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throwaway15392··on Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser
What’s creepy? The smiley face or that it requires a face? requiring a face is a good call
throwaway15392··on Show HN: Spatially aware group video calls from the browser
That’s so cool. You could add background chatter too if you haven’t already, you’d just have to amplify the local conversation the user wants to tune into

Edit: by background chatter I mean the noise from all the other conversations happening in the moment nearby

throwaway15392··on Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
Well duh. But that’s not the way I mean by real which everyone can understand, so you’re just being pedantic and annoying
throwaway15392··on Nasty macOS flaw is bricking MacBooks: Don't install this update
It’s not a real word, it’s more of a slang word

It just changes the noun brick into a verb. So if a laptop has bricked, it means it’s like a brick now (useless)

throwaway15392··on Ask HN: What are you doing to make your kid more successful?
??? I don’t think OP was talking about learning and practicing to cry. That’d just be even more weird.

Silicon Valley culture sometimes man...

throwaway15392··on You’re not angry at Facebook, but with your friends
What a stupid title, thx for telling me what I think
throwaway15392··on Zoom’s 90-day plan to bolster key privacy and security initiatives
They’re in the same bed as China. I don’t trust them for anything now, this to me is just a PR management exercise. They’re still going to give away your data
throwaway15392··on An animal that doesn't breathe oxygen
Personally I do

So then that just means everything is alive

Which I also agree with

Energy is life. Life is energy.

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throwaway15392··on Deepfake 'Silence of the Lambs' with Willem Dafoe and Gillian Anderson [video]
There’s going to be videos coming out in the next couple years that are going to shock the world and those recorded in the videos are going to claim they’re deep fakes which is why the media has been trying to make the public think deep fakes are easy to make
throwaway15392··on Why are record levels of CEO's quitting and selling stock?
Trump wasn't lying when he said he was going to drain the swamp, a lot of famous and powerful people are connected to horrifying stuff, there's more info about this out there if you want to find it
throwaway15392··on Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?
soylentnews.org lol

ya it totally makes sense those with more traditional family values spend more of their life in real life. working for a defense contractor is an interesting idea. thanks for the links i'm going to check them out

throwaway15392··on Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?
Thanks anyways, and cheers
throwaway15392··on Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online?
Do you have any specific recommendations?
throwaway15392··on Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
That’s a really interesting perspective. I’m doing a waterfall on my current project and it just feels more right
throwaway15392··on Ask HN: What surprised you after you started working at FAANG?
Haven’t worked at a FAANG but a similarly large well known trendy company. The access I had to their users’ data simply as an employee
throwaway15392··on Ask HN: Who do you follow on Twitter?
I‘m also curious about this, I’ve just joined twitter and I’m looking for accounts to follow
throwaway15392··on Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness
Lol
throwaway15392··on Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness
How can something immaterial emerge from something material?

By immaterial experience or phenomenon in this case I mean qualia

"Examples of qualia include the perceived sensation of pain of a headache, the taste of wine, as well as the redness of an evening sky" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

You can tell me the hue of the sky, the brightness, etc, but that's completely different from your actual perceived experience of the sky, which is what consciousness is

Another quote: "what it is like to taste a specific apple, this particular apple now"

throwaway15392··on Tiny area of the brain may enable consciousness
CMV: Something material cannot be the source of a immaterial experience or phenomenon
throwaway15392··on Why we need a book about naming
I think what would be more handy is a standardization of how APIs should be written across many different domains, to make modules more interoperable.

The result of conceptualizing and abstracting different domains is in as much of a Wild West as it’s ever going to be today.

This reminds me I wanted to research about the theory of marketplaces to understand better how can we improve the market of reusable software components. By that I mean improving the process that we actually use to find and use or create and distribute reusable software components.

throwaway15392··on US orders Google, Facebook and others to reveal details of years of acquisitions
The tech industry is gonna get a very rude awakening in the next couple years

Their surveillance and manipulation practices are gonna land a lot of people in huge trouble

throwaway15392··on Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day?
I listen to my emotions. Often times when I’m frustrated or lacking motivation there’s a need or desire I’m not paying attention to. Productivity is not a win-lose, it’s a win-win for both conflicting sides of my self.
throwaway15392··on Ask HN: How has IndexedDB been holding up for you in production?
I see... that’s not good
throwaway15392··on Zero-days in Cisco Discovery Protocol
Can you elaborate?