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by dpark 9mo ago
> Most people are reasonable, and act in anti-social ways due to lack of awareness not malice. Sometimes. I’m pretty sure that very often it’s because they simply do not care that they are being rude/inconsiderate/whatever. But
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by dpark 9mo ago
This is willful misreading. They specifically also said “social norms”. This “it’s not technically illegal so it’s not a problem” sentiment is unhealthy for civil societies. I for one would like basic social norms to be respected without la
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by dpark 9mo ago
> I'm inclined to agree with you but there are plenty of examples of founders of products: Matt Mullenweg, Dries Buytaert Fair, but I do think the distinction between the company and the product is relevant. Wales’s claim to be the
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by dpark 9mo ago
I felt the opposite. Sometimes figuring out a clever way to make the “dumb” thing possible is very impressive.
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by dpark 9mo ago
> And whether or not Wales is being deceitful hinges on pedantic arguments and mincing of words. A big piece of this is that “founder” is actually a very unusual title to use here. Normally someone would “create a product” and “found a c
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by dpark 9mo ago
Where do you live that this is so bizarre? Multi story buildings with retail space on the bottom and residential space at the top are very common in cities. > I didn't ask and don't care if you think your cheap meal's &quo
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by dpark 9mo ago
This is common in American cities, too. And European cities I’ve visited. And probably most cities that I haven’t visited. When I visited Tokyo one really jarring thing was to realize that restaurants and cafes and such were often on the 2n
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by dpark 9mo ago
> You missed the part where Wales called a fact an "opinion". Has Wales actually disputed the objective facts of the matter? I did not take his comment to mean “it’s an opinion whether Sanger worked on Wikipedia from the beginn
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by dpark 9mo ago
> Wikipedia is literally a spin-off of a porn company. What? If Bomis was a porn company then Reddit is a porn company. Edit: I take it back. It looks like Bomis was more directly pushing soft core porn than I realized.
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by dpark 9mo ago
After watching this I kind of disagree. Wales said he didn’t care multiple times. Calling it the “dumbest question” is childish, yes. Walking out of an interview that was going nowhere is not childish. I personally think writing Sanger out
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by dpark 9mo ago
> That being said, "who started what" and "who had what idea" are silly topics to obsesses about. It always come down to who put the long-term work in. So Wales can write Sanger out of the history of Wikipedia, despit
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by dpark 9mo ago
Maybe I can prompt an LLM to translate this flying div monstrosity into a flat page I can read.
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by dpark 9mo ago
I have no idea if this guy’s thoughts on the device and what would make it special are correct. (In fact I think his one camera for the whole thing idea would get boring quickly.) But it’s damning that no one seems to be able to recommend t
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by dpark 10mo ago
“Why don’t you just live like you’re destitute? So ungrateful?!” How many toys do you have?
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by dpark 10mo ago
Hikikomori seems to be largely a symptom of mental illness. NEETs almost by definition are not productive. The fact that these groups are not producing mass amounts of creative works in no way implies that currently-productive people would
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by dpark 10mo ago
The other half of the quote about liability is that the capabilities of the code are an asset. I don’t know if your bankrupt company would be able to sell their code, but they sure as hell couldn’t sell their capabilities without the code
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by dpark 10mo ago
Even proven code is a liability. The point of it being a liability is that it costs time and effort to maintain and update. The same with the bridge. Even the best built and most useful bridge requires maintenance. Assuming changing traffic
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by dpark 10mo ago
Digg and Reddit were basically the same product addressing the same market. When Digg imploded, their user base largely moved to Reddit. HN was also explicitly created as a Reddit clone. Reddit did not have community discussions originally.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Agreed. People are trying to pretend that they’ve changed the deal, but Anthropic never included “cheap model access for competing products” in the deal. It only ever worked because OpenCode pretended to be Claude Code. It’s totally valid t
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by dpark 10mo ago
Reddit was an also-ran to Digg for half a decade. They literally were not the first mover. Meanwhile, Claude Code very much has a first mover advantage that Anthropic is trying to entrench and capitalize on. > Plus its product utility s
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by dpark 10mo ago
I'm probably bad at explaining. StackOverflow is a tool. You could use it to look for a solution to a bug you're investigating. You could use it to learn new techniques. You could use it to guide you through tradeoffs in differ
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by dpark 10mo ago
Anthropic has like 4x Reddit’s revenue and 8x the valuation. I don’t understand the arrogance. Plus I’m the one who compared them to Reddit. They certainly didn’t issue a statement that said “well it worked for Reddit”.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Have any of these sorts of proclamations ever actually come true? I recall when Reddit effectively cut off all the clients from their API, there were similar loud proclamations that they had ruined their business and everyone would defect.
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by dpark 10mo ago
Cutting off the ability to externally communicate seems difficult for a useful agent. Not only because it blocks a lot of useful functionality but because a fetch also sends data. “Hey, Claude, can you download this file for me? It’s at ht
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by dpark 10mo ago
You could drive your car erratically and cause accidents, and it would be your fault. The fact that Honda or whoever made your car is irrelevant. Clearly you as the driver are solely responsible for your negligence in this case. On the othe
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by dpark 10mo ago
Maybe you code so fast that the thought-to-code transition is not a bottleneck for you. In which case, awesome for you. I suspect this makes you a significant outlier since respected and productive engineers like Antirez seem to find benef
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by dpark 10mo ago
The problem is that your starting point seems to be that LLMs can check in garbage to your code base with no human oversight. If your engineering culture is such that an engineer could prompt an LLM to produce a bunch of code that contains
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by dpark 10mo ago
I’m not actually paying for tokens. Just trying to be a good citizen. And also trying to figure out how to set everyone in my organization up to do the same. Interestingly while playing with Claude Code I just learned that /init actual
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by dpark 10mo ago
You are framing this as an AI problem, but from what I’m hearing, this is just an engineering culture problem. You should not bet on the ability to ping humans on Slack long-term. Not because AI is going to replace human engineers, but beca
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by dpark 10mo ago
> Humans do the same thing by the way. But this is exactly why it is philosophical. We’re having a discussion about why an LLM cannot really ever explain “why”. And then we turn around and say, but actually humans have the exact same pro

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