HN user

hackerfromthefu

855 karma
Posts3
Comments887
View on HN

And there are also adaptable people that make it work under most or any system, and another type of people who find the failure cases for almost any type of system.

Its very easy, you have a configuration setting with the list of algorithms and a short textual description. Users try them and quickly change off ones they don't like till they settle on one they like best.

Yeah my expensive Lenovo Slim 7 Pro Carbon edition has just had the hinge fail at 11 months. I'm sick and tired of high end Windows laptops all failing due to hardware issues. I am seriously considering a Mac for the first time in two decades in disgust with the state of reliability of Windows laptops. But I don't want to run Apple software and live in their walled garden.

Don't be fooled - they are a part of google's insurance against perceptions of monopoly. Their efforts are deliberately kept to the level of being PR but useless in reality.

That house is not in the same context as 20 years ago. Constant growth provides more amenity for the house than previously, and higher competitive desireability.

To get an equivalent house you need to go further out to a less developed area with less people competing for the house, and there you will find cheaper houses.

I'm not saying it is sustainable or what the values should be etc, just that the past conditions != todays conditions despite it being the same latitude and longitude.

The SAFe Delusion 4 years ago

This goes out the window if your org does any sort of sales or strategic initiatives that weren't in view of the product people you're working with.

Which is most orgs I've worked with.

However if the building value has dropped, the lender's collateral value has dropped and probably below their owed balance. No one wants to 'realize' the new lower value, including the lender, so they tend to extend the loan and hope for the best.

Isn't it the case that houses in undesirable areas are much cheaper?

The literal roof over the head is generally affordable - but having it in the location and standard people want is where it gets expensive.

However the desirable area and standard of housing is a want not a necessity. I want it too btw, same as everyone else!

The other thing I wonder, is if everyone is 'entitled' to a nice area and house, who pays for it all, and how do we fit everyone into the nicer areas?

The reality is in many cases the 'profit' margin is negative! There's many many stories of owners that quit the situation in disgust and fear of how bad it is financially, due to running costs. A bad year of maintenance, a bad tenant, can cause big losses in a business where margins are usually slim for the first decade of ownership.

If an investment house was a business, it often takes a decade to see substantial returns, sometimes after many years of hard slog and even losses. Would you accept that from the businesses that hacker news dreams of?

This is just nonsense.

It's similar to saying that any digital representation of an image isn't an image just a dataset that represent it.

If what you said was any sort of defense every image copyright would never apply to any digital image, because the images can be saved in different resolutions, different file formats, or encoded down. e.g. if a jpeg 'image' was only an image at an exact set of digital bits i could save it again with a different quality setting and end up with a different set of digital bits.

But everyone still recognises when an image looks the same, and courts will uphold copyright claims regardless of the digital encoding of an image. So goodluck with that spurious argument that it's not copyright because 'its on the internet (oh its with AI etc).