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> In the end I was able to reduce our OTA update sizes to a typical 20-50KB

What was the original size before you started this process?

> Part of the world using Celcius

I guess "part of the world" is one way of saying the entire world except 2 countries.

>> what's on it is no one's -ing business in a professional context.

> The age of self censorship :)

I find this amusing.

I would also like to know what you hoped to achieve by self censoring the word fucking in your message above.

- HN doesn't block posts with any kind of "profanity" filter

- You didn't spare anyone from the profanity, since we all knew exactly what you were saying/thinking

So I'm really curious what that actually achieved.

News just in: NSA et al. defeated after having to create a LinkedIn and Instagram profile for their agents.

I am surprised all major browsers hadn't implemented this years ago. Zstd is way better than gzip and brotli.

Normally you are also supposed to get an email that says your post was added to the 2nd chance pool.

Where are all the "loving the new Microsoft" people at?

Where are all the "loving the new Microsoft" people at?

The same applies to everyone else. Nothing was stopping them from using the crap bits of the internet, yet they did it anyway because that's what they chose to do.

The same applies to literally anything: food, exercise, etc. people choose the worse option because that's what they prefer. If you take that option away from them, then they will choose some other, similarly crappy option.

The problem is not that people have options, and some of the options are crap.

The problem is that people are physically and mentally lazy (I include myself in this), and will tend to choose the easier, but crappier option most of the time. How do we fix human nature? I don't know, but taking away people's choice isn't going to help the matter.

I am aware.

Are you aware that nothing is stopping you from only visiting websites made by individuals, and medium-sized businesses? In fact, you can also choose to use cool things like Google Earth, AND choose not to use shit things like Twitter, Facebook, Google Search etc.

Here is a use case that almost any office worker encounters, and measurements to show that a wired connection is better : https://www.jefftk.com/p/ethernet-is-worth-it-for-video-call...

Got any measurements to the contrary?

So do you think for example FAANG-like companies would have done pretty much as well if they wrote all their stuff in Scratch[0] instead, or do you think the choice of programming language matters?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_(programming_language)

> get s*$t done

What were you hoping to achieve with this utterly pointless self-censorship?

> There really is no such agreement, it is a belief system.

If everyone believes it, do they not agree on the same thing?

> And you know that "the majority of the population" has had no say in monetary policy, nor do they understand it.....

I never said they did. It doesn't change the fact that most people still value $1 the same amount.

> If the money value is the will of the people

I never said it was their will, I said they mutually agree to it's value.

> then when did the majority decide they wanted to have high inflation and even hyper inflation?

They didn't. The value of money (or anything) may go up and down over time, for any reason. But in a single moment most people will agree to the value of $1.

But anyway, back to my only point, since you think money is worthless, why don't you give all your money away? Why are you keeping it?

So until you give all your cash away, and transfer all the money in your bank accounts to someone else's bank account, you will remain a hypocrite.

Yeah I know. Cash is just paper, that happens to have an agreed upon value by the majority of the population. And the money in a bank account is just a number in a database that happens to have an agreed upon value by the majority of the population.

Your hackernews comment just happens to be some text in a database that has a value which is NOT agreed upon by the majority of the population.

So my point was, since you don't seem to also agree that your money is valuable, please give all your cash to someone who does. And please transfer all the money in your bank accounts to someone else's bank account that does value those numbers.

Until then you are a hypocrite.

That's not giving away your money. That's just saying you will.

You need to either give it to someone all in cash, or transfer all the money in whatever bank accounts you have into someone else's account. Until then, you are a hypocrite.

Please give all your money away to those who value it. You clearly don't, so why are you selfishly hoarding it?

> but the least we can do is wish her best wishes

I wonder how many times in a row it would take of you being fired by the CEO who completely mismanaged the company, while massively increasing their own salary multiple times, before you stop wishing them well.

In fact maybe the problem is that you are wishing her well. She's exploited other people enough to be doing well enough on her own. She doesn't need anyone to wish her well. Maybe the least she deserves is to not be doing well at other people's expense. What about those people?

Being nice isn't always the right answer. When people do bad things, there should be negative consequences for them, otherwise that signals to them that their behavior was appropriate. It wasn't. You are doing the morally wrong thing by wishing her well.

So you agree to a bunch of examples of terrible things she's done, and then counterbalance it with a vague "she's done a lot of good for the community over the past 20 years"?

Oh, and she was considerate towards your feelings in an email, and a followup email?

I too have seen many corporate higher-ups be highly pleasant when you talk/correspond with them. But they do jack shit about the actual issue, but assure you that they care about your feelings.

I'd rather she was an absolute bitch to everyone, but actually steered the organization in the right direction. That would have had a better positive impact on the world than a few placating emails.

On my one PC I have a Firefox instance with over 2500 tabs open. I'd guess about 5% of those are youtube.

I often open a string of 30+ tabs of youtube to watch in one go, and it works fine for me.

I know. I'm saying they already knew those kinds of decisions would be made long before they even got the job. Which is why I said it is irrelevant who makes the decision.

The devs are just as guilty as the assholes who made those decisions, because Microsoft has been making those kinds of decisions for decades.

These devs can't even hide behind the "just following orders" excuse, because as I've already said multiple times, they knew long before they got the job, that that is the kind of stuff they would be working on.

I don't work for microsoft, but I and everyone else knows that that is the kind of shit you'll be working on (who suggested it is irrelevant) long before you'd even do an interview with them.

Microsoft employees are certified assholes, and they know it.

That's why microsoft only hires people who fail any ethics test you can imagine, and who pass any asshole test that you can give them.

I'm not saying that the way you deal with untrustworthy people is wrong. I think it is a perfectly fine way to go about it.

My point is that these lying assholes are not doing something "harmless".

> That's the thing. If we don't trust, or accept that trust may not be merited, then there's nothing to break.

Yeah but to get to that point you have to break the trust you had in them or people in general, so my point remains. Or did you from the day of your birth assume everyone is lying to you about everything?

The harm to others is the broken trust. Every time someone willing spreads misinformation it makes people think less of other people and life in general.

The fact that we are reading about this now, shows that people were negatively affected by it. It wasn't a harmless activity.

People should be called out for intentionally spreading misinformation, and they should feel bad about it, and people shouldn't trust anything they say again for a very long time. Don't feel sorry for these assholes, and don't let them get away with it, because that encourages them to continue this sort of behavior.

If you actually cared about that bug, you would have followed it, and seen that it has been closed.

But you just want to shit of GTK for no reason. It's an open source project, so they owe you nothing, and nothing was stopping you from contributing your own improvements.

How is calling out violations of the GPL license helping copyright trolling?

If someone publishes GPL licensed code on github, and OpenAI then modifies that code in some answer it provides to someone asking a coding question, then OpenAI is in violation of the GPL license if they don't also license their stuff under GPL.