Devasta

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by Devasta 4mo ago
I have definitely found my enjoyment of coding in my spare time is lessened now that AI is on the scene. I know very few if any were going to use the code, but it felt like working on a classic car, the act of working on it was fun even if
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by Devasta 4mo ago
People don't use web tech because they care about quality, they target it very specifically because its one of the places where quality doesn't matter. If your native app crashes, your users will curse your name. Webpage or Electr
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by Devasta 4mo ago
Makes sense, lots of people like Peter Thiel found refuge in Argentina.
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by Devasta 4mo ago
> Quite a few have, the issue is that every Jira instance is a fractal shit snowflake of custom properties several layers deep through old failed migrations to new organization strategies. This is key, Jira is fantastic so long as you ha
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by Devasta 5mo ago
Nobody forced them to build the torment nexus, blaming the authors of Don't Create The Torment Nexus is just silly.
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by Devasta 5mo ago
Honestly overdue. A small town lawyer can face all manner of professional sanctions if they screw up badly, but a software engineer can cause untold amounts of social harm and it's all fine so long as they got a few people to click ads
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by Devasta 5mo ago
Am I meant to pretend that companies weren't for years beforehand using RTO to drive layoffs? They are always doing it, AI is just the cover.
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by Devasta 5mo ago
The Chromebook has already been an unmitigated disaster for computer literacy, this will only make it worse.
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by Devasta 5mo ago
> In 2019, a few months after the initial release of Scratch 3, Scratch discovered that SVGs can contain <script> tags that Scratch would cause to be executed when the SVG loads. This is known as an XSS. > Example from Scratch&#
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by Devasta 5mo ago
Just like the Falkland's penguins who inhabit an area filled with landmines, keeping humans out is just as crucial to biodiversity as any measure to assist the wildlife within.
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by Devasta 5mo ago
I agree that it is mostly that the discovery mechanism is shot to bits, but its also the case that before I could find a new artist and marvel, now I have to treat with suspicion to be sure there is no AI before I do anything else.
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by Devasta 5mo ago
> The easiest way would be a straight tax on AI usage, and using that tax to pay a universal basic income. If the Epstein class wouldn't go for something like this in a world where they needed workers to produce, the idea that they
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by Devasta 5mo ago
It has destroyed art, it has destroyed public trust with fabricated videos, it has caused skyrocketing prices in components so stuff like Valves console cannot get made, and its enriched freaks like Sam Altman. The fact that AI acolytes are
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by Devasta 6mo ago
This is trying to manage their personal image; they know exactly what they are and what they do. They are just annoyed Karp is breaking Kayfabe
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by Devasta 6mo ago
A few years ago, during the initial stages of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, John Deere was remotely bricking any tractors that were stolen by Russia. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-
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by Devasta 6mo ago
Meta employees shocked to find out they work for Meta.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
I don't know, Stephen King couldn't write anything that matches the horror that was the management of UK car companies in the second half of the 20th century. British Leyland was a disaster from start to finish.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
I really don't understand the use case. Why would I want hardware that I own to be managed by a web app that could disappear?
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by Devasta 6mo ago
This is the sort of thing I'd expect to see in the manifesto of a school shooter.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
We are far, far beyond the stage where Zuck and Elon should have targeted sanctions against them like we would any Russian Oligarch. They are driving millions of people insane with the constant barrage of far right propaganda in their users
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by Devasta 6mo ago
Why wouldn't it be?
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by Devasta 6mo ago
The difference between Silicon Valley and Wall Street is that Wall Street knows they are lying when they justify the awful things they do in the name of enriching themselves.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
He mentions that they have physical equipment they must interact with and that is an excellent reason to be at least hybrid sometimes, but if you cannot make remote work successful that is an issue to be resolved, not a justification for RT
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by Devasta 6mo ago
The web version being ok is a sign of the degradation of the desktop experience more than it is a sign of the capabilities of the web.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
YC invests in military startups, they have no problem killing people if it would make them money. What makes a fake HIPPA compliance cert worse than that?
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by Devasta 6mo ago
That makes sense; you were being a creep.
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by Devasta 6mo ago
A big part of the benefit of AI has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with leading point haired bosses around. They won't approve needed refactorings but promise to integrate AI and suddenly budget is no problem, just add an e
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by Devasta 7mo ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/taliban-bureaucrats-hate-wor... Apparently the Taliban find office work far worse than being fighters, so you never know!
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by Devasta 7mo ago
You are absolutely deluded if you think the removal of the IRGC will result in any improvement in the situation of the Iranian people. The US and Israel want to bomb he place into a lawless wasteland, even if a secular democracy was to aris
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by Devasta 7mo ago
I want to cure lung cancer, therefore as an Effective Altruist™ I maximize my income by selling cigarettes to children outside playgrounds. The money will go towards research in my will, and in the meantime the incidence of lung cancer in t

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