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by benzible 3y ago
He edited and added everything after the first 2 sentences after I posted my response.
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by benzible 3y ago
You have no idea if the author has been doing this. I've hired > 100 developers and have never used AI for this. (also, not being snarky, but it's "how the tables have turned")
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> for me its hard to justify betting on something without a compelling edge computing (eg cf workers) story in 2023. fly.io? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621478 > i could not even think of a case where beam
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by benzible 3y ago
Why would someone downvote this? Seems pretty relevant.
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> There are more managed hosting options than ever (Crunchy Data, Render, Fly.io, and on and on) From fly.io's docs [1]: > This Is Not Managed Postgres [1] https://fly.io/docs/postgres/getting-started&#x
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by benzible 3y ago
Also, the one source video of a black woman is transformed into a white "pretty girl". The "pretty girls" are all either white or Asian.
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by benzible 3y ago
Zachary's has been employee-owned for 20 years: > Zachary’s was founded in 1983 by Zach Zachowski and Barbara Gabel. Our employee ownership program began in 2003 via an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Through the vision of ou
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by benzible 3y ago
https://archive.li/V974r
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by benzible 3y ago
You mean, like, SBF's own tweets? https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1173351344159117312
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by benzible 3y ago
Different but related idea, this creates a personal podcast feed: https://reca.st
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by benzible 3y ago
Not all that curious... https://flatfile.com If you're building a vertical SaaS and want to support import from a file, and don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, this could be a big win. This would let new us
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by benzible 3y ago
Overwhelmingly likely to be unrelated: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-real-... ( https://archive.li/0QXCj ) ...and, from the study you link to: > mRNA-1273 vaccine-associa
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by benzible 3y ago
https://archive.li/h2sNk
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by benzible 3y ago
Highly recommend this "If Books Could Kill" episode on the concept of "nudges": https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nudge-part-1-a-simple-... (critical of the concept but I think quite fair
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by benzible 3y ago
Worth reading this: https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html > REST purists often complain, for example, that so-called REST APIs aren’t actually REST APIs because they do not use Hypermedia as The E
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by benzible 3y ago
This makes me think of the critiques of Malcom Gladwell - essentially, that by focusing entirely on counterintuitive / surprising results, he often misrepresents the concepts he discusses... > These ideas are far from obvious, self-
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by benzible 3y ago
I've found the Phoenix LiveView approach in the PETAL stack elegantly solves many of these problems. By rendering templates directly on the backend server, you can build the entire application - frontend to database - all within the sa
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by benzible 3y ago
He has a newsletter. You can even pay for it if you'd like! https://buttondown.email/edyong209 ...of course I get that he's not committing to publishing all of his writing there: > I’ll likely do smaller-scale
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by benzible 3y ago
> George explained that although Musk "did a brilliant job in creating Tesla and he's done a lot of good things [at SpaceX] too," his transformation of Twitter is a "big mistake." I think the conclusion that Twit
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by benzible 3y ago
I actively seek out open source maintainers when hiring. I recently hired an engineer (who happens to be Indian) I found via a popular package he maintains. I don't know how common it is to do this but, somewhat self-servingly, I think
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by benzible 3y ago
See: https://gist.github.com/zachallaun/88aed2a0cef0aed6d68dcc7c1... and work underway here: https://github.com/wojtekmach/req/issues/82#issuecomment-154...
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by benzible 3y ago
Also not Brian, and maybe not exactly a scientist, but Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of Steely Dan & the Doobie Brothers has a second career as a consultant on missile defense systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by benzible 3y ago
This could potentially replace LogRocket / Bugsnag / Papertrail for our fly-hosted SaaS product. Only thing is, we're elixir based so I'd love to see an elixir client. I advise another company with a HIPAA compliant serv
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by benzible 3y ago
https://archive.li/V94Iq
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by benzible 3y ago
Nope! From your original post: "The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top" Claiming that nothing is different other than Elon's presence implies that Twitter was just as much of a
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by benzible 3y ago
You claim with a straight face that, had Musk not taken over Twitter, it would have had the same rate of outages and level of degradation as it does now? It's completely obvious to anyone familiar with the stability of Twitter pre and
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It’s used because it’s the subject of the book, not because he approves of it. Quite the opposite. The point of the book is that propaganda is used to maintain complicity in a democratic society, in order to influence people to support poli
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by benzible 3y ago
Uh, yeah. I'd love to hear more. Comey's major influence was Reinhold Niebuhr [1], whose politics [2] bore little resemblance to Chomsky's. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-fe
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Tell me you've never without telling me etc...
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by benzible 3y ago
Whoever downvoted this - would love to know what specifically you take issue with from the linked article.

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