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quickthrower2··on The Best Essay
Good essay! Shame he doesn’t talk about taboo. Taboo subjects could make for great essays but it takes a lot of guts to write about them. Anything from collapse of your life, work, prison or death threats may ensue. Breaking taboos move society forward though. Keep an eye on “exceptions to free speech”.
quickthrower2··on My Clients, the Liars
You must mean clear cut cases too then. Not self defence etc.
quickthrower2··on U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing
A blameless culture needs to take into account bad actors. You might add more processes for part sovereignty for example. This is what you rely on for safety.

In addition yeah also prosecute criminals. But that doesn’t stop crime. See “war on drugs” for example.

quickthrower2··on "I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism (2018)
Yeah the Brit drinking culture is quite insane. Aussie has a bit of that but it is much less.

I used to drink a lot more, but now I find it hard to stand. No buzz just the stupification.

And of course drink is very toxic and will set back all your other goals from good sex, to muscles, weight loss and cognitive function.

quickthrower2··on My Clients, the Liars
Effective defence would allow the guilty to go free. (although “guilty” is a jury verdict so that is impossible but I presume you mean would be found guilty had more evidence prevailed). You can’t have an advocate that draws arbitrary lines at which they are not on your side advocating for you, what would those be?

Say someone says to their lawyer they shot the person but really they are covering for their wife even to mthe lawyer. The lawyer then hears them say in court they didn’t shoot (the truth) but the lawyer just knows they are saying something different now to what they said before. It could be that.

quickthrower2··on My Clients, the Liars
Not indignity but inconvenience. It would be like a boss lying to a software engineer about the requirements as they are scared it will cost too much then the wrong thing is built.
quickthrower2··on S3 is files, but not a filesystem
Yeah hacker used to not mean someone hacking into a computer and breaking a password, then it did then now it means both that and a tech tinkerer.
quickthrower2··on What Monks Know about Focus
Exercise too.

The question is how long. Doing intense stuff needs breaks.

quickthrower2··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I did the same switch. Then went to the Chrome extension YARC https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yet-another-rest-c... which I like for the simplicity. It does remember past queries.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: What new laptop would you get?
Good answer. A refurb Dell desktop tower or smaller form will get ya 10-20 years service vs. the 5 tops of the laptop (excluding battery and screen for generous comparison because they may fail sooner). Also laptops just seem to do sucky stuff like keyboard randomly stops working. Laptops suck.
quickthrower2··on Why Rust is good for working with Strings
The top answer is a very nice explanation. I don’t know Rust but I understand it.
quickthrower2··on Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab
Those are a thing but probably not as bad. You may gain seniority. The second is unavoidable. The last can be dealt with and there are levels of ethics around that.
quickthrower2··on Self-control signals and affords power
The folly is the same as the rock star amplifier that “goes to 11” or how gig economy reviews are 5 star = acceptable or better, anything else means dreadful.’It is just a linear transform people have to do in their heads.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: How did you stop your friends talking about Bitcoin?
Buy ear plugs and wait 6 months
quickthrower2··on How do computers calculate sine?
So you can use sin(x) for various x to tell what you are running on. Maybe even in the browser?
quickthrower2··on Leadership is a hell of a drug
I would take it at a FAANG that actually compensates you for it but out here in the sticks of the rest of the world it just ain’t worth the stress and red tape crunches (like being forced to do scrum or forced to do unrealistic planning in a week for 13 weeks work)
quickthrower2··on The Dumber Side of Smart People
Quite the strawman! If you can’t say “that is too complex”, “I don’t know” or give nuanced answers then… you probably aren’t smart. That said I am moving the goalposts.

I would like to see evidence that people getting hard degrees are like this. Plenty of un book smart people think they know it all too, see Reddit comments for plenty of examples.

quickthrower2··on The end of Airplane.dev
That is true it gives you time to migrate.
quickthrower2··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
Surely being able to gather information is a key point in identifying process problems. NTSB wont blame them but they might want to speak to them.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: What would make you say "I want to hire this devloper?"
A really good blog post might do it. The bar is quite high there as of course lots of people are blogging to establish themselves as the expert in X. So nothing that gives me positioning vibes. Those curiousity driven posts are better.

But also any developer who has clearly done X and we need X at work right now.

quickthrower2··on NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9
Can they be subpoenaed? Then they will be forced to comply, or dump all the dirty laundry.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: Why would I use private banking?
There might also be profit in using some of it for day to day expenses then putting all your income into a pension (if possible). Effectively reducing tax. Maybe you can borrow against it so you keep it invested. Talk to tax expert.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: Why would I use private banking?
Congrats :)
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: Why would I use private banking?
You cant test it or back test it in any statistically significant way. If you have a way to tell if they have Alpha then you don’t need them.
quickthrower2··on Who is building LLM Chatbots, and what issues are you running into?
Yeah you better be 99.9% perfect if you are going to take 60 seconds of plain spinner time to come back to me.
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: What skills are worth learning long-term against AI?
Coding will change but still exist. If the computer is coding for you you still need to understand what it did, review it etc. If it can automate everything to do with coding it can probably automate sales, marketing, finance and support :-).
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: Can I get an invite to Lobste.rs?
the .rs is for Rust my friend
quickthrower2··on Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
SPY is beta roi, and it probably did worse than that.
quickthrower2··on The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)
There is a Y Combinator in there!
quickthrower2··on Ask HN: What are the hidden performance tricks for JavaScript?
Binge on https://v8.dev/blog

Use chrome profiler

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