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If you used UUIDv7 you get time-ordered UUID and could use that for a tie breaker.

Wrong. "Here is a totally mind-blowing new thing AI will let you do this week that humanity could not do last week" is an endless source of novelty and eyeballs. Source: Am a publi…

I don't know LeCun personally, but there's a lot of backstory here that this polemical clickbait is leaving out. - LeCun has a history of getting mobbed by "AI ethics" types on Twi…

I don't know who this "we" is you're talking about. Many of us are outraged over Saudi atrocities going all the way back to 9/11.

The reason being an anti-vaxxer is bad is because of a concept called "herd immunity." There is no analog, here. I think that not only do you not understand much about kids, but yo…

I'm a parent of three girls, the oldest of which is 10. None of them will have smartphones, probably not even in high school. I run my house pretty much like the author of the arti…

I think it's amazing that on a site that's supposedly filled with tech geeks, so few commenters seem to know the difference between spending time alone in your room in front a non-…

Looks like Zawinski's Law is still 100% true: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” Coine…

My first reaction to "could this be related to the storm," was "oh no, now this QAnon stuff has spread to HN."

What's wrong with SES? (Not a rhetorical question. I've played around with it and it seems ok, so looking to hear about downsides.)

Thanks!

This ^^. The "OMG... HORROR" in this article about the mere fact of x86 usage is deeply silly. The stuff about C64 and so on at the end... there's just no redeeming this mess. The …

AWS has absolutely taken down websites because they didn't like what was on them, just recently, in fact: https://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-rights-activists-posted-gu... I'm a jour…

This is the sort of article that makes me imagine a dialogue between a senior software engineer and a newb developer that goes something like this: Newb: Hey man, I think for this …

In my personal experience, Dry-rb is the "bargaining" stage of grief over the current state of Ruby and Rails. When you finally reach "acceptance," you move on to another stack ent…

My experience is that people who come to feel about Rails the way he describes in the intro (I went through this exact progression, myself) end up moving on to another stack entire…