kajman

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by kajman 4mo ago
I'm always curious when I see these stories. How long have you been doing this, for what sort of work, and was the codebase mature before you began working like this?
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by kajman 4mo ago
I think email is a pretty poor example of decentralization in the modern internet. I pay a company to not have to worry about hosting my own and I've still had emails blackholed by the massive providers for unknown reasons I can only a
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by kajman 4mo ago
I haven't used Mastodon, but my experience with Lemmy was a lot of petty fighting about who should be defederated. The OP's reference to warring fiefdoms was very spot-on for that scene. I imagine it's a huge turn off to casu
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by kajman 4mo ago
> So, anyone who wants to index it gets a copy and you have no control over what they do. How does this differ from scrapers hitting the blog directly?
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by kajman 4mo ago
Is the idea that we're just one OTA update from them turning into bombs? Considering the quality of software in the auto industry, I would be about as worried about any domestically assembled EV.
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by kajman 4mo ago
I'm cautiously optimistic that anti-conpetitive action against hardware will fail. There's a lot of money willing to fight for cheaper inference. The same can't be said for providing consumers with cheaper cars. I can't
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by kajman 4mo ago
I'm not excited to see that the smart glasses are apparently competing on their number of conspicuous cameras now. I used to be really excited about wearable displays, but the current regime of mass surveillance and its consequences is
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by kajman 4mo ago
I really wanted to like Gleam because the Rust-like syntax and static types looked familiar and robust, but seeing how Lustre does HTML templating versus how Phoenix does Heex was my deciding factor to try the latter. My understanding is th
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by kajman 4mo ago
It sounds like these people would otherwise be laid off if they were not parked in this department instead. I imagine they are quite unhappy, but getting paid 200k+ to do tasks that are usually gig work is hardly the most heart wrenching st
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by kajman 4mo ago
I am indeed sworn to not reveal lots of data I knocked on doors for. My memory isn't that good, especially compared to the database it went into, anyway. I hope it's not a baseline for individual records, but my assumption was tha
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by kajman 4mo ago
There's not many cases of enforcement. Non-response is taken about as seriously as the Robinson–Patman act. I think the Census Bureau is very reliant on people thinking there will be enforcement, however, which is why the materials the
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by kajman 4mo ago
If this is a Nazi reference, Census data was used to send people to concentration camps here during the same era. Less awful than death camps, at least.
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by kajman 4mo ago
I don't work in this industry so I don't know their secret sauce, but I would be surprised if census data is not used as a baseline for what they're selling. It doesn't make sense to not want to use it if your next best
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by kajman 4mo ago
I "enumerated" for the last census. Trust in my community was already not high* and I had lots of interesting encounters. I really believed the rather invasive data I was collecting with a friendly face would be used and handled r
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by kajman 4mo ago
The real sickness is the years spent chasing stock buybacks and low taxes while infrastructure and industrial capacity languished. What an absurd situation where arrays of "temporary" on-site gas turbines are the only viable way t
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by kajman 4mo ago
I'm surprised they haven't installed the autocannons yet.
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by kajman 4mo ago
I'll even excuse the ones with food photos that look like they were taken with a feature phone. New places that can't even bother to take photos of their own menu are a massive red flag to me. Where else are they cutting corners?
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by kajman 4mo ago
Chilling. They could break my Gradle and I would hardly notice.
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by kajman 4mo ago
Could you imagine Obsidian being posted on HN today, if it weren't really popular already? There's no way a tiny team working on a note taking program would make it out of new, no matter how good it was. I wouldn't click the
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by kajman 4mo ago
I still can't tell from the outside whether it sounds like a great time to be in security because of the vulnerable slop being churned out, or a terrible time because the people paying to make it don't care.
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by kajman 4mo ago
Others have already mentioned this is basically a side tool, but I also think decent developers have a tendency to admit to slopping out when they're leaning on LLMs to an extent actual vibecoders would consider quaint. At first read
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by kajman 4mo ago
I've heard that Phoenix has changed a lot since that book was written. How relevant are those framework specific parts still?
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by kajman 4mo ago
> Meanwhile China is blowing past the world with real improvements in the real world- solar, EVs, etc. meanwhile people keep making their fancy sans serif websites about todo apps, faster than ever before. Useless. Very little about the
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by kajman 4mo ago
Kind of surprised to see this from Mozilla. I hope they can make the endeavor at least cost-neutral without enshittifying the self-hostable(?) version. The churn of vibe coded garbage from players I've never heard of is super tiring, s
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by kajman 5mo ago
The only way I could see this being surfaced the same is if the code essentially had a SO answer written into the doc comment.
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by kajman 5mo ago
Of course, there's plenty of bugs in Rust code still. The fact that safe Rust should be able to statically guarantee entire classes of bugs like data races are impossible is a huge deal, though. We're totally free to have differ
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by kajman 5mo ago
The cost of verbose compiler output surely cannot compare to the cost of shipping bugs that would've been caught at build time.
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by kajman 5mo ago
Maybe not. I don't see how US inference providers can compete anyway with commoditized models. Costs are out of control here and the infrastructure is way worse.
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by kajman 5mo ago
I used to see so many headlines about how North Korea was a breath away from causing global catastrophe. And then they got theirs. I don't see much now.
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by kajman 5mo ago
I like to keep phones a long time. Before I finally slotted in a sketchy new third party battery, my last android would suddenly shut off at anywhere from 15-30℅ battery remaining because of the voltage drop. I think they deserve a pass for

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