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by ativzzz 1y ago
Tried to read antifragile but his writing came off as too egotistic for me to take seriously at the time
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Wealth is freedom. One of the core tenets of Americanism is "freedom", in quotes because most of us are far from free, just different from "freedom" in monarchical/feudalistic societies. We are bound to the accumula
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by ativzzz 1y ago
Talking about rails, which is what the vast majority of ruby is used for: - the dynamic piece is exactly what allows you to ship quickly - most slowness is due to waiting for IO (database or external API calls) and can be easily solved by h
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by ativzzz 1y ago
MDMA is so fun. It's something I would love to do once a year or so for the rest of my life. Unfortunately it seems that people can't really grow up and do drugs responsibly. People either hard pivot away from drugs early on becau
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by ativzzz 1y ago
It's likely that your React codebase is huge (I assume it's for work) and you're messing around with a toy Solid project. I'm sure once you get to the same scale and complexity of a Solid project, you'd feel the sam
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by ativzzz 1y ago
A lot of this is also recreating tooling. A mature framework like Ruby on Rails solves things like > "when I hit save, my data disappears." out of the box, because it has evolved to make these things automatic and easy to imple
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Why not? have your AI salesperson interact directly with my AI purchaser and human just signs off on budget
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I think SaaS platforms are the future. Because the cost to build is now so low, but you still need 2,3,4,5 tools that you'd subscribe to, you want to find the one provider that built those 5 tools as part of a platform, so you are in 1
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Same, been using it for years. $15 for state tax, free if your state has no income tax
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Just like you're assuming the OPs feelings are wrong. They are not. I remember my dad lamenting the bourgeoisie to a family friend who recently immigrated to the US. His answer was, "To us, you are the bourgeoisie" There&#x27
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> He believed that this approach would allow individuals to live according to their own values and beliefs What if someone's values and beliefs are that certain other values and beliefs should not be allowed? Like what if a group be
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by ativzzz 2y ago
The US currently has 49 ongoing national emergencies, that are renewed every year by the president The last 8 or so were created by Trump. Like you said, he's just doing what is already allowed. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by ativzzz 2y ago
If there's anything I learned from history, is that people don't care about history and don't learn from it. We care about what's happening now, not what happened 100 years ago
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I think this is the end result of a system that has no external threats - once people get power, they use that power to cling to the power instead of using it externally to get things done.
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Not quite, an effective bureaucracy like the city of SF is undoubtedly extremely efficient at responding to things that subvert its authority and require no effort to fix, like removing a rogue speed bump.
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I laughed, but it kind of makes sense. If you are looking for a hyperfast scale-up and exit, you do not care one bit about the quality of the code. It's a fun experiment how large you can grow an AI system before it falls apart because
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by ativzzz 2y ago
As always, the answer is likely whatever tech stack you are comfortable with already. Inevitably, your AI will get stuck and you will have to roll up your sleeves and dig into the problem. In what framework/language are you most quickl
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Hahah I was just reading your blog earlier this morning and saw > I can think of two remaining cards to play. > The first is to get on the front page of Hacker News. That’s usually difficult to do, but I’m supposed to be the expert. W
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> Explain, don’t “sell” > Explain, don’t “persuade” Know your audience. A library on github targeted towards developers does both selling and persuading via a good explanataion.
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I've always wondered, how do applications with more stringent security requirements handle this? Assume that permissions to any row in the DB can be removed at any time. If we store the data offline, this security measure is already vi
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> a lot of frontend code is trivia that you can just ask the LLM for these days If you're building CRUD yes. If you're doing anything remotely complex or novel, LLMs fall apart, much like they do for complex backend tasks. Ther
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Plugging Georgia Tech's online masters program - I did it over the course of 4 years while working - can take 1 class a semester - and it's very cheap for a high quality masters
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by ativzzz 2y ago
Project management tooling is strong and you need a lot less time for the logistics of managing a project, so the responsibility got absorbed into other roles. From my experience, project management in tech is done partly by product manager
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> How do you vet companies / jobs that have what your looking for in terms of growing your career? I have a pretty low bar - I will never join a company where tech is a cost center. That is - is the code you are writing generating d
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by ativzzz 2y ago
This is doomer mindset. If you sit and wait and do nothing AI will eat your job as you said (or likely you will always have a job supporting legacy software because AI isn't trained on your obscure, undocumented in house framework that
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by ativzzz 2y ago
> You may have a serious mental condition that needs treatment Maybe, but I wouldn't say serious. Just standard life malaise. I have talked to a psych - he gave me a concerta prescription after talking for 20 minutes lol. That'
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I don't have ADHD - stimulants make me a lot more productive until tolerance kicks in. It's easier to focus on boring tasks, and I'm high so work that normally isn't fun becomes fun. Once the tolerance kicks in (1-2 week
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by ativzzz 2y ago
I imagine that birth control as well as the giant array of entertainment options available to us other than sex contributes to modern fertility Why do poorer people have more kids? Sex is free, birth control and netflix is not
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by ativzzz 2y ago
He's not totally wrong, just replace "Religious organizations" with "Governments" and "tax-free status" with "solders and workers"
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by ativzzz 2y ago
And China was able to scale up the mass manufacturing of cheap goods because rich western companies dumped their money into China to capitalize that manufacturing. It's all interrelated

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