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by coldpie 7mo ago
Is that USD? Fifty two thousand dollars for a watch? You can buy two Chevy Bolts for that.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Fun article, and it hits on the main trick: buy old, used watches. eBay, watchuseek forums, wherever. You can get sweet old, mechanical watches for like $20-200 all day long. And they come in reasonable sizes, modern watches are almost al
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> I just struggle to see how people cannot use it to get more done. To be blunt about it, there's a decent chance I'll be quitting this job later this year, largely because of the AI push. I just hate these tools and I do not
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Perhaps, then, you can actually empathize with people who don't get value from it :) I used to enjoy the work, now I don't, so I'm posting on HN and daydreaming about other careers, instead of doing something useful.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> I find it hard to empathise with people who can't get value out of AI. It feels like they must be in a completely different bubble to me. I think it depends on why you do programming. I like programming for its own sake. I enjoy
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> Instead of doing 1x your normal work, you can do 5x while still maintaining quality. Yet my pay stays the same, all my coworkers get fired, and Sam Altman gets all of their paychecks. Hrm.
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by coldpie 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 The next 5 years are going to be very disappointing for you.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
From the post I was replying to: > Industry demands specifically university degrees to gatekeep positions. At the time (mid-2000s), people who wanted to get programming positions got CS degrees, so that's what I did. I didn't e
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by coldpie 7mo ago
That sucks and is super unfair. For my career path specifically I don't think it has made a difference. I've only had two software jobs in my 17 year career, the first definitely didn't need a degree and I think my current o
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Yeah, I got duped by this. Did a CS degree because that's what you're "supposed" to do to get a programming job, and it was almost all theoretical junk I had no interest in. I hated it. I think I learned useful things i
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> and I'm not sure how they're more flexible. ssh -> run -> gui opens But this doesn't work on your phone, or on a Windows or macOS device, right? That's what I meant by flexible, X forwarding fits a pretty narr
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by coldpie 7mo ago
The big obvious one is web-based tooling. Your information & settings are stored on a server and you use a web browser to view it via whatever device you're on. For more locally based workflows, we have networked filesystem protoco
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> It's a shame Wayland dropped this. It... really isn't. Like you said, remote X was barely usable even over an entirely local network. Most applications these days are also not designed for it, using loads of bitmap graphics
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I think about how we could've paid for two brand new, gigawatt-scale nuclear power plants for the same amount of money as Elon Musk flushed down the toilet to try to shut down a website he didn't like. Extreme wealth is a mental
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> No noise or sound proofing, giant sweatshop room My kingdom for an office with a ceiling, lmao. The exposed ductwork cheap-ass offices are so awful.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I hate WFH, personally. My company is actually closing the office I work out of due to lack of use, so I'm in the opposite scenario from "forced-RTO", I'm being moved to "forced-WFH." It's the right call
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> The problem is all these over-leveraged sectors will drag everybody else Well, the good news is that's what good public policy is for, to blunt the impact of the damage with strong anti-trust enforcement and careful cash injection
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> If you’re running a business that relies on external cash (VCs, loans/bonds, etc) to keep things going things will get very ugly. Honestly thrilled to hear it. The AI bubble needs to burst so we can find out what's actually
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I'm 100% certain this is user error, but I have not once gotten apropos to give me any output other than "nothing appropriate."
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> In that case a lot of proprietary software is in breach of copyleft licences. Its probably by far the commonest breach. Sure, but this doesn't really seem relevant to the conversation. Someone else violating software license terms
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> but if AI is just as good, doesn't that just mean more good PRs? If you believe the outputs of LLMs are derivative products of the materials the LLMs were trained on (which is a position I lean towards myself, but I also understan
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> Some years leap seconds need to be added, some years they need to be removed. Is that true? Per Wikipedia: > Since [1972], 27 leap seconds have been added to UTC, with the most recent occurring on December 31, 2016. All have so far
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Hmm. I understand that perspective, but I'm not sure I agree. It does seem to matter over a relatively short & realistic time scale. According to the Wikipedia page, there have been 27 seconds added since 1972, which is only 44 y
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I have a direct mailto: link to my email address in the footer of my website. Zero obfuscation. I don't get any unusually large volume of spam. Maybe Fastmail's filters are that good, or maybe scraping emails off the web just i
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I've had two or three articles I've written on my blog hit the HN front page, and each time I get one or two emails from some random person about it. It's great. A little connection that some human out there read a thing I
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Been happy with Feedly for a long time across many devices. Self-hosted is its own can of worms. Google Reader was not self-hosted either.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Feedly does this. Just drop the URL of whatever source you want to follow and it figures out the feed for it behind the scenes. For popular sources, you don't even need the URL, just type in "Ars Technica" or whatever and i
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I haven't been in your situation, but I'm the same age and if my wife and I separated for whatever reason, I suspect I probably would be. I find being social and trying new things to be incredibly difficult. So it's somethi
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> Your recourse was at the time of transaction These illegal taxes weren't only on optional goods. I couldn't opt out of buying everything for a full year. I disagree that it's OK for the government to force everyone in th
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> Doesn’t matter if your supplier gets a tax rebate or a kickback from an upstream supplier after the fact. It does matter if the tax that was gathered was illegal, as it is here. The illegally gathered funds should go back to the entit

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