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by ketzo 2y ago
That’s not fundamentally wrong , but you are missing the degree of change. Shit has gotten so bad, so fast, relative to what it was before.
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by ketzo 2y ago
If you’re talking about someone with enough RSUs to collateralize a home loan, you’re almost certainly talking about someone in the top 1% of wealth in the US So, uh… it’s not different, no
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by ketzo 2y ago
The general category of "project management software" is obviously a very crowded one. But it's a space where I'm always genuinely excited to see an even-slightly-new take; I think anybody who's worked in a modern w
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by ketzo 2y ago
Because html/js/css is the venue for a massive fraction of human-computer interactions, and there a lot of different things we want to accomplish between humans and computers. It’s always funny to me when people act like “websites
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by ketzo 2y ago
Antitrust law says more than that. In particular, it’s illegal for a monopoly to take anticompetitive action to maintain their monopoly — e.g, > what Google is doing is making sure that nobody else gets a monopoly Depending on what “
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by ketzo 2y ago
> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx This is stated as a very matter-of-fact downside, but this is a pretty crazy portent for the future of dev tools &#x
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by ketzo 2y ago
VCs offer cash on different terms than the public does. This just means Cerebras believes it can get capital more cheaply (or on otherwise better terms) than it can from VCs. That might mean VCs are turning them down, yeah, but that’s just
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by ketzo 2y ago
This was a great post, thanks.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I’m sure people have asked this before, but would HN ever add a little more rich-text? Even just bullet points and indents might be nice.
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by ketzo 2y ago
US government agencies still have some of the lowest RTO rates in the country (compared to other employers) precisely because of federal employee unions.
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by ketzo 2y ago
The NYT published a very well-reported case (two cases, actually) of Google doing this more than two years ago. This is not a hypothetical -- this is already happening. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/techn
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by ketzo 2y ago
> It’s not that hard How many years do you have to spend in software before you stop uttering those four cursed words?
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by ketzo 2y ago
Trivial unless someone wants to modify CF internal headers as part of their solution… https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by ketzo 2y ago
You’re not wrong, but I do feel like the distributed nature of a lot of systems today is a big reason for that. And Antithesis is (theoretically) one solution to that, which is very neat! (I know modern games are also often operating in a d
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by ketzo 2y ago
This is really cool. My optimistic take on GenAI, at least with regard to software engineering, is that it seems like we're gonna have a lot of the boring / tedious parts of our jobs get a lot easier!
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by ketzo 2y ago
I mean, there is absolutely opportunity cost for people in high-impact careers This shows up in economic data all the time, and disproportionately impacts women Of course young women in high-intensity fields are hesitant to hamstring their
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by ketzo 2y ago
One of my favorites is gsw=“git switch -“. It switches back to whatever branch you were last on.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Part of Apple's product pitch is "you can give this phone to No-Tech Uncle Steve, and it'll be fine" Some of this interruption is to scare off users who will absolutely fuck up their phones with bitcoin mining apps, give
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think programming-with-chatbot is still such a new skill that a concrete, well-written example is a very useful document!
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by ketzo 2y ago
“Why single out a rifle”? C’mon, man. The shooting being discussed in this thread would have been orders of magnitude less devastating with just a handgun, and you know it. Don’t make it a weird 2A thing. The objective is not “make sure nob
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by ketzo 2y ago
It’s weird to think of it as such, but perspective drawing really is a technology that most artists did not have access to for most of history. I’m super not an art historian, but I think the Renaissance era is when you really start seein
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by ketzo 2y ago
Chatbots are, so far, obviously a $1B+/yr business. I think it’s not obvious yet that they go much further beyond that? It’s a lot of money, sure, but it’s not world-transforming stuff.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I've been using Cody from Sourcegraph, and it'll write some really great code; business logic, not just tests/simple UI. It does a great job using patterns/models from elsewhere in your codebase. Part of how it does that
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by ketzo 2y ago
Really good (and underdiscussed) point that Figma designs are not just for consumption by developers. I know this is a cliche phrase, but when you're trying to align stakeholders (PM, manager, VP, dev lead) on a product, it is genuin
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by ketzo 2y ago
Uploading large codebases is particularly useful.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Meta is, fundamentally, a user-generated-content distribution company. Meta wants to make sure they commoditize their complements: they don’t want a world where OpenAI captures all the value of content generation, they want the cost of prod
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by ketzo 2y ago
“Race walking” is distinguished from “running” based on technique. In this case, “walking” is defined very strictly as “never having both feet off the ground.” Yes, obviously it’s just a silly way to run, if “run” is “move fast on foot”. It
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by ketzo 2y ago
Those same contracts are currently trading at $13.65, so close to doubled since yesterday. If they sold right now, ~$7000 on ~$3500 invested; not bad.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I’ve never seen the full quote, and I really love that last sentence. Reminds me of Ratatouille: “Anyone can cook.” We make software so that someone else can do something new with it that we ourselves never imagined. So important to remembe
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by ketzo 2y ago
if we’re talking individual subscriptions that’s ~1M paying subscribers. honestly that number would not totally shock me? plus they’ve got some kinda enterprise/team offering; assuming they charge extra there, I could easily see $100M

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