less than highly beneficial?

workingpatrick on Ask HN: What's the Future of Red Hat Developer Post IBM Acquisition?

I've been through an acquisition in the past where the purchasing company told us that we'd remain independent and that "we like what you're doing, that's why we purchased the company, we don't want to change anything". This was true for roughly 6 months, then sweeping business and cultural changes happened.
Do you have any assurances that what you've been told, regarding independence will remain true? If so, are those assurances any more concrete than the initial promise of independence?
Not trying to be negative, but telling a company that's been acquired that things will stay the same, seems to be one of the oldest corporate lies in the book.
Thoughts? Thanks for your post.

workingpatrick on My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?

It's exactly a blockchain ICO site :D https://golem.network/crowdfunding/

workingpatrick on San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban

Seems like politicians just trying to win public favor by taking broad swings at a hot topic, rather than trying something that would actually protect the youth, or anyone for that matter. How has history not convinced these people that prohibition is ineffective and a waste of public funds?

workingpatrick on San Francisco Becomes First U.S. City to Pass an E-Cigarette Ban

Here is the link to the proposed ballot measure, which was somehow not linked to by ANY of the sources covering this story. https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/LI031919.pdf Looks to be two separate measures, one banning all nicotine products from being sold, manufactured, or distributed from City property, the 2nd banning all Non-FDA approved products (vapes) from the entire city: 190311 & 190312, respectively.

workingpatrick on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

I agree, we can't blame people with limited economic opportunities for taking a relatively 'good paying' job. We can absolutely blame one of the largest corporations in the country for offering jobs with such demanding and damaging work while offering few support services and allowing these sub-contacting companies to treat employees in such a manner.

workingpatrick on The new Dropbox

It's nice that they are optional, do you know if they are opt-in or opt-out?

workingpatrick on The new Dropbox

I see these new integrations and all I can think about is the privacy implications.

workingpatrick on SEC Charges Kik With Conducting $100M Unregistered ICO

I'd argue that for the interaction to be truly consensual, both parties must be fully informed about the risks and rewards of the interaction that they are choosing to participate in. My reading of the SEC press release leads me to believe that the primary reason for requiring filing with the SEC for a sale of this nature is to ensure that all relevant information is available for the parties involved, thus allowing the interaction to be truly consensual.

workingpatrick on LED light can damage eyes, French health authority warns

AFAIK, most of the actually 'blue' headlights are not street legal. A Product of cheap aftermarket "HID Kits" or cheap XENON bulbs. Also, at least in Texas, basically any modification to your OEM headlights is verboten.

workingpatrick on We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

Bit of hypocrisy on the part of the author for publishing on this platform....
The comment section of this article: "Our discussions are powered by Disqus, which require JavaScript. "

workingpatrick on Are the dead taking over Facebook?

Because their login requirements are annoying: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/2053951719842540

workingpatrick on Show HN: Office Hours – Hold office hours by phone anytime, anywhere

This seems great, and honestly like the type of thing that could and should just be integrated into iOS/Android natively for anyone in your contacts etc..
I hope if they steal it from you they make it worth your while.

workingpatrick on Satanic Temple Wins IRS Recognition as an Official House of Worship

Because Bloomberg does not like noscript or my enterprise shared IP: https://outline.com/Pa85w4

workingpatrick on Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour”

Here Ya go: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y

workingpatrick on Texas city requires pledge not to boycott Israel to get hurricane aid (2017)

From my brief reading of the text of the referenced law [https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/HB00089F...] it would appear that it is aimed solely at 'companies' and not individuals at all. Furthermore it seems to pertain only to contract assignment, not govt. benefits.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it does not appear that Texas Law would require this "Anti Boycott" clause on a benefit application.