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austinthetaco
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Comment #49209968
if you were around long enough, you would know that: A) thats not a rule B) that was added to the guidelines because people were complaining about article choices.
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Comment #49205457
your account is 5 months old, also that's not a rule.
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Comment #49202310
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Comment #49202299
I'm getting very tired of the redditification of HN. This place used to not be like this.
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Comment #49085548
This has gotta be a troll man. They aren't responsible for poor security measures. They are only responsible for what is outlined in the thing they pay for. I'm gonna mute this thr…
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Comment #49083748
that is not correct in the slightest. It would only be your blame if you built and managed the lab. The lab is not US owned or managed, it's up to the lab who claims they can safel…
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Comment #49082644
What does that have to do with anything? If I pay the salary of a driver and they decide to drink and run over a family it's in no way my fault.
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Comment #49074157
> Modern UX is bad because many front-end programmers fundamentally just do not care about the UX, it's not about the specific tech they use. This is untrue and is weird misunderst…
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Comment #49028860
The level of effort is minimal. It's not a quantitative definition, its qualitative. Also absolutely in no way shape or form is it anywhere near the level of decision making of a d…
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Comment #49023185
The experts in the sciences usually back their claims up using citations, and can be disproven through the normal methods of disproving citations. not through "vibes"
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Comment #49022603
yes, they would, they still didnt make the coffee though. They would likely get banned from said coffee shop if they then went around the room claiming they made the coffee.
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Comment #49022560
It's the level of effort and involvement (also if you listen to any director talk they will never say "I made", they will say "we made"). Similarly to AI, nobody gives credit to th…
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Comment #49007728
im so tired of seeing AI writing on articles like this. We've been studying classical art for hundreds of years theres so many resources I beg readers to just pick up one of the co…
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Comment #48983364
there is a pretty stark difference between independent US companies copying each other and a state backed chinese company taking data and IP from american citizens.
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Comment #48938469
This is weird and reactionary. Lots of organizations are continuing to refuse to use chinese models due to security and IP concerns. Anthropic/american models aren't going anywhere…
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Comment #48847030
my only issue is that it cares if you are off by 1 minute, meanwhile in the real world a lot of analog clocks have continuously moving minutes and a lot of others have ticking minu…
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Comment #48837906
Its not essential. Good organization. Good functional configuration. Proper separation. Good variable naming. All of these things are what make it more than easy to work without ty…
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Comment #48837888
They have said time and time again it was because their C# team was writing frontend code in a huge codebase and wanted similar support.
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Comment #48836025
You really should just not assume things about people with no reason other than "they dont like the things i like so therefor they must not be experienced". I've worked on plenty o…
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Comment #48835842
I still do argue that for JS. I have yet to see it worth the effort other than making things feel comfortable for former OOP devs coming from other languages. edit: the downvote bu…
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Comment #48835826
I'm still not sold on typescript. I've used it off and on professionally for years and it has always just felt like a maneuver to create a safehaven to C# and java devs scrambling …
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Comment #48765104
for CVE's, maybe.
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Comment #48765079
You couldn't have possibly verified that. Stock prediction based on what? What's your sample size over what period of time? Using what indicators? how far is your lookback?
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Comment #48765037
that works for people you regularly watch, but what about the people that put out the rare random great video. or a video on a topic when you're trying to fix something. People don…
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Comment #48761912
Was this comment made by an LLM? i dont know anyone who drops "blast radius" in casual conversation besides claude.