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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by WalterGR »

ant_li0n wrote: post #121
honkdaddy wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is a classic case of American exceptionalisms. Americans have an absolutely bonkers relationship with race and often assume that other Westerners around the world feel the same way. The _only_ reason the phrase "All Lives Matter" has any remotely political juice to it is because of the riots that occurred in America two years ago; the phrase itself is entirely innocuous and is really something most r…

I'm pretty ignorant of this, but was the phrase "All Lives Matter" really out and about in normal use for a long time? Or did it rise in popular use after "Black Lives Matter"? If it's the first one, yeah I agree w/you. If it's the second, well...

No and yes, respectively. OP is just being coy; they fully know this and tipped their hand by referring to the demonstrations as riots.

> If it's the second, well...

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by [deleted] »

iroddis wrote: post #107

Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).

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Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by valbaca »

iroddis wrote: post #107

Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).

AFAIK, that's pretty much it, yes.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by valbaca »

danamit wrote: post #24

The HUGE influx of recruiters from developed countries that wanna go thru the whole recruitment process without giving me a a range of salary. The confrontational and accusatory tone when I state my desired range and say that I got paid similar with companies in my own country (when questioned about it) when comparing apples to apples (contracting), the gaslighting and excuses of why I should get paid less than I hav…

Fantastically put and exactly the same experience I've had.

They're entirely preying on the "talking about money is taboo" that exists in our culture and it only ever benefits them. We have to all collectively (or through the passage of laws like in CO, WA, CA) draw a hard line and the sand and not give any recruiter 15 minutes or even 1.5 minutes before they provide a salary range.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by iroddis »

nequo wrote: post #114

I am late to this game so I assume everyone else’s brain was melted by this in 2017: Every Intel CPU since 2008 includes an autonomous computer called the Intel Management Engine that runs Minix, completely circumvents your own OS, has full access to memory, has network access, and cannot be turned off by the owner of the hardware (you). We also don’t know what it does because it’s extremely difficult to reverse engi…

Not just Intel. AMD had the Platform Security Processor (PSP) that serves as similar role.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by cvhashim »

donatj wrote: post #67
hppb wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That just sounds like an attempt to save both of you time (elapsed time, from interview to offer, not time spent) in case your phone interview did do well. After the phone interview, somebody needs to write it up, a hiring committee needs to look at it, and then they can decide whether to move forward or not. If they give you the challenge after that it's easily another week. Frankly I am surprised they gave you a fu…

I went and looked up the emails. I submitted my code challenge at 9:45pm on Sunday central time and received the response at 2:18am Monday. Couple hours, and a strange time to get a response. I suspect the recruiter was not US based. Given that the job was supposed to be west coast based, I have to imagine they’d made their decision on Friday.

Probably an auto rejection.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by floxy »

nequo wrote: post #114

I am late to this game so I assume everyone else’s brain was melted by this in 2017: Every Intel CPU since 2008 includes an autonomous computer called the Intel Management Engine that runs Minix, completely circumvents your own OS, has full access to memory, has network access, and cannot be turned off by the owner of the hardware (you). We also don’t know what it does because it’s extremely difficult to reverse engi…

Wow.

https://itigic.com/minix-the-hidden-operating-system-in-inte...

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by honkdaddy »

WalterGR wrote: post #131
ant_li0n wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty ignorant of this, but was the phrase "All Lives Matter" really out and about in normal use for a long time? Or did it rise in popular use after "Black Lives Matter"? If it's the first one, yeah I agree w/you. If it's the second, well...

No and yes, respectively. OP is just being coy; they fully know this and tipped their hand by referring to the demonstrations as riots. > If it's the second, well...

Would you not classify them as riots? What word would you use?

I'm Canadian but was living in Seattle at the time. Businesses were burned, cars were flipped, statues torn down. I'm not trying to downplay the importance of what was being protested, but to pretend it was a peaceful demonstration is laughable. Riot is a perfectly reasonable word to describe it.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by honkdaddy »

ant_li0n wrote: post #121
honkdaddy wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is a classic case of American exceptionalisms. Americans have an absolutely bonkers relationship with race and often assume that other Westerners around the world feel the same way. The _only_ reason the phrase "All Lives Matter" has any remotely political juice to it is because of the riots that occurred in America two years ago; the phrase itself is entirely innocuous and is really something most r…

I'm pretty ignorant of this, but was the phrase "All Lives Matter" really out and about in normal use for a long time? Or did it rise in popular use after "Black Lives Matter"? If it's the first one, yeah I agree w/you. If it's the second, well...

Whether it had much use prior to 2020 I'm unsure, the point is that Americans (like the charming one I'm trying my best to be patient with below) will now forever associate their country's own racial backstory with those three words, and for some reason expect others around the world to do the same.

Re: Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?

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Post by tagami »

iroddis wrote: post #107

Possibly this is me misunderstanding things, but that all things move at a constant velocity (speed of light) through spacetime. So I’m moving at the same speed as light, it’s just that a lot of my velocity is in the time dimension, where as light’s velocity is fully in the dimensions of space (and zero in time).

I'll accept my ignorance here, but there has to be some time element to light otherwise it would have infinite speed.
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