powerhour (u/powerhour)

powerhour commented on Things not available when someone blocks all cookies blog.tomayac.com/2022/08/... · Posted by u/0xedb

salawat · 3 years ago

This is absolutely unacceptable. No.

The solution to "software authors routinely collecting more info than they should" is not "accept the behavior as irredeemable, and just normalize it".

The answer is "make ot way more visible to users when it is done, snd make it harder for software authors to do/maintain." Anything else is just a tacit acknowledgement and grant of legitimacy to the behavior in question.

powerhour · 3 years ago

Giving app developers bogus data would make it harder to use* and maintain, so that's a clear win, IMO.

* use as in use for the intended business purposes, not harder to write the code

powerhour commented on Tell HN: HN London Meetup · Posted by u/connorlu

mihaaly · 3 years ago

Opinionated may have ment the 'fight for your view till death' kind of folks perhaps. In which case it is being far from fun.

powerhour · 3 years ago

I've definitely run in to those types at meetups. They're there to ruin the event for everyone (although I'm sure they themselves have a good time).

Thankfully it's possible to convince a smaller group to ignore them (don't feed the trolls etc) so you can have interesting conversations.

powerhour commented on Xcode Cloud overview developer.apple.com/xcode... · Posted by u/math-dev

hamandcheese · 3 years ago

Care to explain this one?

powerhour · 3 years ago

Folks are sad that Hetzner, like most mainstream providers, has a policy against running crypto software and port scanners.

powerhour commented on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience lulu.substack.com/p/joe-r... · Posted by u/phgn

adamrezich · 3 years ago

it would be dishonest to ignore the fact that "contemporary identity politics" kicked fully into gear as a direct response to #Occupy—and its objective was & continues to be successful

powerhour · 3 years ago

Contemporary identity politics are at least in part a response to the contemporary "occupy" movements, sure, and that's pretty much by definition.

powerhour commented on Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards vice.com/en/article/akek8... · Posted by u/danso

pupppet · 3 years ago

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the meeting when reputable businesses decided it was in their best interests to sell random garbage they couldn't vouch for.

powerhour · 3 years ago

"eBay gets away with selling random junk from random sellers, how can we get a piece?"

powerhour commented on Becoming a Systems Architect wojtekmandrysz.com/blog/s... · Posted by u/tetek

moonchrome · 3 years ago

You get to scale up your impact by managing people.

powerhour · 3 years ago

In my case my impact plummeted. Sometimes going in to management means having your hands tied -- you are the ones allowing higher ups to scale their impact. It was awful.

I'd love to be able to find folks that can do what I do -- it's probably our #1 issue holding us back -- and direct them to meet some business and technical goals, but I've yet to work at an organization that supports that mode of management.

powerhour commented on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience lulu.substack.com/p/joe-r... · Posted by u/phgn

evv555 · 3 years ago

The trend of people forming deep tribal identity around political affiliations and institutions. Speech then is first and foremost performative signaling of your in-group affiliation to the good group or the evil group. At least that's the lense any speech or action is looked at within identity politics.

powerhour · 3 years ago

You say trend like it is a recent phenomenon and not something that has been happening for centuries if not millennia.

powerhour commented on Ask HN: How do you get side gigs? · Posted by u/jinglejangley

core-utility · 3 years ago

It's almost like a full job interview process with many parts. Keeping details minimal because of NDA, I had 3 "rounds" including online assessment and video interviews.

powerhour · 3 years ago

Do you still have to go through interviews with clients? If so, how onerous are those?

powerhour commented on Europe Is Getting Serious About Making Space-Based Solar Power a Reality singularityhub.com/2022/0... · Posted by u/cheinyeanlim

ByersReason · 3 years ago

Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to put large, complex pieces of equipment in space where maintaining it is costly, and then beam power though the atmosphere, as opposed to putting simple, easily maintainable tech on the ground, with the input radiation already having traverse the atmosphere? Is there such an advantage power wise that this is worth doing?

powerhour · 3 years ago

If the authors of the article are right, being able to beam power through "inclement weather" could be a huge win on its own.

powerhour commented on Teslas Can Be Tricked into Stopping Too Early by Bigger Stop Signs thedrive.com/news/teslas-... · Posted by u/MBCook

ChuckNorris89 · 3 years ago

The solution is lidar but Elon refuses to use them for cost reasons and still thinks everything can be done with cameras because "that's how our vision works".

Most weird autopilot goofs and accidents stem from the car not knowing the exact distance to the object its seeing with its cameras.

powerhour · 3 years ago

I wonder if there's some patent issue preventing them from using LiDAR and by extension preventing Musk from admitting its superiority.

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