ecshafer

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by ecshafer 5d ago
> The EU requires political ads to be labeled and restricts how targeted they can be. This doesn't sound like a good thing. Why shouldn't a political group be able to target people who are going to care the most about an issue
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by ecshafer 5d ago
Part of my maturing as I've gotten older is realizing how much business success actually comes from Sales, BizzDev, Product, etc. Engineering is great, but if you don't have people actually getting things shipped, getting customer
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by ecshafer 5d ago
How is this possible? It cant be sustainable to have more people live off of welfare than work.
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by ecshafer 6d ago
Reddit mods, like stack over flow mods of yore, ruin the things they touch. There is something about being an internet janny. Reddits weekly x threads are useless, it doesnt map with the way reddit is used. So they also become a total ban.
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by ecshafer 8d ago
I find it mind boggling that you can 3d print rocket engines. I thought that the standard line is that 3d printing metal wasn't developed enough for anything serious. Not a mechanical/materials engineer, but if you can 3d print ro
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by ecshafer 9d ago
> Should you care that your heart surgeon is a necrophiliac? Probably. Should you care that some AI researchers are in a sex cult? Umm Yes, yes you should. Immorality in one area has a tendency to bleed into other areas.
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by ecshafer 9d ago
The solution is deregulation and land-value taxes. Tax land so that it reaches its maximum utilization. Deregulate so that buildings can actually be built.
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by ecshafer 10d ago
Bannon is a populist, and America-first nationalist. Bannon is NOT a free-market reagonomics Republican. Remember, one of his criticisms of Obama was that he didn't bail out the auto-industry enough . This shouldn't be surprisi
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by ecshafer 10d ago
Sonarqube has existed for like 20 years. There's doezens of cyclomatic complexity, linter, and cve scanner tools though.
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by ecshafer 12d ago
Can this AI integration now mean that Siri can finally just read the wikipedia page of a topic when I am driving? Or can I finally have Siri add a stop at Mcdonalds on google maps during a road trip?
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by ecshafer 12d ago
Its the personal blog of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove aka Aaron Patterson, core member of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
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by ecshafer 12d ago
I don't think this is surprising given that the US has also lost so much manufacturing due to cost cutting. A service economy is going to need a lot of software engineering. A nice big factory takes a lot of mechanical and electrical e
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by ecshafer 12d ago
And they also send people to jail for twitter posts. Ill take good ole USA where at least I know I am free, over the tyranny of a parliament. Look at how France and Germany are responding to democratically elected parties who are vaguely r
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by ecshafer 12d ago
In most web frameworks its not terribly hard to extern content (you probably do this already for translations) and just have a nice little yaml or json thats easily edited.
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by ecshafer 16d ago
They don't say anything in the post. But hotwire native supports pushing ui elements to ios and android. I imagine that might be part of the reason. I haven't built anything substantial with hotwire native though so I am not sure
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by ecshafer 16d ago
Why? This just seems like a bad idea.
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by ecshafer 17d ago
They do not define what their written or verbal agreements are, it is as simple as that. That statement would mean its possible they asked 35 years ago got a shrug and some guy saying "sure" OR it could maximally be a full contrac
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by ecshafer 17d ago
written and verbal agreements is incredibly vague. This could mean as little as "Sure you can paint a mural on my building", or any number of agreements that don't transfer ownership rights. They don't say that they have
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by ecshafer 17d ago
> How does the erasure of four longstanding community murals happen without any communication with CAMP or the artists involved?” Private Property is how. People don't own other people's property for abstract reasons like they
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by ecshafer 17d ago
When it gets to politics or economics there are an increasingly large amount of reddit like socialism comments. It seems ironic given its run by a VC firm.
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by ecshafer 17d ago
When I was at Shopify we used Tailwind along with our internal component library to great effect. Tailwind is a great css framework, but their business model is doomed by AI. Tobi acquihiring them for making a great product is a good result
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by ecshafer 21d ago
Filming people isn't colonialism, absurd headline, as expected from the Guardian.
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by ecshafer 22d ago
You can eat Sushi that is cooked, and there are even vegetarian rolls that don't have any fish. Sushi is quite good.
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by ecshafer 22d ago
The consequences of League of Legends. The brain trust over there use ELO and its caused everyone to think Elo is an acronym with the wrong pronunciation.
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by ecshafer 23d ago
I have a self hosted Qwen 3.8 27B and I find it to be unusably bad. Using it agentically, it will spin around in circles on even small tasks talking to itself until it loses context and starts again. I even had it say "I've forgot
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by ecshafer 23d ago
> People not realizing that code is about the easiest thing in the world to ship back and forth between different countries: if a company is hell-bent on being cheap, they'll outsource rather than bring someone in. We can tariff sof
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by ecshafer 23d ago
China is of course producing tons of great engineers, finance, mathematicians, science, etc. But China is also trying to provide good jobs for Chinese. A big reason I think China is seeing success is that on top of their education, they are
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by ecshafer 24d ago
There are a lot of office / IT jobs that can be done by anyone with an education. Instead of a team of H1B from TCS doing BI dashboards, why not a bunch of local college kids? You dont even need a CS degree, any business degree student
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by ecshafer 24d ago
I have seen H1Bs used for basic Java development, Desktop Support, CRM managemetn, Marketing, Project Managers, and all sorts of basic office work. The idea its used for the best and brightest is absurd. When you also count the massive frau
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by ecshafer 25d ago
I couldn't agree more on the draft. Draft and making congress actually declare wars would be a huge improvement.

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