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"sociopathic fascist" wasn't on my redditer bingo card today.

Was "gamer-rabble" the word of the day?

When would this be useful? Microsoft's best examples are that the user forgot the location of a chinese food place your friend told you once.

He's not saying that copyright literally burned down the library of Alexandria.

Then those books aren't any providing any deep knowledge, just superficial trivia about whatever is fashionable. some people do that as their job, though, so do what you want.

It's not a "tech" book, as if it were a 2008 book on how to use a specific version of Access. It's on programming practices. Most good programming books from 20 or 30 years ago are still relevant today. Instead of acting smug with your jackie chan meme(?) you could just ask next time. I hate these one line "zingers" people drop like this is twitter.

Good idea. Other books I hate for you: Game programming patterns, Crafting Interpreters, the C# player's guide.

This book is beyond parody. I send it to people I hate and want to sabotage, along with clean code.

Sure they did. The tribe representative they interviewed in the original nytimes article said they had minors watching porn, and only backpedaled afterwards in this article because it make them look bad. Minors sharing porn in group chats is insane enough, but that it only took a little exposure to the internet for a small remote tribe to start is even more telling.

There's nothing in this blog post that proves it's wrong other than one guy in the tribe denying it because it looks bad for them. We're going to need access to the tribe's entire search history to sort this one out.

I'd be more fine with companies behaving like a swarm of locusts if they at least had to put on the box the ways they were going to fuck you over. A monkey's paw printer should have to prominently display "Proprietary ink only! Scanner disables itself when ink is low. While supplies last" on the front.

But I knew something before someone else did. How can I feel smart if I don't make a big deal out of it?

From the way you write, I have a feeling you overestimate your savviness on "the industry". It's insane to me that you act this shocked and hysterical or someone not knowing all the bullshit "play" formalities that corporations have developed over time.

To answer the question in the headline: No.

Read what I said again, and more carefully.

>I think a ton of serious compilers don't go through LLVM. As always HN makes a ton of assumptions based on a small fraction of the engineering and tech world.

I said LLVM or their own optimization passes. Reread what I said so you can understand the words on the screen instead of bemoaning the state of the world.

All serious compilers go through LLVM or have their own optimization passes. The person writing the compilers needs to know how the architecture works to make it possible for the pipeline to do its job. It's no different than the programmer being aware of cache lines, even if they don't explicitly manage them.

You should understand that people don't always speak in what you'd consider to be 100% literal language.

I think they'll be studied as universal basic income. There's so many college graduates with no skills who basically unemployable, but are still collecting a decent salary to teach things that no one wants to pay for in the first place. Our economy can evidently support a lot of people who aren't working.

It sounds like it's good practice to get two copies of a document from two different sources, and to compare their hashes before publishing them. You can embed data in anything, so this would include images, audio files, PDF files, or programs. At least for Elsevier it's pretty obvious they're using a key to track you.

>By definition they're not capable of "mistakes" because nothing they generate is remotely guaranteed to be correct or accurate.

This makes no sense. Only things that are guaranteed to be correct or accurate can make mistakes? Everyone knows what "mistake" means in this context. Nobody cares what your preferred definition of mistake is.

I want to reclaim the word engineer from Americans. Turns out everyone is an engineer, even the chatbots.

I hope you're joking about wanting to become a "fluffy quadruped". Or, if not, I see why we had asylums.

The amount of people who can actually work on anything meaningful in this field is double-digit at best. Sure, if you add up "many different things" you have plenty of people who can work on plumbing, programming, and gene editing. What are you going to do for geneCAD? Right, absolutely nothing. It doesn't matter how many of you there are; you could be 8000 million or 8000 trillion people and still accomplish nothing.

The US has been socially destroyed in the unrelenting pursuit of diversity, and as you've observed, our life expectancy has been dropping for years. Nobody cares about anything, the game is already over. This isn't our country anymore.

Yes, this is a diversity issue. If you want people to play the game you can't replace them with hostile outsiders and call them "white trash". Thanks for illustrating my point.

Where does wealth and healthcare come from? The natural state of the world is no wealth and no healthcare. Someone has to build civilization, humans have to work hard to support it, and every future generation has to be committed to maintaining it. Diversity is antithetical to all of this.

Aside from being about 1/80th the size of the US, and far less obese, their "scale" of obesity is far lower. I had a super-super morbidly obese teacher in college who took up an entire table, and had students do anything for her that required movement. This is relatively common in the US. Once you're at the weight a routine trip to the doctor could have you leaving in a body bag. It's incredibly misleading, and frankly a miracle our health care system can even keep most of these people alive as long as they do, let alone through pregnancy, which is effectively a surgery.

A Fatal Case of Super-super Obesity (BMI >80) in a Patient with a Necrotic Soft Tissue Infection https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995720/

Here's two I can remember off the top of my head.

This one is just a magazine profile story with a musician. It was titled "First recording of tinnitus raises new questions", which instead of sharing the recording, was an interview with a musician and shared her album pieces. I see that it was recently renamed to " An Interview with Lola De La Mata about tinnitus", which is more accurate because I would not have opened it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600748

Here's another one titled "Pleasure or Pain? He Maps the Neural Circuits That Decide." It's also a profile piece, and half the article is full page pictures of the scientist and his life story. It's just a magazine article on the man, and not really going into his work. It actually has "magazine" in the name so I should have expected that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238788

And then of course there's the current article which is is a misleading headline that's actually an ad for their services. Hey, pretty cheap, but not what I'm looking for here.

I appreciate the heads up. I'm getting tired of all the magazine, tabloid, and sales pitches getting to the front page here.

This is apparently normal for magazines. I understand people wanting trashy fluff pieces, but I'm surprised people here do also.