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hateful··on Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll
I'm American, and had thought the same thing at first glance. My brain had expected the word "water" to be there, but wasn't.
hateful··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Winning arguments and solving problems are two different skillsets. And the US Congress is mostly people with the former. Not to say that winning arguments doesn't help when choosing a solution, but it is very different.
hateful··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
The same thing happens to me - I call it a low-res tan because it's all pixelated.
hateful··on The Religion of Speed
I realized early on that sometimes management thinks that if you don't look stressed than your not taking it seriously enough. Phrases like "I don't feel that you have a sense of urgency" really messed with my head back then.
hateful··on What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard
I have a old keyboard (Ensoniq SQ1-Plus) where the battery doesn't work right (even when changed) and I was going to put ML Studio on a Raspberry Pi or Mini PC with a USB MIDI device to record. But this thing is exactly what I'm looking for.

When I want to record for real, I'm going to use my DAW. But I want a way to quickly record tracks and this looks pretty great.

hateful··on It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
With me (I have ADHD), I would never be able to listen to an audiobook alone, I would zone out and day dream one paragraph in. But If I'm playing a game on my phone, I can listen and pay attention for hours.
hateful··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Not sure where I first heard this, but I say it to my team all the time: "Programming is thinking, not typing"
hateful··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
The only thing I liked when I did use Facebook was the "wall". To be able to post on a friend's wall semi- publically where their friends can see it. Most other Facebook clones have had the idea of tagging, but it wasn't the same. (E.g. Google+)
hateful··on Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?
This may be pure conjecture, but my first thought is always that it might be a marketing ploy by the AI companies to make their products seem more advanced than they really are.
hateful··on I'm not worried about AI job loss
I would imagine, in this example, that the fact that you put in the numbers yourself gives you a mental map of where the numbers are and how they relate to each other, that having AI do it for you doesn't give you.

You could stare at a large sheet of numbers for a long time, and perhaps never get the kind of context you gained by entering them.

Additionally, if there was a mistake, it may not be as noticeable.

hateful··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
It felt the same way when AOL bought Time Warner.
hateful··on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
I don't have a reliable source, but I've heard that the original script had the machines use us for our processing power, not our energy, but that the studio thought it sounded too complicated and had them change it. Of course, changing it makes it make ZERO sense.

Some not so reliable sources I found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/q2i0by/is_it_true_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/plotholes/comments/11khig/comment/c...

hateful··on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites
I used to use XSLT all the time, but I had forgotten all about and haven't used it in years. It was perfect to do a quick SQL query with "for xml auto" and then add an XSLT stylesheet to it. Instant report.
hateful··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
I also do the text file thing. I use EditPad Pro. The only additional thing I've done is create syntax coloring in any file named 'tasks-*.txt'.

I added simple things like: - Color anything ending in a ? green, so when looking at a list of notes, so I know where the questions were. - Any line beginning with an all caps word is highlighted (e.g. TODO: ) - Any line ending in a : is highlighted light blue (e.g. title) - Any Line Containing "Error" is red

I do suppose I could be using Markdown, but I've had this going for 20 years now.

hateful··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
I've always had this idea that perhaps the whole universe had already collapsed into many black holes and perhaps each galaxy was actually formed via hawking radiation. Then our galaxy came out of Sagittarius A*.
hateful··on I just want to code (2023)
> I watched an Amazon Prime knockoff of Silicon Valley called Betas

Not sure you can call it a knockoff if it came out a year earlier!

hateful··on MS Paint IDE
But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi - and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move the server, then disable it - that might be something?

I know having a redundant server is better - but there's something to it.

Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about them moving a server from one building to another without unplugging it or something.

[Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]

hateful··on Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us
This is the same thing the media did with "hacker".
hateful··on Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms
My phone NEVER connects properly and if I want to use it for streaming, I have to spend 2-3 minutes connecting it every time. This has always been the case. Past 3 cards, past 6 phones.

Now-a-days I load up a small flash drive for the car with a small sampling of what I want to listen to. I have another one at home and "Swap" them from time to time with new things. That way it's not overloaded, doesn't take 2 minutes to load up. So it's very much like a mix CD or the mp3 CDs I would burn a couple of decades ago.

hateful··on In the beginning, there was computation
I don't think the author was referring to thinking or consciousness itself, but things like the processes within cells and the replication of DNA.
hateful··on When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others
A related thing that happens a lot is when the demo is way slower than it was when you were testing it. But at least this one can be explained by screen sharing applications adding latency to your refresh rate. It really is slower when you share your screen!
hateful··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
It should be noted that this wasn't free - as you said, you had to sit through a 30 minute ad before participating.
hateful··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
Something happens when you tune your business only to the things you can measure.

I still (or at least try to still) have this naive opinion that if you make a good product, the money will come.

We sometimes spend too much time counting the beans and not enough time growing them. Not saying you don't need to count the beans, you do, but when your whole team is counting, they may forget to water them.

Also - to be on topic - don't forget to protect the beans!

hateful··on MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
It's not only about the end that's receiving, it's also the end that's transmitting 10kbps * thousands of users.
hateful··on You'll regret using natural keys
After reading many threads here, I think the final ruling may be: - If your record represents a physical being or object: Use a surrogate key.

People change.

Unrelated - if you have a list of emails or SSNs or license plates or VINs - we can think of these as foreign keys to a database we don't control.

hateful··on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508705
hateful··on Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time
Or one entire actual brain - if it can be done once by natural selection, it can be done more efficiently again by a designer.

Time exists because the universe doesn't do calculations - the only way to see the outcome is to do the thing. See: The Three Body Problem

hateful··on The forgotten war on beepers
I was a teenager in the 90s and there was a famous case at the time (don't remember the names) where a woman shot someone at his front door and the news was saying she was a drug dealer because she had a beeper.

But I had a beeper, and all my friends had beepers, and it seemed very strange to me.

hateful··on Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
Or that infinite scroll game of life that was on here a few weeks ago! more density, same information!
hateful··on Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
I like this idea, but it should have a limit - because every time I zoom in to read the name of a road on a map and the text resizes to a smaller size for infinity I wish it didn't.
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