JohnFen

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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Yeah, they've become a serious menace. The "adults" driving them are even worse than the kids.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> all while AI is improving, being used more widely and becoming harder to detect It's becoming an untenable situation, not just for Spotify. I've simply started ignoring all new music that is performed by bands that are not al
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Neither of them can be trusted.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
The trouble is that it's literally impossible to tell what applications are trustworthy and what applications are not, or whether they'll remain trustworthy over time. So you have to treat them all as untrustworthy. It's a fa
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Most of the women I know well enough to know this about them track and predict the onset of their next period without needing an application. It isn't exactly rocket science.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Or, you know, she could just track it without any app at all and share it with you in person.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I assume that acquaintance was in the narrow subset of techies that she's talking about.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
He's not talking about all tech people here. He's talking about a narrow subset: > a certain kind of tech enthusiast, particularly the ones who are most interested in startups and entrepreneurship.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I'm not sure that Silicon Valley cares even a little what normal people want even if they ever understood it. It gets in the way of their business plans.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
But it is totally possible. People do it all the time. Personally, adding money into the game (beyond penny-ante, anyway) doesn't make the game fun at all. It sucks all the fun right out of it and turns it into a stressful chore.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I think a key part of the idea is that it's a vending machine you'd have to physically interact with and not an online service. That would filter out bots pretty effectively.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Indeed. I don't personally know any billionaires, but I've been around plenty of very wealthy people. Most of them didn't live in the style people think very wealthy people live in. For the most part, you wouldn't guess
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I agree. The privacy problems that come with governmental IDs are inescapable (we have to have those IDs regardless), so we should just use them rather than bringing a new threat vector into the mix. And, honestly, our industry has provided
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? I wouldn't use it because one of the reasons that I do side projects is to enjoy myself and learn new things, and these tools tend to do much of the stuff that I enjoy and learn
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
So we can't even trust bylines anymore? Shameful.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> There's 40 or so definitions of "consciousness" Same with "divine". It's not possible to even begin to approach answering this question unless we know what those terms mean.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I think it depends on the particular dev. I've known plenty (and I'm included in this group) for whom syntax highlighting is detrimental, not beneficial. I've also known many who find it very helpful. I don't think there
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I can't listen to spoken word while doing anything else, honestly, particularly things that require me to think. Listening requires a lot of attention, and if I'm not paying attention to it, then it's just annoying and distra
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> The important piece of information is "is this brand good, right now, when I'm looking to make a purchase." Right, which is the very thing that makes branding less than useful. You have to research everything before ever
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
I'm surrounded by people in that age group (I'm one of them, even), and I don't remember any of them talking about this.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
The link goes to the substack sign-in page, not the page of interest.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
This is an excellent analysis. It's also why I stopped considering a brand as an indicator of quality (in either direction) a long time ago. That something is a recognizable brand doesn't really mean much.
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> We hope this recognition gives you added peace of mind — knowing that the network powering your home meets rigorous standards. It does the opposite of giving me peace of mind. It makes me suspect that the hardware or software was compr
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
Yeah, I agree, that's a little baffling. The article is trying to make the case that with a solar panel, an EV won't leave you stranded if you run out of charge. However, I don't think that the incident they're talking a
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
It depends on the project. I use five different ones in my day job (Visual Studio, the antique Borland Builder, Embarcadero, and two proprietary ones). I also use no IDE at all for some projects. In my home programming, I don't use an
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
It's not painful, at least in my social circle. Typically, one person pays the bill and everyone else settles up with that person later. If that's not possible, then it's separate checks and everyone pays their own bill. In t
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by JohnFen 6mo ago
> The point is that science can still become dogma when people treat it as the only source of truth, or when institutions use it to shut down doubt, ethics, or wider questions. Except that behaving that way is not science or scientific.
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
I wonder if concessions to allow US government spying were made in exchange for this approval. It seems that at least a couple of these routers allow for replacement firmware such as OpenWRT, though, so it might be OK. But I'm incredib
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
No. Science is nothing remotely close to a religion, let alone a "dangerous" one. Religion requires faith and the rejection of anything that contradicts that faith. Science requires evidence and welcomes anything that shows prior
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by JohnFen 7mo ago
So I need to add school busses to the list of spy platforms I go out of my way to avoid. Good to know.

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