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Pathways to a fair technological future [pdf]

jmartinpetersen — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:39:15 +0000

Article URL: https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2026/02/breaking-free-pathways-to-a-fair-technological-future.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204592

Points: 2

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New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?"

jmartinpetersen — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:37:32 +0000

> "As LLMs drastically improve, the generated output becomes more drastically average"

Thanks, that really made it click for me.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Satya Nadella Says Copilot Will Be as Significant as the PC"

jmartinpetersen — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:10:09 +0000

In this statement by gabaix, Hacker News reflects on the importance of listening to CEOs endorcing their own products.

(Seriously, what's with the writing in the article? ChatGPT can do better.)

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "7-Zip up to 21.07 on Windows allows privilege escalation and command execution"

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:43:11 +0000

You need to drag the malicious .7z-file onto the 7Zip Help window. I don't know who is at fault, but that's a pretty weird intrusion vector.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?"

jmartinpetersen — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 11:18:28 +0000

"Linear Algebra: Gateway to Mathematic" by Robert Messer. I'm not sure it's particularly great, but it showed me a level of elegance I hadn't seen in CS at that point. So I switched my minor to math and hasn't regretted it.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Ask HN: Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?"

jmartinpetersen — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 15:23:10 +0000

I work for a company that is owned by and serves pension funds. If I do my job well, it means better retirement savings for nurses, teachers and kindergarden teachers. That's pretty motivating.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi"

jmartinpetersen — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:14:08 +0000

Saturday at peek hours 1kWH cost me 4.27 DKK. Six hours later it was at 1.67 DKK. That's $0.4 saved per kWh. We run our dishwasher every day.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi"

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:24:55 +0000

Our tariffs for electricity vary by the hour. I don't know how to detect that by voltage?

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi"

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:40:06 +0000

I wish my dishwasher could automaticly start whenver the price of electricity was low. I can manualle delay it by doing simple math in my head and forecasting prices, but it would be easier and more foolproof if I could script it with IFTTT.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi"

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:37:54 +0000

A pretty useful feature would be to start when electricity prices are low.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Quebec bans unvaccinated from buying groceries at Walmart, Costco"

jmartinpetersen — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:58:17 +0000

The PM announced a total opening on February 1st in Denmark.

There might be mandated face masks for guests at hospitals and elder care in addition to proof of vaccination or negative tests. At these places only.

All other restrictions are being lifted.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Design patterns let you apply existing solutions to your code"

jmartinpetersen — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:14:56 +0000

It starts with the Singleton and vaguely hints that it has some drawbacks. Why start with that, then? And why not flat our recognise that it is understood more as an anti-pattern these days?

I don't get blogs like these. This story has been told a million times with more or less the same content and structure.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "How the .NET Foundation kerfuffle became a brouhaha"

jmartinpetersen — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 09:19:28 +0000

It's not to pick on you, but why do people spell it with a capital S? I've seen it in several comments over the years. But their spelling and logo, at least going back to the 80'es, have been "Microsoft". I think they might have been "Micro-Soft" for the first year, but that was 45 years ago.

MicroProse, on the other hand, went with the capital P.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs"

jmartinpetersen — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:05:37 +0000

No, that's a false dichotomy. They could've just made up a new name for it.

Why Is Objectmentor.com Gone?

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:33:20 +0000

What happened to http://www.objectmentor.com/ ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115404

Points: 1

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New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Bacon may disappear in California as pig rules take effect"

jmartinpetersen — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:59:02 +0000

  Our European visitors are important to us.

  This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

Really makes you feel important.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Do we need a Scrum Master forever?"

jmartinpetersen — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:31:37 +0000

I've had a full time scrum master for, what, 4 months out of 15 years of doing scrum. It made a lot of positive difference to have someone operating on the meta level of the team.

New comment by jmartinpetersen in "Crossing an entire country in a straight line"

jmartinpetersen — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:59:11 +0000

Monaco is the second-smallest country by area in the world; only Vatican City is smaller.

Met Police seize record £180m of cryptocurrency

jmartinpetersen — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 05:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57816644

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27829988

Points: 2

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New comment by jmartinpetersen in "NSA spying row: Denmark helped US gather data on European officials, says report"

jmartinpetersen — Mon, 31 May 2021 06:51:57 +0000

Most sovereign States can’t spy on their own population. The NSA gets around this by spying on Germany from Denmark and on Denmark from Germany.

It’s all about plausible deniability. No matter how implausible it is.

The current spin from other countries being outraged begs the question: how are you collaborating with the NSA?