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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
I'm sceptical of Hacker New's fascination with all managers being worthless, but I don't follow your logic here. Why is "lets have more people who do things " a move away from multidisplinary teams? Unless you coun
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
It seems like you're agreeing with the article then? Seems new Xbox boss is cutting a lot of this fat and trying to undo these strategic missteps.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
> The one-way pattern is actually how Google uses it internally too, syncing outward from their monorepo to GitHub Do they not support contributions on the public repos back into the internal monorepo?
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
Ignoring the sitting in front of the TV thing, I think if you sampled 2 steam players at random, they would look nothing like any other 100 random steam players.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
Except, where every different model and version is like a different person where you need to learn their idiosyncrasies of how they work every other month. It's a very very bizarre way to use a computer. Personally, I just don't
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
> The problem is it's going to be intentionally limited in the service it gives and its ability to make decisions. Apart from the Facebook AI customer support which would just blindly send MFA reset emails to wherever you asked.
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
Yeah, that's usually how contracts work. You decide whether you have followed it or not. The other party will decide if they agree. If in dispute, you go to a judge and they decide also.
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
No, this isn't the claim. EU wants Apple to open 'Siri AI', with access to a personal context, open to other model/AI providers. Apple says "We can't do this in a privacy preserving way". You can definitel
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
As with many other things, AI exacerbates this problem. It’s so easy for many more of things things to happen unattended and in greater volume, and the AIs themselves can be tricked into doing these things, not helped by their patten of “pr
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
> In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types You must be the world's greatest programmer with perfect memory. Every nil pointer exception is a bug a
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
There's loads of AI features out there that are powered by a model provider, yet are not branded by them. Why would this be different?
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
Is Siri any more or less than “just” an agentic harness such as OpenClaw? How much of what that harness does is up to the LLM or the harness itself? In my mind the Gemini LLM defines the bounds of capability and capacity, but any actual fun
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
I do other things on my computer apart from bash.
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
No. Percentages allow them to hide in the law of averages. Go tell those twenty thousand people that it's banal that Meta fucked up like this.
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
If it helps to prevent “terror” on a flight, then yes.
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
Similarly, I worked on in-flight user-facing software, and we were allowed to use a “plane pointing downwards” icon to denote arrival time, because the connotations to crash were too strong. No one believed that the icon would make the plan
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
Right - but those constraints are inherent to the medium. Like basically unconstrained screen sizes from large desktops to mobile, with the user free to resize anywhere in between (and can't be constrained in the way that 'real&#x
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
> this is largely accidental complexity. Is it? I know hating CSS is a fun pastime for folks around here, but maybe it’s just that building good, rich user interfaces that people can use is an inherently hard problem. Sure, the browser i
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
Isn't this being held responsible for it?
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by madeofpalk 4mo ago
It was previously showing, but I believe the incident has bee resolved now. At least, PRs work for me when they previously didn't.
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
3 months post Microsoft acquisition, GitHub expanded the free plan to include unlimited private repos. The next year they removed the limitation on collaborators on private repos for free users. In the last 4 years they’ve significantly imp
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
People are eschewing their own accountability, blaming the tools instead for their poor decision making and lack of access controls. Why is it possible for you to fat-finger your way to deleting production database locally?
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
The objection is not anti-AI. It’s anti this specific API , for nuanced web compatibility reasons.
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
No, that’s not how this process usually happens.
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
Maybe fixing the root cause is slower, and this janky workaround was quicker as its something largely already built (a few views/links in Github already open issues in a drawer). You've never done a temporary fix to stop the bleed
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
Like they did with Copilot last week? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-gi... > New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused. Pausing sign-ups allows us to ser
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
This seems uncharitable. Priorities aren't exclusive, especially at scale across large engineering orgs like GitHub. It could be that these are the top level priorities, but teams or individuals who aren't able to contribute to th
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
If it’s just the last 4 weeks, then I would say it seems the Microsoft acquisition had little impact on their reliability. It seems pretty reasonable that the massive surge in AI over the past 6 months has put tremendous strain on GitHub’s
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
when you use the extract-needle-from-haystack machine, verify that it actually extracted a needle. that's much easier than manually extracting the needle yourself
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by madeofpalk 5mo ago
> Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act > Now might be a good time to call your representatives. Well, not that must-read I guess

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