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by barnabee 1y ago
Some of us limit how and when we use those tools, or avoid them entirely. I use GitHub for code I want to share with the world and to access and work on code made by others. I don't use Dropbox daty to day (technically I have an old
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by barnabee 1y ago
Yep, it should be no surprise that things that ought to require no code or very little code but currently require tons of it are not safe long term careers for programmers. If we can make self driving taxis, we can also make putting documen
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by barnabee 1y ago
I didn’t go to university to get a job[0]. For the reasons I went, primarily to learn for its own sake and to meet other likeminded, curious, and smart people (I didn’t grow up somewhere that was easy), university is not only credible but s
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by barnabee 1y ago
Totally agree! Photography for me is about the physical and optical side of things. Choosing a lens for a situation, framing the shot, aperture, shutter, etc. When I switched to digital I was seduced by post-processing, partly as a substitu
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by barnabee 1y ago
Precisely. There’d likely be a large wealth transfer back towards boring and less skilled jobs if we couldn’t rely on large numbers of people literally having no choice but to take any job they can get. I struggle to understand how anyone c
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by barnabee 1y ago
I used to think this but we have DOSBox, etc. Even if something stopped working, that doesn’t mean it can never work again. Apple aren’t obliged to keep the platform backwards compatible as long as they let people try to run their software.
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by barnabee 1y ago
> If you are told an api is restful there’s an expectation of how it will behave. And today, for most people in most situations, that expectation doesn’t include anything to do with HATEOAS.
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by barnabee 1y ago
That’s interesting, thanks
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by barnabee 1y ago
Why would users who can continue to receive exactly the same experience as today leave because some other users can opt to pay to go ad-free?
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d love to know the expected ad revenue per user for makers of apps like WhatsApp, Instagram. I’m pretty convinced I’d pay 10x or more than that amount for a completely ad free version but I can’t be sure.
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by barnabee 1y ago
https://venice.ai claim to offer uncensored models (I’ve not tested that claim)
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by barnabee 1y ago
I generally try a local model first for most prompts. It's good enough surprisingly often (over 50% for sure). Every time I avoid using a cloud service is a win.
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by barnabee 1y ago
> why should an artist be required to make their creations free for anyone to use after a certain period of time? If it’s digital it’s free by default , even protected IP that isn’t digital is often cheap to copy or substantially replic
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by barnabee 1y ago
Debian with unattended-upgrades and a [weekly] scheduled restart has worked for me for a long time.
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by barnabee 1y ago
My vote for doing this is to get a second hand Lenovo/HP/Dell mini pc. They're cheap (thanks to corporate upgrade cycles and the sheer number of "obsolete" models that are out there on eBay et al.), quiet, reliable,
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by barnabee 1y ago
They mopped the floor in terms of transparency, even more so in terms of performance × transparency Long term that might matter more
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by barnabee 1y ago
I don't see any benefit in those VC funded wrappers over open source VS Code (or better, VSCodium) extensions like Roo/Cline. They survive through VC funding, marketing, and inertia, I suppose.
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by barnabee 1y ago
They’re definitely faster, which is nice and surely preferable… But the London Underground gates are fast enough, with enough space from the reader to the gate, that if you’re ready (and the gate isn’t congested) there’s no need to slow d
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by barnabee 1y ago
Thank you for not going down the subscription route! I'm much more willing to buy a $15 app if it feels like it has legs even if I may give up with it after a month or two than to possibly lock myself into a much smaller amount forever
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by barnabee 1y ago
Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger at a minimum, other extensions to taste[0] I’ve also been experimenting with Zen[1], which is Firefox based, recently and it seems quite promising in terms of a nicer default UI. [0] I like Tab Sta
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by barnabee 1y ago
My Instagram account is private and I only follow real life friends and family. I mute (posts or stories or both from) any that post in ways that I don’t find positive. I haven’t had to mute many, but it’s some. If it wasn’t for the algorit
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by barnabee 1y ago
Markets are tools. They are good at some things (allocating resources, adapting to changing supply and demand, revealing preferences and discovering prices, incentivising innovation and socially useful risk taking, …) and bad at others (ens
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by barnabee 1y ago
The network effects, economies of scale, and associated ability to plough huge profits into buying up and out-promoting competitors absolutely make them monopolies.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Why not let big companies die and be replaced by startups if the only way they can succeed is by [ab]using their incumbent position to “rejuvenate” (a euphemism if ever I saw one!)? It would stop worse products winning as a result of resour
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by barnabee 1y ago
It gets sillier. They've applied for config and schema too… https://uspto.report/company/Figma-Inc#trademarks Applying for and/or attempting to enforce trademarks in such bad faith as this ought to result in
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by barnabee 2y ago
Having observed and been part of contracts involving these companies, it would take a lot to convince me that at least 80% of them don’t cost an order of magnitude (or more) more than they should. It’s not usually the type of work, it’s the
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by barnabee 2y ago
Sponsored content should be considered an ad too and banned in this scenario. Many “influencers” would have to go back to being amateurs. That’s ok. Some would accept backhanders, but they risk prosecution, which is actually possible [0]. [
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by barnabee 2y ago
> “here’s the product, here’s what it does” Belongs in catalogues, store listings, the manufacturers website, product search engines, not forced into view when you’re trying to do something else. It’d be perfectly reasonable even to have
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by barnabee 2y ago
People who work there. People who come across the product in a shop or in/on a market. Reading (unpaid) reviews. There are vastly many ways that unbiased, factual information about a new product can be disseminated to those who are loo
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by barnabee 2y ago
Publishing factual information in a place people expect to find it is not advertising. Listing a house for sale on an agent’s website: not advertising. Promoting that listing or the agent on the home page of a local news site: advertising e

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