apsurd

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by apsurd 8d ago
you’re on HN and it’s as if you’ve never even heard of “thinking in systems”
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by apsurd 10d ago
The bit about "but the UI" sounds like a developer thinking "UI is a solved problem" in the same way MBAs are told "coding is a solved problem". Product people do seem to think it worth exploring "personal
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by apsurd 12d ago
maybe ill read the article, but i mean you’re financially motivated to think its good for the world arent you? humans are excellent at justification.
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by apsurd 20d ago
There's nuance though. Poetry even. > we should fight for human survival All problems arise from this statement. It's baked in us and it's why we do in fact survive. But it isn't so neatly righteous. When we struggle
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by apsurd 20d ago
"If a death ray comes from the sky and obliterates the entire planet, at least we all go together." There is something comforting about being together with the human race even in doom. Perhaps especially in doom.
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by apsurd 22d ago
only if you specifically ask Claude to use AskUserQuestion tool. otherwise i would hardly say claude acts as a collaborator naturally.
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by apsurd 23d ago
Agree due diligence is required. FTX, Theranos, Enron are a reality. But it’s also tempting to color the assessment with virtue. Im morally against Meta but it’s the world’s greatest money printing machine ever conceived. To say they or Ube
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by apsurd 23d ago
Previous YC founder so they’re already connected and vetted. Since then they’ve proven another 0-1 success with masks and manufacturing. Now they’re onto something very obviously hitting tailwinds. The investment is peanuts to the fund. You
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by apsurd 23d ago
downvote isn’t personal. it takes more than one to become gray. Im trying to say it doesn’t matter what we plebs think about these massive entities. Maybe it should but if we’re talking creating (economic) value, they clearly are.
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by apsurd 23d ago
at $156B market cap someone sure is making money. I've no say in the manner in which they ran/run their business but judging a mega-corporation on lemonade-stand level accounting is a fool's errand.
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by apsurd 26d ago
React is a frontend framework. How do you get around that? It's invented entirely to handle client-side UX and reactive DOM updates which have to be DOM because it for the browser which is a frontend. Are you saying nextjs is the backe
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by apsurd 28d ago
that’s likely the promise but it’s so confusing and high cognitive overhead to maintain that backend <-> frontend relationship. ‘use client’ - i think the special sauce for why people use nextjs is all frontend based. the frontend tha
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by apsurd 1mo ago
akshully it does work like that. it sounds like you’re arm-chairing macro economics so ill try my hand too. No one said anything about dollar-in revenue dollar-out dividend. only you. if i have vested interest in a company and that company’
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by apsurd 1mo ago
It can be ineffective to act based on principle but ineffective isn’t the same thing as meaningless.
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by apsurd 1mo ago
multiplied a hundreds times a day. Yes.
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by apsurd 1mo ago
i’m working on a little ios widget display currently. even a tiny little one view box has hundreds of nuanced design and structure decisions behind it. That reasoning is the thickness not the amount of code that powers it though they are so
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by apsurd 1mo ago
Phrased this way, my aspiring product leader hat activates: that 5 years of work cannot be of much value to a company worth billions because a 5 year estimate is the lowest possible qualification you can make. Its a “will never happen” shel
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by apsurd 1mo ago
that subject line is pretty bad though. (i know much of it is a crap shoot and easy to quarterback on Monday morning.)
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by apsurd 1mo ago
maybe but the person you're replying to went out of their way to qualify their reasoning, and it's quite well reasoned.
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by apsurd 1mo ago
haha you're right! That is the entire nuance of the discussion. There's a line somewhere in there. And it's not as pedantic as it seems. I still do cook my own food. I don't grow it and butcher the meat. But thousands of
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by apsurd 1mo ago
umm, its like the hallmark of adulthood to learn that life is a lot about doing things you don't want to do. There's obviously a spectrum. And I don't mean forcibly through coercion. I mean yeah it sucks to wake up early and
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by apsurd 1mo ago
You've articulated what I found unsettling about Boris' pov that "coding is a solved problem". I listened to a few of his talks and was instinctively off-put by that sentiment. I figured a fellow programmer would underst
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by apsurd 1mo ago
but why is it a tired argument? You'd clearly never believe this but there's even an argument that cars are of dubious benefit to society. Personal/passenger cars mostly in that they've reshaped our entire civilized land
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by apsurd 1mo ago
also codex + sol is really good and quite fast.
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by apsurd 1mo ago
life is what happens during all the waiting for life to happen.
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by apsurd 1mo ago
I am taking an opportunity to learn how to make an iOS widget that can display dynamic text or an image from a URL. It's because my dad always forgets exactly when and what channel his (our) sports team play. He has a phone but push no
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by apsurd 1mo ago
The sentiment is valuable but screens <-> family comparison bleeds too much into the polarization camp for shock value. "Time spent doing X" as opposed to Y will always have shock value. We sleep too much. Too much time read
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by apsurd 1mo ago
havent lived. “I didnt live long enough” means your life ended! past tense. hasn’t means its still going “have not (yet)”. I don’t know the formal rules behind it all though. its interesting because it sounds more correct to use have not
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by apsurd 2mo ago
It seems reasonable that a professional-tier of software developers will have tools distinct from everyone else. No matter what the percentage looks like, experts will still be a thing that needs different things.
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by apsurd 2mo ago
Trust actually does work that way though, the implicit and collective fuzzy agreement of “having my name on it”. Of course that ambiguity needs enforced automated checks, but reputation and one’s own integrity is not for nothing. Generative

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