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I read two books a day in middle school. Still my favorite time to look back on…

I would say on this forum it wouldn’t be suprising for commentors to be near or above 50% that have access to an M Series Mac…

Depends- my current position was via a staffing firm that was engaged directly by my new company to fill the position, since they had an existing trust relationship.

But they indeed were comfortable revealing the hiring company early in the process due to that trust level…


And developers

Australia is annoying. Israel is by far the worst- UK is bad in theory since they can jail you to compel an unlock, but obviously is going to happen to a vanishingly small number of people…

Hate China? I don’t see that. There are plenty of factual reports about the CCP that are pretty damning, but the people/culture/place is generally perceived postively other than being a competitor…


> I don’t see that.

You seem to be an American so I'm very confused. You'd have to be willingfully blind at this point to not see the anti-chinese propaganda that has been going on in America for (at least) the past decade.


This is a not even wrong sort of misunderstanding to the realities of real politik. Your confusion is simple. You are unaware of the geopolitical games played at this level.

It is true there is anti Chinese propaganda but that is neither here nor there since posturing in this way is simply what competing world powers do.

Look past the institutional framing. The citizenry of all countries on this world are in reality on the same side far more often than opposed. The average American worker, Chinese worker, Russian worker, all want the same things: stability, prosperity, a future worth living.

It is in the self interest of states to promote nationalism and construct out-groups.

But that does not mean ordinary people should internalize such division. A wise citizenry knows to separate the notion of geopolitical competition from hatred towards ordinary citizens/culture of other countries, no matter what the state apparatus tries to tell them.


Decade? At least as long as I've been alive and I'm very "mid-career".


Is the propaganda false?


by and large yes.


So DHCP or go home?


No, I think it lets you set up the connection. I can't remember in detail but I had no issues setting it up on PPPoE (excluding the fact that the connection requirement is itself an issue).


The combo of quick bans and incrementally earned rights seems to be a pretty effective combo.


I think user-driven flagging is starting to show its cracks here, though. I'm starting to see stuff flagged to dead status, from otherwise reputable posters, because they went against the current in a thread.

I really think HN should consider giving out limited mod points, like Slashdot did (does? haven't used it in 25 years.)

This would probably be the ideal* system for somewhere like Reddit, too.

* Defining "ideal" as what drives high quality discourse, not what drives engagement.


In Texas HS Football is very much the central/highest tier of social status/standing in the community, and the stadiums they play in are bigger than small college stadiums elsewhere (and are televised.)


It obviously was LLM assisted, but I think collectively we will have to get over our distaste for text that has some LLM’isms in spots as long as it isn’t obviously completely outsourced to a bot, unless we just want to shut down message boards completely.


English is not my first language, so I lean on an LLM to clean up the frenchisms, but the ideas are mine :-)


I would very much rather read frenchisms than LLMisms. I regard translated idioms from other languages as an actual positive, they lend the text additional charm and interest because they give me a fresh new look at how a thought can be expressed. LLMisms just sound like someone tossed a bunch of marketing material into a blender.


I'd be curious how unintelligible the original post was, probably a lot more intelligible than you might think assuming it wouldn't be in literal French? It's kind of sad you (the royal you -- is that a englishism?) feel the need to clean up the frenchisms Just like you meet people in Mali wish American English accents because they learn it from movies, we're all going to end up writing some smoothed over glob of LLMnglish.

I've used Pyinfra for a few years, great software.


Frenchisms are great! “No A, No B, No C. Just D” in every comment “assisted” by AI isn’t that great :(


What was the obvious part in it? I still can't tell.


A sentence. Another sentence. Not a subordinate. Just single verb sentences.

But tbh I didn't see it much on OP's comment.


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