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by gxs 1y ago
It somehow feels like everything that was ever done to keep this type of stuff out of this country has unraveled in the past 10 years Like they’ve been chipping away at a stonewall for decades and they’ve finally blasted through the wall
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by gxs 1y ago
That’s awesome Be sure to try the assistant if you haven’t and browse the settings page for all the things you can do, again if you haven’t It’s my default on my phone through their extension it works well I’ve contacted their support in t
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by gxs 1y ago
Dude not to mention their ai assistant is top notch Happy customer here as well
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah agree 100% - this is why I’m a happy kagi customer It’s kind of cool being treated like a customer New feature releases aren’t about ad placement or SEO or personalization / tracking Instead, their product updates are targeted at
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah - I like how no one ever talks about Tim Donaghy It’s sort of been swept under the rug even though it was initially reported on Professional NBA referee betting on games he was refereeing - what a joke
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah that’s what I thought I said - that sometimes it’s legitimate need, sometimes it’s not, and sometimes it’s...complicated. I don’t think this phenomenon is unique to software - there are people who redo their kitchens every year because
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by gxs 1y ago
As someone who leads and has led large organizations in the past, I can tell you that believe it or not, users across different companies talk to each other and tell each other about the shitty software they are forced to use Eventually th
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah I think the only thing OP was passing judgement on is on the competition aspect of it, not the actual achievement of any human or non human participant That’s how I read it at least - exactly how you put it
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by gxs 1y ago
It may be more of a common over simplification than misunderstanding Even saying it optimizes for system success is an oversimplification it just depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go My only intention was to communicate and s
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by gxs 1y ago
AI commentary has been super interesting Kind of wild watching engineers, technologists, etc clutch their pearls AI makes mistakes - so do people - I’ve been paid many a time to go clean up the non-AI generated code humans left behind. I’ve
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by gxs 1y ago
Imagine two things being able to be true at the same time That sometimes under the right circumstances a home is both a great place to live, the best deal you can get in your area, and also an investment You sort of alluded to it in your po
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by gxs 1y ago
This makes perfect sense People forget that nature only optimizes for sexual reproduction and that’s pretty much it In this case for example, it doesn’t really give a shit about your psychological well being or shaving years off your life b
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by gxs 1y ago
I wonder if you can train yourself to perceive time “properly” Like if you practice counting everyday a few times, each time trying to correct when you’re over or under Beyond that though, more importantly, I wonder if this would have a not
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by gxs 1y ago
That’s interesting, maybe I’m doing something wrong That said, the times I’ve encountered this, when the import doesn’t actually fail and appears successful, I still can’t access the specific attachment I’m looking for It could be an old pi
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by gxs 1y ago
I never said they don’t allow it, they even have something called google takeout actually that makes it a bit easier Yes, one way of doing this is to turn on an email client and let it run on your computer for hours and hours to download ev
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by gxs 1y ago
If google weren’t such an ass about your data you could download everything and run some queries to see how you should create your rules What is sending you the most emails? What emails did you actually care about? Yes yes, you can do this
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by gxs 1y ago
We subsidize a lot of things we may not realize Company decides to brick a popular product? Who picks up the landfill tab? Your electricity one is a good example Hell, even RTO - SF offered some pretty nice tax incentives for companies who
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by gxs 1y ago
The good old days when iPhones came with earphones and a charging block To a lesser extent, the good old days when swiping up brought up the control panel
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by gxs 1y ago
I don’t know man, my point was more than I probably don’t lean the actual skill of writing fast, it wasn’t necessary lack of practice All through college I had to write extensively and still never got anywhere near that speed I do wonder ab
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by gxs 1y ago
This is not a humble brag by any means, just sharing my experience I type 121 wpm and I simply can’t concentrate when writing by hand It’s too slow and instead of focusing on formulating my thoughts or capturing what’s being said I get supe
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by gxs 1y ago
They are so shady about this stuff I have a Honeywell t6 that I got when they installed a new unit - Honeywell INSISTS that you create an account and download the app to connect it to your home network Thankfully this is bullshit and you ca
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by gxs 1y ago
Kind of ironic when you think about it - drawing such a strong conclusion about someone after reading what amounts to half a wikipedia article (if that) about them
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by gxs 1y ago
One thing that helped me have a better attitude at work and maybe life in general, was reframing how I thought about people with stupid ideas or stupid questions Instead of dismissing them or getting super annoyed (which still does happen,
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by gxs 1y ago
IMO you just can’t have one unit in the business be subservient to the other People should be able to deploy changes without seeking approval/permission from other people/teams as long as they are around to immediately fix somethi
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by gxs 1y ago
Ah, spoken like someone who’s actually built a team In sports, you call them role players and it’s no different when building dev teams I can’t imagine managing a team full of “best engineers”, sounds like a nightmare Sometimes you just wan
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by gxs 1y ago
This is the unfortunate answer to a lot about why companies do We are all addicted to growth - everyone is chasing the hockey stick curve which means a business that provides a stable business and grows modestly is seen as a failure in some
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by gxs 1y ago
I was hired as employee 500 and now we are at 5000 (numbers rounded to protect the innocent) It’s really really interesting what happens - obviously 5000 doesn’t compare to the behemoth that Microsoft is, but it’s still been interesting to
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by gxs 1y ago
I hear you, I might give people the benefit of the doubt too much, but I interpreted what he said more like while Facebook and Google were going out of their way to make sure they hired only the best, hiring was just not a point of emphasis
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by gxs 1y ago
The problem is with monetization Whenever/wherever a crowd of a certain size assembles consistently, you’ll soon have a giant corporation frothing at the mouth to monetize it Why let these people organize communities for themselves? Ho
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by gxs 1y ago
To be honest you sound super defensive, not just in a classic programmer when someone invades on their turf sort of way, but also in the classic way people who are reluctant to accept a new technology This sentiment of, a human will always

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