Hacker News: joxel

New comment by joxel in "QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed"

joxel — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:26:42 +0000

Getting paid to do GIS made me realize I needed to learn to code because it sucked

New comment by joxel in "Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code"

joxel — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:40:50 +0000

Yeah because thinking its ridiculous people who don't know how to open email decide the future of software cases is railing against specialization :/

New comment by joxel in "A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy"

joxel — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:27:36 +0000

I'll have to do imports to change backends for matplotlib sometimes

New comment by joxel in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:58:39 +0000

Yes, it happens all the time. Each time we get a new form we have to fill out to do something or some extra hoop to jump through. If the manager I worked for didn’t act like a normal person that thought that shit was stupid I would absolutely hate working with/for that liar/crazy person.

New comment by joxel in "Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:57:03 +0000

If it’s in your interest to lie you should probably get a job that doesn’t make you a shithead.

New comment by joxel in "Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:53:12 +0000

This is dumb shit just like journalists going onto YouTube every few years and finding incendiary videos. There will always be a way that a person can use something for evil, that’s not the fault of the thing.

New comment by joxel in "Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:50:53 +0000

Hopefully you have other skills because the wagon wheel makers can whine all they want but the automobile is coming

New comment by joxel in "Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 20:47:55 +0000

I figured it had to do with Bard like the D&D class, ministrels that have a way with words etc.

New comment by joxel in "Big Tech Wants to Tell You Who Counts as Your Family"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:48:44 +0000

In a move to appease investors looking for never-ending growth, Netflix dug their grave. Netflix isn’t worth it for most people if they can’t share it. Thinking that peoples college aged son is gonna get their own account, and that dad cares about keeping it once they can’t share anymore is dumb as hell. Talk about out-of-touch.

New comment by joxel in "Van Life in Japan"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:34:04 +0000

So everyone else just smells like shit all the time in other countries? I smell like shit when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't want to work next to me if I don't shower.

New comment by joxel in "Timeseries of earthquakes with M = 5 or greater (2011)"

joxel — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 13:28:58 +0000

The timing it takes for the P/S waves to reach you. One travels through the center, and the other travels along the surface of the earth.

Here's a quick rundown: https://slcc.pressbooks.pub/physicalgeography/chapter/4-3/

New comment by joxel in "Timeseries of earthquakes with M = 5 or greater (2011)"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:29:25 +0000

Earthquakes can be sensed from basically anywhere, only the time it takes the P/S waves to travel to you are different, especially if the quake is M>5.

More sensors don’t really add more detections, but are useful for pinpointing an origin.

New comment by joxel in "Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:35:37 +0000

The difference is the software engineers are creating wealth with that paycheck. Managers are extracting it.

New comment by joxel in "AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:32:40 +0000

Seems like that’s only for permanent bans. I can’t see anything other than punishment/rehabilitation as the goal for a short term ban. Maybe I’m not thinking it through, but a short term ban doesn’t seem focused on just removing TOS violating material.

New comment by joxel in "Ask HN: I’m falling out of love with coding"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:23:03 +0000

You don't dislike coding, you and all your coworkers work at a shit-tier company.

Get a job doing something else that involves coding. Do you know advanced math and physics? There are tons of opportunities in the applied sciences and you'd be a god-tier coder among men at federal research labs etc.

New comment by joxel in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:04:10 +0000

For some reason coming back to this thread, its really wild how sociopathic c-suite types have to be.

New comment by joxel in "Dell to layoff 6,650 employees as demand for PCs plummets"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:42:28 +0000

Yeah, I bought a $150 laptop from best buy with windows on it and the latest celeron and had to return it, it was literally unusable for anything, even emptying the recycle bin. I don't know how they get away with selling that stuff.

New comment by joxel in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

joxel — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:24:50 +0000

I hope you find a better job man!

New comment by joxel in "Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint"

joxel — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:31:01 +0000

This is a great example of how dumb our legal system is.

New comment by joxel in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

joxel — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:27:51 +0000

Makes sense. I'd just be trying to get out of a job like that, and don't see how that's desirable at all. You seem to think its the better way though.