metamet · HackerTrans

20 days agodiscuss

Naw. I think they'll sell every single one they're able manufacture for the next couple years. The pre-order list will probably fill most of those.

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22 days agodiscuss

If they don't know they're being quarantined, there's no reason for them to find a way around their block. They'll eventually tucker themselves out and move on to whatever their internet equivalent of burning ants with a magnifying glass is.

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4 months agodiscuss

If you click the link and read the article, you'll see a lot of words that justify the title:

  BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes.
  
  Experts who have seen this latest video told us the presence of a Tomahawk missile, along with evidence the area was hit with multiple strikes, indicates this was a US operation. Neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess Tomahawks, experts said. 
  
  It would also make the scenario of a single Iranian missile hitting the site at the same time and causing such a high reported death toll highly improbable, an expert told BBC Verify.

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4 months agodiscuss

Surely the difference between location tracking (that still requires a warrant for the government to get access to, thus Stingrays) and the intimate visual processing and tagging that is derived from the likes of smart glasses is self explanatory, right?

To that point, the difference between geolocation and video tracking and analysis (like Flock) seems pretty obvious to me.

It's invasively panopticon.

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5 months agodiscuss

You're making me really want to start a rewatch.

It's shocking how few people have seen this show, let along watched it. Part of that probably has to do with how inaccessible it is on streaming. It's only readily available on AMC+. And no one has AMC+.

This is one of those shows that would likely shoot to the top if Netflix got the rights to it and even did a mild push. It's genuinely peak prestige TV.

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5 months agodiscuss

Outside of simply not being true, the sentiment of what you're saying isn't much different than:

"Essentially all software is augmented with Stack Overflow now, or if not, built with technology or on platforms that is."

Agentic development isn't a panacea nor as widespread as you claim. I'd wager that the vast majority of developers treat AI is a more specified search engine to point them in the direction they're looking for.

AI hallucination is still as massive problem. Can't tell you the number of times I've used agentic prompting with a top model that writes code for a package based on the wrong version number or flat out invents functionality that doesn't exist.

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7 months agodiscuss

> I really wish the computer science degrees and even online courses spent like 30 mins on the history of computer science.

Completely agree here. This would fall under the umbrella of liberal arts, which a lot of CS-only folks seem to find little to no value in.

Most concepts in computer science--especially when it comes to programming--are fairly easy to learn if you're good at learning. Reading something and understanding it to the point that you can write a proper college level essay about it trains that muscle, which is a different skill than rote memorization.

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8 months agodiscuss

> reevaluate your own neurosis and realize how hysterical you’ve been

What are you talking about? Everything I've stated is pure fact. Your whole strategy around the conversation appears to be attacking, insulting and avoiding reality.

> You’re just a confused kid throwing a tantrum.

You're incredibly disrespectful and it's clear you're not fit to be posting on HN. You aren't winning anyone over by pretending authoritarianism isn't prevalent and growing. What is happening in the US is not normal, and no amount of you pretending otherwise is going to change that reality. The fact that you consider people being alarmed by masked men with guns who refuse to identify themselves abducting people (including Americans, mind you) off of the streets is telling.

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8 months agodiscuss

I think you're the one in a bubble here.

> The belief that it is? Hysterics being fed by your media diet.

You know nothing about my media diet, except that yours tells you all others are being fed hysterics.

> The videos that you’re seeing of people losing their minds over law enforcement actually doing their jobs?

Huh? No, these aren't reaction videos. These are videos of ICE violently detaining people they have no right to detain. I'm just going to completely ignore their "stop and frisk" style of fishing for undocumented folks and focus solely on them abusing American citizens.

Which they have done. Countless times. One time they hit someone driving to work in their car. Then they got out of their vehicle and violently ripped a lady out of her car--an American driving to work as ICE did an illegal U-turn in the road--and put their weight on her while they detained her.

That's a police state.

And your media diet didn't show it to you. Your media diet is feeding you propaganda by means of telling you "everything is fine, it's hYsTeRicS".

> Do you not realize that outside your bubble, this is how you and your compatriots are perceived? Hysterical and fully disconnected from reality?

Your head is in the sand, but I understand you honestly believe this nonsense. But you're factually wrong.

The US police state is obvious to most Americans and the vast majority of the world. Any global polling--or interaction with people from other countries, which I do daily--will show you that.

You are in the minority, blaming what's happening here on hysterics. You are wrong.

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8 months agodiscuss

Ah, I see how you perceive this situation. You think the Democrats manufactured a police state by flooding America with undocumented immigrants in order to get Republicans to go full gestopo in order to fix it. Some 5D chess move where the left is to blame for "forcing" the right into authoritarianism. And somehow the videos coming from communities within America are just "hysterics".

So just pure conspiratorial nonsense that absolves all blame from the perpetuator and abuser. Got it.

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8 months agodiscuss

> Likely due to lack of following through on these promises (rather than disapproval of the promises themselves)

No. Most of it has to do with the fact that masked, unidentified ICE agents are abducting and disappearing people with no due process.

American citizens are being taken away. People who are here legally are being abducted and sent to countries they aren't from.

Of the deportations, Trump said they would be targeted toward violent criminals. Over 90% of those who have been rounded up have no criminal history.

Masked men with weapons who refuse to identify themselves are shooting people and lying about it, directly refuted by video others took of the event.

This isn't some case where "Americans are upset Trump isn't doing what he said!". This is a case where Americans are finally seeing the reality of what he is doing and are sickened by it.

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8 months agodiscuss

Unfortunately the world is far too globalized for tariffs like these to ever be a good solution.

There isn't another niche guitar pedal hardware manufacturer that does the same thing as on in Belgium.

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9 months agodiscuss

What Facebook meme did you learn that from?

Staple Street Capital's leadership is full of--get this--capitalists who have donated to both parties.

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10 months agodiscuss

Nothing Kimmel said in the quote you provided is untrue. His statement is about their actions in response to the event, not anything to do with the actual sentiment of the shooter.

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10 months agodiscuss

I don't think it's fair to pretend the only options humans have are the extremes of private and state ownership. Greed and the weight of capitalism under rail expansion in the US completely obliterated at least 15-20k years worth of Indigenous "non-rigid land ownership", being the apex system of human power consolidation and all that.

Native American nations and tribes didn't "own" land in the way that European colonizers did, under a doctrine of private property, written deeds and legal systems. Even under tribal territories, access was fluid.

America and its land was held communally by tribes and was generally understood in terms of use rights. If your nation, family or tribe cultivated a field, you had rights to that field as long as you actively used it. And stewardship of the land was seen as something to care for, not a commodity.

And this was the way things were in America up until a few hundred years ago.

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4 years agodiscuss

> But again, that's just me confused about what is "full stack".

There term has definitely become more amorphous and ambiguous. I spent a few years mostly working with physical hardware, networking, virtualization, scripting deploys for DBs and OSs, and handling the DNS alongside some business oriented C#. Then I moved over to working with AWS and Azure.

Now I primarily work with Node, Golang and Python.

With modern tooling and a team that supports it, I've found myself mostly working on services, APIs and React front-ends. Even with Next.js, it's hard to know where the line on what "full stack" is.

It's sort of come to encompass the frontend and backend of an application, less so the architecture of it. Mentally, however, I still lump it all together when I think of what qualifies for "full stack", as I personally think the term represents an understanding of how everything works together, which definitely helps when troubleshooting the source of a problem.

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7 years agodiscuss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/22/protests-...

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7 years agodiscuss

I posted this above, but it is a direct response to your question as well: Just look at the absurdity of Qanon. This troll gone long [1] has affected real people and real relationships [2].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-...

[2] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22664244/qanon-boyfri...

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7 years agodiscuss

Just look at the absurdity of Qanon. This troll gone long [1] has affected real people and real relationships [2].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-...

[2] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22664244/qanon-boyfri...

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