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by a4isms 9mo ago
> A pickup truck should just be max utility A working truck should be max utility. Around the core market of "working trucks," there are various wannabe truck products that do not have to be max utility. For example, a Subaru
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by a4isms 9mo ago
> everyone was so okay with pirating movies, apps, music when it benefited them, but now they are the vanguard in enforcing other people's copyright on data they don’t even own. You do not mention the perception of asymmetric legal
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by a4isms 9mo ago
I'm not betting directly on that, but I will say that IF one-person AI-coded SaaS companies become a thing, THEN there will be a huge number of SaaS companies who suddenly find themselves competing with the AI coding tool vendors, who
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by a4isms 9mo ago
So the workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory should have locked all the factory exits themselves? Keeping the employees from taking breaks was definitely the thing that made the owner happy.
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by a4isms 9mo ago
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is utterly impossible to parody an AI hyper-enthusiast in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.
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by a4isms 9mo ago
If you ran a party, and one individual seem (from your perspective) to hold opinions that goes against what you and others believe the party is for, wouldn't you also want them to leave your party? I have run and worked for businesse
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by a4isms 9mo ago
And the extremely regressive consumption taxes.
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by a4isms 9mo ago
"As the father of a daughter, I understand the need for feminism that I ignored as a son, brother, playmate, classmate, friend, neighbour, landlord, tenant, lover, teammate, colleague, report, supervisor, and fellow citizen." That
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by a4isms 9mo ago
Alternate explanation that can co-exist with or replace the above: American parties always seem to maintain party discipline over their members, forcing those with other views to either remain silent, or leave.
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by a4isms 9mo ago
I am a former D-list tech blogger, and the thought of posting slop under my name horrifies me. But then again, I consider myself an author who has enjoyed the pleasant side-effect of minor notability. I never considered myself an influencer
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Let Your Teams Own Their Processes(chaoticgood.management)
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by a4isms 9mo ago
TL;DR: Build and manage team APIs, not team implementations.
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by a4isms 10mo ago
That is a true and useful component of analyzing risk, but the point is that human behaviour isn't a simple risk calculation. We tend to over-guard against things that subjectively seem dangerous, and under-guard against things that su
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by a4isms 10mo ago
If you show me a tool that does a thing perfectly 99% of the time, I will stop checking it eventually. Now let me ask you: How do you feel about the people who manage the security for your bank using that tool? And eventually overlooking a
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by a4isms 10mo ago
It is not illegal for them to trade on their inside information. It is illegal for you to trade on their inside information. So they can send you their stock picks list and gloat about their ROI, but if you invest on the basis of the newsle
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by a4isms 10mo ago
The business model for Tesla and xAI is actually very simple and superior to OpenAI and Google's. No, this is not satire: The business model is that his companies are meme stocks, and controlling social media means controlling meme sto
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by a4isms 10mo ago
Poe's Law notwithstanding, I find it hard to believe that anyone would think I was making a good faith business acumen observation. If Optimus walks you to the kitchen to get a coke, what's Tesla's business model? Charge by t
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by a4isms 10mo ago
Back when Java was the NextBigLanguage, we built Java development tools at KL Group/Sitraka (now a part of Quest). For version 2 of the suite of tools, we were getting rid of the nerdy configuration text file and planned on shipping a
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by a4isms 10mo ago
This is where Tesla has a key advantage. Optimus can walk you to the kitchen to look for a Coke Zero. Google and OpenAI cannot compete with this.
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by a4isms 10mo ago
Also, what shipman05 said about version control and composition of text-based artefacts! It is nice to be able to interoperate with many text-based tools and scripts, although I rarely have needed the latter.
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by a4isms 10mo ago
I used DeckSet for years. I love this concept. https://www.deckset.com To answer your question directly, I am already all-in on Markdown and lightweight markup languages in general. Adopting such a thing is an exercise in a cert
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by a4isms 11mo ago
Here I am! I still enjoy writing code like the code in TFA, but these days people seem a lot less interested in code than organizing their agentic LLMs, so I don't have the same incentive to share whatI find interesting. And it would b
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by a4isms 11mo ago
Please use the word "Dup" for a resubmission of the same link and "See also" for a different submission.
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by a4isms 11mo ago
My gawd. You don't need to be a "nerd" to know that almost every modern device these days will happily take a screen shot, read the text in the screen shot, and let you copy or even translate that text.
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by a4isms 11mo ago
In the early days of Hacker News, and maybe even before Hacker News when Reddit didn't have subreddits... OG blogger Joel Spolsky posited the "Joel Test," twelve simple yes/no questions that defined a certain reasonable-
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by a4isms 11mo ago
Wild cards and crazy rules versus no regulation is a false dichotomy.
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by a4isms 11mo ago
To continue a conversation from another thread on another post, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and out-of-band context required are all costs that just happen to act as moats for entrenched incumbents. And no surprise, such incumbents
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by a4isms 11mo ago
For people with social or performance anxiety, it could be just the opposite. In fact, I'll wager that some people diving into an extensive study of leetcode problems are doing it to procrastinate attending actual technical interviews.
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by a4isms 11mo ago
I was obsessed with Tales of Mystery & Imagination, I Robot, and Pyramids in the 70s. I also loved Rush, Yes, ELP, Genesis, and ELO, but while Alan Parsons' albums weren't better in an absolute musical sense, his production
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by a4isms 11mo ago
Reminds me of an old argument that if I'm running a restaurant, and if customers don't want to be served by coloured people or homosexuals, I shouldn't have to hire them. It's bad for business, what other reason do I nee

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