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by Hasu 3y ago
> Nowadays, there are a few somewhat junior people you keep hearing about over and over and they're usually talking about boring mainstream tools which are mostly mediocre. They're clearly being artificially pushed onto us by a
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> Saying this is no different than saying you can't trust computers, ever, because they were (very) unreliable in the 50s and early 60s This seems completely reasonable to me. I still don't trust computers.
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> IT is the only sector where companies like Cisco or SAP can exist despite the horrible reliability of their products Come on, other industries have garbage companies putting out garbage products, too.
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by Hasu 3y ago
I'm not sure how you interpret "It is impossible to make laws perfect and unambiguous for all humans everywhere" as "We should just give up on refining laws because we can't get to perfection". We refine enough
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> We don’t conclude that laws are impossible to make perfect, we simply keep refining the laws, right? Uh, we definitely do conclude that it's impossible to make the laws perfect. And we have an entire institution with the responsib
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by Hasu 3y ago
> Perfect list, also: > Google Cloud Run - Lambda ECS is the AWS equivalent of Cloud Run. GCP Cloud Functions are the equivalent of AWS Lambda. ECS / Cloud Run = managed container service that autoscales Lambda / Cloud Funct
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by Hasu 3y ago
> so if you have some random local bands in your iTunes library, YOU CAN STILL ACCESS THOSE VIA APPLE MUSIC because AM will upload them into their cloud and allow you to access them because you have them in your local library. This is su
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> Why was this even necessary? Firefox has always been an undervalued asset at Mozilla. They sat on it and seem to have barely invested enough effort to make it decent enough to compete with Chrome. It's necessary because Firefox d
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> Since I started working at a regular job in an office two months back, I don't get enough time to even watch YT videos off of the feed. With the commute, solid 8 hours at office, I barely have any cognitive or physical energy to d
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by Hasu 3y ago
I'm genuinely curious - what features does jQuery have that make it better than modern vanilla JS? Back in the day the vanilla DOM APIs were bad, so jQuery was great, but I haven't felt the need to reach for it in ages.
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> Kubrick’s version was a failure because he missed the most important part and the last few pages of the book. The American version of the book doesn't have the final chapter, and was the basis for Kubrick's film. He was aware
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by Hasu 3y ago
> If remote is more productive then companies will eventually switch over. If remote isn't more productive then they won't. If it's a wash then the people who earn the right to be remote will do so. The rest will go into t
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by Hasu 3y ago
No, the things they say mean they don't understand it. "Doesn't that hurt your feet?" is a question that no one who understands barefoot running would ask. Also, I don't care about what they say. If you don't h
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by Hasu 3y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I run barefoot (when I run, which isn't as often these days), and the responses are very similar. Mostly repetitive insults from men, ("did you forget your shoes?", "be careful, you'll cut yo
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by Hasu 3y ago
> I bet they're not tracking me in either normal or private browsing mode... On Firefox! How much do you want to bet? Because they are if you visit any Google property or any page that loads Google cookies or assets or fonts or...
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> What happened was that people mistook it for being a “private” form of browsing with no tracking and Google never corrected them Every time you open an incognito window in Chrome there's an explanation of what can and can't t
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> Domain experts get the most out of it. The average person really can't use it well. This is the exact opposite of what research has shown so far. Top performers show productivity _decreases_ with LLM assistance, lower performers a
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by Hasu 3y ago
Engaging with the democratic process means changing laws, which requires the consent of lawmakers, so either deep pockets or an extremely broad consensus of citizens who care enough about the issue to vote on it. Those laws might also have
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by Hasu 3y ago
> People who don't exercise any personal responsibility over their finances are the ones who are free-riding off people who do. That's because when you don't manage your finances and you refuse to shoulder the cost for tha
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by Hasu 3y ago
Agreed. I love the weirdness of the Lynch film, but it's not a great Dune adaptation. The SciFi miniseries has the lowest production quality (desert scenes shot in real deserts are a lot better looking than desert scenes shot on a very
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by Hasu 3y ago
> (except "the Guild doesn't take your orders", if you know what I mean) That's the SciFi miniseries, not Lynch.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24241000-2023-12-27-... Microsoft is the first defendant listed. You can read the Times' claims against Microsoft.
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Microsoft and OpenAI are the ones being sued. The call is for other AI companies to help them defend the case. Microsoft doesn't have a choice here.
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by Hasu 3y ago
And yet I can do it with SMS group messages on Android with Google's Messages app.
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> But that's not a 'preneur. If you are the business and the business is you, you're ability to exit is highly limited. That's not a 'preneur. If you get hit by a bus and your customers are screwed and the busine
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> The developers and sre's incentives are the same as everybody else in the company: have a great, easy to sell, popular and reliable product. Being on a team where everyone has a high level of personal ownership and accountability
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> “Fail” is almost never the right word for what is happening. It’s so final, so negative, and it’s a dead end: What do you do after a failure? Mope? What about it is final or a dead end? "Failure" just means that an attempt wa
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by Hasu 3y ago
> Could someone delusional also create a rocket ship? Or is there something special about programming that makes it compatible with delusional thinking? Newton studied alchemy and Linus Pauling believed against all evidence that vitamin
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by Hasu 3y ago
Even employee owned companies can do misleading marketing. :) It's also no guarantee of anything - New Belgium did a similar employee stock program in 2013, but they still sold to Lion in 2019, and now they're doing weird stuff li
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by Hasu 3y ago
No, it's only been (majority) employee owned since 2015 [0]. [0] https://www.brewbound.com/news/left-hand-brewing-announces-e...

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