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by gtowey 1y ago
Sales and marketing is the only thing they've ever been good at. Really. They make their money because they can go to the largest corporations & governments, talk to the CTO and tell them they have a product for everything that che
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Although I agree with this, I can also think of a counter example by analogy. If you're on a construction project and you, say, spend a bunch of time inspecting and maintaining the safety systems so that you prevent any accidents that
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by gtowey 1y ago
Yeah, and maybe it would be better still if we all tried heroin!
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by gtowey 1y ago
I too am waiting for the bubble to burst. Particularly because I think it's doing real harm to the industry. Every company seems to be putting all their eggs in the AI basket. And that is causing basic usability and feature work to be
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by gtowey 1y ago
> I agree with Microsoft/Google/KDE's order. The author's situation is extremely rare... Even if that were a valid reason for making it the default behavior, the real issue is they don't even give you the option
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by gtowey 1y ago
The capitalist lords demand their tithe. Those superyachts aren't cheap, you know. We are pioneering the new feaudalism.
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by gtowey 1y ago
Of course they know the UI doesn't really do what you want. But they also know they make more money when it's filled with manipulative anti-patterns. Companies love algorithmic content because because it's the ultimate shield
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by gtowey 1y ago
> The capital class didn't like the power employees had during covid. So true. Notice how everything got really expensive after COVID? All the companies cited "supply chain" or cost of labor increases but then were reporti
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by gtowey 1y ago
Hey Sam! Congrats on the launch!
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's one thing to know you don't enjoy it for yourself. But saying "I will never understand" sounds like willfull ignorance. It sounds dangerously close to not wanting to understand because you don't want to acciden
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by gtowey 1y ago
You have to ask what problems exactly are you solving? Unless there is a compelling reason to use them, sticking with auto increment IDs is much simpler. And I say this as someone who recently has to convert some tables from auto increment
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by gtowey 1y ago
Agreed. The OP's declaration that this is a difficult read pretty much proves the point of the article. Especially if you were entering university as an English major, it seems like table stakes to have a conceptual understanding that
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by gtowey 1y ago
And now you know the entire reason the US is consumed by political chaos. A rational society would be regulating those corporations to ensure they act in the public best interest at least some of the time. We're seeing the result of wh
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by gtowey 1y ago
I called it a grey area because there were mentions in this thread that the statute of limitations to prosecute those crimes were close to expiring. That means it looked like he could have gotten away with it without major consequences if n
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by gtowey 1y ago
You think taxi companies are paying for enough parking spaces to store most of their fleet at once? A lot of those cars are stored on the street in front of the house of the driver. Also, the problem of storing something like 10k taxis pal
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by gtowey 1y ago
Are all those cars going to keep circling the block at night when nobody is driving?
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by gtowey 1y ago
If this is true then it sounds like the FBI targeted him specifically because they figured his previous crimes made for good leverage. It seems his mistake was not realizing that he was caught between a rock and a hard place. More colloqui
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by gtowey 1y ago
What if we didn't stop them because we were also benefitting from their greed?
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by gtowey 1y ago
I don't think anyone is going to argue that it's hard to do that, but I think overstating their efficacy is what we should be worried about.
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by gtowey 1y ago
With the current political climate, I think we are more likely to find the Health Department promoting cigarettes as a healthy way to relax.
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by gtowey 1y ago
Values statements are usually somewhere between a wish list and propaganda. My cynical take is that a company's stated values are exactly the opposite of the behavior you'll find most common in the company.
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by gtowey 1y ago
It's probably more accurate to say they were reductionists -- it's easy to imagine an ideal system if you ignore the complexities of reality. Which is why they all failed. I bet it's related to the tendency for narcissism whe
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by gtowey 1y ago
> But these seem like pretty reasonable arguments? At the very least you should retort with a study that at least tried to control for confounders. I disagree. The fundamental premise here is that regular exercise has profound health ben
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by gtowey 1y ago
And they haven't even gotten around to adding advertising into them yet! Imagine when chat assistants subtly steer you towards certain products. Would you even know it was manipulating you?
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by gtowey 1y ago
"We should prefer privatization because public entities are too easily corrupted by those same private companies" This is my new favorite take on libertarian ideals.
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by gtowey 1y ago
My layman's guess is that our interpretation of the fundamental explanation for quantum mechanics is wrong. That wave-particle duality is wrong. There is an old alternative explanation which has been gaining some attention lately: pil
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by gtowey 1y ago
You're correct. They didn't lose property as they had no legal concept of ownership. Instead they lost their homes, their culture, and their lives. How lucky for them!
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They will not. Because the sellers can sell to another country without the tariff. American buyers have no alternative.
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From the article he sounds like just another rich guy with a god complex. He says existence is the most important thing in the world, but also says he supports RFK Jr's attempt to burn down the whole medical & health industry becau
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It's not going to happen anytime soon, because you simply cannot cheat physics. A system that supports OLAP/ad-hoc queries is going to need a ton of IOPs & probably also CPU capacity to do your data transformations. If you wa

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