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by indymike 6mo ago
I hate seeing this down-voted. It is such an important warning to people here. Severance agreements are pretty strong. Also, be very careful of snap settlement offers. So many of the greatest tragedies I've seen inflicted on people com
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by indymike 6mo ago
There was a body of evidence far before 2002 that dealing employees in was a good move.
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by indymike 7mo ago
> An empty justification, since a state has no interest apart from its citizen's interests. Sometimes a government only cares about a few citizens, or in some cases one citizen.
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by indymike 7mo ago
Camcorders were not, but cameras and portable battery powered tape decks were.
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by indymike 7mo ago
Reply of the year. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to laugh or cry.
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by indymike 7mo ago
Yes, it is precisely misguided, and will be in five years, too. Software lasts way longer than people think it does.
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by indymike 7mo ago
> It seems the open-source experiment has failed People have been saying this since the 80s. Reality is that without open source, this industry would be tiny compared to what it is. So many times open source has enabled an entire sub ind
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by indymike 7mo ago
> Actual evidence of kompromats? Epstein.
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by indymike 7mo ago
I worked on a couple of projects with state workforce development agencies and federal agencies. I was always impressed with how much focus there was on the integrity of unemployment numbers, and especially with the emphasis on making sure
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by indymike 7mo ago
> Now companies selling LLM coding agents enter the scene, promising to eliminate their customers' dependence on the commons, and whatever minimal obligations they had to support it. This is misguided. Maintenance of LLM code has a
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by indymike 7mo ago
Because of the scale of generated code, often it is the AI verifying the AI's work.
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by indymike 7mo ago
Affiliate fees.
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by indymike 7mo ago
> data on the equivalent of “ad impressions”. 1. They can skip impressions and go right to collect affiliate fees. 2. Yes, the ad has to be labeled or disclosed... but if some agent does it and no one sees it, is it really an ad. So much
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by indymike 7mo ago
By doubling the walk, increasing the trip time for riders by 5 minutes and potentially making bus untenable in bad weather.
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by indymike 8mo ago
> I'll make that call myself. This is why this needs to be regulated.
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by indymike 8mo ago
B5 on Usenet was everything right with the internet.
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by indymike 8mo ago
Same reason that people use vi. It's always there.
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by indymike 8mo ago
I'm not sure the crackpot is what we're talking about here. We're talking about something tht violates the prevailing opinion in a way that can be verified, and results a change in what we know to be true. The crackpot is mos
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by indymike 8mo ago
This is mostly because the actual description is boring and not exciting marketing.
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by indymike 8mo ago
> All of them are coming for our SaaS margins, and as an industry we are woefully unprepared. My company just switched from slug slow product management driven tech to startup footing. Everything is up for grabs everywhere. And it'
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by indymike 8mo ago
I'm holding out for Copilot 365 Explorer Enterprise Edition.
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by indymike 8mo ago
> Most gamers don't give a shit about openness. With the Windows 11 debacle, many are learning first hand about what closed ecosystems force on you. It seems every feed I have that has gaming as an interest has an article about Linu
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by indymike 8mo ago
It is not surprising, it is disappointing.
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by indymike 9mo ago
I suspect this one is death by 1000 cuts as Amazon has distribution facilities everywhere and will be subject to state and even local laws concerning warranty, product safety, and trademark. You can't contract your way out of it, and d
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by indymike 9mo ago
> Thats not the goal the Anthropic's CEO has. Nor does any other CEO for that matter. It is what he can deliver.
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by indymike 9mo ago
Social media and on demand media hijack the emotional triggers that would usually be resolved by talking to people. Some examples: * In line at the BMV, bored and feeling lonely. Should resolve loneliness by talking to strangers in line...
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by indymike 9mo ago
Clickbait permeates all things. Next thing you know they'll be adding ____ (insert favorite controversial world leader) enraged to the headline.
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by indymike 9mo ago
> fact that you put too much food in your mouth (and probably the wrong kind of food) I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes five years ago. I radically changed my diet to a hard keto diet with a cap of 50g of net carbohydrate per day (ca
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by indymike 9mo ago
After using Tahoe for a week, I've found I leave it in my bag. Window operations are painful and it feels like a bad try at a tablet os without a stylus or touch screen. Fortunately, my Mac is now the auxiliary laptop and I can do ever
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by indymike 9mo ago
Since 2008 I've been on linux as my daily driver. You'll find two laptops in my backpack: a macbook air and whatever linux machine I'm using for development. I'm almost to the point with the mac, I use it maybe once a mo

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