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by Lutger 1y ago
I didn't interpret it as decrying the use of AI. Especially because he plans to dedicate his time and energy into researching the very same AI he rants about, basically promoting its use! Instead, I see it as a deeply personal rant abo
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by Lutger 1y ago
That is useful, but you can achieve a similar benefit if you manage to spec out your api with openapi, and then generate the typescript api client. A lot of web frameworks make it easy to generate openapi spec from code. The maintenance bur
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by Lutger 1y ago
In a way, leading with the core ideas and not with the syntax also shows what this language is about, and selects for people who are more interested in the PL concepts than its looks. After all, syntax is the bikeshed of programming languag
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by Lutger 1y ago
As someone who has seen multiple people close to me, including my wife, struggle with long covid, I can tell you the answer is simply no. Anecdotal, yes, but this shouldn't be an argument. We are several years in now. These statements
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by Lutger 1y ago
Looking at this drama for a bit, I haven't seen anybody advocate for 'canceling' requests itself. Maybe it's more like: Laplace created awesome things, but let's be fair and also put in his wikipedia page a bit abou
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by Lutger 1y ago
The fact that every office worker understands excel, does not mean that every office worker understands every excel sheet. Most of the projects we did in consultancy dev, was turning that one critical excel sheet nobody but 'the excel
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by Lutger 1y ago
Not legitimizing his rants - he is a genuine asshole - but his raging is actually entertaining and more often than not, you'd learn a thing or two.
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by Lutger 1y ago
According to github insights, he contributed 66 lines of code. I mean, it could be really valuable 66 lines, especially if he fixed bugs. Somehow I doubt it. However, I'd get rid of this 'contributor' asap if I was a maintain
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by Lutger 1y ago
New York Times did not got it wrong, the author got the New York Times wrong. First of all, the NYT article did NOT claim that the central Texas floods are the result of climate change, and for sure it did not claim that there is any eviden
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by Lutger 1y ago
Even better is ... just not breaking the interface, leave the code be. Add parameters at the end. Or just add a new function. Or even a new module if things get too messy for your liking. Just leave the old users in peace. If you are worrie
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by Lutger 1y ago
Wait, what? Is this a joke? Did they really rebrand Office to '365 Copilot app'? I feel like I'm missing the plot, they can't be serious.
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by Lutger 1y ago
Maybe teenagers still do that, but I feel there are no real shiny new features anymore. I've upgraded my broken 5 year old phone and sure enough, the photos it takes are better and its a bit smoother overall, but otherwise I don't
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by Lutger 1y ago
I was wondering why it took so long for the enshittification to commence in earnest. It already slowly started, with various social media features nobody asked for, but now it is official: whatsapp is dead. Especially given that Trump alrea
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by Lutger 1y ago
I don't see how one necessarily leads to the other. There's obviously already filtering going on in youtube, even before covid, on illegal content and also on legal content that is against the policy (adult content for example). H
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by Lutger 1y ago
Between "no" and "yes sure" also lie 50 shades of "is this what you meant?". For example, this older guy asked me to create a webpage where people could "download the database". He meant a very limite
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by Lutger 1y ago
Absolutely. Any public institution or governmental body needs to rethink their fragile reliance on technology from countries they can longer trust. This applies to China, but the US is even more unpredictable.
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by Lutger 1y ago
The extra step is to open the text file in an editor, except in this case the editor is called Obsidian. Granted, you do have to install it versus using the default editor that comes with your operating system, so that is an extra step. But
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by Lutger 1y ago
It doesn't, but the sentence referred to wasn't really aimed at them. I mean, Mozilla could ditch its engine and adopt chromium in order to really focus on advertising, and then it would also support said features from an end user
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by Lutger 2y ago
I'm with you. Yet I've always understood 'move fast and break things' to mean that there is value in shipping stuff to production that is hard to obtain just sitting in the safe and relatively simple corner of your local
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by Lutger 2y ago
So its rather that AI amplifies the already existing short-term incentives, increasing the harder to attribute and easier to ignore long-term costs. The one actual major downside to AI is that PM and higher are now looking for problems to s
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by Lutger 2y ago
That's interesting. Aren't there examples in nature where a species essentially destroys itself? There are many on the population level. Plants often do this, its called succession. There's a layer to this, where natural also
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by Lutger 2y ago
There are several competing, and sometimes complementary perspectives on what 'nature' means. Some include humans and their activity within it, others do not. One thing you can ask yourself: if human activity and the impact it has
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by Lutger 2y ago
Did you ever work with developers? Maybe if you hire for consultants in some industries some of this is relevant (I doubt it), but with social skills + suit part alone will make sure you miss out on a significant pool of talent. I could eve
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by Lutger 2y ago
Nice. Advertisements is one of the first things I studied seriously, when still in high school almost thirty years ago. I remember arriving at the very same conclusion, even though Big (AD) Tech had yet to arrive. Any hypothetical rational
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by Lutger 2y ago
Training is another cash cow from big tech, on many levels. It is a bonus for resellers and partners, binding the ecosystem together. And the maze of certifications that expire every other year or so makes big tech corps even more money, an
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by Lutger 2y ago
You don't have to store things in a database to do this. Code is almost almost read from disk into some kind of in memory data structure that is amenable to such analysis, maybe even more so than a generic database. Doesn't matter
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by Lutger 2y ago
Exactly. The rich don't actively avoid air pollution, not really. A very significant and underestimated source of pollution is burning of wood. BBQ, fireplaces and stove, even expensive modern 'ecodesign' heating solutions th
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by Lutger 2y ago
It is very good example of political framing. It evokes the thought of tax as a punishment for dying, and its collection as a kind of harassment of the bereaved. So tax bad, case closed, no discussion. But of course, it is not death and los
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by Lutger 2y ago
Its not laziness, its just a matter of priority. Like playing eve online, or doing nothing. But really, there is what feels like an ever increasing list of 'stuff to do, things to attend', and preparing food (and sleep) are obviou
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by Lutger 2y ago
Codeberg looks really nice, almost a copy of github, and is hosted in Germany while you can also self-host.

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