Devasta

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by Devasta 2y ago
HTMX is like a glimpse into the road not taken, where HTML is the main language of the web instead of JS. Sometimes the grass really is greener on the other side, and I hope as an industry we make the switch.
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by Devasta 2y ago
This is the company that had a "recycling mode" that did nothing except brick the hardware, ensuring that the speakers could not be used second hand, then encouraging people to bring the bricked machines to recycling centers who c
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by Devasta 2y ago
> In the report, Washington’s Gallup divides workers into three groups: engaged, not engaged and actively disengaged. Those in the not engaged category are considered to be quiet quitting. Those actively disengaged are hostile toward the
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by Devasta 2y ago
I used to work for an insurance company that is a F500, they had thousands of mobile phone insurance policies for £2.99 a month in the UK that were running for decades. We never got calls, we never had claims, 99.999% of the customers had
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by Devasta 2y ago
Firstly, remember the AI companies have something that is able to do interesting product demos but that is it. If I had a dog that could tell me what was happening in the world but got it wrong 5% of the time my response would be "Oh s
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by Devasta 2y ago
I work in finance; if you came to me with these sorts of concerns I'd think you a paranoid lunatic. Lock your screen when away from your desk, but no one is going to be pulling the secret sauce from your systems by occasionally going i
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by Devasta 2y ago
Apologies, I might have misunderstood: when you say carrot, are you referring to things like extra bump in salary to go in?
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by Devasta 2y ago
> Encourage workers back in with a carrot not the stick Expensify tried this, making the best office they possible could, the end result was people would come in to try it, leave positive feedback then never go back. https://u
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by Devasta 2y ago
'Nobody on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."' --Paul Tsongas Thanks to the Covid lockdowns we now know this isn't the case, in fact we can be quite confident a fairly large portio
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by Devasta 2y ago
Because he was a coder working on his startup with no concern for the massive amounts of harm he was causing and many of the denizens of HN can relate to that.
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by Devasta 2y ago
"Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those impro
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by Devasta 2y ago
In this case, if you increase your price 10X and they don't leave you, there must be some deep technical reason why they cannot move even if they want to. You no longer have customers, you have hostages.
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by Devasta 2y ago
This has always been the plan of AI companies: harvest the entire planets creative output for their models, hope it creates AGI, after that you are immune to all laws as the modern day clergy, a class of tech priests who are able to divine
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by Devasta 2y ago
They embraced AI slop and now their site is a wasteland, the best they can hope for now is that like NFTs before them AI art becomes a useful route for money laundering. Its a shame to see what its become, the ascension of AI slop means a s
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by Devasta 2y ago
> Posts made using AI are supposed to be tagged as such so users can opt-out of seeing them While this is the official line I'm fairly certain the real reason for stuff like this is to prevent AI models consuming their own output.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Enjoy it while you can, it'll never be this cold again.
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by Devasta 2y ago
The fix is easy: license your code as AGPL3. Your project is no longer a useful target as corporations will avoid you, and on top of that you get rid of the demands for free tech support. Win win.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Everyone should get rid of their lawns in favour of native plants and flowers. So much time and effort put into maintaining absolutely useless, sterile wastelands, it's lunacy.
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by Devasta 2y ago
> How can you then say that email A from the AI is bad, while the exact same email B from a human is truly good? Why are you asking us these questions when you could instead be asking ChatGPT?
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And most browsers on other platforms are just Chrome with different design.
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by Devasta 2y ago
A genre where one of the most enduring cultural impacts is "Press F to pay respects", absolutely not.
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by Devasta 2y ago
Fill out Jira tickets and attend meetings about the Jira tickets.
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by Devasta 2y ago
When I go up to the self-service booth in McDonalds, go through the menu and select a portion of McNuggets the result food has been made, the food was only made because of my actions, no nuggets would have been made if I specifically didn&#
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by Devasta 2y ago
Hatsune Miku has more in common with Gorillaz than AI slop.
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by Devasta 3y ago
In Tech the decade before last vast amounts of effort by some of the smartest people in the world was put into making people click ads; the last decade, blockchain nonsense. The next decade will be on using AI to destroy any last remnants o
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by Devasta 3y ago
Technology is a force multiplier, almost all tech is political in some way shape or form.
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by Devasta 3y ago
"Game over". Typical, people who don't want their feeds filled with AI generated pigswill are to be defeated, not persuaded.
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Hardly a phpbb forum... those had a working search function!
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by Devasta 3y ago
I hope this allows me to filter them entirely. If it wasn't worth your time creating it, its not worth my time looking at it. I am generally very skeptical of these tags though, I suspect a lot of them are in place to stop an AI consum
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by Devasta 3y ago
They have a legion of mods working for them for free and still aren't profitable. Whatever you may feel about the denizens of WSB, they all see reddit as nothing more than a shorting opportunity. Once the mods start getting missives ab

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