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by medhir 2y ago
so if someone makes a change to the system… there’s a person somewhere holding themselves accountable for the faults of the system, no?
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by medhir 2y ago
really sad that this is what it's coming to... why are we having to play these games to run a simple search?
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by medhir 2y ago
Perhaps being a PM for several years has helped, I’ve had great success speeding up my programming workflows by prompting Claude with very specific, well defined tasks. Like many others are saying, you need to be in the drivers seat and in
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by medhir 2y ago
I cannot believe “the US DOGE service” is a combination of words I have to read. A meme coin representing the entirety of our government’s digital presence? Feels very unserious.
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by medhir 2y ago
I really want to get off LinkedIn for this same reason. The happy-speak is so nauseating. The only reason I stay on is so recruiters can find me, but would be great to hear more of your experience in the job market without it.
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by medhir 2y ago
“Have a job you love” - As someone who has basically never had the chance to work in an environment I’d say I “love”, I’m not sure how to take away any sort of lesson. Sounds great on the surface, but how many people are afforded the privil
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by medhir 2y ago
Agreed with the sentiment of the author, but are teams really arguing for pulling in dependencies in the name of security? I’ve seen the exact opposite — every dependency introduces a new opportunity for vulnerabilities, and to be judicious
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by medhir 2y ago
yeah, I’ve had many moments in my AI-driven development cycles looping with the LLM in a dead end, eventually giving up and falling back to regular old programming. I think LLMs are great for reducing the friction with just starting a task,
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by medhir 2y ago
yes it does…
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by medhir 2y ago
If you find your X feed is fucked, bluesky is right there and offers complete algorithm customization… the network effects aren’t as strong but at least there’s some options to better control the experience.
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by medhir 2y ago
China publicly advertises itself as communist regime. I get that we want to protect our interests from foreign adversaries, I disagree that this is the way to do so. China banning Facebook is an authoritarian action. If we are doing the “sa
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by medhir 2y ago
was not really on TikTok but a bleak day for anyone that believes in the free speech ideals the US was founded on
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by medhir 2y ago
Ah nice, thanks for the heads up! I’ll look into adding this soon.
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by medhir 2y ago
Took me a few hours. I use MDX for formatting so most of the time was spent figuring out how to convert the MDX to plain HTML. Not a very heavy lift overall :)
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by medhir 2y ago
I recently had a popular post on HN and several people reached out asking if I had an RSS feed implemented. Was surprised that anyone would be interested in keeping up with my writing, but was happy to oblige the request as it had been on m
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by medhir 2y ago
ok, that’s fair, I totally blanked on the anti-encryption stance. I still think having something on the books for general data protection is a net good, as it forced all the biggest US-based companies to at least start implementing data p
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by medhir 2y ago
I mean, however flawed the EU may be, I think they are earnestly trying to protect the average person from the current paradigm of abusive data collection. Perfect can’t be the enemy of good.
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by medhir 2y ago
In a more functional democracy we would see that mass data collection of any sort, by any company (foreign or domestic), is a national security risk. Have witnessed first-hand the threats by foreign state actors penetrating US-based cloud i
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by medhir 2y ago
will do, thank you!
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by medhir 2y ago
so… the fear of speaking up should lead to staying silent? what exactly are you advocating for here
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by medhir 2y ago
I relate to this a lot. Someone is referring to this take as “bullshit” contrasting the experience of the average worker to a software engineer. I’d argue the average worker is in the position they’re in because of a whole chain of people t
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by medhir 2y ago
Yes — I set out to write a blogging platform to learn tools of the trade when I first was getting into the workforce in 2017. It’s been an on and off effort over years, and I don’t actually have that much writing to show. Taking simonw’s
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by medhir 2y ago
I’m all for another team trying to build out another relay and prove atproto has the decentralized “juice”. Might be more convinced to donate if there was a white paper with more details on the roadmap the funds will help drive.
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by medhir 2y ago
thanks for sharing. the loss of property rights is an aspect I hadn’t considered… would be great to brainstorm further with an actual lawyer on these topics
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by medhir 2y ago
this!!! sustainability is a huge aspect that seems to be getting lost in the broader discussion. locked devices are leading to an incredible amount of e-waste and it's entirely preventable.
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by medhir 2y ago
OP here. Really glad to see others engaging with this topic, I wrote up this post because I felt like there wasn't anything out there that was advocating for unlocked hardware as part of the discussion on "right to repair". A
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Right to root access(medhir.com)
487 points by medhir 2y ago|417 comments
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by medhir 2y ago
Absolutely incredible, the power of persistence can yield such cool results. I bookmarked to play around with the editor sometime, I’ve always wanted to learn GLSL and this feels like a more gentle intro into the world of shaders.
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A more complete Bluesky feed generator(medhir.com)
1 points by medhir 2y ago|0 comments
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by medhir 2y ago
“Smart TVs are, unfortunately, more like smartphones: designed for frequent replacement.” Except unlike smartphones, these TVs are not built with high-end components due to the razor-thin margins that have to be optimized for. So you end up

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