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by bartread 1y ago
It’s pretty clear that the commenter you’re responding to is making the point that a treatment effective in mice still has a long way to go before it’s viable for use on humans, assuming it is ever viable to use on humans. Mice and humans a
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If it was effective on humans I think people would accept daily treatments, were it to be necessary - Alzheimer’s is just that awful.
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A nit, but Ruby on Rails isn’t “old”. It’s mature. It still receives regular updates and release, even major version releases. What it isn’t any more is new or trendy. Still pretty widely used though, and with good reason.
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Yeah, again, I’m going to wait for the Mentour Pilot analysis on this one.
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> In the short-run, from what I see, firms are trying to play-up the operational efficiency gains they have achieved. The thing is all of this is getting priced in, and will be table stakes for any business, so I don't see it as a b
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Yeah, I mean, you might be right. As others have commented, I think it's simply very hard to say what gains we're really going to see from AI-assisted software development at present. And then of course there's the question o
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The other problem is the perennial, how much of what we do actually has value? Churning out 5x (or whatever - I’m deliberately being a bit hyperbolic) as much code sounds great on the face of it but what does it matter if little to none of
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Do you have a sense for how much overhead this is all adding? Or, to put it another way, what I’m really asking is what productivity gain (or loss) are you seeing versus traditional engineering?
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You’ve just reminded me of something. One of the div heads where I was working bought a (pair of?) Google Glass to figure out if there was anything useful we could do with them or develop for them. He was trying them out and a colleague of
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Does it get singled out though? TikTok gets no end of flak. YouTube, as many parents will be aware, is full to the brim with creepy content. Kik has been widely reviled as a cesspool for CP sharing. And these are just a few examples. Facebo
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Amazon will let you filter out individual shows but, yeah, it’s clunky. Overall I do object to content providers pushing the responsibility for vetting content onto parents. Especially when one considers that, in the UK at least, broadcaste
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By HN standards lazy is inappropriate. I don’t think it’s written quite that way but the intent is clear: high quality discussion of high quality content.
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That's what the flag button is for. You'll notice the article has been marked as flagged. I forget what the karma threshold is before it's unlocked though.
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I read these complaints so was surprised to have a different experience. We’re based in the UK and cancelled via the website because there was no option for us to cancel via the Apple TV app (probably signed up on my laptop originally, I’d
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I think it’s deliberate: subscribers cancelling their subscriptions over Jimmy Kimmel and/or price increases is old news, but if you spin it as subscribers facing cancellation of (by implication) shows you can generate more engagement
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Thanks. It sounds like the issue has already been fixed in Electron, although it will obviously take a while for all app vendors to bump versions. I'm guessing Zoom might be hitting the same overridden system call that Electron was, al
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Yeah, all right, calm down Satan. You’re probably going to get the moral and societal collapse you yearn for without the need for all this shouting.
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Thanks: that's interesting to know. However, I don't know that it erodes the value of the quote which, taken in isolation, rings true. Even, of all things, a Batman movie[0], and Battlestar Galactica[1] (!) have managed to drop so
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I used to work for a software company that literally had "no politics" as part of its DNA. It was in the company handbook, it was in our values, people would say it when they talked about what it was like to work at the company. H
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> (as opposed to the step backwards that AI imposes) I guess this is my only quibble: is it really a step backwards? I can get on board with the idea that maybe the jury is out, but the evidence I've seen and experienced is more t
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I went through something like that transition the first time I moved into management. It took me by surprise how much I tied what I did to who I was, and how much it bothered me that I could no longer so easily articulate what I'd done
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> Zuckerberg famously doesn’t (didn’t?) let his children use Facebook. Perhaps everyone else should take a hint. And I think he was right to do this. But he’s also the person who created Facebook, who allowed it to be used by children, s
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Yeah, I'm not a Swift expert by any means - this is literally something I spent a few days on - but this in particular: > One is that Swift has changed massively since it came out and huge swathes of examples and articles and such o
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I had a complete shocker with all of Claude, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT when trying to prototype an iOS app in Swift around 12 months ago. They would all really struggle to generate anything usable, and making any progress was incredibly s
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> The reason is that they are not really a part of the language, they violate the spirit of the language This is a good way of expressing my own frustration with bolting strong typing on languages that were never designed to have it. I h
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Paging YouTube devs. ^^^ This is how YouTube ads should work. I do not want to see an unskippable 60 second ad for a skincare product I do not care about whatsoever in the middle of a video about replacing the cambelt on a 90s French hot ha
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This is beautiful, and works well on mobile in many ways. I’m not unfortunately a fan of the way the touch controls work. Given the player is on a tiny spherical world I’d expected to be able to drag the world around under their feet to mak
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I stopped reading at the point he described Basecamp as having imploded. Can we please at least try to be a little more objective in how we use language? You may agree or disagree with what Basecamp, now 37signals, did but the company did
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by bartread 1y ago
Whilst I don’t necessarily disagree with your overall point, this kind of inflammatory commentary which has taken a solid step into personal attack territory > If you and your friends all talk in this way you are just oblivious to the fa
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That makes sense but, to put it mildly, I am not whatsoever a fan of corporate controlled and directed OSS. I'm even less of a fan of it when it's effectively controlled by only one corporation. The temptation to play high-handed

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