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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Never a git history rewrite after a declined pull request, pure “index.html_previous_3” bliss
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Able to make changes preserving correctness over time Vibecoding reminds me sharply of the height of the Rails hype, products quickly rushed to market off the backs of a slurry of gems and autoimports inserted on generated code, the origina
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
He’ll have pissed off a lot of very rich and powerful people once they’re forced to accept that they’ll still need us plebes in the end, does he have a way out when that happens?
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Great way to fight the allegations that EU politicians are corrupt and unaccountable, there
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
100 billion a year, with math that’s downright delusional. So, back of the envelope math, the US GDP is 27.72T USD, 80% (22.18) corresponds to the tertiary sector. Let’s say that this is a 15% increase over a 10 years period, because YoY a
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Many of those things were already at a “good enough” level since GPT-3.5. There’s probably a good business usecase there for companies wanting to have smoother communication with offshore teams. Could that be a game-changer? I wouldn’t disc
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
The implied promise was that these things were going to “revolutionize the workplace” i.e. massively automate middle class office jobs A couple of years down the road, their useful applications still are summarizing text, transferring style
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Israel hasn’t gotten fire bombed or nuked. What’s the parallel with the WW2 Axis Powers here?
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Notes and Reminders are extremely good at what they do, and the synchronization with their iOS equivalents is flawless from what I can tell… and fat chance you get to uproot such a thing to a non-Apple OS. Third party apps other than for me
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
This sounds just like a typical startup or small consultancy drunk on Ruby gems and codegen (scaffolding) back in the Rails heyday. People who don’t yet have the maturity for the responsibility of their roles, thinking that merely adopting
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
What he can’t buy is being at peace and content with the popularity he already has
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Becoming someone who can do the thing is how you get to do a lot of things Not what your boss and your bosses’ boss wants you to do, instead of doing other things you can do to maximize value for shareholders in some arbitrarily chosen amou
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
He “learned” long ago that if people don’t celebrate you for putting down someone else (or themselves), you can just remind yourself how big of an intellectual you are to give yourself that ego boost, and rationalize everything as you exper
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
The tone on HN used to be that “Hacker” was synonymous with “VC backed startup founder”, there used to be whole discussions centered around the founder persona and its nature, the more traditional definitions of “hacker” got paid lip servic
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
I did like famous visionary CEO Steve Jobs used to advice, and it read well enough I held my phone sideways
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
I don’t think it’s unfair to say that catastrophic conditions like those make you _less_ intelligent, they’re feared and loathed for good reasons. I also don’t think all that many people would be seriously content to lose their minds and se
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Just consider the context window Tokens falling off of it will change the way it generates text, potentially changing its “personality”, even forgetting the name it’s been given. People fear losing their own selves in this way, through brai
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Unlike the friendly bot, if I can’t find credible enough sources I’ll stay with an honest “I don’t know”, instead of praising the genius of whoever asked and then making something up.
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
You see people (business people who are enthusiastic about tech, often), claiming that these bots are the new Google and Wikipedia, and that you’re behind the times if you do, what amounts, to looking up information yourself. We’re preachin
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
I was expecting to see achievements, gambling and speculative markets for loot boxes.
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Any minute you spend in a job interview defending your application server + Postgres solution, is a minute that you will lack to talk of follow up questions about the distributed system that interviewer was expecting. Yes, it’s nonsense, st
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
A queue and a database are more shots on the architecture golf though.
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
A truly committed pessimist would accept this dark omen. Anyway, this definition of optimism > or the belief that the future will be favorable because one can control important outcomes Isn't what one colloquially means by it. Thoug
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Rage-engagement, something I never needed, and that I knew I needed out of my life, I just didn't know how much of a positive impact it would have to get off it. Sorry Zuck and Spez, but I know you'll be fine without a hatebuck o
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
The transcript doesn’t seem to be finished, the part that the author uses to support their thesis is this excerpt in the article "...especially in all those subjects where use of [such a language] may be free and where interest and au
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Up until a few years ago, they were buying products, signing labor-intensive contracts, laying off people, burning out the ones that remain, and not investing in its products In 2021 they spun off the consultancy business and now seem to ju
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Does it give you tools to change what you can change, though? I’ll be reading “Meditations” soon enough, but emphasis on the means to accept things you are helpless about, and not the opposite, can lead to learned helplessness. If young peo
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
These architectures were for were high end machines at the time, universities and government agencies would indeed been the only ones buying these, and they probably migrated to commodity hardware long ago; if migrating to a PC-compatible a
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
All I find searching for “embedded m68k Linux distro” is people looking for, or coming up with, alternatives, as Debian was already “too big” fifteen years ago. I don’t get the fuzz around the “retro computing” verbiage. I doubt anyone is a
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by forgetfulness 11mo ago
Aren’t m68k computers only a few models from the 1990s and 1980s, and some more recent hobby projects? That’s squarely in the retro computing enthusiasts category. I’m not in the Debian world, but those do seem to me like the types of syst

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