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by abustamam 3mo ago
Tangentially, but 5-day vs 4-day workweek is somewhat similar. You've not only reduced your working days by 20%, but you've also increased your days off by 50%.
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by abustamam 3mo ago
That's strange. I was reading through this thread nodding my head like "Ha, my Tesla doesn't have these annoyances!" until I saw your comment. I'm guessing though that you're in the EU (I'm in the US where
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by abustamam 3mo ago
I mean that's my experience with a lot of modern software anyway. I have to reload or force close and reopen or please try again.
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by abustamam 3mo ago
Oh that's interesting. Yes that is exactly what it did! Didn't think that'd use so much ink though!
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by abustamam 3mo ago
While I agree it is pretty cool, I think they probably did that to avoid a class action lawsuit. But that does also beg the question, if we do eventually regulate this better, do you own streamed products? IE with Google stadia (and I think
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I owned a Brother inkjet for some time. I'd print maybe a few times a year. But it seemed like every time I needed to print, the printer was out of ink. Granted I used an ink service (ie not official brother ink) but still where the he
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by abustamam 4mo ago
People's lives depend on money earned from lots of things, criminal and otherwise.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
While I do think there needs to be regulation of some sort for SWEs, I can't fathom how it'd be enforced. Non-coders can use replit to build whatever they want and sell it to whomever they want. That kind of scale doesn't exi
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by abustamam 4mo ago
It's fun to do it forwards too (ie all recent technological advances that could be category a where society cannot live without it or category b where society is like meh or even category c where soecity utterly collapses because of it
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Maybe it's just familiarity, but same. I have a Tesla and I once rented a Toyota BZ whatever that had android auto. It was neat. But I struggled to do basic things. With Tesla I can navigate to the nearest charging station. I could not
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I don't get what the fuss is about. I have 2gig internet and it's good enough. I'm not downloading multi gigabyte files often, and even when I do, it's often bottlenecked at the provider, so it wouldn't go faster ev
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Yeesh. Collect enough fuzzy data and you can identify a lot about someone.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Game keys and download codes are two separate concepts. You can think of a game key as a transferable license. Download code is a one time license attachment to your account and requires a Nintendo account (I belive)
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by abustamam 4mo ago
This is an excellent point. I'm self educated while my wife holds multiple degrees and a masters. Yet when she saw a news article about age verification (something I've been following for years thanks to HN) she was like "thi
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by abustamam 4mo ago
At least in my case, much of the code in the codebase I'm working on is AI generated so even if I have an accurate mental model of how everything works, I have no idea where any of it is located or named.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
> [Google] were not called the attackers. They should be. But as the saying goes, one website/company dying is a "tragedy," lots of them dying at the hands of one company is a statistic of corporate growth. Or something li
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by abustamam 4mo ago
That's basically how I looked playing Cuphead with my wife except I think there was a bit more swearing coming from her
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by abustamam 4mo ago
They should just ask Copilot to convert it into a native app /s But in all seriousness, if MS really did believe in copilot, there would be no need to write webapp slop. They could just write native app slop.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I once did IT support and I had a client who installed some malware that basically filled up his hard drive with nonsense. That was a lot of data really fast. I think the point many commenters are making is that yes, lots of data IS necessa
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by abustamam 4mo ago
TIL! Thanks
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by abustamam 4mo ago
When I was getting started with programming I often forgot to do one of those steps and often ended up losing my work because I was working from a library computer or something. When I got more experience I finally understood why it is like
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Sometime ago I had to pay for parking to get access to a hiking trail (in US). The way to pay for parking was shady as hell. Just a random QR code sticker on the wall that said "pay here" that navigated to a payment portal that as
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I think what a lot of tech people don't understand is how little most people care about technology. People want products that work well. If you can find a solution that serves people's needs then they don't really care about
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by abustamam 4mo ago
> making existing ones continue to work well Say what you will about MS, but the fact that Windows was backward compatible for so long (it may still be, I haven't kept up) is damn good engineering.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
As an extension to your last point, here in the US people love complaining about politics (on both sides) but very few people (including me!) take the time to come up with solutions and go to town halls, or write to senators apart from the
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I feel like there's other solutions to protecting your and your family's PII than encryption by default.
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by abustamam 4mo ago
It's been a while since I've set up a windows machine and this may already be mentioned, but when I sign up for signal I got lots of warnings that were like "warning if you lose your phone and encryption key you will lose you
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by abustamam 4mo ago
I'm interested in seeing how this changes folks' workflows. For me, at work I use opus to plan, brainstorm, grill, ask questions about my codebase, etc. It is pretty good about understanding the codebase holistically and providing
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by abustamam 4mo ago
Is it going to actually be open source or just open weights? I'm looking forward to trying this with opencode regardless!
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by abustamam 4mo ago
This is interesting because you can't prove you prevented something from happening. It never happened after all. Hank Green has an interesting video on preventative measures are often unsung, because how do you know? https:/&#x2F

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