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aqueueaqueue commented on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer pbs.org/newshour/show/sou... · Posted by u/thund

devsda · 6 months ago

> It is a strategic choice.

If a person did not commit a crime and if their strategic best choice is pleading guilty for the crime that has x% probability of receiving death penalty, it says something about the whole process.

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

Yes that scenario sucks. Death penalty itself should be trial only with a super high standard of evidence.

I think I am against it in general. I am undecided.

aqueueaqueue commented on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer pbs.org/newshour/show/sou... · Posted by u/thund

m2f2 · 6 months ago

In general, when will the US stop considering acceptable that... you cannot lie to the police, but the police can lie to you?

When will everyone believe that making someone take the blame in exchange for a shorter time in jail is beneficial to society at large... when the real perpetrator walks away unscathed, and a innocent is jailed for something he didn't even commit?

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

I'd say the main thing is police should show how all leads have been followed, the investigation followed a logical and evidence based approach and all evidence handed to defence.

aqueueaqueue commented on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer pbs.org/newshour/show/sou... · Posted by u/thund

nadermx · 6 months ago

Reading this makes me wonder, should a man who plead guilty be executed?

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

Pleading guilty has nothing to do with remorse or repentance. It's a legal thing. It is a strategic choice.

aqueueaqueue commented on Ask HN: How do you manage your LinkedIn connections? · Posted by u/gwhr

sdwolfz · 6 months ago

The optimal way to use linkedin is to add as many people as possible from as many companies as possible that you're interested in. This way, when you want to apply for a job at any such company you have people already working there whom you can message directly and ask for a recommendation.

Just don't forget to unfollow everyone you connect with as well... there's only so many times a man ca read stories of how the dog was the CEO all along...

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

I'd love the dog ceo story. It's all this kinda stuff for me:

I used Chat GPT.

It wrote me an app.

If you are a senior engineer you need to panic.

What value are you adding to your team?

You must:

(Emoji bulleted list of trite...)

What do you think? Drop comments :handpointingdown:

aqueueaqueue commented on What's the modern way of making front end for a small project? · Posted by u/pkrzysiek

matt_s · 6 months ago

You state you have to make things for uni projects. Without knowing the potential restrictions around using AI for your University, I would say go on youtube and take a TailwindCSS fundamentals course and have the docs handy. Just focus on the concepts and work thru the examples. TailwindCSS is more of a set of shorthand syntax for actual CSS. If you have a plugin for your editor, it should show you the actual CSS for the Tailwind syntax.

Then pick a component library, like DaisyUI (or another component lib), that uses tailwind under the hood. Use tailwind for your layout, grid, etc. and DaisyUI for things like cards, accordions, forms, etc.

Once you understand the concepts and fundamentals then for personal projects use AI to help you generate the code.

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

Tailwind is one of those things you should use once you feel the pain that it solves. Start with CSS. Should be enough!

aqueueaqueue commented on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus

gtirloni · 6 months ago

<tangent>Not a native English speaker here, my focus stopped at the subtitle "Robotic private spacecraft touched down about 250 miles from its intended landing site on Thursday". It feels odd to read "robotic private spacecraft" instead of "private robotic spacecraft" but I can't explain why.</tangent>

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

They should just call it a robotic spacecraft, and then mention private company elsewhere in the sentence if they must.

aqueueaqueue commented on Microsoft is plotting a future without OpenAI techstartups.com/2025/03/... · Posted by u/doublebind

paxys · 6 months ago

It's pretty funny that OpenAI wants to sell access to a "PhD level" model at a price with which you can hire like 3-5 real human PhDs full-time.

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

But you can make it work harder by promising a tenure in 35 years time.

aqueueaqueue commented on Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year? · Posted by u/nextn

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

You need new companies to employ them. So maybe online or city based meetups to collaborate the get the new companies started.

They don't have to be startups. They can be consultancies.

aqueueaqueue commented on On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114... · Posted by u/reverseflux

commandlinefan · 6 months ago

I see this mistake in project planning as well: I'm asked to scope how long it will take to complete module #1, then how long it will take to complete module #2, then module #3, etc. but in reality they all end up going hand-in-hand but depend on some common work that's "invisible" to the planners.

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

You sort of have to go along with it if you want to estimate. The perfect plan and estimate only happens after the completion date.

There are so many unknown deps and unknown opportunities to optimise at the start of a project.

You find those out as you get in the weeds and as the ICs dream a 1am about their code and bring that idea in the next day.

aqueueaqueue commented on Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using? · Posted by u/fuzztester

qingcharles · 6 months ago

If the support was still there I'd still be using VB.NET.

I've coded professionally in a dozen languages, including a lot of time in x86 assembler, C++ etc.

Still like VB.NET better than any other. To me, it was the most readable code.

aqueueaqueue · 6 months ago

You may like Python! At least the syntax.

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