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by lamontcg 11mo ago
I've been hearing that China will hit a plateau, like Japan, for at least 20 years now... Meanwhile, China is now pumping out BEV trucks, affordable electric cars, sixth generation military jets, and nuclear aircraft carriers.
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsor Block + YouTube Redux on Mac has been working well for me for quite some time.
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
They seem to be in the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20100528044501/http://www.router... https://web.archive.org/web/20100328035939/http://routergod....
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
> But if Apple starts getting “visions” [...] I fear it is going to start getting visions of monetization and injecting advertisement and tracking into everything. I don't see where the growth is coming from unless they start trying
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
Or never encountered the drunks on Alki during the summer.
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
They should set up a foundation/LLC if they don't have one already and require a support contract for fixing any bugs in niche codecs. Target the 95%-98% use cases for "free" work. If someone gives them a CVE on someth
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
I'm pretty well "on the spectrum" and people glazing me in real life produce suspicion and discomfort rather than any good feelings. I don't have a problem just ignoring all the LLM glazing, although I'd really like
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by lamontcg 11mo ago
It seems we have a sort of Cantillon Effect in wages (spilling over from IT down into HVAC and food service), but not in goods. And I'm not sure the AI/LLM focus sheds any light at all on the situation. Unfortunately, AI/LLM
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by lamontcg 1y ago
The ridiculously wealthy view the system as a strictly zero-sum game, and they want to keep everything they have, and deny the rest of the population of everything. They understand this isn't sustainable, so they're fortifying bu
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> UI and UX are for all intents lost arts. No one is sitting on the other side of a 2 way mirror any more and watching people use their app... Which is also why UI/UX on open source projects are generally going to suck. There's
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by lamontcg 1y ago
I replaced the silicone tips with memory foam, which fixed this problem for me.
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> It's interesting to me that Apple made such a large fit change without considering 2's are simply better for some people fit wise. I immediately ran out and bought aftermarket foam tips for my 2's since the silicone one
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> Constant churn is simply the new big tech strategy to keep employees on their toes. Amazon has been doing that since it was founded, certainly 2001-2006. Every year there would be stack ranking, and they'd get rid of employees an
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> Over the past decade, people in the community, not just Shopify employees, started to conclude that rubygems and bundler were being monetized by some key maintainers. The logical conclusion of this argument is that if you maintain a cr
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by lamontcg 1y ago
We're constantly reminded that "if it is free/cheap, then you're the product", which is more or less a restatement of "you get what you pay for". Apple charges more, and people lose their absolute shit ove
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by lamontcg 1y ago
We could have universal health care, but I guess we're going to get delivery drones instead...
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by lamontcg 1y ago
Also: > In August 2025, and seemingly out of nowhere, someone pointed me to the project spinel-coop/rv-ruby, an apparent fork of homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby. I say "apparent", because rather than using GitHub&#x27
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by lamontcg 1y ago
Yeah, you can total up all the things he's said about Andre Arko, and even just accepting all of his spin and framing, I don't understand how it adds up to Shopify's actions being legitimate. And I was part of the Ruby commun
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by lamontcg 1y ago
Yeah, ideally the reviewers have been in standups with you so that it isn't all new as a concept to them to begin with, or there's generally been communication that you're going to land the plans for a nuclear reactor in thei
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by lamontcg 1y ago
DHH got tired of having to argue with the bundler/rubygems community and decided to take it over so everyone working on it, worked for him, and had to take his orders (through his racing buddy, the Shopify CEO).
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by lamontcg 1y ago
Sometimes you're overhauling something which you can't do in chunks less than something 2,000 line long PR. There's no intermediate working system. The problem is, "take this very large bit of code and throw it entirel
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> My tentative theory is that the systems, incentives, and technologies in modern world have managed to slightly empower the individual, and massively empower large organizations, but at the significant expense of small organizations [..
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> who has dhh as a board member, and whose CEO races with dhh Oh, so this is just dhh doing a hostile takeover of core ruby infrastructure where previously he had to try to work with people, now he can just tell people what he wants to b
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by lamontcg 1y ago
Weird way to manage to do enough contortions to make this all Apple's fault.
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by lamontcg 1y ago
It still can't actually reason, LLMs are still fundamentally madlib generators that produce output that statistically looks like reasoning. And if it is trained on both sides of the airfoil fallacy it doesn't "know" that
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> But hey, at least is nice to see people who admit natural infection confers protection. That wasn't the case during the pandemic. That is incorrect. Nobody with a passing familiarity of the human immune system would claim that na
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> they can all basically solve moderately challenging math and coding problems Yesterday, Claude Opus 4.1 failed in trying to figure out that `-(1-alpha)` or `-1+alpha` is the same as `alpha-1`. We are still a little bit away from AGI.
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> Or because republicans never took the threat seriously and didn't took effective preventive measures like reducing social contact, increasing their exposure risk. Everyone got exposed eventually. Republicans who didn't vacci
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by lamontcg 1y ago
The virus didn't mutate into less aggressive strains, everyone got T-cells through vaccination or infection, which made subsequent infection less severe. Which is borne out through the higher death rate in Republicans who didn't g
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by lamontcg 1y ago
> Me: “You’re answering like I’m Piers Morgan asking ‘Do you condemn October 7th?’ and you reply with historical complexity dating to 1948.” Yeah... If I'm working tickets at AWS that kind of dickishness is going to ensure that I do

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