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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
If you're an engineering manager, you should communicate with your team, know their strengths and weaknesses, stay sharp on modern technique, and, most importantly, ask them what workflows work best for them, not us on Hacker News. I
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
I'm curious when this stops. I have been thinking over the past week or so that we're likely to see consumer technology sitting well behind datacenter tech perpetually here, and this is not a transient shortage but an overall mark
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
Exactly this. OP, this is basically where this book goes - AI management that directs humans around as automata.
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
What worries me is that _a lot of people seem to see LLMs as smarter than themselves_ and anthropmorphize them into a sort of human-exact intelligence. The worst-case scenario of Utah's law is that when the disclaimer is added that the
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
> The new head of Facebook AI is 28 years old? That's not OK, that's too young. Too inexperienced and not worldwise enough by a long shot. This is ageist in the way I don't usually expect from the Valley. Plenty of entrepr
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
> DC fills vacant lots that might otherwise attract crime. Can we prove that the location of this DC is attracting crime? It's not a vacant lot. This protest is because DTE is expected to raise electric rates for the state's re
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
> you're going to see people figure out how to be the digital Amish and run what they need locally and live without the benefits of the rest. I've been a large proponent of what LLMs and the transformative nature of them, but f
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by futuraperdita 9mo ago
These things don't really supply "jobs" in any sort of way that is noticeable to the surrounding community. A couple hundred people. The idea that DCs produce jobs is basically a false hope given these communities.
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
I'm sorry. It's not creative to just slap something through an LLM and publish it on the Internet.
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
What parts and content should be "harder to access" in your view?
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
I'm thinking the same thing. AFAICT this is still going to increase M0 and long-term inflation risk. I don't see how this rate cut is likely to change and/or stimulate the economy with the conditions we have today, just to ad
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
You've created a text-based version of a Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
> It's like somebody set out to do what the 90s Geocities couldn't, using modern tech. This style is basically a sort of nostalgiacore and that's exactly what it's trying to do. It's heavily influenced by Web 1.0
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
Came to this post hoping to see C4SS mentioned. "Markets not capitalism" is a fantastic read in general and the PDF is freely available / open access.
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
I think you're assuming a pattern existed in 1996 that didn't actually exist until the 2010s. In 1996 JavaScript was extremely limited; even server side processing was often limited to CGI scripts. There was nothing like React t
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
> AI also has very powerful open models (that can actually be fine-tuned for personal use) that can compete against the flagship proprietary models. It was already tough to run flagship-class local models and it's only getting worse
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by futuraperdita 10mo ago
Is this not just "with freedom comes responsibility" applied to technology? Often the freedom to do something means that, when given that sovereignty and missing the requisite experience, that means you also end up with the freed
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by futuraperdita 11mo ago
Having bought other systems in the MS-line, these boxes are heavy on cool homelab specs but aren't all that reliable and dealing with Minisforum for support is abysmal. I ended up moving back to old enterprise hardware (TinyMiniMicro o
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by futuraperdita 11mo ago
> You can get nice, custom, handmade bags for a fraction of what this pointless junk goes for. You're making the subjective value judgement that a synthetic material is "junk", without qualifying it as such. A textile that
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by futuraperdita 11mo ago
> Board members hold CEOs accountable. How is an AI agent going to do that? The lack of oversight is a feature, not a bug, in this case.
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by futuraperdita 11mo ago
This comment is getting downvoted for what is likely its tone of ageism, but I don't think that it's completely wrong: the original FOSS-activist community is now a group of oldheads and hasn't successfully made the same gene
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by futuraperdita 11mo ago
> I am married, have three school age children, and have hobbies and I volunteer regularly. One of those hobbies is not “figuring out how to make Linux work.” This comment literally asks him to go check to see if his games work with Linu
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
This article is an ad for the author's product.
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
Given the increase in power budget and cooling, I’m still disappointed to see that the lowly MacBook Air is not just competitive, but sometimes leading against the best x86 chips, some 5 years after the first one was released. After struggl
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
Non-iMessage chats are also segregated by color, a visual affordance that identifies you as a member of the non-Apple outgroup. The other.
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
> OAI is lying and Sam Altman in particular is extremely convincing Sam is an excellent hype-man and is going to play to the strengths of the team and their accomplishments; every new product release is going to be hailed as a breakthrou
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
X-risk talks heighten fear in everyone, but the reasons why changes like this are made in large technology companies are usually banal. Two alternative explanations include that the person just felt like coding again, or that the projection
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Why does everything look infantilized?(assemblagenyc.substack.com)
18 points by futuraperdita 1y ago|7 comments
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
Agree. I like the smol web's indie ideals but any threat they think technically advanced and arcane tooling is to a normie on an iPhone is almost a delusion of grandeur. The "old internet" that runs the Indie Web / Smol
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by futuraperdita 1y ago
I love this language but have never found a production use case for it, versus just using something less obscure like Go. It's the Ruby we wish we had in the 10s.

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