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by closeparen 4mo ago
Name, address, and phone number served plenty of critical functions when they were published in the White Pages. Cell phones not being listed there was kind of an accident of history. It was common to call a listed landline and be given or
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by closeparen 4mo ago
>Around $400 a month of plans buys roughly $2800 of API usage at list prices, which is a real bargain right up until you hit the ceiling. The plans are metered, and any large AI native workflow will chew through the included tokens fast
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by closeparen 4mo ago
Pretty much anything coming out of middle management or "org leadership" is performative. Line managers and their reports are generally actually building products and keeping the lights on.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
Many companies, including in their software development functions, are oral cultures rather than literate cultures.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
There is a tier just outside of FAANG that pays similarly or better, prominent examples being Uber, Airbnb, Stripe, Block, Databricks, Datadog, Pinterest, Snowflake, etc.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
You get Social Security and Medicare. Which are cheaper now than they will ever be, as the population is only getting older.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
Apple does this.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
What happened to onshore development in Silicon Valley in 2022 happened to corporate America’s IT departments in the early 2000s.
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by closeparen 4mo ago
It is too bad that so many companies have built these huge microservices beasts where you cannot run much more than unit tests locally, and you pretty much have to guess at the impact of your change until you have merged it, deployed it, an
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by closeparen 4mo ago
The narrative "we don't need as many staff because of AI" is a labor disciplining device whether or not it is true. Remaining engineers, loaded up with more projects under the threat of layoffs and with no outside opportuniti
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by closeparen 4mo ago
Which is why junior and senior talent alike are forced back into the office. Except that tenured senior and staff employees from the boom times are in the San Francisco office, but all the new grad hires from the last 2-4 years are in vario
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by closeparen 5mo ago
Illustratively, living in the house is worth about $15,000/month and everything else combined is maybe $2,000.
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by closeparen 5mo ago
Is this situation so uncommon? Almost everyone who lives in a house in California, for example, is living primarily off the unrealized gains on their home equity. Very few have the wage income to qualify for a mortgage on what their lifesty
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by closeparen 5mo ago
Average American workers provide in-person services that don't scale and can't get much leverage from technology. Retail, hospitality, construction, care work, etc. They have not seen the kind of wage growth that accrued to the la
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by closeparen 6mo ago
If you are the subject of a criminal investigation, they will seize the devices from your house and do forensics on them. Taking steps to make that harder could expose you to more charges for tampering with evidence.
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by closeparen 6mo ago
I do not think that marketing products and services that do useful work is “violence.”
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by closeparen 6mo ago
>We consider a measure of necessity spending that includes but is not limited to childcare, external credit card payments, gasoline, general retail, grocery, housing (mortgage/rent), insurance, cable TV/broadband, public transp
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by closeparen 6mo ago
Doesn't look like it. What's your source? https://www.statista.com/statistics/200463/us-poverty-rate-s...
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by closeparen 6mo ago
The beautiful thing about programming (which also makes edtech such an appealing dream to chase) is that you get immediate feedback from the computer and don't have to wait for someone whose attention is at least semi-scarce to mark
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by closeparen 6mo ago
Seems most relevant in a hobbyist context where you have personal stuff on your machine unrelated to your projects. Employee endpoints in a corporate environment should already be limited to what’s necessary for job duties. There’s nothing
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by closeparen 6mo ago
184 Euro is about a day's wages for a software developer over there (40k EUR / 220 working days).
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by closeparen 7mo ago
It would be better if they specifically excluded advertising uses of call metadata, etc. I assume this is getting mixed in from their ecommerce efforts to sell the devices. But how do you expect them to play back the voicemail if they don’t
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by closeparen 7mo ago
It would be pretty spooky if your voice managed to come out the other party's telephone without ever having been collected into and processed by the telephone network. Taking audio from one place and transporting it to another is what
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by closeparen 7mo ago
This text does not appear in the link. I do see: >Call Logs: We collect information about calls made using Phones, including the phone numbers you call or receive calls from, the date/time of the calls, and the length of the calls.
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by closeparen 7mo ago
There is no world where a totalitarian government’s law enforcement ambitions on some object-level question are thwarted by the same government’s enforcement of privacy law. Countries with GDPR that are thinking of rounding up and kicking o
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by closeparen 7mo ago
I have the right to my own senses, my own observations, my own memories. I have the right to photograph what I can see with my eyes, and to write down what I can remember. Unless enjoined by a specific duty of care (doctor/patient, att
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by closeparen 7mo ago
In high school I worked at a VAR that had partnerships with HP, among others (Cisco, Microsoft, etc). Our partnership gave us access to a special support line where a fluent English speaker picked up quickly, talked to you like you had seen
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by closeparen 7mo ago
Specifically, the Jones Act guarantees trucking and freight rail jobs by making it unreasonable to transport goods by water.
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by closeparen 7mo ago
The GPTs are "it" because they were deliberately named in a way to discourage anthropomorphizing them. Anthropic does want you to anthropomorphize Claude, and they gave their model a male name. It's not that deep!
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by closeparen 7mo ago
We have a lot of tools (starting with the internal wiki) which are normally only exposed to engineers through web interfaces; MCPs make them available to terminal agents to use autonomously. This can get really interesting with e.g. giving

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