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rxhernandez commented on Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution   journals.plos.org/climate... · Posted by u/nithinj
misja111 · 2 years ago
Good to know! So now I can go ahead and buy a SUV, take the airplane for travelling whenever I want, put a couple of airco's in my house and I don't have to feel too responsible for the environmental consequences because the shareholders are the ones who are responsible.
rxhernandez · 2 years ago
That's not at all what they wrote. Genuinely curious, did you misread? If not, what did you hope to gain by creating this strawman?
rxhernandez commented on Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality   reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/Bender
lolinder · 3 years ago
> Even in the case they know what they are doing, they shouldn't be testing a deadly vehicle with potentially broken software on heavily populated public roads.

This is another way of saying that self-driving vehicles shouldn't exist at all. At some point we have to test them on public roads, preferably before putting the software into the hands of regular users. If you ban even internal company testing, then what you're saying is that self-driving vehicles should never exist.

rxhernandez · 3 years ago
Not even remotely the same thing. You completely glossed over me saying potentially broken software and heavily populated. Surely there is a way to simulate a left turn signal in a more safe manner on software this early in the testing process.
rxhernandez commented on Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality   reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/Bender
lolinder · 3 years ago
I'm one of the more vocal Tesla critics on here, but I think we can do better than this example.

The left turn arrow turned green, the car inched forward a little, and Elon immediately put on the brakes. The situation was no more dangerous than when a human driver mistakes which light is theirs and does the same thing, which happens pretty regularly in my experience.

And that this is a test version of the software isn't irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they're doing than I am to a public beta in the hands of people who believe Tesla's (really egregious) marketing.

rxhernandez · 3 years ago
> And that this is a test version of the software isn't irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they're doing than I am to a public beta in the hands of people who believe Tesla's (really egregious) marketing.

There is absolutely no reason you should assume "testers" know what they are doing. I have met plenty of people with decades of experience in "testing" barely know what they are doing. Even in the case they know what they are doing, they shouldn't be testing a *deadly* vehicle with potentially broken software on heavily populated *public* roads.

rxhernandez commented on Research Suggests Politicians Are More Likely to Be Psychopaths   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/belltaco
lr4444lr · 3 years ago
I believe it. I once ran for office locally with no political experience on a wishful "average guy" ticket (I lost badly), and one of the hardest things about the process was taking criticism from people who didn't know me, who just wanted to vent their anger at the system or in some cases, trolling from the incumbent. It dawned on me pretty quickly during the race that the kind of person cut out to win and rise in this line of work has got to have skin as thick as rawhide, and a psychopath's inherent disregard for other people's opinions and grandiose sense of self would really fit the bill.
rxhernandez · 3 years ago
The complete opposite is probably sufficient as well. It gets a lot easier to tolerate bullshit when you realize almost every stranger's asshole-ish behavior is a function of something wrong with themselves or their environments.

I just look at those behaviors as huge billboards that broadcast what's wrong with that person (as long as it's a stranger; if they're not a stranger it's a completely different story)

rxhernandez commented on A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work   latimes.com/science/story... · Posted by u/pseudolus
bombolo · 3 years ago
being a hipster and being a socialist aren't the same.
rxhernandez · 3 years ago
Kinda hard to be either without being left-leaning
rxhernandez commented on Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)   aus.social/@ajsadauskas/1... · Posted by u/rapnie
rapnie · 3 years ago
Depends what your purpose is. If you want to be a broadcaster, have a message to sell, then there's a larger audience. If you want to have good conversations, you don't need many people. Who talks to millions of people in a lively back and forth?
rxhernandez · 3 years ago
Reddit AMAs
rxhernandez commented on PyCharm 2023.1   jetbrains.com/pycharm/wha... · Posted by u/platelminto
BozeWolf · 3 years ago
People always use bloated as an argument against something. Bloated framework, bloated linux distro, bloated ide…

What really is the problem with having all “the plugins installed”/features, nicely integrated, always compatible, reasonably configurable, maintained and with support vs inflating a minimal editor (framework, *) yourself, without all the advantages mentioned earlier.

Yes it may cost some cheap memory, vs costs of fixing plugins yourself.

My advice: Embrace it. Everything just works. Bloated in many cases is a non argument.

Disclaimer: long time bloated fan. Pycharm, django, monoliths. I rather spend time fixing things that matter.

rxhernandez · 3 years ago
> Everything just works

That's... That's a huge stretch. I've been on an outdated version of pycharm for nearly a year now because they broke support for docker-compose in a pretty huge way. Moreover, I have yet to have a pycharm project where I didn't need to create my own docker override file.

rxhernandez commented on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?    · Posted by u/platzhirsch
rawbert · 3 years ago
If it is, you should stop using it like that because it made even me, a non-english native, giggle.
rxhernandez · 3 years ago
There are at least a hundred million you would have to convince to stop using that abbreviation before it goes out of fashion in the US.

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rxhernandez commented on Who becomes an entrepreneur? Insights from research studies   generalist.com/briefing/w... · Posted by u/bhavansri
Aperocky · 3 years ago
Wait so did you have full stack webdev skills or not? Or should we infer you learned it after your 20s.
rxhernandez · 3 years ago
I was in the process of learning it at the end of my 20s but hadn't quite gotten there until the cusp of 29/30. I did firmware, data science, physics research, and developed a scientific software framework before that.

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