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by anon7000 1y ago
Scale is definitely a huge part of it. China controls huge amounts of the earth’s (processed) lithium & rare earth metal supply: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-is-oversup... On top of that,
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by anon7000 1y ago
It turns out that it’s pretty annoying to have completely different fundamental syntax for something like variable assignment when so many things are the same. If I’m living in bash scripts half the time anyways, it’s just fundamentally ann
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by anon7000 1y ago
ML-based algorithms are only one step away from advanced statistical analysis, and that’s only a step away from looking at spreadsheets and reports, all of which is about putting a lot of thought and math into pricing things to make profit.
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by anon7000 1y ago
Exactly. Variable assignment works different in Fish, and it’s very hard to change that habit. With my usage of shell (with Fzf & zoxide), fish simply doesn’t improve much for me. I’m using bash constantly for my job, and having the sam
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by anon7000 1y ago
My gripe is that when you try to sync over a library from, say, Spotify, you’ll end up subscribed to hundreds of artist’s YouTube channels in your main TV app, and playlists are basically shared too. Which I do not want at all
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by anon7000 1y ago
I get your point, but the flip side is that private companies like visa and Mastercard get to skip 2.5%+ off the entire economy. Visa has more than 50% profit margin, and it’s not like these companies are innovating with all that extra cash
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by anon7000 1y ago
I agree at least a little bit, but let’s be honest: the history of software engineering is a history of higher and higher levels of abstraction wrapping the previously levels. So part of this is just another abstraction. But another part, w
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by anon7000 1y ago
They do stand by it: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
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by anon7000 1y ago
Startups are weird though, new college grads can be (inexperienced) CTOs & CEOs if they start a company together
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by anon7000 1y ago
I mean, a keyboard on iPad is way less powerful than a keyboard on steam deck. The steam deck can plug into a monitor and runs Plasma out of the box, which is a full blown desktop environment
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by anon7000 1y ago
While we're piling on Firefox, here's my current least favorite thing: it's not possible to share a bookmark hierarchy between desktop and mobile. I want a basic tree style bookmark/tab combo like Arc. This approach work
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by anon7000 1y ago
Agreed -- I'm using the hell out of Zen browser on Linux and Windows. It's missing a couple things, but it works pretty great as a Firefox wrapper. The reality is that with so many different users, there will be lots of opinions a
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by anon7000 1y ago
They go into that more towards the end, sounds like some smaller % of servers needed more direct intervention
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by anon7000 1y ago
Win11 has been a trash OS for me. Laggy on great hardware, ads, BSODs, reliability issues, and more. Not to mention devices like audio interfaces not working out of the box, despite working out of the box on Mac & Linux. Such an annoyin
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by anon7000 1y ago
Even locally, Claude in multiple terminal tabs/windows can do different tasks in parallel
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by anon7000 1y ago
I have the opposite experience, it’s at least 90% correct. For example, if I start writing the name of a function that I just added in a different file, tab will suggest the function, then jump to the top of the file to import it. If I’m ch
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by anon7000 1y ago
I’ve definitely observed that CC is waaaay slower than cursor
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by anon7000 1y ago
> Is the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy a higher power because it has more mass/energy than I do? Probably yes, because you would be powerless against it.
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by anon7000 1y ago
Also whether the farmland requires irrigation. In Ohio, there’s not much irrigation. In Indiana, you see it a lot more. In Idaho, it’s basically a hard requirement
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by anon7000 1y ago
> the valorization of profit has blinded them to seeing the advantages of the public good as a worthy bottom line This is, IMO, the critical line, and also one of the deepest problems in the world (and especially America). A focus on pro
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by anon7000 1y ago
You’re saying that nonprofits are the same as “private equity.” That’s an odd take. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/540...
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by anon7000 1y ago
And frankly, it’s a library. Every group should have access to books they’re interested in. But that doesn’t mean those groups should be able to ban books they don’t like, even if 75% of people want to ban them.
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by anon7000 1y ago
But it’s completely true — Amazon undoubtedly has a pretty advanced logistics set up and certainly uses AI all over the place. Even if they’re not a big AI researcher. There are a lot of great use cases for ML outside of chatbots
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by anon7000 1y ago
Agreed. My mother and aunts are using ChatGPT all the time. It has really massive market penetration in a way I (a software engineer and AI skeptic/“realist”) didn’t realize. Now, do they care about meta’s AI? Idk, but they’re definite
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by anon7000 1y ago
Completely agree. And along the way, my personal knowledge of bash has increased a lot, for example, just because I’m using it a lot more
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by anon7000 1y ago
I think it’s yet another layer of abstraction on top of complex ideas. There will always be room for people working on the infrastructure, tools, maintenance, and operations side of things. The biggest danger is if you stop learning because
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by anon7000 1y ago
Today I visited the shit website known as Fandom, and within a second of scrolling the page, the entire page was ads. Not joking: https://imgur.com/a/8QzBZGM — and it’s not a contrived example, this is the first thing
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by anon7000 1y ago
I’ve found cursor to be meaningfully faster, and tab autocomplete is really nice. It’s not like I can avoid touching code anyways, and when I do, cursor tab is near perfect at being a very smart auto complete. Claude is running through AWS
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by anon7000 1y ago
The problem is that so many executives in charge of customer support see dollar signs with AI, and then implement the shittiest possible version of an AI chatbot that makes support interactions significantly worse. For example, I had partic
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by anon7000 1y ago
Then it’s pointless to compare nearly anything to inflation, which means inflation isn’t very useful. You can still find many product categories increasing in price more slowly than inflation. Some much higher than inflation. So it is usefu

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