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by afavour 4mo ago
Right… because your yap is not accessible to anyone in their country and they have a much higher level of control and tracking that makes a potential dissident less dangerous. I’m not defending the US policy for a second, it’s totalitarian.
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by afavour 4mo ago
Not at all. I’m saying the suggestion that we’re in China levels of control are simply inaccurate. Hyperbole is never a useful response. We should be criticizing our governments. But for the things they’re actually doing. Not what we imag
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by afavour 4mo ago
China has a whole other level of control going on. You’re free to use any mobile OS you want because they’re able to monitoring every internet connection, see what you’re downloading and block any and all content they deem unsuitable with n
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by afavour 4mo ago
Well yeah, because they block outside social media networks…
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by afavour 4mo ago
Not that I want to defend US police but even in Trump’s America that’s largely untrue. Folks are still able to protest. The situation is worse than it has been in the past but it’s not at China equivalence levels.
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by afavour 4mo ago
> For adults the cognitive decline won't be as measurable since there's no exams, and overall output volume will still be fine due to LLM help The leading indicator for me is the amount of emails and, god forbid, more personal
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by afavour 4mo ago
And who knows who gets to see the tick against your name as "opted out". I get that the money is good but holy hell I don't understand why anyone still works at Meta.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Almost every corporate IT deployment disagrees with you. Linux is free, if companies could switch to it with no negative conseque
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Only 54% of miles traveled by Waymos in California have a passenger onboard(findingspress.org)
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by afavour 5mo ago
I'd argue that society ensures (or should ensure) that we, collectively, do have the average person's interest at heart. The problem is when billionaires like these effectively decide to opt out of society. Stop paying taxes, bend
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by afavour 5mo ago
Eh. That quote conflates Ellison and Oracle and I don't think that's correct. I think there's a danger in just accepting that a human being is abhorrent. It _should_ outrage us that Ellison is the way he is. It's silly t
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by afavour 5mo ago
It’s difficult to avoid the feeling that a horrible financial reckoning is on the way. All these big tech firms are spending wildly to make sure they are the one on top at the end of it all. But whoever that ends up being there’s going to b
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by afavour 5mo ago
Still makes this exponentially worse, no? It works every time and it's automated so scales up as quickly as you're able to request it.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Is that a new problem though? I thought the App Store had been dead for discovery for a long time.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I suspect AI is going to result in the bottom falling out of the market for simple apps. React made simple webapps a case of just gluing dependencies together and much more approachable to a generalist developer than the previous generation
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by afavour 5mo ago
Intellectual property. My employer has an agreement that our code will never end up as part of Claude's training data. At this point there are also now custom Claude integrations etc. I'm sure they could also negotiate a similar d
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by afavour 5mo ago
You're overestimating the extent to which individual developers have a choice here. My employer signed up for a Claude Code membership, I use Claude Code. I cannot use Codex. Anecdotally I hear of folks with workplace Claude Code subsc
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by afavour 5mo ago
Agreed. You can optimize things a fair amount with the Rust compiler, at least.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Fascinating. I've written cross platform (WASM, iOS, Android) libraries with Rust before and had a good time but Rust can be a pain too. Cross-platform Typescript is a really interesting proposition. That said, the more I think about i
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t know why it would. That rethink has always been possible, yet didn’t happen.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Generating AI responses to all your emails isn’t a great career move either, though
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by afavour 5mo ago
> this is largely accidental complexity. Less of an accident than a byproduct of the unique ecosystem the web lives in (which is a positive!) Compare to say, backend development. If I said database indexes are deeply inconvenient and tha
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by afavour 5mo ago
Correlation != causation. There are a ton of differences between the US car industry and those in other countries, unionization is just one factor. As a counter anecdote I’d point to Boeing’s non-union facilities, which have produced notabl
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by afavour 5mo ago
Eh, I think the framing isn't quite right here. The Neo is a wonderful machine but if you want to upgrade it you're out of luck, the damn thing is sealed shut. By comparison the Framework lets you upgrade individual components ove
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by afavour 5mo ago
While I agree with what you’re saying the typical AI agent doesn’t say “I’m not totally sure about this, should I search the web?”. It often just spits out a reply based on its knowledge.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t think those are really comparable. The blockchain was trendy hype, relatively few companies actually adopted it. Where did Netflix use the blockchain? Google? By comparison almost all tech companies I know have leaned heavily into A
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by afavour 5mo ago
> They had the brand, the capital, and the user base to become what Slack, Zoom, or Notion became. Instead, they spent a decade fighting a losing battle over storage pricing with Google and Microsoft Is the alternative not likely that th
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by afavour 5mo ago
> Even if Uber really did double developer productivity, would it translate to quarterly results? It would if it meant they then fired half their software engineers, which is the ultimate goal.
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by afavour 5mo ago
EVs are legitimately better to drive.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t think you’re quite getting what OP is describing. I work in a similar way… I am aware of all the code being written. If Claude had an outage I could write it myself. It would just take longer. You say “all that time” babysitting AIs

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