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by boredumb 3y ago
Who in their right mind would consider business analysts at a social media company in silicone valley "uppity"? Has anyone started a kick starter to help collectivize their loss of earnings through to january?
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by boredumb 3y ago
Accessibility is hugely important and every single html project people work on should at the very absolute least strive to satisfy the chrome light houses accessibility suggestions. It is _really_ not difficult to attain a basic level of ac
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by boredumb 3y ago
I think there was a point where the default was microservices+massive cloud infrastructure and it was a massive disservice to everyone. Everyone 'built to scale' and it's also easy to assume your next project will service a f
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by boredumb 3y ago
It's something that you can fall into pretty easily imo, but after you dive into a few languages and realize you just weren't aware of the tool chains, librarys and platforms you begin to realize familiarity accounts for most of y
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by boredumb 3y ago
He asked what he meant by less woke in regards to AI and GPT has an insane bias towards progressive american politics and actively censors/denies answering things that would cause it to divorce from that political persona. My previous
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by boredumb 3y ago
Coy, but obviously he means not permeated with american pop-culture progressive politics, censor happy authoritarianism with an aura of smug do-goodery.
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by boredumb 3y ago
Joking aside, a warm fire that won't burn and a breathable water pool would be endlessly entertaining.
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by boredumb 3y ago
HN comments about profits, CEOs, share holders and executives are increasingly resembling twitter takes.
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by boredumb 3y ago
What? They just reported 4.9% inflation this morning.
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by boredumb 3y ago
I imagine a big component of it is sensitive information is easier to manage when less people and organizations are involved.
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by boredumb 3y ago
Obviously a PR grab by the union itself, but it seems like they are a little deaf about how a large portion of the population views unions.
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by boredumb 3y ago
It seems like another case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions, most places want/need redundancy and some managed devops and so a few ec2 instances and managed RDS is affordable enough and checks a lot of boxes, but af
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by boredumb 3y ago
AWS has a great business model of people over "optimizing" their architecture using new toys from amazon and being charged through the nose for it. It's amazing how clients that are doing a few requests per second will want a
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by boredumb 3y ago
Of all the silly outcomes from recent AI development I was predicting, human rights organizations using fake AI generated images of injustice to manufacture emotionally driven support for them wasn't on the list. Excited to watch the n
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by boredumb 3y ago
it came to me in a dream
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by boredumb 3y ago
Puerto Rico is a resource of developers that are within US jurisdiction.
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by boredumb 3y ago
Something as simple as creating tags and summarys for documents, pipelining automatic PII handling are some features I could see being useful from the 28 seconds I spent thinking of applying AI to dropbox.
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by boredumb 3y ago
Summarize the following bill and propose a public response in the tone of a left leaning democrat congressman from the midwest united states:
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by boredumb 3y ago
Yes! But! There is a sweet spot where providing some level of rigor is a way for people to autonomously move in the right direction without anyone having to micro-manage (which I feel is less nice to work), the key is allowing room for auto
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by boredumb 3y ago
I agree with this 100%, every time i've wanted to get into a new tech stack I start a new side project more-or-less as a thinly veiled reason to learn it and hit my head on real world roadblocks within it. If nothing else you can learn
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by boredumb 3y ago
First they came for the kenyan plagiarists, and I said nothing
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by boredumb 3y ago
Where I live the hills would stall that kei out before you got to any real hills, with nothing at all added to the bed.
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by boredumb 3y ago
There is no reason to go into the comments of every post that shows a price of the fee a company paid in order to express why you think a company that is fined should be crippled because of it, the point is to deter people not to lay nuclea
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by boredumb 3y ago
I think the, maybe contrarian, argument for this is that while a lot of the previously physical controls are now obnoxious to find there are a lot of features involving music, phone and maps that if they weren't on the dash people woul
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by boredumb 3y ago
It's amazing how car manufacturers have captured the frustration of navigating through your locked mobile device to do something arbitrary while driving and embedded that experience directly into the dashboard.
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by boredumb 3y ago
In the age of internet sales it goes from 'just tax the receiving locale (POS?)' or 'just tax the company locale' to dealing with multiple entities (headquarters, warehousing, staffing, customers) all in different locati
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by boredumb 3y ago
I just watched the Leslie Nielson one when it popped up on Tubi for me and hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a while.
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by boredumb 4y ago
If they can incorporate an LLM somewhere - they may even show up on the front page as a (YC 2024) project.
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by boredumb 4y ago
So I have some questions about the monetization of these models. Do we end up with essentially licensing out models and allow others to include it into their products via a licensing fee? Will they be a pay to post rpc/http API? Do you
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by boredumb 4y ago
https://tourofrust.com/ is fun. Learning rust has a weird initial learning curve dealing with the aggressive analyzer/compiler and how you have to approach your variables, but after that initial hump it is one of the c

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