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by Doches 2y ago
The author of TFA read Charles Murray's Coming Apart and has inexpertly regurgitated (to the extent of just copy-pasting the figures) that book's central thesis while failing to understand its nuance and context. If you're
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by Doches 2y ago
> Being emotionally available, participating in chores, providing a comfortable lifestyle while not working all the time, being reasonably well-read and good conversationalist, etc. I...honestly cannot tell if this is meant ironically. T
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by Doches 2y ago
I’ve probably made dozens of tools for myself that no one else uses, but — sort of by definition — none of them are publicly available. Who needs my orchestration app, access control UI, or Jenkins replacement? Nobody, that’s who. But a few
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by Doches 3y ago
This is one of the more thoughtful, nuanced criticisms of the current LLM fad that I've read, and I'm delighted to see it make it show up on HN. The author starts off with a series of well-thought experiments that show Github Copi
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by Doches 3y ago
Sure, but the challenge with that idea is that -- as with so many things -- which half do you cut? It helps if you think of games as _media_ rather than as _software_. Sure, at least half of movies released in a given year are crap, but how
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by Doches 3y ago
Fun to see this on HN today; I just finished it last night, on a recommendation from a friend. It was great, and left me full of unfinished thoughts -- just what you want from a good SF yarn. For folks who enjoyed the ideas in it I can hear
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by Doches 3y ago
Yawn. This is all just shakedown from pandemic-era overhiring, when zero interest rates made it economical to hire whole engineering _organizations_ just to keep them from going elsewhere. Meta alone has hired 30,000 since the beginning of
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Why Is Big Tech Still Cutting Jobs?(nytimes.com)
9 points by Doches 3y ago|1 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
Not just JetBrains: surely Unity has been another strong driver of cross-platform .Net use. If nothing else it’s certainly provided a reason to use C# for folks not coming from a Windows platform app developer background! Certainly for me C
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by Doches 3y ago
It’s not often that you see short fiction on HN, but I’m really grateful that this made it today. Be sure to read through to the Author’s Note if you skim the story, since it contexualises some of the rougher scenes. The author wrote this t
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Artificial Intelligence vs. Truckers and Writers(nytimes.com)
1 points by Doches 3y ago|0 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
Watching this unfold I was really hoping that the long-term solution here would be Apple moving (or at least announcing a move) Watch assembly to the US, if only to get around the _import_ ban. I realize that would take...rather a long time
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by Doches 3y ago
I’ve always liked Robert Heinlein’s proposal: a two-house legislature, where the lower house only writes new laws and the upper house only repeals existing laws. > I note one proposal to make this Congress a two-house body. Excellent — t
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Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again(webdevlaw.uk)
225 points by Doches 3y ago|214 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
One piece of this really jumped out at me: the projection of overall energy demand to shrink from 2900 TWh to 900 TWh over the next 27 years. The article waives that away by pointing to efficiency gains from electrification and decarbonisat
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The Software Developer's Career Handbook(randsinrepose.com)
2 points by Doches 3y ago|0 comments
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The Patent Fight That Could Take Apple Watches Off the Market(nytimes.com)
2 points by Doches 3y ago|0 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
> We’ve been motivated by the improvements we’re seeing in our telemetry data, and we’re convinced that our efforts this year are having a positive effect on Firefox users. Mozilla gets a lot of flak (especially around here!) for their s
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Hampshire College(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Doches 3y ago|0 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
> Through Trump’s posturing and the mark’s erect body and one-balled bottom, ! has become “aggressively phallic,” and is in bad need of saving. Why -- why -- do contemporary American writers feel the need to inject their political affi
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by Doches 3y ago
Not being allowed to see production data (or even in some cases see production!) was my greatest frustration in my last corporate job. But to be fair, keeping engineers off the live data was…pretty non-negotiable at most customers. Which le
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by Doches 3y ago
Alas, you’ve found the reason this won’t scale. Doing customer support as the CTO is a superpower (up to a point!) for both user growth and product design. But there’s going be to come a point where we have to hand some portion of support o
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by Doches 3y ago
Shipping tools as a git repository sounds delightful, at least to my engineering-minded heart. So painless! Free versioning! Rollbacks! If we were in the devtools business I would certainly consider that. Sadly, though, owners of small reta
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by Doches 3y ago
You’ve found me out! Not only is it excellent customer service, it’s also priceless market research that I would be lost without. Side conversations during calls like that have led to more improvements and features (and in one case an entir
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by Doches 3y ago
"Do Thinks That Don't Scale" is probably the absolute heart of my (bootstrapped, two-founder) company. Off the top of my head, we: * Manually create pre-configured accounts for potential customers, sometimes with up to
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by Doches 3y ago
> but then again GPT claims there are 500 parties a weekend ...definitely an authoritative source that I'd go to first for city-local statistics.
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BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year(theregister.com)
42 points by Doches 3y ago|59 comments
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by Doches 3y ago
This is absolutely killing me ( https://quailhq.com ) -- I've got hundreds of antique stores trying to get us on the phone, all wanting to know why their card readers have suddenly stopped working. It's going to be a lon
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by Doches 3y ago
Are Apple, Meta, and Signal saying “no” to the UK’s demand for secure-to-GCHQ backdoors in E2E purely to defend their margins? Of course not; they’re saying “the laws of mathematics trump the laws of the United Kingdom”. Apple isn’t promisi
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by Doches 3y ago
This is explicitly the point of the article, really: the author’s third type of ‘no’ is “we literally can’t do this” — and that’s the situation in the UK. It’s not that Meta, Apple, and Signal are saying “fuck you” to the UK; it’s that they

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