danpalmer

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by danpalmer 2mo ago
Setting aside any feelings about Musk, ad quality, or even product direction choices like locking down public access... I'm not sure I agree. My experience of Twitter was that the web app was reasonable and reliable. That reliability s
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
As someone who previously used GitHub a lot, and now works with stacked changelists (PRs) a lot, I'm not sure this really changes much. If there's an expectation that you might merge a whole stack, I think you're aiming for t
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
"We spent $447 to destroy our small business' reputation by not paying attention to anything" As they say, "Guns don't kill people, rappers do". LLMs don't ruin businesses, people do. Your customer that is
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
There are like 4 companies doing this right now.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
This is a totally fair opinion to have, but I think it's a niche one. Most people want a predictable flat rate. I've paid for cloud services at some non-trivial scale, and pricing them out becomes a big job. Understanding what you
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
This is why "unlimited" subscriptions are going to go away, because people can't just use what they paid for, they have to drain every bit of value out in every way they can. Things sold as "unlimited" are always do
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I don't know why you think this matters, you're not blue either.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
No it wouldn't, because each Mastodon server can choose who to federate with and many servers don't federate openly or don't federate with smaller hosts for technical, scaling, or even political reasons. I've done it, se
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Host your own PDS, use an alternative relay and App Server, like Blacksky.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
No this is my point, Mastodon doesn't solve this problem in the general case. The shift to Mastodon did not solve the problem of social network admins with too much power, because of the lock-in to instances. Most instances are fine, b
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I'm not coming at this cold, I've worked on the skill for PR (CL) creation in the Google monorepo. I'm not talking about raw LLM outputs here. It's a hard problem that is fairly fundamental to the training material being
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I'm not going to do the protocol justice in an HN comment, but a core goal is to separate the entities that control the data, the entities that run the network, and the entities that control the interfaces (and recommendation algos etc
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
The answer to big platforms enshittifying is not to move to smaller versions of the same thing. This didn't work for GitHub -> Codeberg/Sourcehut, it didn't work for Twitter -> Mastodon. Because the problem is not neces
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
But this is my point, they're not really controllable in this way. There are no fixed rules (like tests or linters) for small PRs, it's not good enough to do it by line count. A good PR tells a story to the reader that leaves them
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
PR review sucks because engineers often don't optimise their code authoring for it. When they do it's a joy. PR review of agent generated code sucks because agents are, in my experience, very poor at authoring for review. This mak
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
We've seen several new restaurants crop up on a busy restaurant street near us, and they all have AI generated logos and food images. All are bad, some are comically bad, some are just false advertising. So far none seem to be gaining
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
It's the lack of attention to detail that bugs me. It's just bad policy making. Writing good policies that encourage the right behaviour and discourage the wrong behaviour, policies that promote a good culture, are HARD. Saying &q
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Why? Banning abuse is fine, and disliking Cryptocurrency projects at a moral level is fine, but running a coffee hosting service and putting your moral judgements on projects like this just seems childish and unserious. I'm also appare
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
They do a bit more than this. They do streaming and transcoding for a start, that's fairly essential for a functioning video platform. They also have native apps for a range of platforms. Support subtitles, multiple audio tracks, all s
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I think this is underselling the browser UX. In many ways, Safari, Orion, Chrome, Brave, Opera, are all very different products despite all sharing the WebKit lineage.
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
This did happen before, and still does to some extent, with people googling and giving the answer. "Let me Google that for you" lmgtfy.com was even a thing, again lacking any introspection about why someone might be asking instead
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
I have seen that many times here on HN: "I don't know but I stuck this in CrapGPT and this is what it said...". I would encourage anyone considering a reply like this to ask themselves what value they have brought to the tabl
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
It doesn't have to be rooted in fundamental numbers. It should be, it would make more sense if it was, but the market is the only thing that matters. See also: Tesla, a failing car company with a strong history of empty promises, and a
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
> small/medium size kubernetes deployment (think around 25 cores That's ~1 machine. 1 SWE for a database isn't egregious, databases provide huge value, but for that little performance, that's crazy. I can only assume
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
When you're paying an average per employee of $250k USD/yr for your big engineering team and have a 90% margin, it's trivial. When you're paying an average of, say £50k GBP/yr, for some engineers but a lot of other
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
> Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't Yeah this is it. I don't know what you think I expect? I'm reading your marketing copy, it's your job to market it. There are few brands in the world that can get away
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Having been in a YC company that wasn't in the SaaS space, this never made sense to me/us. So many YC products were just way out of a reasonable price bracket, there's only so many $30/m subscriptions you can buy per emp
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Yeah this was a generalisation across the US/UK/AU. I come from the UK but now live in AU, and know the US a bit. I think the looking down on trades is not quite as simple as I summarised it as, and I think AU does a lot better at
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
College is a box to check off because we have lost the ability to support a workforce without college degrees (at least in the US, UK, AU, where I have some experience). Trades are critical but looked down on. Manufacturing is gone (which i
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by danpalmer 3mo ago
Coding yes, copywriting, design, identity, no. Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality, unless you don't care about quality. Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop

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