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by jmull 6mo ago
I don’t think the previous poster is saying all layoffs are “cowardly”, but pointing out that these ones are. I think they have a point. Facebook is making money. Tech is in a very dynamic phase, right now. This is a moment of huge opport
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by jmull 6mo ago
The comment asks what’s the grift? How is he irrelevant? You ignore the questions and respond with ad hominem attacks. Obviously, you’ve got a beef with Gruber. That’s fine. But you’re acquitting yourself well here (and make us suspect that
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by jmull 6mo ago
I like to imagine they’ll mostly capture meta employees using AIs to do work. Then they’ll deploy models trained on this, and begin capturing employees using AIs that are good at using AIs to do work. Repeat a few times and they’ll start ca
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by jmull 6mo ago
Not sure Claude Design really competes with Figma. While it has a strong potential to let people iterate on using a design without the nuts and bolts of going back and forth with a designer, CD operates at the "leaf-node" level, w
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by jmull 6mo ago
I’d think Japan being a long, skinny, population dense country has to help. There’s just more potential in every km of rail laid.
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by jmull 6mo ago
> Binary search beats SQLite... For a pure ID lookup, you're paying for machinery you're not using. You'll likely end up quite a chump if you follow this logic. sqlite has pretty strong durability and consistency mechanism
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by jmull 6mo ago
I basically clicked in to this post because I thought it was funny that an AI company had the same name as a shoe company. But, no, it’s actually the same company. And a failed shoe company at that… I beleive they sold out for around $40M,
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by jmull 6mo ago
Costs money is a good thing. You want to be the customer, not the product.
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by jmull 6mo ago
That's a completely separate point, is it not? Maybe write it up and post a top-level comment if you think it's a point worth making.
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by jmull 6mo ago
People are basing their entire world view on not understanding the nature of exponential phenomena. Exponential phenomena only begin in a medium that holds the potential for that phenomena, and necessarily consume that medium. That is, ex
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by jmull 6mo ago
No you wouldn't. Look at what the molotov cocktail guy accomplished by "taking direct action against a clear and present danger": Nothing, besides casting himself as an extremist nut, increasing the resistance to his viewpoin
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by jmull 6mo ago
It's not surprising that violence begets violence, in an escalating cycle. But it doesn't end with a better system. If your goal is a better system, you'll be looking hard for ways to move away from violence, not justificati
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by jmull 6mo ago
Violence is an extreme failure state. If your goal is to improve the system then you always want to move away from it. Probably a reasonable justification would be self-defense, committing violence to stop worse violence. (Preemptive violen
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by jmull 6mo ago
Just above that they explain the tradeoffs leading them to leave twitter. Basically, they can't reach X users on X.
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by jmull 6mo ago
I don’t know why you dismiss it. There is plenty of astroturfing here, bots and otherwise. I believe the rule around here is to not assume everyone who disagrees with you or has opinions you don’t understand is a shill. Perhaps there’s a bi
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by jmull 6mo ago
Outside of some stage actors and drill sergeants, there are probably few people who can project their voices well enough that a vocal warning is useful. You're either traveling slow enough that it's not necessary (and why yell at
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by jmull 6mo ago
Agreed. I saw one recently where the cyclist shouted out something like, "ON YOUR LEFT!" and all it did was startle the crap out of a jogger who spun around into the path of the bicycle. Luckily just a close call. That cyclist&#
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by jmull 6mo ago
You're right, it's certainly not the primary way to prevent accidents. But it helps at the edges, which seems worthwhile. That's assuming the bells aren't abused too badly, which is a mixed bag, but mostly true.
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by jmull 6mo ago
Shared memory across containers is a property of a containerization environment, not a property of a file system, "proper" or not.
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by jmull 6mo ago
WAL relies on shared memory, so while a proper FS is necessary, it isn't going to help in this case.
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by jmull 6mo ago
I dug into this limitation a bit around a year ago on AWS, using a sqlite db stored on an EFS volume (I think it was EFS -- relying on memory here) and lambda clients. Although my tests were slamming the db with reads and write I didn'
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by jmull 6mo ago
I don't know if it's just me, but this whole post seems to have time traveled forward from about 3-4 days ago. It's not just a repost. The thread includes a comment I made at the time which now from "1 hour ago". Ma
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by jmull 6mo ago
We're talking about web app vs native app here, not big screen vs small screen. Obviously, you can have either kind of app on either size of screen, so small screen first doesn't mean native apps. It's enshitification that&#x
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by jmull 6mo ago
> Companies are seeing this switch, so they adapt. You’re confusing cause and effect here. Companies are pushing apps very hard because it gives them a lot more ability to wield their various revenue enhancing dark patterns. That kids se
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by jmull 6mo ago
A third “whaddabout the author”! It’s almost as if…
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by jmull 6mo ago
Another one. Deflecting the criticism of Meta with a “whaddabout the author!” Formed as an answer to a question, but not one that was asked . A different account than last time, though, so I’ll ask you too: Why do the dark work of deflecti
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by jmull 6mo ago
It’s pointless if you believe no one is asking LLMs to generate passwords for them.
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by jmull 6mo ago
A strange response. Rather than address the comment you change the subject, “whaddabout the author!” Why do the dark work of deflecting on behalf of “Meta”? (lol, that name gets me every time. Might as well have renamed themselves NoIdeaWha
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by jmull 6mo ago
Redis, four dbs, container orchestration for a site of this modest scope… generated blog posts. Our AI future is a lot less grand than I expected.
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by jmull 6mo ago
In my experience people feel the need to wrap axios too.

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