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by gxs 3mo ago
Because this kind of stuff is used for way beyond this It’s used for surveillance in the truest sense Heaven forbid you are on someone’s watchlist, they will just track your movement across the city This isn’t some fake CSI pop dream - this
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by gxs 3mo ago
The sad thing is that the knee jerk reaction here is going to be “omg just vote with your wallet, don’t buy” But the truth is it’s bullshit and this attitude that companies should be able to do whatever they want because it’s a free market
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by gxs 4mo ago
What a terrible take First of all, who said this is a disaster? Second of all, OP never even said anything about no regulation - they specifically said they wanted transparency which is 100% valid and better than a world where the governmen
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by gxs 4mo ago
iCloud itself does this for you if you bring your own domain fyi
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by gxs 4mo ago
This sucks On the one hand - you’re happy for the entrepreneurs On the other, every single thing I hate as a consumer happens because of lack of competition and these acquisitions that old dinosaurs use to prop themselves up Every single on
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by gxs 4mo ago
If you like this I highly recommend you read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations if you haven’t An easy read that dives into stoicism, a similar mindset, within the context of running the Roman Empire. Great read.
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by gxs 4mo ago
> And then I started realizing: all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years: the trade-offs between implementations, how acquiring works, how to structure idempotency to prevent double-charges, everything, was becoming useless. I
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by gxs 4mo ago
He tweeted this a while ago
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by gxs 4mo ago
It’s hard for me not to be cynical When the city of San Francisco is handing out tax breaks to companies for forcing RTO in shitty Bay Area infrastructure and Paul Graham loudly and proudly calls wfh communism, it’s hard to not take these f
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by gxs 4mo ago
Right there with you - this has been my experience as well, to a tee I can do more now…so I do - it’s really that simple And it’s way more exhausting because there’s no room to breathe - fresh code to work with every few minutes with preppi
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by gxs 5mo ago
Yeah I purposely didn’t get into the right or not - it’s just how I’m seeing things evolve in “real time” A big part of it is that people feel like they are drinking from a firehouse having to learn to use ai (which is not always just a pro
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by gxs 5mo ago
One of the things missed with AI is that it’s enabled people to do more - either by augmenting skill sets or augmenting bandwidth In my own circles this has led to more work not less Expectations are higher, SLAs are tighter. Which makes se
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by gxs 5mo ago
I grew up on construction sites with my dad. If i've done well in my career, it was from watching him operate - managing huge construction crews, how he figured out who to put on what tasks, handling suprises, setbacks, all that stuff
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by gxs 6mo ago
This is gross It feels like we’ve been in the golden age and the window is coming to a close Let the enshitification begin, I guess
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by gxs 6mo ago
You could just always buy a cheap one on Amazon and then make a real investment if you like
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by gxs 6mo ago
If you look at the past 3-4 decades, China has just played their cards so well If/when they overtake the US, all things aside, they deserve it. There is no world where the US overtakes China but there’s a world where China overtakes th
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by gxs 6mo ago
Always makes me wonder how people use their machine when I read comments like this I’ve worked in big tech and fast growing startups, side by side at one point or another next to hundreds of nerds that love talking about hardware and softwa
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by gxs 6mo ago
The difference is you can make full use of Google without logging in Even with a throw away, no chance I use OpenAI now - if/when Anthropocene does this I’ll be in a tough spot
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by gxs 6mo ago
This was a great comment, you challenged them but in a reasonable way and with really good questions I wish public discourse were more this way - if someone is arguing in good faith, actually answering what you asked moves the conversation
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by gxs 6mo ago
Wow that was your takeaway? > “2025 was the year when AI really started being useful for many different tasks,” said Terence Tao I think I’ll go out on a limb and agree with Terrence Tao, I think the dude is well known in the math commun
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by gxs 6mo ago
If I had to wager a lazy, armchair guess, I think it forces it to think harder/longer The answer is probably more straightforward than we think, e.g. “the user thinks I can do this so I better make sure I didn’t miss anything”
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by gxs 6mo ago
I had a similar thought, though not as extreme, the second they started nerfing and filtering models Their intensions were good, they always are, but the minute you decide to nerf something powerful for someone, it means someone out there h
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by gxs 6mo ago
Ha so well known it has a name, Cunningham’s law
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by gxs 6mo ago
So many. The Dropbox comment on HN Funny enough about the Dropbox comment, it caught so much flak that it’s gone full circle and I’ve often found people defending it saying what the guy said made sense at the time etc I guess Reddit is just
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by gxs 6mo ago
Yes, I’ve found at work that the best way to get me off my ass and work furiously is to tell me something isn’t possible
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by gxs 6mo ago
I've picked up a couple languages relatively easily and I 100% attribute it to the fact that I have no shame - zero I will speak in my ugly, broken, American accent and do it til I improve. I didn't read about this technique in a
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by gxs 6mo ago
Reddit? Discord? Other niche forums like the Subaru owner forums or the various audiophile forums? HN? There are so many places where no one even thinks to ask your age, they just help/troll/etc If age verification were in place,
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by gxs 6mo ago
My very first exposure to Linux was in 2000, my school was about to throw away an old gateway computer and I took it home and turned it into router As a kid with no AI, no google, it was quite a feat and I’m still very proud of it Was my in
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by gxs 6mo ago
For this reason I’m as diversified as possible while still maintaining some level of convenience I try and not depend on a single vendor for everything and I don’t use the same email for all services - with auto email forwarding and passwor
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Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger(blog.kagi.com)
56 points by gxs 7mo ago|6 comments

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