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by chefandy 2y ago
Not for me. I first ask Advanced Voice to read me some code and have Siri listen and email it to an API I wrote which uses Claude to estimate the best cloud provider to run that code based on its requirements and then a n8n script deploys i
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by chefandy 2y ago
Do you think your considering HN a clear exception to being “Reddit with a sense of grandeur” might have more to do with your vantage point than your ability to gauge the value of online communities?
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by chefandy 2y ago
> That just means that the edge you’re able to retain if you invest $1B is nonexistent. Jeez. Must be really tough to have some comparatively small group of people financially destroy your industry with your own mechanically-harvested pr
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by chefandy 2y ago
> +1 insightful As an aside, I miss the slashdot ability to optionally assign a property to a vote. It would be neat to have some sort of indicator in addition to the greying out of downvoted or flagged comments to show specific types
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right, but it was never about doing the right thing for humanity, it was about doing the right thing for their profits. Like I’ve said time and time again, nobody in this space gives a fuck about anyone that isn’t directly contributing mone
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by chefandy 2y ago
previous discussion: https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicat...
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’ve seen that in people though I don’t think it really describes him, specifically. He just really enjoys a lot of things in life the way some people really love getting the most punishing workouts possible, and would probably do it even i
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by chefandy 2y ago
He’s pretty hard-headed, but so are his middle-aged sons. These days we’re all grown-up enough to know when to sort of shake our heads and change the subject. My mom has her own way of setting boundaries which seems to work for her but unle
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by chefandy 2y ago
You’re making arbitrary definitions for those words. Austerity can absolutely lead to misery and some of the happiest times in my life have been some of the most impoverished.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Ok, rather than enjoying self-imposed misery he enjoys the process of imposing and Meta state while experiencing self-imposed misery. You know, I think you might be right. ;-)
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by chefandy 2y ago
That’s personality-specific. My Dad is like that and doesn’t understand why nobody else in the family gets off on self-imposed austerity. (He’s a great guy by the way — we all have our quirks.) He loves to say it’s a lack of discipline, but
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by chefandy 2y ago
Nearly impossible. Text books at the library get recalled constantly.
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by chefandy 2y ago
GH copilot code completion is really the only one I’ve found to be consistently more of a benefit than a time sync. Even with the spiffy code generators using Claude or whatever, I often find myself spending as much time figuring out where
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m pretty sure they either fall under “useless features that sound sort of useful when you’re booking a room,” or “alleviating your guilt for not getting a cheaper hotel room on someone else’s dime.”
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by chefandy 2y ago
If you remove the factors of environment and incentives then no living thing does anything, ever. We have no less control of this than any other collective human endeavor, and even if individual responsibility alone can’t practically stop s
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by chefandy 2y ago
Most of the hotels I stay at are on the east coast, so that might make a difference because of how much business travel there is there, but even the more family-focused ones in touristy areas have them.
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by chefandy 2y ago
As far as business investments go, I’d need to see some really solid market research showing enough people were willing to choose a hotel for these amenities in-room rather than a one with a “business center” as many currently have, a cowor
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by chefandy 2y ago
Most hotels that I’ve stayed in recently have one that they call a “business center” or similar. They’re the new hotel gym.
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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m not sure how what I said could be interpreted as suggesting they are hostile to remote workers. And I think there’s a very good chance hotels would not benefit from this. Maybe in a tech center, but that’s a tiny fraction of hotels. Goo
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by chefandy 2y ago
They know what they’re doing. Most hotels ‘are’ built for work, but they’re built for what most workers use them for: work travel . Though probably common for developers, I’ll bet it’s pretty unusual for the other like 96% of people to wan
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right. Also, literally every incremental progression in this arms race is good for maybe a few weeks or months for the people that bother engaging while the rest of us have to trudge through deepening layers of bullshit and counter-bullsh
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by chefandy 2y ago
I've done a lot of back-end and a bit of front end development. You're correctly identifying a crappy outcome, but incorrectly attributing the effect of shitty developers and project management with whole disciplines and common pr
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by chefandy 2y ago
I mean, as a snarky hyperbole about how ridiculous consumer products have become, sure. In reality, I would be very surprised if Oral B decided I needed Internet access to use my toothbrush.
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by chefandy 2y ago
Sure. What strikes me as strange, however, is the attitude that this is the only possible path to starting your own business in tech. Sure you’re not going to start up your own social network, but maybe you’ve got a great idea for some kind
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by chefandy 2y ago
> less low hanging fruit on the product side. Any given opportunity is more likely to have other, well-resourced, folks chasing it hard. I think this is the biggest factor that actually affects the fundamentals of selling tech. To my eye
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by chefandy 2y ago
Right — I totally understand why things are the way they are using the tech industry startup model. But using that model is relatively new, and adopting it not a prerequisite to starting a tech business, even if that’s the only way peop
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by chefandy 2y ago
I don’t think the idea of starting a business in tech these days commonly exists independently of the modern tech conception of “doing a startup.” And with the hiring part, the idea was that you’d do the work yourselves and only hire anyone
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by chefandy 2y ago
I have absolutely no insight into their operations or requirements, but when I see someone forcing traffic to their servers, I immediately think they’re looking for metadata, or training NN models on your data. NN generating 3D models is pr
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by chefandy 2y ago
My Oral B toothbrush advertises connectivity for a mobile app. That doesn’t mean they can arbitrarily impose an internet access requirement.
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by chefandy 2y ago
The way friends approached startups in the .com era seemed to be more like “hey, [friend]… we know how to write code, and we think we can address [thing] in [some market] better than [incumbent], so let’s spend nights and weekends hacking t

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