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by dangus 4mo ago
Maybe some of these companies will learn to stop appointing awful leadership then. Having a sleazy CEO like Sam Altman or Elon Musk is a business risk. Many potential customers don’t like these people and they say abrasive and alienating th
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by dangus 4mo ago
Opus 4.7 is not the current version of Opus.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I’ve seen comments on other threads on this subject the general idea that these article headlines are overstating the pullback from AI. In other words, the news cycle is looking for an AI story that lands with readers, and that the example
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by dangus 4mo ago
I think the US is still a crazy outlier regardless of how much oil they produce. They use double the oil of the entire EU despite having half the population. Triple the usage of ASEAN despite having a little less than half the population. F
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by dangus 4mo ago
20 miles to work = 40 mile round trip. The average American commute time is something like 20-25 minutes and if that involves highway travel, 20 miles isn’t a crazy assumption.
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by dangus 4mo ago
Japan can package up all the snacks they want, they still use far less oil per capita than the USA. Japan: Approximately 28% of all passenger kilometers are traveled by rail United States: Rail travel accounts for only about 0.25% of passen
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by dangus 4mo ago
We all know why they keep it on. I’m just kind of surprised that it works to convert people. Or…maybe it doesn’t? Some of these things that we have are just common practices that owners of websites do that are seemingly done automatically w
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by dangus 4mo ago
In my case, I don’t have access to the APIs nor does my company’s ancient trash timesheet app have any ability to bulk upload. That’s what’s so great about these programs, really, is that you can just do the thing out of plain language.
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by dangus 4mo ago
I explained poorly. What I mean is that if you accept the free trial, you’ll be billed if you forget to cancel. That’s fine and normal, but what’s not as normal is that there’s no way to turn off auto-renew and keep your trial period. You e
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by dangus 4mo ago
When you buy a new Apple device it comes with a trial for Apple subscription services. My iPhone 17 Pro came with a News+ trial. If I didn’t cancel it it would charge me. There was no way to turn off auto-renew without forfeiting the remain
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by dangus 4mo ago
Let’s not forget that Apple advertises paid subscriptions in notifications and settings pane alerts when you first buy the computer. They offer free trials which you can’t cancel without immediately ending the trial. (E.g., you can’t turn o
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by dangus 4mo ago
I think that there’s a little bit of pointlessness in comparing the Framework 12 to essentially the best laptop value of all time, a laptop that was basically unthinkable by the industry as a whole 6 months ago. The framework 12 is also ori
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by dangus 4mo ago
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Maybe some context would help. Is this a cofounder who currently works there? I don’t think this is directly relevant.
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by dangus 4mo ago
If there’s an open source alternative to Claude desktop that has a similar amount of extensibility with connectors specifically I’d be very interested to know about it. I’m very much not deep into this space.
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by dangus 4mo ago
While I agree with you on open models getting better, I have been starting to see how the value, the reason you pay for Claude, isn’t in the models. For example, I just hooked Claude desktop up to my outlook to build a report for my timeshe
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by dangus 4mo ago
> Neither are trustworthy. Since we’ve all forgotten media literacy, what makes Wikipedia trustworthy is that sources are cited and you can inspect those sources yourself to make a judgement call on the topic at hand. There was never any
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by dangus 4mo ago
I’m talking about used on eBay, obviously. Or do a search for “mini PC” on aliexpress.
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by dangus 4mo ago
And how big was that black market for incandescent light bulbs? What would have happened to it when supply of incandescent bulbs dried up as manufacturers stopped making them? Were there any homebrew incandescent lightbulbs? You’re actually
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by dangus 4mo ago
Performance per watt is nice but I’d be more inclined to talk about “problems being solved per dollar.” If you don’t specifically have a project where you need the GPIO pins built in, I struggle to understand the use case proposition of a r
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by dangus 4mo ago
This is a nuance-free take. There’s zero demand for products that are hiding safety issues that nobody was seeking out (e.g., toys with lead paint, batteries that explode) Demand for illegal things isn’t in a vacuum. It’s hard to enact proh
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by dangus 4mo ago
Apple Silicon is not really the simultaneously silent and quiet and cool system it was in the M1 days. If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan. MacBook Pro models and Apple computers
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by dangus 4mo ago
This is a good life lesson to OP of the freedoms they have in these situations. An interviewer can choose to ask whatever question they want (within legal boundaries). You can also choose to answer however you want. The interviewer asked yo
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by dangus 4mo ago
I’m so done reading articles like this. Beyond the issue of AI serfdom, I just don’t want so much of my workflow to depend on “some other company.” This whole setup is basically setting you up to have all your projects in a Claude SaaS lock
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by dangus 4mo ago
I think most of the previous trends were less widespread and some of them (like kubernetes[1]) are sensible default options. We are seeing shoe companies pivot to AI. They didn’t do that with Hadoop or NoSQL. [1] Even some homelab folks som
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by dangus 4mo ago
Yeah, and that would disrupt Uber badly in the area. In the article it mentions that this is a union of 70,000 independent contractors. I imagine that it would be very bad for Uber if they all decided not to drive simultaneously. With colle
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by dangus 4mo ago
I knew they were stupid, I just didn’t know it got way down to this level
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by dangus 4mo ago
I really don’t understand on the customer side of B2B why so many companies actively encouraged AI tooling costs. I can understand it from the side of the companies selling tokens and AI hardware. I don’t understand the race to spend more o
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by dangus 4mo ago
Because its AI slop. It’s not a designed website.
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by dangus 4mo ago
AI Slop
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by dangus 4mo ago
And conversely, if New Orleans was not sinking it would still face the same issues as the sea level is still rising. It would just be a little slower.

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