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by figassis 2mo ago
You made me look, are they on drugs?
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by figassis 2mo ago
Cursor for one https://cursor.com/origin They announced this on the day of the outage, yesterday.
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by figassis 2mo ago
Sure, the app would be worth zero dollars, but it's not worth zero dollars, and it's not because people just enjoy having a random app in their phone is it? If I deleted it, it would still be worth millions, because a non zero num
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Ask HN: Should we regulate first party ads?
6 points by figassis 2mo ago|6 comments
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by figassis 2mo ago
Why not evaluate them on the merits? Is the name really the thing that’s important here? “GitHub has so many outages, but dammit, that other one has a terrible name, it’s practically unusable”. And origin is a pretty great name to give a gi
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by figassis 2mo ago
I think this is the curse of scale, but also of pseudo-leaders who think leadership is "pushing engineering to rapid-fire features for number go up." You tell engineers and engineering leaders to "just add this one feature, i
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by figassis 2mo ago
merges work fine, the git experience as well, this is a web infra issue
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by figassis 2mo ago
I called this maybe 3y ago, but I think so did everyone else that was sane. Sure, we get immense value from AI, but indiscriminately injecting into everything, the one thing we know to be unreliable above the threshold we used to fire peopl
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by figassis 2mo ago
Yesterday I was working on some video editing tools to create a demo from screen recordings. I started with Gifox, recorded a 5 min video and then started cutting it in their UI (small things like remove these 5 seconds from here, etc). Eve
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by figassis 2mo ago
I use this expression as well, but I think it has a different meaning when a programmer says it vs anyone else. In my pov, it is not the hard part because I have already mastered it to the point where it feels like breathing to me. So the n
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by figassis 2mo ago
That would be nice, and what I woudl expect from judges. But from what I experienced and from what I've seen, real nuanced judgement happens rarely. Most often judges simply lean on technicality, they act like machines, and this is why
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by figassis 2mo ago
How do you define "trying to make it look authentic"? You make a deepfake of a politician saying a discriminatory joke, and the author will just say "It was obvious this was not intended to be authentic. Anyone could see it&#
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by figassis 3mo ago
It's always been the purpose of ads, and this is how google was. Then they started making it hard to tell ads apart from content. When OpenAI starts injecting subliminal ads into your responses it will effectively win the manipulation
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by figassis 3mo ago
idk, taking free stuff on principle is not a thing that's done everywhere. Time is costly. Reading crap content costs me more than the money I'd pay for it.
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by figassis 3mo ago
I'm not sure if they're irrational. Payment/subscription fatigue is a thing. Today it seems like you have to pay to breathe. It's suffocating. I often go through periods where I reject every money ask compulsively, the s
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by figassis 3mo ago
I would definitely pay a monthly subscription to help fund a non profit compete with Anthropic and OpenAI. I already pay subscriptions for myself and 2+ other people. It's a non brainer to be able to pay for the training of better mode
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by figassis 3mo ago
Today you could plug this into your agent as a second brain to give it more insight on related topics and ground it's responses when doing research or building products that can benefit from cross polinating between fields.
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by figassis 3mo ago
The naysaying here is insane. Should a project like this not exist?
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by figassis 3mo ago
How long until Tesla buys Mistral?
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by figassis 3mo ago
Also, Software engineering is engineering. Not all software if built through engineering. I'd say today almost zero software is built this way. Figure it out as you go is not engineering. But I'm sure at NASA people are doing real
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by figassis 3mo ago
https://brainbound.blog/dams-animal-engineering-impact I could be stretching, but to me, this is very conscious and intentional work, perfected through experience and there are many way to get it wrong. What exactly would w
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by figassis 3mo ago
Ok, then there is regulated engineering and unregulated engineering. If you are doing engineering and it's not regulated (for many different reasons) it does not make it any less engineering. Animals do engineering, insects go engineer
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by figassis 3mo ago
The author is basically saying if you participate in any part of the encryption process, you're deceiving users in saying things are e2e encrypted. Isn't this conflating encryption with trust? Of course whoever claims to encrypt y
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by figassis 3mo ago
Lookup MOTO for credit card payments. I know, goes against everything you’ve been told about security, PCI, etc., but yes, it’s a thing. I hope it dies, but the world moves slowly.
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by figassis 3mo ago
VHDL, VLSI are well documented languages, with well build test and verification frameworks and harnesses. Even just by iteration you could get there if you have the money to pay for it.
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by figassis 3mo ago
My country, Angola, implemented online incorporation recently. They're very proud of it, but oh boy, do they need to burn it and salt the earth it stands on. It's harder and takes longer to incorporate online than brave the long l
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by figassis 3mo ago
The free tiers always go away, after they're deep in our infra. I would prefer to price it from the start.
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by figassis 4mo ago
btw sorry for the typos, just re-read this and looks like a dyslexic person wrote it
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by figassis 4mo ago
Have nee dealing with this in an area that requires insane attention: payments. It's strange feeling when you architect a system, all the invariants, all the fundamentals, all the guardrails, then implement the scaffolding in self docu
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by figassis 4mo ago
This. Depending on your policy or org’s policy, your auth session may be short lived. Going to Google to login and come back every hour is a worse experience. Use your password manager. It will bind the credentials to the domains.

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