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Personally I'm not worked up over it either, but I find the argument that this puts Wikipedia at risk persuasive. If it some point WMF racks up debts they can't pay and puts itself…

If you're going to get involved in a torment nexus project, at least do yourself a favor and research the different comp packages being offered and choose the best one. And of cour…

> That is still democratic, the people could change those systems if they really put their mind to it, because the power does technically flow from the people if they really put th…

> The main function of a protest is not to effect change, but to help people who support a cause meet each other. This is certainly the case with many protests in many contexts, bu…

> How many Americans are on friendly terms with their Rep or Senator? I would imagine if you limited this to folks with $100MM+ net worth, the percentage wouldn't be so low.

I think that deep down many people often believe that they could have a say in policy if only they tried hard enough, so their lack of influence is a kind of personal failing. In r…

When asking if it's "working", you need to ask "for whom?".

Because typing is a small percentage of the time spent writing software.

> there's no reason to reuse it like production code. This strikes me as a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are probably many people who would like to use the code published with Ph…

I did this too. Almost always I'd rename variables, change formatting, add or remove comments, etc.. Unfortunately this feels less easy to do with modern tools. For example, Claude…

I think many people did argue against these things when they were new. Compilers, for instance, were seen as a waste of the computer's resources and produced less than optimal code…

This is my exact process nowadays when debugging some weird Linux wifi driver issue or something that came up after upgrade. But that's because I don't have any real familiarity wi…

Thank you! It's funny how I have never thought of most of these. The only similar word I could think of was "biweekly".

Seems like a missed opportunity to use a license more aligned with the project's naming convention. https://www.wtfpl.net/

In about 2013 I was an intern at Microsoft and my mentor showed me that if you were running something that streamed a lot to the terminal, it would run faster if you covered it wit…

Here is British comedian David Mitchell complaining about the same kind of vagueness in British corporate culture. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67QsrpNH96Q

English uses a lot of prepositional phrase idioms. Now that I'm learning Japanese, I find there are relatively few like that (although not zero, compare "と相談" to discuss with and に…

I have to say this sounds like an extremely believable form of shoddy PII stewardship.

The US government does meat inspections, that seems like a much broader scope than auditing the security of a couple hundred thousand utilities every few years. At the very least t…

It's very dense, but if you enjoy going down a rabbit hole about this stuff I recommend The Story of Telecommunications by George Oslin. It's the size of a history textbook.

> you feel changing a thermostat by 1F is perfect but 1C is too much: that’s true for you, not universally. I've noticed that here in Japan all the AC units seem to be adjusted by …

I think it's interesting how whenever discussing something bad about LLMs people's thought-leader response is "But humans sometimes do that too!" Is this the artificial intelligenc…

I'm glad folks are experimenting with different paradigms. That said, Hacker News might not be the best audience for this informal survey. I'd wager at least 70% of the people read…

I think this might not be the best forum to collect that research sample.