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tourist2d··on Two-Twenty-Two
I don't know why you want a significant increase in health. I'd switch over even if it were a mild increase.
tourist2d··on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test
They achieved identical results in last year's tests.
tourist2d··on Meta Fined $400M for Treatment of Children’s Data on Instagram
Actually, I disagree. If you look at the stats they say otherwise.

Source: me

tourist2d··on DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest
Did you click on a wrong link? Lol

DJI made the video, did they sponsor themselves? They don't even show the drone in the video so I don't know where you're seeing product placement.

tourist2d··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
> when it got big enough, it screwed everyone over

How did it screw everyone over? Almost all my non tech friends adore most Google products.

tourist2d··on System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life
Installing NVIDIA drivers?
tourist2d··on We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
> You either place faith on a build step working deterministically when it was not designed to work like that

I'm sorry, what? Why would a build not work deterministically?

> If you decide to put faith on your ability to run deterministic builds with a potentially non-deterministic system

If your build is non-deterministic, how can you have any faith in the binaries it produces? You would have much larger problems in that case.

> You use git to track changes, regardless of where they came from

You probably don't want to do that if it is 70% of your codebase and slows down all your developer's git.

> Then you need to have internationalization test steps for each localization running as part of your integration tests to verify if your build worked

I'm convinced you've never used a build system before. Your build should fail if required files are missing. Downloading translation files at build time from some artefact repository vs storing them in git is how a lot of companies do it.

tourist2d··on First flight of the Airbus A321XLR with up to 4700 NM range
So by that logic we should mix metric and imperial whenever it rounds to a nice number. Pretty awful argument.
tourist2d··on A C++17 thread pool for high-performance scientific computing
That is the most C-like C++ I think I've ever seen.
tourist2d··on Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
This is probably one of the silliest/pretentious comments I've read on HN in a while.

> But the point remains that art cannot be judged out of context.

What?? Of course it can.

> When you go into a museum you trust the curator that what you are seeing has a meaning that goes beyond that

My partner a curator for a medium sized exhibit. Not everything is some pretentious, contextful piece of art. Some are just chosen because they'll look nice and attract the general public.

> it is almost as much about the person who arranged the event as it is about the artists themselves.

My wife rolled her eyes at this point when I read it out. Does the layout and collection matter? Sure. Does anyone care about who was the curator? Not 99 percent of people. Please stop pretending art museums are something mystical and let people here pretend about judging AI art in a fictional museum.

Thanks for the laughs, though

tourist2d··on Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
Who said it was common?
tourist2d··on Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?
Let me share with you, this one quick, easy trick on how to lose 90% of sign ups.
tourist2d··on A walk through Project Zero metrics
Sure, you could also phrase that sentence a hundred other ways.
tourist2d··on Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a car
> Here in Australia, you can get a really high-quality coffee from just about any petrol station for $1

7-11 or Coles Express coffee do not have high quality coffee. Everyone I know who drinks it does so just because it's convenient.

tourist2d··on The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation
Can you really not tell the difference between a fun challenge and a real world scenario?
tourist2d··on The fish shell is amazing
A one liner in bash is an essay in powershell
tourist2d··on The metaverse is bullshit
Great contribution to the discussion!
tourist2d··on Tech compensation in 2021
What are you missing out on right now?

Money.

What will you do with all that money?

Retire comfortably.

When is it enough?

When I can retire. Why not change jobs to earn 30% more for the same amount of work? You're essentially speeding up your retirement every time you increase your total compensation.

tourist2d··on Facebook bans, sends C&D letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
How is Facebook monopolising social discourse? Have you not heard of Reddit, Twitter or Instagram?

> A lot of the industries you mention don't try their hardest to get my attention

Huh? You don't think those industries run any advertising campaigns?

> there's no way I can communicate with Facebook users unless I am also on Facebook and accept the ToS and "privacy" policy.

This is the strangest complaint I've ever read. Are you suggesting anonymous people are able to message Facebook users without agreeing to any terms of service? I definitely can't see anything going wrong with that. Why not ask them to message you on one of the 1000 other messaging apps? No one's forcing you to sign up to Facebook, it just sounds like it's being successful at providing an easy way to message between friends.

tourist2d··on Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Except it's a software company releasing an open source software project?
tourist2d··on Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100M over Illegal Crypto Trading
> I have big plans to use the money generated to help the poor.

Everyone who wants to be rich says this exact line even though you don't need a lot of money to help the poor. Do you currently volunteer for shelters, charities or soup kitchens? If not, why do you think that will change when you get more money?

tourist2d··on Writing a firmware-only keylogger
> Disconnect untrusted computers from the internet.

Disconnect billions of devices? How would you even enforce this?

> I would be willing to bet any amount of money that just disconnecting all Windows computers from the internet, i.e., no direct connection, would result in a dramatic drop in security problems.

Not really sure I understand your point here. Why stop at just Windows? If we remove all computers from the internet we would be so much more secure.

I'm also not sure why you single out Windows when even the blog post demonstrates this key logger in Linux (which is open source).

> There was a time when not all computers had unfettered direct access to the internet. They worked just fine. Maybe even better than ones today that are incessantly trying to connect to some server.

I hope this is a troll rather than someone honestly believing such a statement. You're claiming disconnected computers are perhaps better... while writing on one connected to the internet.

tourist2d··on I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)
And you're assuming he wouldn't.
tourist2d··on Getting paid not to use Facebook
Yet here you are, on social media.
tourist2d··on Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
It could also be that our universe takes up so little resources on "gods" computer ;)
tourist2d··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
> If there are apps on MacOS that can't handle high dpi mode, I haven't run into them

It's almost as if there's more operating systems than MacOS...

tourist2d··on GitHub is experimenting with personal READMEs
"GitHub is adding too many dumb features, btw please support my use case of having videos in my repo"
tourist2d··on Google bans my events app for referencing Covid-19, or related terms
That's like saying the police are liable for you being robbed because the thief wasn't in jail.
tourist2d··on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
Why is this news?
tourist2d··on Seinfeld Adventure
This comment adds absolutely nothing to discussion.
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