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by danudey 2y ago
> They’re ‘unrealized gains’ for a reason The bridge that governments are attempting to make is between "you can't tax me on these, they're unrealized gains!" and "I'm going to fund my billionaire lifestyle
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by danudey 2y ago
If you replace some of them with clothes dryers then you can not only have clean clothes, but also dry and not-musty clothes. Highly recommend.
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by danudey 2y ago
AI ghost-writing made-up articles? There's a lot of money to be made.
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by danudey 2y ago
Cherry on top is the automated help pop-up in the bottom-right corner. Need help? No, it's a blog post, what would I need help on? And why are you flashing my browser's title bar at me telling me I have one new message that I didn
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by danudey 2y ago
> someone claims that they're unable to work in an office because they're suffering from a stress disorder, it's reasonable to have some followup questions about how they manage the disorder on other occasions that call fo
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by danudey 2y ago
They're going to be laughing all the way to the... settlement payments? https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-ai...
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by danudey 2y ago
"It hallucinates facts and uses those to manufacture lies? How soon can we have it managing all of our customer interactions?"
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by danudey 2y ago
> I remember going for a routine checkup at Kaiser, and the doctor was literally checking boxes on her computer terminal, rather than looking, talking, listening. This is also a doctor issue, to be clear. My primary care physician has a
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by danudey 2y ago
I would kill for some kind of `err_yield(err)` construct that handles propagating the error if it's the caller's problem to deal with. That said, I discovered that Go has the ability to basically encapsulate one error inside of an
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by danudey 2y ago
Also it feels like pretty much everything in the k8s/container/etc. space is go-related, which kind of makes sense.
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by danudey 2y ago
> The standard library is unimpressive (to be generous) Coming from Python, this is one of the major things that I just can't get past with golang (despite having to use it for work). The standard library has a lot of really interes
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by danudey 2y ago
> If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one. If I could get all of my friends to switch to one communication app, that would be great, but that
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by danudey 2y ago
I prefer microservices/microrepos _conceptually_, but we had the same experience as your quoted text - making changes to four repos, and backporting those changes to the previous two release branches, means twelve separate PRs to make
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Full docs rewrite is nice, but for now maybe a two-minute update to the readme to clarify these points for people coming across the project would be beneficial.
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by danudey 2y ago
It's a graph that shows a steady and consistent increase in atmospheric CO2 for the last 40 years regardless of the elected political party in the US at the time. In other words, it seems to indicate pretty strongly that no matter how
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by danudey 2y ago
4 years and a complete control of the supreme court guarantees lasting damage to the ecosystem (and all other aspects of society) since all the conservative/right-wing issues just need to be appealed up to SCOTUS and they'll get t
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by danudey 2y ago
> then street power gets cut Or the electrician doing maintenance on the backup generator doesn't properly connect the bypass and no one notices until he disconnects the generator and the entire DC instantly goes quiet. Or your DC p
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by danudey 2y ago
One of the interesting things about this whole story is that Tony Hawk was born the year before Shaunda was, making them both 56 this year. Interesting that they were (in a way) contemporaries.
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by danudey 2y ago
They're already testing moving manufacturing to India and profits to Ireland, so why not keep it up?
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by danudey 2y ago
> This is the shape of today's capitalism. It is merely resource extraction. See also: almost every private equity acquisition we've seen in the last ten or twenty years.
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by danudey 2y ago
"We need to integrate generative AI into our search results." "But that will make the product objectively worse." "But it's what customers want." "Is it?" "It's what clueless investors
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by danudey 2y ago
Google has never not been an ad company, except for that brief period of time where they were talking about how a search engine that serves ads is working against its users interests. Then they needed money so they did it anyway.
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by danudey 2y ago
I played around a bit lately with finding ways to dramatically multithread code in golang, mostly for fun. What I found was that there was a threshold where the overhead of spinning up all the threads at the start and synchroninzing them at
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by danudey 2y ago
SkyNet with ADHD, great.
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by danudey 2y ago
SkyNet with ADHD: https://x.com/anthropicai/status/1848742761278611504
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by danudey 2y ago
> we first learned that Claude sometimes takes breaks to browse pictures of Yosemite We learned what now?
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by danudey 2y ago
Expo '86 in Vancouver is when they launched the Skytrain, a completely automated, driverless system which continues to be automated and driverless today. Granted Vancouver is smaller than probably any of the other cities mentioned, but
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by danudey 2y ago
It's probably a case where their warranty/support contract doesn't support MUNI replacing the existing hardware, and they don't want to certify new hardware for a 26 year old system. I do wonder if they just have a stack
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by danudey 2y ago
> he said the suppliers of the readers won’t upgrade them. Not sure what the deal is. It's not worth the money to the suppliers to go through the trouble of managing the upgrade of that one system alone; likely there's an oppor
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by danudey 2y ago
Well, "basically putting Wifi APs in the station and on the trains" isn't really what you want for a billion-dollar organization that handles 140 million rides a year. You need redundancy, upgraded communications paths, you n

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