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by cedws 7mo ago
Yeah you have a good point. I don't have kids so I didn't really think about this social pressure aspect. I think if a perfect system existed that could gate websites behind age verification, without any privacy compromise and ass
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by cedws 7mo ago
>My technical skills are being disrupted by machines - that's fine I'll go do other things. [links to long bike trip] Ok that's cool and all but many of us have bills to pay. Bike trips don't pay the bills. Software p
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by cedws 7mo ago
I think the same for me, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be in my career if I had been restricted to an hour a day on a filtered iPad. But I also think the internet has more potential for harm now. Widespread social media makes it easy for preda
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by cedws 7mo ago
Someone else said it best: AI isn’t increasing productivity much for the average worker, it’s just allowing them to do their job and put in less effort. And I think that’s entirely fair to be honest. The workers aren’t going to see any rais
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by cedws 7mo ago
That’s a very ruthless American capitalist view. I would say a company’s job is to make the best product without resorting to cheap tricks.
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by cedws 7mo ago
I don't mean anti-competitive in the legal sense of the word, I mean that it literally is hostile to competition.
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by cedws 7mo ago
I thought TOS grants Anthropic the right to stop providing the service to a user, not go after them legally.
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by cedws 7mo ago
This argument has been decapitated countless times already on HN. Anthropic already enforce usage limits for everyone . If those limits are higher than what they want users to actually consume, that's Anthropic's problem. This mo
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by cedws 7mo ago
Under what law can Anthropic force OpenCode to do this? Surely it's not illegal to publish code that interacts with an API that's open for everyone to see?
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by cedws 7mo ago
I'd like to think that the top minds working on AI have a higher purpose than to get the next generation hooked to a digital morphine drip. Serving soap cutting videos and giving teen girls body dysmorphia isn't a very compelling
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by cedws 7mo ago
Spatial memory is really underutilised in computing. When libghostty[0] releases maybe you could use that so you don't have to build everything from scratch. [0]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming
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by cedws 7mo ago
I know that Counter Strike has the Overwatch system so that the community can review the gameplay to determine if somebody is cheating. Could this be turned into a bounty system for developers? You could give developers access to gameplay d
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by cedws 7mo ago
For my job which is mostly YAML engineering with some light Go coding (Platform) I'm finding it useful. We're DRY-ing out a bunch of YAML with CUE at the moment and it's sped up that work up tremendously. When it comes to per
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by cedws 7mo ago
I think advertising it as a DJ is a stretch, last time I tried it, it was basically just Siri for music. DJing is much more than just playing random tracks. I’ve been wondering if AI could be used to compose a set that rivals real DJs, but
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by cedws 7mo ago
I suspect the xAI merge was a manoeuvre to pump SpaceX whilst actually quietly beginning to scale down xAI. It’s a money losing venture.
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by cedws 7mo ago
I really like this. Often I just want to watch something but YouTube insidiously steers me towards doom videos, even after clearing cookies. I like that this bypasses the algorithm and lets me just watch stuff, and if there's nothing i
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by cedws 7mo ago
I think it's an LLM wrapper.
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by cedws 7mo ago
The only potential benefit I can think of is getting results faster, but it's really not important enough to optimise for. Maybe a dual system of paper ballots and e-voting could be good so that they cross check each other. Can't
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by cedws 7mo ago
I enjoyed this post very much. I think it’s a matter of time until there’s a horrific LLM-powered attack on the masses. Companies are giving LLMs access to all their data and letting employees with poor understanding of the risks use LLMs t
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by cedws 7mo ago
I think they would due to massive financial incentive. On the other hand, a lot more developers might actually be getting compensated for their work, instead of putting their code on the internet for free and then complaining on social medi
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by cedws 7mo ago
Codex has been feeling a bit faster recently, not sure if placebo.
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by cedws 7mo ago
Yes, those are the only circumstances I'd recommend for staying in Japan, but they're only short term (1 year or less.) Working holiday is also nice if you're young. I met a few people working in hostels doing it, obviously d
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by cedws 7mo ago
I think it's possible to open up without swinging the doors wide open like we have in the UK. There's also the argument that on Japan's current course, there won't be much culture left in a century due to population decl
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by cedws 7mo ago
Yeah. I lived in Tokyo for 6 months as a digital nomad (so still working for an overseas employer.) As much as I love Japan, after hearing what the work culture is like I became pretty sure I didn't want to move there permanently. Not
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by cedws 7mo ago
This website has a lot of dark patterns. Some orange ones too.
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by cedws 7mo ago
Anecdotally at work (SME) we are pretty much all in on ARM. MacBooks with M-series, AWS Graviton instances, even our CI runners are now ARM to match local development.
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by cedws 7mo ago
What's your source for this "massive hit"? All I've seen is a massive PR upside, despite what I said above.
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by cedws 7mo ago
Don't get too attached. We're witnessing capitalism in its most ruthless form. Any of these companies will discard their principles the moment it becomes existential.
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by cedws 7mo ago
Yes, this has been an issue for so long and GitHub just doesn't care enough to fix it. There's another way it can be exploited. It's very common to pin Actions in workflows these days by their commit hash like this: - use
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by cedws 7mo ago
*for ordinary people. If you use AI to steal from rich and powerful people, expect the law to come down on you like a tonne of bricks. If you steal from authors, artists, and developers no worries.

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