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rtontic··on I skipped to the ending
I'd assume shareholders value is still increasing, so it wouldn't be a problem for them.
rtontic··on BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster: groundbreaking venture in international waters
You are right, this isn't real. It's an 'alternate reality corporation'.
rtontic··on MVC Isn’t MVC
It's all just one big state machine.
rtontic··on Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks
On my current project, any deploy that we want to do to an AWS environment, including dev, takes at least 10 minutes. So, as soon as you have to work on AWS functionality, you are transported to the past, similarly to the programmers of old. I'm not saying this is a bad thing actually, just to note that we still haven't managed to eliminate the "turn-around time".
rtontic··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
Funny, me experience is quite opposite. Also in eastern europe, takes me 30 minutes on foot to get to the office. And the walk is quite enjoyable!
rtontic··on 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
Oh, but what if you had a text based implementation of cyberpunk? Where your imagination is the GPU (the best one there is)
rtontic··on Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
Civil engineers actually have liability, they can go to prison. Software "engineers", not so much.
rtontic··on Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
Hm, could we write a program to generate these templates?
rtontic··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
Hm, I disagree. I have two desktops that I dualboot with windows 10 and various linux distros, currently ubuntu lts. If you install windows first then linux, it should work ok.
rtontic··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Hm, maybe a Boston dynamics robot could drop a USB in front of NORAD?
rtontic··on Use the XDG Base Directory Specification
I actually just make my personal home directory in the root of the filesystem. So /me. If /root can have it, why can't I? It is my machine after all.
rtontic··on Germany Will Move Forward with Marijuana Legalization
>By the same logic we'd criminalize pissing in public places

Is public urination not a crime? One that gets you on a sex offender registry?

rtontic··on Germany Will Move Forward with Marijuana Legalization
But people won't smoke a pack of joints a day. Only, like, one per week or so.
rtontic··on ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant
I'm quite excited for conversing with next generations of AI using COBOL. All those people saying COBOL is dead will finally be proven wrong!
rtontic··on World Building with GPT
I mean, reading this article, seems like the author still had to put in a lot of work to get something decent. Kinda makes GPT not look like an all powerful content generator: it steels need a human to use it correctly.
rtontic··on CoffeeScript for TypeScript
Oooh, that should be the motto!
rtontic··on NetHack 3.6.7
Yeah, as sibling said, they are quite different games actually. Rogue to me feels a lot more minimalist, while nethack is 'everything AND a kitchen sink!'.
rtontic··on Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
Keep fighting the good fight my man!
rtontic··on Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier
or pong
rtontic··on Blizzard manager departs in protest of employee ranking system
This sounds like a (horrible) way to implement universal basic income. Just hire puffer people, have them do nothing. They get fired, hire them somewhere else, rinse, repeat.
rtontic··on Fewer people are creating new podcasts these days
I disagree with this. I prefer walking without listening to anything, I find it helps me actually come up with ideas and thoughts of my own.
rtontic··on Facebook Container Extension
Another thing you can do, hold left click on the new tab button. You will get a drop-down where you can chose which container to open the tab in.
rtontic··on The Quest for a Dumber Phone
But hey, it is more redundant in a way. Your phone broke/battery emptied? You still have your trusty gps device.
rtontic··on The Quest for a Dumber Phone
Wow that is actually a good startup idea.
rtontic··on Revisiting KDE
Hm, it would be cool though, if we could achieve some sort of piping system for graphical applications.
rtontic··on Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running
You should see russian pilots in Ukraine using consumer-grade GPS devices for navigation then.
rtontic··on Why T-shaped people? (2018)
Maybe I didn't understand the article correctly, but are there any people, especially on HN, that identify as specialists? By that I mean, they only know one skill, and that's it, they don't consider themselves T shaped.
rtontic··on Where did software go wrong? (2020)
Maybe some sort of cure as a service?
rtontic··on Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?
A bit late reply, but dancing classes. I have met a lot of people in my salsa class, we organize parties from time to time.
rtontic··on My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old school Nokia
See, that kind of situation has me thinking owning a work phone and a personal phone could be beneficial. Obviously, don't browse social media on your work phone and you should be fine.
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