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bronlund
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  1. I am not falling for Eric's pump'n'dump schemes once again.
  2. SQL Transactional Objects OnLine Analytical Processing. My best guess so far.
  3. SQL Tool something something?
  4. Bold name choice.
  5. Who said it was getting worse? Being able to get information from an LLM trained on an ungodly amount of information instead of having to ask an old fart holding a bible, is real progress in my eyes.
  6. I have never really thought about having people making stupid choices, as a genre in itself. I have mostly just viewed it as an annoying artefact of lazy writing.

    But if that is the case, I guess I was correct in my first assumption; that this show is just another one of those.

  7. I respect that. I can't claim I know anything about the series, not having watched it really. It was just my gut reaction to the restaurant scene at the start. Maybe I should give it another shot.
  8. I appreciate you taking the time to explain it to me. I think I'm just a little fed up about the whole concept since a lot of series are just like this. Making fun of stupid people is an honest thing I guess, but mostly it just seems kind of forced.

    Me having just seen 5 minutes of it, could be wrong, but the impression I got was that the satire wasn't social criticism or directed towards the powers at be, as I think satire should be, but towards the little guy. Which I just don't think is that funny.

    You mention the movie Falling Down, but at no time during this, did I feel anything but sympathy for the main character. In contrast to The Chair Company, which made me develop a real antipathy for the main character in just the first 5 minutes.

  9. I don't really think it's funny when people are presented with choices, they always pick the wrong one. Maybe it's an American thing.
  10. I lasted maybe 5 minute into this one before I realised it was just another stupid show inventing stupid problems and having stupid people react to them in stupid ways.
  11. It isn't really that complicated. Eric is an ass and that's how we ended up in this mess to begin with.
  12. Complaining about Microsoft's lack of quality control is like complaining the strip club has poor lighting for reading.
  13. This is an easy one. The smarter you are, the more you understand all the shit that is going on. Would you rather be dumb and happy instead of seeing all the shit? Nope.

    The smartest of us are not having a good time.

  14. This 10 year old article may be of interest if you are into stuff like that: https://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf
  15. Good questions!
  16. It was most likely in the specs from the beginning. You can't have busses roaming around with no way to turn them off remotely.
  17. I wasn't aware of that, thanks. But still, if you go buy a car right now, I doubt they are going to make it a sales pitch that you are not the only one who can control your car.
  18. This is just stupid. All modern vehicles har been fully remote controllable for years.
  19. Imagine that.
  20. This is all temporary. In a not too distant future, people will just get the AI to simulate whatever application they want directly - skipping that annoying programming stage altogether :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiqrsv530Y
  21. Nothing compares to the constant switching between feeling like the stupidest person on planet earth, to feeling like the smartest one.
  22. I love my mac and I hate everything Microsoft, but just as Xcode may be the worst piece of software coming out of Apple, Visual Studio (no, not VSCode) may be the greatest piece of software coming out of Microsoft.

    It is an amazing piece of engineering. It's not perfect, it has it's share of bugs and quirks, but still, it's a wonder to behold :D

  23. I still use both Midnight Commander and Total Commander daily. Those are hard habits to kick :D For macOS, I use Forklift.
  24. I'm not criticising Minkowski, I'm criticising the author of the article. He starts out by talking about one dimensional lines, then suddenly jumps to curves as if they could be mistaken for the same thing. And in my humble opinion, it goes downhill from there. He even manage to talk about one dimensional squiggles which is an oxymoron. In one dimension, nothing is squiggly - that is an effect of higher dimensions.

    That being said, I don't care much for Einstein's relativity or the derived works either. I think Maxwell was on to something and that quantum mechanics more or less agrees with him.

  25. Why the downvotes? This is the correct answer to the first question raised: "...how many dimensions does a line have?".

    You can track a point to create a line, you can shift the line to make a plane, you can move the plane to create a space, you can change the space to create time, you can observe time to create bliss, you can reflect on bliss to create thought, you can use thought to create an idea and you can use that idea to make a thingy.

    You can create as many dimensions you like, all perpendicular to each other - one way or another. But I promise you this; even though the line is needed for the thingy, the line is blissfully unaware of this fact.

  26. A line has one dimension, and one only. It couldn't care less about whatever you do to it in higher dimensions. That's their problem.
  27. Location: You don't want to know

    Remote: Only

    Willing to relocate: Nope

    Technology: Whatever

    Working experience: 30 years

    I'll do anything for money, but I work only when I feel like it.

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