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New comment by s_kilk in "Researchers Found Puberty Blockers Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health"

s_kilk — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:58:39 +0000

@dang, can you do something about the flagrant bigotry contaminating this board?

“All public GitHub code was used in training, we don't distinguish license type”

s_kilk — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:30:26 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762233

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by s_kilk in "Fierce Nerds"

s_kilk — Tue, 18 May 2021 13:49:21 +0000

It's a classic refrain in a petty "revenge of the nerds" mindset. All the "haters" are wrong, unconditionally, and acting like an asshole is excused as being very special and brave.

It's a siege mentality designed to shore up one's sense of superiority, and ensure that one doesn't need to do very much soul-searching.

New comment by s_kilk in "A Danish Children’s TV Show Has This Message: ‘Normal Bodies Look Like This’"

s_kilk — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:04:36 +0000

If you think that this kind of healthy education is decadent, there may well be more wrong with you than with the Danes. Worth reflecting on.

New comment by s_kilk in "Serverless LAMP stack"

s_kilk — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:14:38 +0000

I know this is not what's happening here, but I just love the idea of a MySQL function where it spins up a new instance for every connection and promptly throws away the data after executing.

New comment by s_kilk in "Facebook pay cuts for remote employees who move prove that labor market rigged?"

s_kilk — Sat, 23 May 2020 06:50:49 +0000

No, it just proves that Marx was right about the nature of the wage/salary. The value of labour power is the cost of reproducing/maintaining that worker at a particular standard of living, not some particular fraction of the value generated at work.

New comment by s_kilk in "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)"

s_kilk — Wed, 13 May 2020 16:18:48 +0000

Or, as a former boss put it: "the problem with this place is that anyone with 'get up and go' has already got up and gone."

Come to think of it, he was gone too about a month later.

New comment by s_kilk in "Shirt Without Stripes"

s_kilk — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:53:17 +0000

Lot of mental gymnastics in this thread to defend some godawful AI.

New comment by s_kilk in "Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?"

s_kilk — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:26:03 +0000

Marx - Capital

New comment by s_kilk in "Three-Domain System"

s_kilk — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:46:13 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, that makes sense.

New comment by s_kilk in "Three-Domain System"

s_kilk — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:35:33 +0000

I was taught that viruses are weird little machines, similar but unrelated to the things we recognise as alive. Interesting that there's difference of opinion on the matter.

Edit: here's a question for the room; if viruses are unrelated to the rest of "life", but are endogenous to the earth, are they alien?

New comment by s_kilk in "Chelsea Manning recovering after suicide attempt in jail, lawyers say"

s_kilk — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:44:13 +0000

Don't misgender people.

New comment by s_kilk in "Interview with Paul Graham"

s_kilk — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:40:58 +0000

> rather than what the questions and the answers are?

The answers are utterly trivial, which is par for the course with PG.

New comment by s_kilk in "Ask HN: What is the single top-priority software engineering problem?"

s_kilk — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:52:10 +0000

Even DNA wouldn't work because of weird shit like chimerism. Our classic assumptions about this stuff just don't hold in reality.

New comment by s_kilk in "Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time"

s_kilk — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:32:52 +0000

I think it's dreadfully naive to assume there's a single, identifiable reward function.

New comment by s_kilk in "Options for Enhancing Video of a Burglary?"

s_kilk — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:18:51 +0000

Correct, if the information simply isn't present no amount of trickery will conjure it up.

New comment by s_kilk in "A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri"

s_kilk — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:27:05 +0000

It is extremely unrealistic within the next few decades.

New comment by s_kilk in "Ruby 2.7"

s_kilk — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 14:41:19 +0000

Map is data manipulation, whereas pattern-matching is control flow.

New comment by s_kilk in "My Business Card Runs Linux"

s_kilk — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:04:31 +0000

It's from Gibsons "Virtual Light", a vastly better book than Snow Crash. Highly recommended!

New comment by s_kilk in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

s_kilk — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 22:24:58 +0000

I do all of the same in emacs (and vim), and because I use doom-emacs I get all this basically for free without much configuration on my end.

- Go-to-definition is `g d` (with the cursor over the function name in question)

- Project-wide file search is `SPC SPC`

- Jumping to a function is `SPC s i` and then just start typing to fuzzy-match the function name

I stick with this setup because it does pretty much everything I could want from IDEA, and does it without churning up most of the resources on my machine. And trust me, I've tried to switch to IDEA, but it's just too big and too slow, and too poor of an editor for me to actually make the switch.