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by abustamam 2mo ago
I'm really confused by this comment. I know what I am now. In the grand scheme of things nothing matters, but we don't live in the grand scheme of things, we live right now. The point of the commenter was that if we wait to have f
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by abustamam 2mo ago
At least here in America, our politicians lose their shit if they see someone getting money without working for it (as if politicians don't already get paid for doing almost nothing). And they use scary words and rhetoric like communis
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Blue collar work, but obviously that labor market would get saturated pretty quickly.
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Can't remember where I saw it but some years back someone wrote something like "if the punishment for a crime is financial then it only deters poor people" which makes sense.
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by abustamam 2mo ago
> GitHub is incredibly complex I'm reading this a day after GitHub had a day-long outage on Actions. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d
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by abustamam 2mo ago
The status quo is already bizarre. Meta is actively profiting from harming minors. The alternative (minors getting a payout by visiting harmful websites) seems pretty tame by contrast, and in fact puts an active incentive on Meta to stop le
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by abustamam 2mo ago
For my wife's birthday, I generated a fantastical image of our family (me, her, daughter, two cats) because staging such a thing IRL would have been difficult. It took me several hours to take some nice photos of my cats and daughter a
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by abustamam 2mo ago
I haven't done research on this but I feel like a lot of stock image companies are using AI now
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Not that either are OK, but McDonalds basically stages their food to make it look more appealing, adding stuff that isn't in the product to make it look nicer. https://youtu.be/pSYw8LTXXJM?is=FsJwTFKUkeDt1Z2Y Tangentia
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by abustamam 2mo ago
To be honest I first read it as LoneWolf and I was like "that's a clever name" and then I realized it was a typo. LoneWolf and LobreWolf are still available ;)
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by abustamam 2mo ago
The person you responded too didn't mention app though. They just said static. OP was talking about an app but the responded was hypothesizing about something static. Anyway I'm not so sure "static" is a viable boundary
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by abustamam 2mo ago
I mean most startups and every billion dollar company are worth a lot because they are good bullshitters, in a way its kinda refreshing to see more people able to bullshit their way up a different ladder, even if it is a bit scary.
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Any recs?
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Maybe it's because my org gave us permission to fail and make mistakes, but I transitioned to AI driven development pretty quickly and am having fun learning how to best drive the AI to produce good quality code, with harnesses and pat
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by abustamam 2mo ago
Skill issue /s But seriously, lots of apps are just glorified NextJS apps which have tons of training data. Something like rust would likely churn out nonsense that compiles eventually but isn't optimal.
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by abustamam 2mo ago
> People almost acting like no one has thought of it Everyone at my job uses LLMs to code, all day long. People still ask me "why does this bug happen" and I use Claude to find out and the answer is almost always straightforwar
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by abustamam 3mo ago
The most annoying thing is whenever I encounter a form with an email input I get an ad right there -- "use our email mask relay! First five are free!" I can probably turn it off somehow but I feel like it should be opt-in or at le
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Nice thanks for sharing!
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Ok. Today I learned. But I'll still continue to use -- because I don't care enough to be correct and most people will understand me regardless. Being pedantic about it doesn't seem very productive.
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by abustamam 3mo ago
My personal "tell" is that I use -- instead of em-dash. If you get a message from me with an actual "—" character it's almost certainly AI generated. I guess that's kind of my duress code :)
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Out of curiosity, what are you building, and how? Im working on two side projects and I have to try hard to hit the limit with Claude (like use fable and a deep research task)
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Thats probably by design tbh. Every company is working on the next big thing, employees sign NDAs and non competes, because companies don't want other people to deliver on their "novel" idea first. And of course if employees
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by abustamam 3mo ago
I've seen many people sell products and courses with price parity, meaning someone in the US pays one price and someone in South Africa pays less. Me, as a software engineer, will do research on a company to determine how much they can
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by abustamam 3mo ago
I signed into my Playstation account on a new phone. It told me to make a passkey. Its safe. So i said ok. Later I tried to sign into my Playstation account on my computer and I couldn't. It said I needed to use my passkey. I went back
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by abustamam 3mo ago
"If buying digital media isn't ownership, then piracy isn't stealing." I'm all for buying media. People worked hard on that stuff. They deserve to be compensated. But if I buy something and then it can randomly be t
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Glad to see I'm not the only one who (perhaps) overuses in-line parentheticals... sometimes to the point where I'd have parentheticals within parentheticals!
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by abustamam 3mo ago
To add to this, it does make me think what the difference between down vote and flag is. I mean down vote is obviously the numerical opposite of upvote but why else would people downvote if it not be inappropriate for the forum? (Other than
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by abustamam 3mo ago
As opposed to dang the robot? :)
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Agreed. I live in a relatively new suburb of my city (built in 2022) and it was built past what would have been called "the boonies" a decade ago. The way to get to the city proper goes through country roads that probably used to
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by abustamam 3mo ago
In some cases (like this), 99.99% isn't enough. 100% is mandatory. I moved into my house a few months ago and while I was exercising my foot discovered a nail that I guess was left by the previous homeowner/tenant/builder. Fo

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