bayarearefugee

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by bayarearefugee 5mo ago
These demographic trends, in the west at least, will continue until we solve wealth inequality which we seemingly aren't going to do until there is eventually violent revolt.
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by bayarearefugee 5mo ago
> works for no salary Working for no salary is almost never charitable and is almost always just part of a larger tax avoidance scheme.
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by bayarearefugee 5mo ago
> I don’t think it’s that weird to not look at the code if it’s a side project and you follow along incrementally via diffs. Its not weird to not look at the code, as long as you're looking at the code? (diffs?) Uh, ok
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by bayarearefugee 5mo ago
> Academia has gotten so dumb and sycophantic Modern US universities are just hedge funds with legacy schools attached. Not surprising that just like the corporations (including lots of HN darlings like Apple) they are taking turns sucki
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by bayarearefugee 5mo ago
> the solution I liked the best was the linux "developers take full responsibility" approach. The people who can realistically submit a Linux patch that will ever get looked at is already a super select group through who-you-kn
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> we can now use skills to guarantee that the code that is created follows best practices, architecture patters, local governance and compliance. It is terrifying that any working software developer believes this is true. LLMs are useful
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> But also consider that Iran is legitimately hard to negotiate with It is really strange how when you offer to negotiate with the leaders of a country as a pretext to assassinate them... twice... it becomes difficult to negotiate with t
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> everything was completely broken. How could this happen in 2026? I've been told "Coding is solved"...?
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
Not just an ad, but its pretty much content free. It doesn't really explain anything about the business model other than talking about how dual licensing is a thing you can do. Dual licensing isn't exactly some exciting new thing,
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> Does anyone believe what he says about this stuff any more? About most things, no... you'd have to be a fool to believe him. But I have no problem believing he'll dissolve xAI. The only use he's gotten out of xAI AFAICT
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
Huge claims being made. Hard to know what we're missing since there isn't any open access to it. They are definitely bucking some industry trends by not having a butthole for a logo, instead they went with something that is arguab
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> The last person can currently only get the money if a disaster strikes and insurance pays out. Usually there is no insurance. The insurance industry, for all of its other faults, is one of the few left that still deals in reality inste
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> OP, I sure it’s just a transition. AI will get faster, feedback loops shorter, and we will be back at a more traditional flow state. You are right that it is a transitional state, but the end of the transition isn't that developer
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> If you have a hose that you can fire from a fairly protected position and the guy with the RPG is completely exposed because he's trying to climb up the side of a tanker, yeah, I might. In this scenario you are standing on a ship
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
It won't mean the end of copyright, at most it will just shift the balance of power from one set of giant corporations to another. Anthropic (predictably) issued many DMCA takedown requests after the claude code leak. Copyright for me,
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> Why is this difficult to understand? It'll be way easier to understand for developers when it starts happening in earnest to our profession, which is coming soon. It already is here to some extent, but so far mostly on the junior
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> has our executive team furious And yet they will continue to spend wheelbarrows full of money with Anthropic because they want so badly to reach the point where they can fire you.
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> That's surprising to me. I think this is one of those YMMV things with caffeine. It is an appetite suppressant in general but for me it seems to cause a significant rebound effect. On caffeine I would eat less early in the day (
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
Quitting caffeine after decades of use was a bit of a mixed bag for me in the short term, but positive in the long term. Going caffeine-free made it much easier to lose weight as I have far less cravings for high carbs and sugar now, presum
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
Almost everything Musk says is either an outright lie or wildly optimistic to the point of lying. FSD has been a year or two away every year since 2015. There was going to be a voyage to Mars by 2024. Funding was secured to take Tesla priva
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
They don't hate spending (other people's) money. They just really, really fucking hate the labor force they view as little more than cattle.
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> Only if you assume if per-teacher productivity can't increase. It can't. The only axis upon which teacher "productivity" could increase is by increasing the size of their classes. Every study and every practical exa
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
If LLMs have roughly peaked, then everything is safe except for things that are already being eaten away like translation and call center work. If they haven't and we have hit the exponential growth mark, nothing is safe and even the t
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> It’s pretty hard to read on a phone Awful on desktop too, the weird squished font makes everything look like its in the wrong aspect ratio and the site is a weird combination of too noisy/busy combined with serious contrast proble
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
China is also way ahead in terms of renewable energy while the US continues to tie itself to fossil fuels. The US is pretty clearly in the collapsing empire phase, we are all just pretending like it isn't happening.
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
I wouldn't even classify it as a mistake, just a difference in experience regardless of what Adobe's intentions were. As someone who has done front-end development for both web and mobile devices for a very long time in the pre-Fi
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
> Agents will allow human programmers to get what they've been begging for decades now: proper requirements and flexible, logical, tooling. ...and once this goal is finally reached the programmer will breathe a sigh of relief and th
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
But if they do that then Donald Trump will call them a weak loser... got any other options for them?
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by bayarearefugee 6mo ago
Great news for the AI providers, turns out they are automatically turning their audience into captives who end up increasingly dependent on their product to get anything done.

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