Arainach

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by Arainach 4mo ago
For the purposes of this discussion, we all do: https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/
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by Arainach 4mo ago
It's easy to make an enormous amount of revenue selling $50 bills for $10.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
What would an example of #4 look like? Don't lie to the cops, but refusing to answer without a lawyer present should hold no legal consequences.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Most of the tech startup ecosystem for the last 20 years has been spending crazy money without a clear plan for how to make it back.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I'm still not seeing the part where this is Roku's fault at all. It's Amazon's app responding to the controls the way Amazon wants it. There's no platform with a standardized "fast forward" experience - Ap
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> Amazon was the rightful owner of my fastforward button What do you mean by this? The back button is involved in system UI and apps should be limited in their ability to steal it, but fast forward is an action that makes no sense outsi
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by Arainach 4mo ago
It begins with `preventing or` before talking about mitigating/fixing. There's no such thing as "preventing early" in firefighting.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I don't agree with your statement. Individual productivity is very different from team productivity. AI is much like the traditional cowboy coder - prioritizing speed above all else leads to disaster. As to customers, customers value
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Meeting your customers feels good. It's still not why I do it. I've written components that were used by billions of people and generally loved (pieces of the Windows 7 taskbar) and talked to people about that work. I've w
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> those teams get reputations for being a shit show, Reputations with who? The VPs who rotate in and out every few years (if you're lucky enough to go a few years between reorgs) for a new title and salary bump? > there will be
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by Arainach 4mo ago
You can't prove that "this work caused us to not get paged" versus "that work is unnecessary and you wouldn't have been paged regardless". Even when you can, you can't prove the impact. As a real example,
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I've never worked somewhere where the proper channels meant "coordinate with finance", but "file a bug/feature request to track this work and time time spent on it" should be standard. If it's not worth 5
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by Arainach 4mo ago
This works across small entities like companies with distinct customers and budgets. It does not work for large corporations with pools of billions of dollars and various incentives to staying within the ecosystem. It's impossible to
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by Arainach 4mo ago
This is a good post, but once again incentives rear their ugly head. > Second, preventing or mitigating an incident early (even by just knowing the right feature flag to turn off) can save huge amounts of money: both immediate lost reven
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by Arainach 4mo ago
For many people this makes sense, but once you reach a level of money where your basic needs are met, most people trade their money for time, and things like this are one of the most obvious ways. Not long ago I walked from downtown SF up t
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by Arainach 4mo ago
You can be extroverted and not want to spend an entire work day interacting with people without a moment of privacy or introspection.
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by Arainach 4mo ago
The person you're responding to never said those teams didn't have customers. It's not about new technology for the sake of new technology, it's about taking pride in one's work and what that person created. Honestl
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Plenty of value comes from things the customer doesn't care about. Customers want features as fast and as cheap as possible. I derive joy from solid test suites that avoid me getting paged while on call and team processes that don&#x27
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by Arainach 4mo ago
I'm confused because over the past 20 years I've owned four Stanleys[1] and used many more and never had those problems. Are you using the absolute cheapest ones they make? Because even the ones you get at Home Depot these days
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by Arainach 4mo ago
Not even a price listed. I don't understand the market for this - fancy musical instruments for creativity, sure, there's a market, but who wants to own cutting vinyl? How many records would you need to make for this to be more
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by Arainach 4mo ago
> like there is no humans working and writing there anymore Meta has never been a place for people with empathy to thrive or succeed. They literally enabled a genocide. Despite being warned by internal employees, profits were more impor
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by Arainach 5mo ago
The person I'm replying to didn't like Adobe and so went back to shooting JPEG. You can't do HDR Gain Mapping from a JPEG either.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
You have no claim to other people's knowledge or work. If they want to share it, it is on their terms. If you're prioritizing other costs, then prioritize those. You don't have an inherent right to consume everything in hist
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by Arainach 5mo ago
The point is that there are many options, at many different price points including free, that don't involve giving up 95% of the data your camera sensor provides and don't lock you into getting the exposure perfectly right the fir
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by Arainach 5mo ago
This seems like an overreaction that punishes you more than Adobe. There are a number of other tools - until fairly recently Capture One offered perpetual licensing, for instance. Giving up RAW to spite Adobe is like being angry at Micros
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by Arainach 5mo ago
If you can't be bothered to write even one specific thing from the article content you object to, then your account might as well be a pre-LLM bot that just posts "first" or "LLM Content" which is somehow even lazie
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by Arainach 5mo ago
What do you believe your comment adds to the discussion about this article?
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by Arainach 5mo ago
People trying to justify piracy was tired in 1997 and it's embarassing now. It would be better if you just embrace the fact that you're unwilling to pay for creative effort and OK depriving creators of money - that isn't my e
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by Arainach 5mo ago
"Someone else has pirated this, so it's OK for me to do it as well" isn't a good argument. If you see litter on the ground already, that doesn't make it OK to litter more.
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by Arainach 5mo ago
The entities that have access to flight manifests have far easier ways to identify who's behind your account. It's not a threat model worth seriously considering.

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