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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
I found that having clean models and parsing your data using Zod religiously at the application boundary (requests, URL, DB, env) gets you 80% of the way without fighting the language. The stray email: string causing trouble is fine and is
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
I fail do see how can't be pessimistic in the face of this. And yet one must continue the good fight.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
And always have that phone on you at all times please. This goes way beyond any notion of a "hacker tweaking his electronics". With ID checks, device attestation and a device required for any transaction, and all this data piped i
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Social media, as we have it today, has nothing to do with a public square. A public square does not have trolls and bots from across the globe teleporting in and out. A public square does not amplify the most divisive comments and drown out
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Start by dismantling the mechanisms behind surveillance advertising.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
What have the Romans ever done for us?
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Rubbish. Fighting fascism by implementing totalitarian tools is a ludicrous idea. Start with dismantling the means by which the information cancer spreads. No more targeted ads, no more data harvesting. Increase privacy. Everybody knows abo
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Paywall. Possibly related and without a paywall: > Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians successfully simulated the destructi
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Yet another reminder that a) Meta is a nasty company b) Zuck has neither the taste nor the vision to get Meta to build anything. He will continue to mine his current platforms to finance whatever is hot that day. Yesterday it was glasses, t
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Take away the maximalist points and this post rings true. > It is now possible to vibecode your own SaaS instead of paying someone $50/month for theirs. I have yet to see proof of this playing out this way. You do have highly compet
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
I was agreeing with you
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Would you look at that. Clinton born in 46, Bush Jr 46, Obama 61, Trump 46 and Biden 42. And this why immortality is bad and death is not to be cured . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
> If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-jame...
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
No morals, no ethics. The other day I skimmed some of the countless vibe coding videos on YT and the vast, vast majority surfacing through a naive search are basically get rich quick crap. Identify a one-feature app that (supposedly) makes
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Imagine buying up property of sand and covering it in rocks.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
The above comment is a prime example of pseudo-paleo rubbish confirming anything and predicting nothing. Popper would have a field day.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
It says that I am very progressive, and yet I find that wing's usual baggage laughable. Monty Python knew it all along, the Judaea's Peoples Front are the worst, it's every man's right to have babies and anyway, what hav
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
Understand maybe. Feel it? I wouldn't have.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
These people have no taste. But I must admit, similar things regarding style were said about the AirPods and here we are.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
> One user there posted about how his company had been spending $400/mo on Atlassian’s Jira. He’d felt personally slighted by this outrageous bill, so he’d had his team build a new internal task tracker using Claude. I dislike Jira
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
> We're having too much of these look back to hunter-gatherer state of affairs to explain modern phenomenons. Indeed. These hunter-gatherer stories explain anything and predict nothing. Discard at will.
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by gherkinnn 4mo ago
I remain in awe at the Apollo program, it is a most marvellous thing, and I am aware that it was not always received well at the time. Comparing the cost, the Iran war cost the US between 25 billion and 113 billion, so 187 spending billion
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Black Mirror was ahead of its time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
How do people around you react to your face blindness? Do they consider not being remembered rude? Do you get incredulous reactions like people with aphantasia?
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
Marc Andreesen
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
I also want people to make their own mistakes. This position fails when these mistakes, in this case social media, purposefully and knowingly override our monkey brains and when widespread adoption of these mistakes allow severe negative ou
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
I am against these age bans because I know the mechanisms behind it will be used against everybody. I am, however, all for banning personalised feeds, data collection, targeted ads, what amounts slot machines, and generally the poison these
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
I admit I didn't finish the article. The views it presented are frankly too deranged for me to entertain. And I am a friend of the absurd.
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
"How are you?" "How was your weekend?" It is common for people to ask a personal sounding question but expecting an impersonal answer.
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by gherkinnn 5mo ago
I think that's it. LLMs infected companies with the Rage Virus and now they're running mindlessly at anything that moves. A "just say no" engineer has no air in such an environment. It is FOMO of the most diffuse kind, w

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