archagon

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1. 361.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   What intervention could <roll back the industrial revolution>? On the technical side, perhaps none. But countless people in the labor movement spilled blood for their rights and dignity. Maybe something similar will be needed here, to
2. 362.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   “China” doesn’t care about Taiwan; Xi does. And he does not have until 2100 to wait.
3. 363.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   So I guess the more companies he has, the better they all do. What a life.
4. 364.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   I have to admit that these days, whenever I see a project site clearly built with Calude, I am overcome with a vague sense of nausea and head for the exit. I don't think I'm the only one.
5. 365.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   They won’t say it in public, but I imagine they’re betting on swarms of automated slaughterbots protecting them when things truly go to shit.
6. 366.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   The left (or center) did not "give up" on the flag. It's all over the place in protests.
7. 367.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   Forays into politics? Isn’t a union inherently political?
8. 368.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   What, you mean you don’t want to sound like a turkey when describing your computer to others?
9. 369.▲
   by archagon 5mo ago

   A quarter of the answers Gemini gives me are made up. What would be the purpose of such, uh, “instruction”?
10. 370.▲
    by archagon 5mo ago

    I wish there was a way to graffiti a website.
11. 371.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    > We should all be getting dividends from them and they should be collectively owned. But instead we're seeing them explicitly marketed as tools for capital centralization. Well-said. You'll notice that people with jobs that
12. 372.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    All this skips the fundamental question: can this job be done by a machine? Or does the job just have a vaguely machine-doable look, particularly to those outside the trenches? Because the latter is how you get the software engineering eq
13. 373.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    A table saw does not make decisions for you.
14. 374.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Goodbye doodling and tapping into the power of childhood imagination. A horrid crutch.
15. 375.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    I believe it’s called the chungus.
16. 376.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Because the rich can do it and we can’t.
17. 377.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    I don’t think I’ve heard of a single tech CEO resigning for massively fucking up. They only “take responsibility” to the extent of saying those magic words.
18. 378.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    "As the CEO responsible for the asinine decisions that got us here, I am stepping down immediately, without severance."
19. 379.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    When tech workers finally unionize.
20. 380.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Then they should not pretend that they're still "engineers" working on a higher level of "abstraction".
21. 381.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    "AI is an abstraction" only makes sense if working with a contractor to write your app is also an abstraction. An absurd dilution of the word "abstraction" to the point of meaninglessness.
22. 382.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    No, it’s management, not engineering.
23. 383.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    I disagree completely that what you describe is still “engineering.” You are now a manager. In effect, you’ve consented to a career change.
24. 384.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Fortunately, the solution is trivial. Just spend a few hundred bucks on an artist.
25. 385.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Nah. Tax the shit out of me (and my peers).
26. 386.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    I'm curious how the SPI to do this (e.g. `IOPortTransportComponentCCUSBPDSOP`) was discovered. There was nary a mention of it anywhere prior to release. Even Claude has to latch on to something . Always wondered if there was some way
27. 387.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Hardly. Despite the superior innards, it’s a sidegrade at best from the Meta Quest. I can’t believe it shipped with zero focus on games and a completely hobbled SDK.
28. 388.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Portugal still has citizenship by investment routes, but it will take 10+ years to get actual citizenship due to changes in the law and wait times.
29. 389.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    Again, I have to point out that AI is not an abstraction layer . It blows my mind that engineers with years of experience somehow don’t understand this. It would be an honor to be “left behind” by people who practice their craft with such
30. 390.▲
    by archagon 6mo ago

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Richard Stallman was unreasonable. So was Linus Torva