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pleasecalllater commented on A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result   nzz.ch/schweiz/hackerangr... · Posted by u/komape
n_plus_1_acc · 2 years ago
Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk. They will experience severe pain of not milked, so in case of an emergency, usually all cows are euthanized. In today's world, farmers need to have more cows than they could ever milk by hand.
pleasecalllater · 2 years ago
Nope. It's the opposite way. The cow produces so much milk, because it's milked so often. In normal world, cow produces milk for the children, and when they drink less and less milk, the cow produces less and less milk. In the not normal world (aka the farm) cows are inseminated almost every year, the children are taken away (causing shock in children and mothers) then cows are milked all the time. Then impregnated and so on. Till a cow is so exhausted that she cannot give enough milk to be "economically productive" and then she's slaughtered as useless.
pleasecalllater commented on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again   blog.privacyguides.org/20... · Posted by u/nechuchelo
pleasecalllater · 2 years ago
I hope unchecking the setting really disables the feature. I have hard time trusting Mozilla now... or rather I should write "again".

On the other hand: there is a ticket [1] asking for container-based-extensions, so something like Grammarly (aka the keylogger) could work only inside a container. It's been there for years, nothing changes. Seems like people are not interested in this kind of privacy stuff.

The good news: the CEO salary is really nice...

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497075

pleasecalllater commented on Alacritty – A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator   github.com/alacritty/alac... · Posted by u/alexzeitler
rsp1984 · 2 years ago
At the risk of missing something completely obvious: where's the "emulator" part in it? What is it emulating? It looks like a terminal (no emulator) to me. Not trolling, just trying to learn.
pleasecalllater · 2 years ago
pleasecalllater commented on Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?    · Posted by u/WatermelonSki
pleasecalllater · 2 years ago
Hug him. Support him. His life is most probably ending and he is most probably quite depressed. Stay with him.

Your company is just a job, just a company.

What would you expect of him if you'd be in his situation? I'm sure that having a successful company would be the last thing on the list (if it was there at all).

pleasecalllater commented on US homelessness up 12% from 2022, hits highest level since 2007   blobstreaming.org/us-home... · Posted by u/safaa1993
pleasecalllater · 2 years ago
I'm involved in an Intervention Hostel in Poland/Europe. Many people need short-term help, not only with homelessness but they also need some real support.

What is provided by the city, is only some night shelter, where they can eat, sleep, and wash. The thing they don't get is a psychiatrist and psychological treatment. The Intervention Hostel provides that too.

From my perspective, one of the main problems is that, in general, people are not interested in helping those homeless people. We have problems with gathering money, there is no city support, and we also have higher costs (because of the psychiatrist and psychological treatment). We have quite nice results, but every three months we think about closing it due to lack of funds.

The thing that made me really sad was that when a couple of days ago one of Polish parliament members hit a woman and used a fire extinguisher on a hanukkah menorah, people gathered over $50k in just a couple of hours to support him.

However, when I was in USA a couple of years ago, I have never seen so many homeless people on the streets. This is really worrying and sad.

pleasecalllater commented on The problem with C according to a C++ developer   cor3ntin.github.io/posts/... · Posted by u/eatonphil
misanthropian00 · 6 years ago
I will continue to say C/C++. To me they are not distinct enough as languages to truly be considered fully separate and they use the same compilers. The fact that they use the same compiler is to me a devastating argument. No other distinct languages use the same compiler.

>A language is also its good practices, patterns, idioms

The usual argument, but I disagree. If programmers don't have freedom of expression then fuck programming. We should all be free to write our own programs the way we want and not have to worry about standard practices or cultures.

pleasecalllater · 6 years ago
yes! freedom! dangling pointers for everybody!

But seriously: I wish more programmers had really good background (I'm not talking about academia, but e.g. learning from many books and conference videos).

The "good practices" are often a set of ideas like "do it this way, so you won't suffer later". Nothing more. This way you can avoid mistakes made by others. Of course, you can do whatever you like and suffer later.

C is C. C++ is C++. If they are the same, well... why do they have different names?

Let's call them C/C++/Fortran OK? You can use one tool (you called it "one compiler", while in fact they are different compilers with common core) to rule them all, even in the same program... https://www.cae.tntech.edu/help/programming/mixed_languages.

I'd love to see more programmers naming things with care. This way we would have C, we would have C++. But also we would have MB when talking about megabytes, not mb (millibits, is that even a thing?).

If surgeons would have freedom to do things the way they want... in fact they have the freedom, but they rather follow the "good practices" made mainly by the retrospection after someone made a tragic mistake. But if they really would do whatever they want... let's not talk about it for now, OK?

pleasecalllater commented on Show HN: A multi-markup reader in less than 100 lines of Python code   gist.github.com/miraculix... · Posted by u/miraculixx
pleasecalllater · 6 years ago
I love the praised projects "xxx in yyy lines of code in zzz". While the reality almost always is: not documented, not tested, badly written glue for some libraries doing the real job.

I'd love to see here really well designed, documented, and implemented projects doing complicated stuff in simple way.

pleasecalllater commented on I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)   sciencemag.org/careers/20... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
looping__lui · 6 years ago
Just a hypothesis: that professor would have abused you as a working slave. And he knew that no person in his right mind with significant work experience and “above minimum pay” could be Ok with it.

I suspect it had nothing to do with your qualifications - rather he probably wanted to avoid saying “sorry, but I wont be able to abuse you enough”.

At no institution in Germany have I head of “if you don’t publish in a year, you are out”. Usually you work 2 years as a slave with no context what your research is and after the first couple of years, you are allowed “to think loudly about a topic”.

This encounter is not “normal”... Keep looking. And yes: Academia knows that industry works on hard shit. And they often don’t want “outsiders to take a look under the rug”... They create a fake world to justify themselves more often than not...

pleasecalllater · 6 years ago
> At no institution in Germany...

It was in Poland.

pleasecalllater commented on I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)   sciencemag.org/careers/20... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
looping__lui · 6 years ago
Maybe reaching out to international faculties in your field could be an idea?

E.g., in Germany you get the entire spectrum from “be a professors slave for 6 years with minimum pay” to “I don’t care where you are - but the publications count”.

I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that there are quite a few professors in Europe who would be willing to guide you through (the relatively light weight bureaucracy) PhD process as long as you create and publish high quality research.

Usually a PhD process requires SOME formal training (e.g., attending a fee seminars), peer-reviewed publications and a cumulative summary over your research.

Personally I respect somebody who “freestyled” his way through PhD as measured by research output a lot. E.g., quite a few women take that route along with maternity leaves; which is great because of flexibility without compromise on quality.

I mean, in CS, engineering, physics, there are plenty of areas where you don’t need a lab per se but can just simulate etc. I must admit that depending in the field interaction with fellow PhD students can be super great an valuable (that’s just gonna make life harder for you if you don’t take advantage of it).

Good luck!

pleasecalllater · 6 years ago
> E.g., in Germany you get the entire spectrum from “be a professors slave for 6 years with minimum pay” to “I don’t care where you are - but the publications count”.

Yea... I wanted to start PhD this year. Unfortunately it turned out that the only thing that counts, are my previous and future publications. Any work experience seems like a disadvantage. They value more someone with no experience, but with a couple of, usually not very inventive, publications.

I have over 18 years of work experience. I used to make more complicated things at work, than you can find in many published papers or even PhDs. So I asked a professor about how to start it.

It turned out that: the pay is much below the minimum salary + I will be thrown away if I won't have one publication in a good journal after the first year. If you also think that after sending a paper to a journal, they usually reply in six-nine months with a rejection or a list of comments to fix... it turned out that I have to start my PhD with a bunch of papers already written. And to have them count, they need to be exactly about the same topic as my PhD.

So, after rethinking all this, I stopped dreaming about a PhD. I can publish my paper on arXiv without all the academic fun.

pleasecalllater commented on Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public    · Posted by u/winston_smith
ammon · 6 years ago
Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.
pleasecalllater · 6 years ago
For now. What about the future? I just don't trust any company which changes the agreements without asking for my consent. In this case I just want to close my account and delete all my data. Seems like impossible. In Europe after making things like this they could end in jail for breaking GPDR rules. In US it looks like it's fine to gather user's data, sell them without consent, and then forbid to close accounts. And there are always people who repeat "the company is fine, they have right to do it". Except they don't.

u/pleasecalllater

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