Dirlewanger

It's not an argument, it's someone's thoughts on an observation he had.

Why does HN always do this? They'll see that the article is an opinion piece and instantly go on the defensive. Inferiority complex maybe?

Yup. I'm in disbelief after seeing that number. Digital government IDs of any kind are something that no government on Earth can securely provide. We're all too immature and stunted with software design still.

Justice were seen as the heirs to follow in Daft Punk's footsteps after their debut. They kinda lost it after that though, IMO.

It works well if your act allows you to get away with it (fellow Frenchman Danger also has a headpiece). I don't think anyone really knows any of the members of Ghost aside from the main guy.

Because men and women aren't as equal as everyone likes to think. And here's the best part: that's OK! It's OK to admit that men are better at some things than women, and vice versa. There's a reason why the men went out on the hunting trips and the women stayed back at the village to take care of the village children: it kept everyone alive.

I contend that there may still be some forces in some industries that try to subvert efforts at more women in them, but those are few and far between. With the gender earnings gap already proven to be bullshit (and if anything, in tech, women are getting paid more simply because companies want to fill diversity quotas), we need to stop wasting time fighting amongst ourselves and focusing effort on real, actual problems. Workers divided over petty shit like this is what the rich and powerful want.

What is brittle about 0s and 1s? Do you think bit rot is a real thing?

I wonder how this compares to FullContact, a company built on doing this very thing.

That all may be true, but that's unfortunately the state of the market. If you want to keep developers, you need to be cognizant of this fact and adjust accordingly.

"Today, architecture feels more like technology shopping than tinkering."

That's because most web development jobs are maintaining glorified CRUD applications. Real actual software engineering jobs are hard to find, and don't pay as well as web development (or it's open source software that doesn't pay).

I think being able to prove that a program can be correct is getting close to P=NP territory.

One thing that sets software apart from other engineering disciplines is that they are grounded in physics (bits running on a semiconductor doesn't matter for this discussion) and have been around (in some form) for thousands of years. How do we know if a design is sound? We can check it by doing the math. How do we know if a program is sound (what does that even mean? There's our first problem)? Well, we rely on a large compendium of heuristics that are based on nothing but experiences compiled over the past ~60 years. Also, that compendium is constantly being added to. Also, virtually everyone disagrees on what should/shouldn't be in this compendium.

People just can't let something from 21 years ago go, can they? The band's done a complete 180 on everything regarding digital distribution, and it's been this way for years (I'm sure owning their masters and own label has something to do with it). You want a real culprit who actually thoroughly abused (and still to this day) the DMCA? Get mad at the RIAA.

Also, if it weren't Metallica, it would have been someone else; virtually every big artist at the time felt the same way but didn't speak up.

Because they don't care, and they have 0 competition (streaming on YT is a joke).

Obama accomplished next to nothing of note in his 8 years. ACA, while a start, largely doesn't change anything about how the healthcare industry operates. He accomplished nothing with regards to our failing infrastructure. The alphabet agencies sure loved him though.

So far with Biden, we were promised an additional $2000 stimulus check...oh actually it's just $1400...oh actually, we're not so sure now. What did he do instead? Marched the military right back into Syria on his first day in office.

So yes, this is a "both sides" thing.

The Starcraft remaster was largely well-received.

Maybe it's better for the world that Google doesn't do anything AI research-related.

Wow...looks pretty damn good.

Wonder how intense the rewrite was; David Brevik said that much of the game relied on the precise resolution and framerate for everything to work. It wasn't a matter of just upping the resolution and everything worked fine.

I swear though, if this is anything like Warcraft Reforged, I'm truly done with this company.

You and I both, only problem is that we've been waiting since before Trump took office for a crash...

I mean, a real hacker would just assemble it themselves. You can get all the parts needed. You can get custom caps printed with whatever symbols you want.

What's wrong with small caps?

A year ago, Greenwald was a hero here. Now, everyone downvotes any mention of him because he reported a story across party lines. Truly pathetic. I fucking hate HN sometimes.

Seriously. Reminds me of those local news segments of old restaurants closing down and everyone being interviewed are sad and are reminiscing about when they used to go to it "as a kid".

I mean, unless they ask for the code, whoever reads it believes it, right?

>Entertainment industry where fucktons of money can be made has a shady underbelly no one publicly talks about.

No way? Next you'll tell me Hollywood has this same problem...

>Discover music from people. Not algorithms.

Unsolicited opinion: Ok, fine, but music discovery algorithms are one of the coolest things to come out of the Internet. When Pandora first launched, it was mind-blowing. Now it's commonplace. I've found so many good artists on YouTube, Bandcamp, and the like (don't use Spotify). I don't know how they work, but I'm pretty sure they also take user engagement into account, so I wonder if this is really doing anything novel or just marketing.

Ah, BlueJ...takes me back to Intro to CS where an entire class was spent on getting that program alone to run on everyone's computer.

Does competent to you mean marching the military back into Syria on the first day in office?

Yup, I'm increasingly straying away from Amazon. If I need a new set of cooking utensils, do I wade through the hundreds of Chinese no-name entries on Amazon with hundreds of questionable reviews all across the spectrum, or do I just pay a little extra and get the quality ones from Williams-Sonoma?

Didn't they lay off employees that worked on Rust projects like Servo a couple months ago? And now they do this?

Nah, I think we're fucked now. The Internet is a completely different place than what it was in 2011. Any reddit alternative that springs up now is immediately populated with spammers, conspiracy nuts, identity politic types...you know the types; all the ones that reddit banned. They instantly bring the quality down which makes it unattractive to most people who want to switch. And then it gets shut down e.g. voat. Rinse and repeat.

With each passing day, the Internet looks more and more dire.

They're not specific complaints. Said complaints can even be attributed to several streaming services. Why even bother releasing collections of something when there's major gaps in content for no apparent reason? Omitting content, whether it be through sheer incompetence or the company volunteering as a censorship board, does the series a horrendous disservice to its legacy.