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by afavour 5mo ago
Blendle was largely targeted in the Netherlands and Germany so if you’re in the US it isn’t surprising that you didn’t see it. But it had major publishers on board and it failed. But you’re right, it’s a chicken and egg problem that won’t g
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by afavour 5mo ago
Again, it’s been tried. Look at Scroll or Blendle. They failed.
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by afavour 5mo ago
The brazenly corrupt also own the vast media ecosystem that can help swing elections. Should we all know better? Probably. But they control the education system too, so…
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by afavour 5mo ago
> You don’t act honourably because that will “get you ahead”. You act honourably because it is right. As much as I would like to believe that’s true I don’t think it is. You act honourably because society incentivises you to. To act dish
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by afavour 5mo ago
That model doesn't really work, unfortunately: https://www.amediaoperator.com/newsletter/microtransactions-... It has been tried a bunch of times. I think a core problem is unlike most micro transaction opportunit
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by afavour 5mo ago
I see that as more of an ecosystem problem. In a world where multiple news organizations have cracked the nut of providing free news you rely on different outlets providing different perspectives. I'm not sure it's possible to mak
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by afavour 5mo ago
This is what happens when you’ve spent most of your adult life being told you’re an unparalleled genius. Expect it to get worse in the AI era because it comes with flattery as default.
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by afavour 5mo ago
God, if we're at the point where we're so paranoid about being laid off that we don't dare leave a single piece of personal property in the office then I think we're in a very dark place indeed. Can’t imagine the mental
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by afavour 5mo ago
That sounds wonderful for tech literate families. Probably less so for ones that aren’t, how many are loaded down with crappy spyware, I wonder?
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by afavour 5mo ago
It wouldn’t. The central management of Chromebook is what makes the whole system usable. All you’d be doing is sentencing school IT folks to endless, endless support requests.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I don’t think we need math really. They’ll be inundated with math and arithmetic their whole lives. They’ll figure it out. Just keep math out of the classroom altogether.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I think it speaks to the complete lack of government regulation in the area that people see such extreme answers as positive. If any government had seen fit to engage in light regulation of what social media can do people might be happier.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> Yeah they try to restrict what we can do. We oldschool people call this fascism. Come on, this is an absurd statement. Governments regulate what people can do, yes. It’s part of their role. It’s why I can’t sell tainted meat on the str
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by afavour 5mo ago
> it's probably a good thing. Nah, much like the app it’s all about plausible deniability. It’ll be crap… but they’ll just make it give positive matches to as many people as possible so they can be dragged off.
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by afavour 5mo ago
I'm surprised the number is this low! Queen sold their catalogue for $1.27bn and while RHCP are clearly not on their scale I thought they were pretty high up there, especially given how long they've been active.
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by afavour 5mo ago
Seems the solution here is the same it's actually always been if you want career progression: be more than just a code jockey. The true value of an engineer is to be plugged into overall roadmaps, broader thinking around product, how t
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by afavour 5mo ago
Yeah this feels like one of those cases where the term "AI" gets broadened out so far it becomes meaningless. This stuff is automated. The ability to automate spam calls (using the same form of APIs developers love, like Twilio) m
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by afavour 5mo ago
“Still using” the most popular browser in the market by an absolutely huge margin? Yeah, there are a few.
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by afavour 5mo ago
> There is a lot of quality stuff made with C/C++ There’s a lot of leaky crap written in those languages too. One of the core promises of Rust is that the compiler will catch memory issues other languages won’t experience until runt
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by afavour 5mo ago
Presumably the biggest loser in all this is Zig, I only know of the language because of Bun. But the timescale still gives me pause… just because AI lets us convert a codebase in 6 days doesn’t mean it’s wise. There are surely a lot of down
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by afavour 5mo ago
FTA: > why: I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things. Not a hard number
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by afavour 5mo ago
> An html table takes up way more tokens than a markdown table That might be the case today but there’s no reason for it to always be true. They are different representations of the same thing, an LLM could (arguably should!) store an in
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by afavour 5mo ago
Basic HTML really isn’t a big step up from Markdown though, and no one was complaining about that. In some instances it’s simpler even. I often forget the exact syntax for a table in Markdown, by comparison <table>, <tr> and &lt
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by afavour 5mo ago
Maybe I'm in a bubble but I really don't see the Steam Deck and Switch as big competitors for each other. I mean, yes, they're both portable games consoles, but I'd bet a large percentage of Switch gamers don't even
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by afavour 5mo ago
In fairness in the era where universities did it themselves the tech requirements and expectations were dramatically lower.
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French prosecutors seek charges against Musk/X over child sexual abuse images(apnews.com)
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by afavour 5mo ago
It's very common for folks to search Reddit to find reviews of products etc. these days. If you can have a bot account post a fake review of how awesome your product us, and have that upvoted, it can pay huge dividends.
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by afavour 5mo ago
You’re definitely in a bubble. Google advertises Chrome on TV. Most users haven’t even heard of Brave.
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by afavour 5mo ago
OK, so you’re going to cite numbers when they agree with you then say “everyone knows the numbers are wrong” when they don’t? This is not a conversation worth continuing. By your own admission you don’t even live in the city any more! >
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by afavour 5mo ago
2009 was a historic low point for subway crimes. Only looking at relative numbers from then is misleading. There were 573 assaults on the subway in 2024, up from something like 150 in 2009. There were something like 1.9 billion journeys tak

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