Hacker News: amiga1200

New comment by amiga1200 in "Selfish reasons to want more humans"

amiga1200 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:50:35 +0000

More geniuses

The problem here is with the distribution of future geniuses. More likely than not they will be born into a population with low education. The probability of nurturing this talent for the betterment of mankind will be low. In highly educated populations, the birth rate is normally low.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Relationships: Start with Several"

amiga1200 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:01:29 +0000

Given enough time, there is no such thing as a 1:n relationship.

New comment by amiga1200 in "New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'"

amiga1200 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:06:59 +0000

Much like the Y2K bug kerfuffle, there will be a time when the Copilot bug will cause an upsurge in business requiring developers to fix the stochastic parrot code bugs. I think this will be sooner rather than later.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Confirmation of ancient lake on Mars"

amiga1200 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 01:59:21 +0000

I'm sure you know this, David, but it looks like it's a yes, there is life on Mars.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

amiga1200 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:58:47 +0000

Who is the judge of “inflammatory” content? It’s just censorship plain and simple. Why not let the truth be told?

Edit: judging by the way the votes keep going up and down there's a yin to the gatekeepers of inflammatory content's yang. These are actions of a rogue state y'all.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Pure C WebRTC"

amiga1200 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:42:29 +0000

Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. As a a developer about to use the Pi at the edge, I can see how this would be helpful with delivering footage from the IoT devices.

I'm not sure I understand or would use AWS as the hub though, I would probably build my own server hub.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Pure C WebRTC"

amiga1200 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:41:09 +0000

I hadn't considered an RDP use-case. Thanks!

New comment by amiga1200 in "Pure C WebRTC"

amiga1200 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:41:23 +0000

I've used WebRTC in JavaScript, but I can't quite get why I would use this library. Can anyone respond with use cases?

New comment by amiga1200 in "WebRTC for the Curious (2020)"

amiga1200 — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:54:37 +0000

Very nice, I've been waiting the longest time for something like this. I feel that WebRTC needs books like this, it's such an underrated technology.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Nebula Genomics – First to offer consumer anonymous sequencing"

amiga1200 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:07:03 +0000

I call BS on any corporation offering anonymity. I just don’t believe them anymore.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering"

amiga1200 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:40:13 +0000

I’m glad that RISC-V SBCs are starting to become usable.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Wave of Bay Area tech layoffs may foreshadow something worse"

amiga1200 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:54:31 +0000

Same in Australia. The jobs are advertised but I never hear anything back. For me it’s not a racial thing as I too am an naturalized immigrant, but it seems the preference for subcontinental “skilled” workers is prioritized.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Wave of Bay Area tech layoffs may foreshadow something worse"

amiga1200 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:03:19 +0000

It’s the same everywhere. In the Australian government most directors who hire developers are Indian and seem to have all Indian teams on worker visas. It’s impossible to get a government position now. Last year three government directors were found guilty of hiring subcontinent developers for a fee.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens"

amiga1200 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:59:14 +0000

Automakers admit? It's not theirs to admit to. Touchscreens are the only way to go. Buttons on phones went out years ago. I still have to look for buttons on my ICE car, and worse yet the buttons are hidden under the steering, have different tactile feel. And that's just this one manufacturer!

New comment by amiga1200 in "The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)"

amiga1200 — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:24:37 +0000

I'm more interested in addressing the suppression issue. This kind of suppression stinks of lobbyists and corruption.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers"

amiga1200 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:51:34 +0000

Are you going to publish an app for this? Seems like something I would use so often that going into my browser of 1000 tabs would give me RSI.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Ask HN: Why corporate culture never increment your salary?"

amiga1200 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:46:37 +0000

Quite simply, you’re not valued. Good managers know about the risk of churn, bad ones don’t care. I’ve found familiarity breeds contempt (of remuneration) which can be impossible to overcome. Start applying for jobs with the % increase you’re looking for.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with code frustration?"

amiga1200 — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:23:02 +0000

Refactoring to patterns by Joshua Kerievsky might help. It’s not the best book (Refactoring by Martin Fowler us another), but it might help with planning the work. Quantifying cost and writing up a proposal then at least based on a defensible foundation.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Reference count, don't garbage collect"

amiga1200 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:46:06 +0000

Just allocate then deallocate manually, use neither auto methods.

New comment by amiga1200 in "Biden creates 'Disinformation Governance Board' to fight 'misinformation'"

amiga1200 — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:36:47 +0000

What defines disinformation? If “provably true” is an aspect of information, “not provably true” should be a facet of disinformation. Therefore the lawful mechanisms that exist for cases of libel, slander, and other forms of disinformation could be accelerated for modern defenses against propaganda and incitement.