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I'm pretty sure this comment was generated by a language model. If that's the case, congratulations.

Let me politely disagree with you. I conduct interviews regularly and often the candidate's perception about of own performance doesn't match reality. More often than not, they are…

Thank you for a good laugh. I feel exactly like that, although I work a cushy tech job instead of fixing dishwashers, I know I don't have what it takes to make the history books. H…

But you're right! All our truths were invented by someone else(s), down to the language we use to write these replies.

I don't understand. Even if you had a cryptographic challenge mechanism to be verified by specialized hardware in the client, if I control the client then I must be able to "poke a…

This is the whole joke of pifs. https://github.com/philipl/pifs

That's absolutely fair and I'm not trying to imply that cheap entertainment is all bad. It was more of a reaction to the parent comment, which seemeed to imply that the endeavour w…

With the enormous amount of time we all waste in cheap entertainment this days, I think the willingness to spend as much time digging and tweaking and hacking is to be celebrated.

I lived in Brazil, and my well-off friends bought their Macs smuggled from Paraguay. Still, at Paraguay prices a MacBook Pro used to cost about 10x the minimum wage.

Curiously, this last sentence matches almost exactly how a Portuguese speaker would write English phonetically.

Where I come from, companies don't waste real estate with monitor rooms for security guards. Instead the monitoring is outsourced, and the security guard has a fixed position and a…

As a counter argument, social engineering is hacking through a different interface. You're still exploiting vulnerabilities, but in a low-tech, process-based system. But I agree th…

The original question was about "how to break out of lethargy", and I think it might work for that. I think some people need "momentum" to get invested into what they want to do; t…

I get your point. But my opinion is that you will benefit more from a method to get things done, than from just waiting for your mood to improve. I rather not take drugs if I don't…

If you're anything like me, or anything like 90% of humanity, you can't rely on motivation to progress in life (whatever your idea of progression is). None of the platitudes or sel…

Does it even matter? It doesn't, this is like comparing apples to oranges. The biggest reason there is more rigor in other fields is because they are less iteration-friendly. I per…

I'm not even American and don't live in the US, but I can't see why any government would undermine it's own national companies when they are big players in the international market…

I searched for "Starlink satellites" and found this Y2K-style Canadian UFO blog [1] explaining it isn't aliens. I might just waste my weekend with this search engine. [1] https://w…

It looks like cyber warfare, as well as espionage, is considered pretty much fair game in geopolitics nowadays. I wonder where the line is drawn that would make it an act of war. I…

> Passive Media Consumption is Fundamentally Bad Reading books is passive media consumption too. You could reframe this article (with substantial changes) to talk about books, wine…

It's not bad, tracing the cause is a fundamentally good thing. In fact, afaik, it's just procedure. But many reasonable people nowadays are reluctant to publicly entertain any idea…

> producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people Doesn't know a thing about biology or anthropology, but knows even less about coffee.

Renting a penthouse/dachgeschoss apartment in Mitte costs more like 2k nowadays.

It's impossible to know all the pitfalls, and the author notes that. Metrics (or - ugh - telemetry if it's client-side), as well as automated testing with expectations around perfo…