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teach commented on Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines   people.com/waymo-exec-rev... · Posted by u/iancmceachern
teach · 2 days ago
I've seen this story making the rounds, but this isn't news, is it?

All self-driving companies maintain teams that make a decision when the cars get confused or stuck, and they report the number of such handoffs to NHTSA.

Is it just that there are teams in the Philippines specifically?

teach commented on Best Gas Masks   theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
hahahacorn · 13 days ago
You misunderstand.

> 3M does not provide product information on which filters are best for government repression

Great writing.

>When I eventually sat down to write my article about the Portland protests, I had a strange kind of epiphany, if it can even be called that. Out in the real world, when drowning in tear gas and adrenaline

Bad writing.

This is a genius product review right now for all the reasons everyone else thinks it is. I didn't need to read a single one of the authors personal experiences to understand the underlying message, or read ~100 words about their internal struggles to classify Portland as a riot versus a protest. The lack of brevity and conciseness seriously undercuts the absolute geniusness of maliciously compliant product reviews about gas masks in our current political climate.

My comment is about the art of subtlety. Again, this is an amazing article, but it's literally just been flagged by HN because it waxes poetic about politics instead of allowing all of that to be there without saying it. We can all read between the lines.

teach · 13 days ago
That makes sense to me. I really enjoyed the personal anecdotes and I thought they made the article a lot stronger for me, but a dry gas mask review would have also been an excellent, albeit different, article.
teach commented on Best Gas Masks   theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
teach · 13 days ago
A permanent ban seems strong, but it sure does seem like folks are using flagging as a super downvote in this case
teach commented on Best Gas Masks   theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
nerdsniper · 13 days ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

Normally most users can vouch for flagged submissions. The fact that this is non-vouchable is interesting.

teach · 13 days ago
Could it be that people who have commented in a flagged post are forbidden from vouching?
teach commented on Best Gas Masks   theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
teach · 13 days ago
Yet another interesting article flagged because it touches on American politics.

What's the procedure for flagged articles become unflagged? Maybe do I need more karma or something before I can vouch for them?

teach commented on Show HN: Typing Tennis   typingtennis.com... · Posted by u/twalichiewicz
teach · 23 days ago
I LOVE the style, but it's currently unplayably buggy!

* I type "hit" to serve (note: for consistency you should require ENTER on this word, too)

* Ball slowly travels, CPU returns it

* Return word appears

* I type the return word and press ENTER

* No matter what I do, once the ball gets close to my side, the "HINT" pops up and won't go away until I start typing the return word again

* Whether I type the word correctly or not, my guy fails to return the ball

Latest Firefox on MacOS.

Hope you get this sorted out -- it looks fun

teach commented on Design and Implementation of Sprites   fly.io/blog/design-and-im... · Posted by u/sethev
teach · a month ago
I guess I can see how pre-installing some LLM agents makes it potentially seem "AI-centric", but I don't understand at all how this could be "US-centric".
teach commented on Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants   metacpan.org/dist/perlsec... · Posted by u/mjs
stouset · a month ago
Ruby took the best parts of Perl and got rid of the worst. Give it a shot :)
teach · a month ago
I actually switched to Ruby for this very reason and used it for a few years. I still have a soft spot for Ruby as well.

Unfortunately I had a different experience with the Ruby community, so I eventually switched to Python along with apparently everybody else.

teach commented on Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants   metacpan.org/dist/perlsec... · Posted by u/mjs
teach · a month ago
Perl was the first language I learned on my own after graduating university many years ago. I fell in love with it because of quirks like these and because code written in it can have a poetic quality you don't see often.

Now I am old and joyless and I want the code I write for work to be boring and unsurprising.

But sometimes one can still want to write poetry.

teach commented on Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office   apoorv.page/blogs/over-en... · Posted by u/quacky_batak
teach · a month ago
> My router assigns dynamic IP addresses, meaning my server location kept changing.

I've had a similar problem in the past. It turns out that most routers have a way to assign an IP address statically based on the MAC address of the requesting device without affecting the other DHCP devices on the network.

I do this for my pi-hole, my NAS and my gaming PC.

u/teach

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