Hacker News: sjwhevvvvvsj

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Google Left in 'Terrible Bind' by Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:43:40 +0000

Can you please define a) what you mean by “woke”, and b) exactly how Bloomberg (a financial publication aimed at the ownership class) qualifies?

Last time I checked with my sources at Antifa headquarters, they weren’t getting the latest treatises on Marxist thought from Bloomberg

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:40:19 +0000

No idea, but this makes me less likely to go for HP metal next time I buy servers.

Who knows if the brilliant business minds currently in charge of the printer division will bring this magic to servers. I for one have no interest in finding out.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Coinbase Shows Balance as 0"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:05:48 +0000

Well…” convenience “ isn’t exactly being delivered at the moment!

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Coinbase Shows Balance as 0"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:05:19 +0000

Yes, it’s utterly nonsensical if you truly believe in the original goals of Bitcoin.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "A retrospective on Requests"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:52:38 +0000

My main issue with urllib is it requires too much boilerplate and it ends up being harder to read the code at a later date in my experience. In general I prefer the standard library, but it’s a bit of a toss up in this case.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:40:34 +0000

At this point I’m open to new and exciting problems, whatever they may be.

Hell, I’d be ok with leeches making a comeback if it meant I didn’t have to pay a copay on top of a premium.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:32:05 +0000

And they all drive Teslas with vanity license plates.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:29:14 +0000

I’m very fond of both New York City, and spending time in nature for the same reason: you just don’t know what you’re gonna see when you walk out your door.

Am I going to hear a violin performance on the subway platform that is utterly sublime from a world class performer?

Am I gonna see the rarest bird in North America perched branch in front of me?

For me, the worst is the middle ground between crazy urban and pure nature where there is low probability of seeing anything exciting.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:06:50 +0000

Yeah, its *super interesting* at first, but once the novelty fades you aren’t left with much.

That said, nowhere on earth had better driving directions on apps since people will notice the bugs on the drive into work and fix them. ;-)

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:03:30 +0000

They have to make their own, and it’s not fair trade.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "A new aspect of Google's spying"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:01:05 +0000

It’s more aggressive in guessing your location to comply with local laws. Ironically you may get less spying.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:45:16 +0000

South Bay is just like a giant company town, it’s actually pretty boring - 60% of people work at the same handful of giant companies, the other 30% work at a startup, and the last 10% serve the first group fair trade coffee.

The weather and climate are amazing, but socially its suffocating when everybody you meet is a variation on a tired theme.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:09:34 +0000

Ah, but you are be very wrong.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:28:37 +0000

The fun thing about hacker news is that for all you know I may be directly involved in these issues and speak from direct first-hand, but highly confidential, knowledge.

Or I’m just some moron, posting opinions with absolutely no basis in fact.

Only I can be sure!

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:20:58 +0000

The FTCs fine on Facebook from a few years ago exceeds the combined value of all GDPR fines levied to date.

The Irish government fills its coffers with the largesse of tech companies that are headquartered there specifically to dodge taxes and regulation.

Likewise, while GDPR has some initial changes in privacy after many months of inaction tracking levels started to rebound because everybody figured out nobody was going to enforce it.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "The boundary of neural network trainability is fractal"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:15:45 +0000

Well, in some sense they don’t operate on language at all - but on mathematical representation of tokens derived from language.

I’m sure from your comment you are aware of the distinction, but it is an interesting concept for people to keep in mind.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:10:02 +0000

Ahh yes, another premature declaration of success by the EU, who haven’t properly enforced ePrivacy, GDPR, or a host of other regulations.

The EU is all talk and posturing, you can write any law you want but the tech companies already figured out compliance is optional.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:48:11 +0000

Call it what it is: Fidesz is an arm of the Putin regime.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:46:30 +0000

Fuck NSO Group.

New comment by sjwhevvvvvsj in "My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)"

sjwhevvvvvsj — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:45:29 +0000

A simple function call as a wrapper for a well optimized sql query just can’t be beat for performance. I have never understood why anybody would use an ORM, it’s usually as much work to learn and maintain them as SQL.