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by another-dave 4mo ago
It's technically feasible to just draw all the individual dots but it doesn't necessarily convey the information better. When individual points are drawn close together, they're hard to discern without zooming right in. Even
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by another-dave 4mo ago
"Can the sandwich be further compressed? We don’t think so. At one end of the pipeline, development teams need to decide what to build." I mean, but this is talking about the process as a whole, not individual jobs. "Farmers
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by another-dave 4mo ago
they are responsible for it, but it's useful in reporting to differentiate between "fulfilled by" and "bought through"
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by another-dave 4mo ago
What I always wonder is why we don't have more standardisation around end-user contracts. E.g. something equivalent to YC's SAFE ( https://www.ycombinator.com/documents ) but for employment agreements, leaseholds et
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by another-dave 4mo ago
I really wish there was a "pre prompt" hook natively. As in, before the agent releases control back to me to prompt it again, it runs the hook. I have a pre-push hook that runs all lint/prettier/typechecks/tests etc
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by another-dave 5mo ago
Exactly like the article describes Britain doing with the Soviets - " At the time the British government wasn't involved in space exploration, so paying for a spot on a flight was the only way to get there."
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by another-dave 5mo ago
Need a proof reader who can spell strawberry? Send your AI draft to us for corrections.
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by another-dave 5mo ago
he explicitly said 'double-digit bottom-line growth'
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by another-dave 5mo ago
> The real 'next big thing' would be integrating an engine like Gemini with OS-level hooks (similar to the OpenClaw approach) so agents can manipulate app windows and state directly. Resurrecting Web Intents as 2-way App Intent
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by another-dave 5mo ago
Goes away, or is liable for the content promoted to the frontpage under the OP's take? But I'd agree, that it's personalisation rather than just curation that's the issue. I think even requiring sites to have a "bri
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by another-dave 5mo ago
> Some moron always show up with the "but it was all the EU subsides" talking point, which is quite frankly part of racist tropes of eastern Europeans being dumb and worse than westerners. Could you imagine them accomplishing a
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by another-dave 5mo ago
If you already understand it all in-depth, anything becomes "are the benefits worth the trade-offs" but it's useless advice for the people who don't
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by another-dave 5mo ago
Case in point - My first webdev job was producing a site for the city library. My boss explained to them when going through their sitemap that they should to rename their planned section from "Lending" to "Borrowing".
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by another-dave 6mo ago
> Chaining nudges you toward “process everything,” even when that’s not what you meant to do. It feels pretty clear that the chains in that example (filter/map) are meant for operating on collections. And that if you're searchi
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by another-dave 6mo ago
My undergrad was in humanities - we had multiple essays to submit throughout the year but they only counted for ~10% of the final grade, with the rest through an in person exam paper. It was just expected that you had a grasp of the literat
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by another-dave 6mo ago
I'm not American, but isn't this covered under the Work Protect Doctrine (as mentioned further down in the article)? Material prepared with an eye to litigation? Though maybe not applicable here if the charge is criminal, I though
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by another-dave 6mo ago
> Prosecutors argued that they had a right to demand material that Heppner created with Claude because his defense lawyers were not directly involved, and because attorney-client privilege does not apply to chatbots. > > Voluntaril
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by another-dave 6mo ago
> Basically...I just don't know what communication medium would allow a company that makes app icons to keep their customers in the loop about updates & concerns related to the product. Are you gonna install a Font Awesome app?
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by another-dave 6mo ago
Within Indo-European languages, Irish has the concept of the dual. It's used with things that come in pairs like "mo dhá láimh" - my two hands. Interestingly, to say one-handed you'd say "leath-lámh", where _le
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by another-dave 6mo ago
> My high school girlfriend and I played this game all the time; trying to build the pizzas to get the best score was always super frustrating. It always felt like I could be a single pixel off Pizza Tycoon was one of those games we got
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by another-dave 6mo ago
also the people who feel strong-armed to sign up to direct debits in the street who have a hard-time undoing them later on.
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by another-dave 6mo ago
> Ensure that for contracts covered by the new rules, consumers have a14 day period after a trial or 12 month+ contract auto-renews to cancel and receive a full or proportionate refund. This sounds great, but think a "gold standard&
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by another-dave 6mo ago
yeah the docs feel really like on this. You would hope that you can set overall and per-integration billing caps on things rather than just "spend any money on my linked credit card" if it's meant for a "humanless"
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by another-dave 6mo ago
If you deliberately design your platform to be addicting then you can't say people who become addicted are "using it wrong" though.
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by another-dave 6mo ago
I mean, the court case is about these platforms being addictive to kids, so if they said "accounts for users under X years have the algo and time caps delegated to their parents' account by default" it'd go along way to
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by another-dave 7mo ago
yeah definitely agree. Generally, the microservices that I've seen work well are the type of things that you could decide to "buy" in the build vs buy debate - like you say, stuff that are either "fire and forget" o
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by another-dave 7mo ago
On the otherhand, when Cloud Computing started to come in, I knew a bunch of sysadmins. Some were in the "it'll never take off" camp and no doubt they know it now, kicking and screaming. But the curious early adopters were th
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by another-dave 7mo ago
Aside from physical real-world purchases, just opening up the space that agents get access to would be another feature. E.g. if you ask Claude to summarise a Twitter thread, it will say "I can't access, please paste the contents i
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by another-dave 7mo ago
It's backed by a crypto wallet that it's using for its funds - if you decide to put $500k into the wallet that you've giving carte blanche access to an LLM, maybe you do deserve to shoulder some of the blame
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by another-dave 7mo ago
> As an alternative to setting up an account and getting an API key, your agent can interact with services on demand and pay per invocation. Your agents only needs access to a crypto wallet. Let's say I wanted to ask an agent to use

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