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by eropple 4y ago
> In this case the solution is not to further calcify their work, but to...solve the actual issue, via UBI and the like. Are you going to buy the necessary number of congressmen to make this happen? Because the people being aggrieved c
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by eropple 4y ago
> Instead of assuming evil intent, assume ignorance. Make convincing arguments, highlight the suffering, offer possible solutions - these are the actions that likely lead to improvement. I'll be real: the actions that are likely t
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by eropple 4y ago
One of the tricky things, and one of the reasons everybody reinvents the wheel, is that Makefiles aren't portable to Windows, which is a first-class platform for these runtimes. So you get a lot of second-system effect as a sidecar to
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by eropple 4y ago
> It makes complete sense to optimize that. Maybe? Like--define optimize . VC-chasing (alluded to by the great-grandparent poster elsewhere in-thread) is almost certainly less optimized from an EV perspective. If it's one'
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by eropple 4y ago
This phenomenon is real, and the best way to combat it is to Go Elsewhere. I'm still in a pretty expensive spot. But I'm very comfortable having somehow managed to never work for a big-tech-payin' big tech shop. There's
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by eropple 4y ago
> but I'd be able to do more things I like if I had house and spacious garage. But that's $$, $$$ if I also want to live in place with reasonable commute My house is 2000 square feet. I have a recording studio and a wood sho
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by eropple 4y ago
> Now I feel obliged to work even harder to make a few million dollars out of it before I'm 35. 35-year-old here, with a similar box of CS knowledge floating around. Comfortably sub-million, but with a nice house and a couple dogs
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by eropple 4y ago
> Do you have sleepless nights because you know that the device you use right now required slave labor to be constructed? Yes. Literally yes. It sucks. I try to minimize purchases, I research the most ethical sellers I can within the b
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by eropple 4y ago
I want you to know that I think you are one of the best posters here. That said: > historically, that’s not a winning position, basically, ever In what universe do you think people who are staring down the gunbarrel believe they have
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You are telling on yourself.
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by eropple 4y ago
One side may be automobiles. The other side are human beings . If you don't immediately and intuitively grasp the moral weight of drawing comparisons between animals and humans in this context, perhaps you can at least understand why
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by eropple 4y ago
This is not merely a deeply wise post, but a necessary one, and one that all of us, but especially advocates of AI technologies, need to deeply internalize. We as an industry have brought immiseration as a primary product to the developed
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by eropple 4y ago
I think there is a substantial burden of proof necessary for the implicit claim that AI people, in the main, care in the slightest about supporting those who will be negatively affected. (Wringing one's hands about "well we shou
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by eropple 4y ago
What does that have to do with literally anything, except excusing anticompetitive and extractive behavior because somebody else might hypothetically do it? They aren't and so they can't. AWS can and should be prevented from doin
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by eropple 4y ago
> what reason would one have to buy vs. build yourself I dunno--AWS's could be better without spending effort on it? The same way every other cloud provider incentivizes using their managed services? Don't get me wrong--a n
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by eropple 4y ago
It's not just a selling point, it's a reflection on how providers see customers. I've been struck when using other platforms (OCI, some PaaSes) that it feels a lot more like a partnership, where everybody makes money when I s
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by eropple 4y ago
> Why do you think they make huge profit on bandwidth. Because I have a rough idea of what bandwidth costs me at a data center, I can make some conservative extrapolations for their economies of scale, and I can read the AWS price pa
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by eropple 4y ago
Historically maybe-sorta; the consumer download for Java used to be called the JRE. It hasn't been updated since Java 8. .NET ships with a pretty full toolkit even on consumer systems (it's what undergirds PowerShell too) so .NET
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by eropple 4y ago
The VCs were also playing the game, though. How do you feel that iteration looks for them?
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by eropple 4y ago
Can you provide an example of something you'd see in common use that is 1) not provided by an existing library (such that you are consuming a complex type rather than writing it) and is 2) "out of reach for all but language expe
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by eropple 4y ago
And, because it does so, you can fall down really deceptive holes due to the lack of typing around things that decorators apply to, like parameters. I don't think that changes with stage 3 decorators, unfortunately. It makes NestJS rea
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by eropple 4y ago
I think that TypeScript, properly managed with things like zod or typebox, does an excellent job of giving me those benefits of types that I've come to expect while also having a really, really first-class development experience that r
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by eropple 4y ago
> They've been trying to de-personalize banking since back when I got my first ATM card in 1983 or so. For personal banking, absolutely. But the property management business I bought, and then sold, had dedicated account managers
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by eropple 4y ago
"Overlooking" is not an affordance one should hand to a machine. At minimum, it should bail and ask for correction. That it doesn't, that relentless stupid overconfidence, is why trusting this with anything of note is terrify
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by eropple 4y ago
> You're presented with three transparent closed doors. A reasonable person would expect that you can see through a transparent thing that's presented to you.
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by eropple 4y ago
> There should definitely be a place for a company to hold $10M without risk. Maybe $20M. There is. It's called a T-bill. I know how to buy them, and I am not a hotshot startup CEO. I think it's okay to expect some level of m
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by eropple 4y ago
Few "mom-and-pop" companies get to the point where they have $250K in liquid business cash without hiring an accountant . A "30 person startup" is waving around the cash supplies of a much, much larger actual-business a
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by eropple 4y ago
> it should be reasonable for a startup that just raised $10m to be able to put that money somewhere safe, and pay rent, payroll, and an AWS bill with it, without having to hire a "finance team" Aren't VCs supposed to su
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by eropple 4y ago
Both insured sweep accounts and non-FDIC depository insurance exist.
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by eropple 4y ago
> To those with large amounts of fiat hanging around: please don’t fuck around again. They are going to. The smuglord backpatting on social media has already begun. But I admire your optimism.

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