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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
It's always possible to sue, but Google has good terms of service and lawyers - I'm 99% confident that a lawsuit would end up nowhere.
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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
Thing is, software isn't the issue when building a business - Dropbox being a great example because even now people are like "but that's just rsync-as-a-service". Software and making a business out of it are two differen
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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
While true, security reports should be treated as confidential until a patch is widely available.
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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
Positive HN-appropriate angle: they're very financially successful and have been for 40 years.
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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
I'm seeing decision-makers / people who write requirements starting to use AI as well in my day to day. As before, my job is to read, understand and test those requirements against the real world as I understand it. But same with
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by Cthulhu_ 5mo ago
Personally I believe a lot of entertainment, especially games, scratch this itch for a lot of people. But it's good to be aware whether you actually enjoy it, or if it's an escape from your day to day drudgery. Actually it's
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Honest question, why don't they just close the issue if they don't intend to fix them?
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I think that in these cases, what they need more than more engineering or AI productivity, is good management. Close issues that get shuffled around too much as "yeah this is too vague", or "nah we can't fix this",
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
But that assumes a black-and-white viewpoint - one or the other. But there's a big nuanced gray area that is underrepresented everywhere. Take immigration or refugees - the obvious thing is that you're either for or against it. Bu
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Heavy / blackout curtains are great for noise insulation / echoes / reverb / heat management, too. But there's often some leakage above and below, so a combination of blackout curtains, blinds, and / or outdoor
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Not to mention invoking a major historical event, appeal to emotion move.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Schrodinger's Goomba?
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Speeding it up provides benefit if speed was the bottleneck to begin with . As the author notes or hints at, faster code output leads to more features being delivered, more room for experimentation, etc. But that's not necessarily pro
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I think you're assuming the venn diagram is a circle here, I don't think that's a healthy perspective to have (in any context).
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
It would / should / can, but there's big efforts in reducing token consumption now, so AI will likely try to skim and pick documentation just like real humans.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Yeah I think a lot of pushback to best practices is basic cost/benefit; I like writing documentation, but I'm also often feeling a bit depressed that nobody will actually read it in as much detail as I wrote it. But LLMs do /
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
For India, English is an official (government) language; it may not be their first but they're really good at it. But, heavily accented, not unlike other English native speakers, and the less exposure one has to the accent the harder i
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
On the first part of the article, I believe it describes how individual productivity gains do not seem to translate to business / larger scale productivity. I think this is expected; individual developer productivity, code volume, LOC&
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
It's an AI company, it's kind of expected at this point - who would take an AI company seriously if they don't use AI themselves?
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Yes, and both Windows and MacOS have features to put things side by side... but they're not very intuitive and may require multiple inputs to achieve what the browser(s) do with one or two presses. On MacOS you have to long-press the &
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
This is true; as smarter people than me have said, software engineering is programming over time, and that time aspect involves individuals knowing less and less of a codebase. But that's what these smart people are advocating, in orde
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Already a thing for a lot of services (like financial), but still. There's better ways that don't involve sending your ID or facial scans to a first or third party.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
I was wondering about that because it doesn't make sense given how small a country it is. It's a bit of creative bookkeeping, ultimately: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2026/03/value-of-agricultu
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Depends on whether they were considered competing, and whether "we" were as organized, single-minded and competitive as this statement seems to imply - "we" probably weren't, not until larger kingdoms and empires st
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Not necessarily, it could also mean that homo sapiens was just more successful - better fed, bigger population, etc. It's not likely that early sapiens was so organized that they intentionally genocided neanderthals, it's more lik
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Dexter, from Dexter's Lab, learned French.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
> I think Spotify (or its owners/investors) might actually benefit from recommending AI-generated music by not having to pay real artists. You can remove the think and might; there were articles years ago saying Spotify actually com
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Because people don't put the effort in. A lot of electronic music can be considered lazy - just press button, turn a knob, boom you have music. Right? But then you have someone like Aphex Twin and they make something unique out of thes
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Is this an actual, measurable, major issue or just a gut feeling? Context switches in general are suboptimal but pretty normal.
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by Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
Cartman will jestermog every looksmaxxer.

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