Hacker News: mavu

New comment by mavu in "Mohamed Al-Fayed began life as a porter in Alexandria and died as a billionaire"

mavu — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:45:23 +0000

I kind of doubt that he actually began life as a porter.

Most of us begin as babies.

New comment by mavu in "Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old"

mavu — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:17:24 +0000

It's almost as if a for-profit company is not a reliable place for things that are not done for profit. Weird.

New comment by mavu in "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night"

mavu — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:57:54 +0000

> at slower speeds that don't instantly kill you or others,

So, what speed would that be that is safe for pedestrians?

And how useful is FSD that only drives at that speed?

See where this is going?

New comment by mavu in "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night"

mavu — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:55:33 +0000

How people allow this testing by customers to happen on their roads is beyond me.

New comment by mavu in "Unix sockets, Cygwin, SSH agents, and sadness"

mavu — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:12:28 +0000

I love the first comment on the blog so much that i will replicate it here fully:

"Haha"

New comment by mavu in "The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect"

mavu — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:04:55 +0000

Ahahahaha :D Thanks, made me laugh :)

New comment by mavu in "The Decreationist: Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self"

mavu — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:03:03 +0000

Any text that uses GOD anywhere near an argument, is already boring and irrelevant.

New comment by mavu in "The EU’s Digital Services Act is now in effect"

mavu — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:06:01 +0000

You call it "censorship", I call it fighting disinformation, fear mongering and state-actor propaganda campaigns.

I would welcome measures that go a lot further than this.

New comment by mavu in "Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point"

mavu — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:52:51 +0000

This is a very bad take, and serves only to highlight the joylessness of the person writing it (and the original "design principles")

I would instantly dispute pretty much any word of the first 3 sentences in your post. (except maybe the name)

If you want to live in a world without choice, where everyone and everything looks the same (the inevitable endpoint of form follows function), be my guest, but at the end of your sad life you will remember all the times you looked back over the fence at all the people enjoying life in all its diverse forms, shapes, textures, activities and regret some choices you made along the way.

New comment by mavu in "Google Invites Employees to Sleep 'On Campus' for a Fee"

mavu — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 22:20:57 +0000

If you are still working at google, it's time to start looking for a different employer.

New comment by mavu in "Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)"

mavu — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:19:52 +0000

I'm willing to make an exception in this case, because using LLMs for nonsense is exactly the usecase they are built for.

New comment by mavu in "Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)"

mavu — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:57:17 +0000

I clicked this and was immeasurably disapointed that the article talks about Apache Kafka, and not the author Kafka and how to understand his work with Factorio.

That would be a much much better article.

New comment by mavu in "Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy"

mavu — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:19:49 +0000

first time (that i notice) that a link to such a conversation does not lead to twitter but to some other microbloging/social media site.

New comment by mavu in "Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now having doubts"

mavu — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:28:38 +0000

I've got your back.

New comment by mavu in "Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'"

mavu — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:11:22 +0000

The operative term is not "private" it's "stolen".

But this is a nice setup for a straw man argument to distract people from the actual issue.

New comment by mavu in "Physicists develop a novel quantum theory of light-induced matter"

mavu — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:37:22 +0000

Wait, I know this.

It was one of the plot lines of Destiny or Destiny 2!

New comment by mavu in "Benzene Exposure Alters Endocrine Activity"

mavu — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:49:12 +0000

well, it could be usefull for other people to know that they are already dead when they smell some specific smell with some reaction.

New comment by mavu in "Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'"

mavu — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:46:04 +0000

Ahh, always a nice pass time to go to those tweets and block the first 30 accounts that reply.

feels good man.

New comment by mavu in "Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)"

mavu — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:49:06 +0000

I want to break a torch for the "Dumb and get things done" crowd. With out them nothing would get finished.

Try developing a complex and large product with a team consisting only of "smart and getting things done" people.

Not going to happen. never. complete disaster from the start.

You need the "dagtd" people to do the essential but boring parts. Attend customer meetings. Write requirements and documentation. etc.

NEED. THEM. BADLY. No way around it.

Luckily that is not as big a problem as it seems, because about 80% of "smart and getting things done" people are actually "dumb and getting things done".

They just don't know it. Which is perfectly fine. Just don't tell them.

New comment by mavu in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

mavu — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:26:43 +0000

Spatial computer.

Really Apple?

Is anyone left in that company leadership who is not a bad Jobs cosplayer?