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New comment by fartcannon in "Samsung Recent Security Incident"

fartcannon — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 22:15:46 +0000

No, I won't give them anything. They don't need to take this information. They shouldn't have it. I think they and everyone else collecting data should be held far more accountable than they are for the damage they do when that data leaks.

New comment by fartcannon in "DALL·E: Introducing Outpainting"

fartcannon — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:51:23 +0000

Steve would be trying to lock it down in his walled garden.

New comment by fartcannon in "Are GPUs Worth It for ML?"

fartcannon — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 19:24:39 +0000

How do you train new models if your GPUs are being used for inference? I guess the training happens significantly less frequently?

Forgive my ignorance.

New comment by fartcannon in "Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine"

fartcannon — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:45:57 +0000

Yeah, wow. That guy is the definition of that Uptain Sinclaire quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

New comment by fartcannon in "Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine"

fartcannon — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:39:01 +0000

How about publicly shaming the developers who wrote the code to make this possible?

Seems only fair, since they voluntarily shared ours private details.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:23:42 +0000

Thanks, yeah, we also have a girl on the way and an older boy. Looks like I'm in for a similar adventure. I also left at 18 and you're right that seems young now. But at the time, I remember feeling quite old. :)

New comment by fartcannon in "Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:14:08 +0000

This is probably rude, but maybe people who are happy to sit through commercials are more capable of enjoying the extremely middling (I'm being generous here) quality of most TV?

So people who dislike commercials also dislike the kind of shows that are on TV and thus aren't willing to watch more or pay for more.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:53:01 +0000

Yes, that's funny. How's the early teenage years going? I kind of worry about that time..

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:14:50 +0000

My team lead, my manager and their manager are all childless. It's actually been kind of an issue. Maybe I should ask them to take care of my kid for a day or two. As a team building exercise.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:13:23 +0000

You'd think nap times would help, but due to a combination of being zonked from the morning shift, and the mild anxiety that you need to take advantage of this nap time to relax, you end up just staring at a figurative wall for 2 hours.

I agree about the joy. This child woke me up.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:08:52 +0000

Agreed. I also (personally) find the positivity draining. I used to be kind of a sarcastic asshole. It was a low energy state. Now I'm an always smiling toddler comedy bot, who at any point in time will sing, or juggle for tiny laughter. I don't have the muscles for it yet and the audience keeps requiring increasingly complex routines.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:05:55 +0000

Hehe. Brilliant.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 04:04:06 +0000

Made me laugh, thanks! The bonus panel is accurate, too.

New comment by fartcannon in "Why thinking hard makes us feel tired"

fartcannon — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 21:26:38 +0000

It really is the vigilance. It's hard to explain to people who haven't experienced it. I certainly tried to understand my colleagues who had kids, but it turns out it's quite a bit harder than the hardest I imagined. Nowadays I'm a part time developer, and the rest of the time, I'm the primary care for a toddler.

Programming at work is my time off.

You have to be react so quickly to certain things that it keeps you totally wound up. You see them pick something up off the ground and wonder, 'what is that, are they going to eat it' and instinctively you sprint half way across the room to grab what turned out to be a cheerio from their mouth. It's almost always a cheerio. But your brain won't let you rest if there's even an impossibly small chance it's a battery or I dunno, glass or whatever, it doesn't matter how many times you check, you can always imagine something. It's exhausting.

I'm rambling because I'm tired. :)

New comment by fartcannon in "GitHub is adding web cookies for enterprise users"

fartcannon — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 04:49:00 +0000

Hey if it quacks like a duck.

New comment by fartcannon in "U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)"

fartcannon — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:21:33 +0000

Thanks. Is MARPAT what the Canadian soldiers showed up to Afghanistan in?

Edit: looks like the wore the forest green stuff to Afghanistan. The only articles I can find suggests they did it on purpose, to stand out for peace keeping reasons, but that could easily be damage control. Anyone know the real story? GP suggests they just didn't have an arid design at the time (which I would believe).

New comment by fartcannon in "U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013)"

fartcannon — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:15:29 +0000

What was worse, CADPAT or UCP? I couldn't find it in the article. Instinct is that CADPAT was worse, but UCP was just that style without the contrast thus negating one of it's features (disrupting the human shape with high contrast).

New comment by fartcannon in "Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles"

fartcannon — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:27:28 +0000

Don't forget: LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. Just like Github.

New comment by fartcannon in "Do hair transplants debunk the scalp tension-hair loss hypothesis? (2021)"

fartcannon — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:11:48 +0000

Or a post that's about the cloud, and the follow up "You Don't Need The Cloud" post?

New comment by fartcannon in "Featherwiki.com – 2.1MB Compact Multi OS Single Binary Wiki Server"

fartcannon — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 05:16:45 +0000

That would be cool!