AstroBen

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by AstroBen 1y ago
I mean he's just marketing eating well, sleeping and exercising.. how on earth would that make him die way earlier?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> Running Sway now my whole session (Firefox open) uses around 2 GB of RAM Well shit yeah that's definitely a problem! Is your OS not making good use of your available memory?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Can you give an example that's playing out today?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
until you realize the success of a business is way more dependent on non-engineering skills
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I just straight up don't trust him Saying that is the equivalent of him saying "our product is really valuable! use it!"
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Every social media platform has engineered their product to be as addictive, time-sucking and manipulative as they can make it. I'm fully expecting AI to be treated the same, except much more potent I suppose the only hope here is that
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Maybe it depends on state, but where I'm at the premiums are definitely reduced for low income people https://www.kff.org/interactive/how-much-more-would-people-p...
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Does Germany represent the entirety of Europe? The UK, Italy, Denmark, Spain, plenty of others fund their healthcare through general taxes.. why are you focusing on one country? And to not mis-represent Germany too badly - that 14.6% is spl
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by AstroBen 1y ago
In that case it for sure makes sense, but for the user like the writer who is new to linux? I'm very happy I went through the pain of setting everything up from scratch. It taught me how it all works. I just don't see how I'd
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Omarchy never made much sense to me. The biggest benefit of Arch is that it's hackable and you can set it up exactly as you want it.. so why skip the entire process that teaches you how to do that?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> Maybe there are millions in America that only keep their jobs for the health benefits rather than starting a 1-2 person business. I'm not 100% sure about upcoming changes, seems similar from what I can see, but ACA gives an option
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Australia has a medicare levy of 2% taxable income - and last time I did the math I'd pay an equal amount in tax there as I do in the US Seems ridiculous the US doesn't have it
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by AstroBen 1y ago
TDD is really commonly misunderstood to be a testing strategy that helps reliability- it's not. It's supposed to guide your software design
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Just tell the AI "and make sure you don't add bugs or break anything" Works every time
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by AstroBen 1y ago
The link to their referenced study doesn't seem to work? This is confusing.. it's directly saying AI is improving employee productivity, but that's not leading to more business profit... how does that happen?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
wish I could remember, this was a good 6 months ago
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by AstroBen 1y ago
That's due to the person, not their development experience level
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Eh.. I gave ST4 a go earlier this year and moved away from it due to plugins I wanted not being updated for years, and no longer working. That really feels on the cusp of being dead to me There needs to be a critical mass of people using it
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by AstroBen 1y ago
The biggest selling point of an iPhone for me is the easy connection with my Mac and the consistency between them. If it weren't for that I'd strongly consider a pixel
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by AstroBen 1y ago
So that people that buy that year can get the latest improvements They're not releasing them on your personal upgrade schedule
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Can you define vibe coding? I'm seeing it used for anything from not even looking at the code to writing long detailed specs for the LLM and then heavily reviewing its output If it's a non-programmer trying to build a non-trivial
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Start with the problem you're trying to solve and use the features to solve it. Don't just try to cram its features into your life
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by AstroBen 1y ago
> it is quite trust destructive the common narrative is that they're gathering as much ad-targeting data as possible. No-one seems to care. What do they have to lose?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
They don't necessarily need to be profitable on their base model with the amount they make from upgrades and the backend
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by AstroBen 1y ago
Yeah I just picked up an M4 air for $799. Feels like insanely good value there. A year ago the equivalent was >$1000?
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by AstroBen 1y ago
256GB is fine for me. I prefer external storage for large files
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by AstroBen 1y ago
This is why you should live below your means and save money when times are good. It's very possible, especially in the tech industry to get to a position where you can comfortably ride out a few years of a crappy job market
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by AstroBen 1y ago
I got my start around then as a junior working fully remote with 6 months experience.. something everyone assures me is impossible Perseverance is the most important thing I think
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by AstroBen 1y ago
AI is good at low wage junior work, not senior work. It's the other way around
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by AstroBen 1y ago
How often do companies invest in people to train them? Maybe the smart ones are going to need to start doing that or they'll crash and burn

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