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by mindwok 2y ago
Interaction with an expert is extremely discoverable, and eliminates the need for many traditional interfaces anyway. Think about trying to book a holiday online and navigating all the interfaces for flights, accomodation, tours, etc. Versu
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by mindwok 3y ago
Tailscale is another one. The coordination server is closed source but all the clients are open source.
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This feels like the opposite of my experience. In the early days of the internet nobody ever used their real name anywhere. It was all forums and IRC usernames.
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I like your comment because this is a truly spicy idea, and seems insane to me, but I love it. The problem would be that you'd have to basically strike every data centre on earth, or at the very least all of those owned by major cloud
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You’re doing this to me right now, no? You don’t know how I’ve come to this conclusion. I understand your point though. I’m not referring to those who are against AI for whatever reason, because there are lots of reasons why people are agai
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by mindwok 3y ago
Agree. Although I see much more opposition to this idea on Reddit than on HN, the feeling I get is that people are desperately trying to undermine the idea of AI performing development tasks because they're afraid of it taking their li
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Oxeye joins Gitlab to advance application security capabilities(about.gitlab.com)
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by mindwok 3y ago
I think the message is more about not getting caught up in external sources of what to build. Basically, don't follow the hype, follow your nose.
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by mindwok 3y ago
Well said. Personally, I find modern suburbs to be dystopian. They are full of cookie cutter houses with zero creativity or self expression of the owner, and built with the cheapest materials possible. Their only purpose is to be the dark p
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Socialising with other people is messy, and hard, and often the payoff is not realised for quite some time. This is why people end up having so many social connections from their work, or other areas where you have frequent forced interacti
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We will probably get there, it's just going to take time for hardware supply chains to catch up. I feel it's more comparable to mainframe eras - it took time for general purpose computing to become commoditised.
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You could get a casual job in a service role, like a bartender. It’s a great treatment for social anxiety via exposure therapy.
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Some people find things interesting regardless of if they break records.
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This could easily end up like the PC revolution though. ChatGPT being the mainframe of AI, and when the hardware catches up and performance is “good enough” we’re all running our own models all over the place.
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How feasible is it though once the network reaches a huge size? Starlink satellites are tiny, and they've been deploying thousands of them over the last few years. I imagine it would take enormous resources to shoot them down, especial
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Wow. When you guys first launched this was my biggest concern. This is absolutely awesome, thank you team!
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My introduction to this was the 'Direct Execution' chapter of the book 'Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces'. It's a fantastic write up on not just how system calls work, but the motivation behind why operating sys
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I want to add my 2 cents also and say this isn't a universal truth. I've definitely had bosses who have become friends, even whilst working together. Sometimes it feels that authority and being close in a friendly way are mutually
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What kind of gotchas do you mean? any examples?
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Card-based transactions becoming so pervasive has made me wonder if countries should start redirecting their efforts to building nationalised payment infrastructure that would allow citizens to transact electronically with zero fees, rather
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by mindwok 3y ago
I love this topic, and I love Supabase. But I'd love to see a take on this from a purely business perspective, because so many companies lately have started out like this (Red Hat, Mongo, Elastic, Hashicorp, etc) and then walked it bac
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by mindwok 3y ago
Although I am still in awe of OpenAI's achievements and greatly respect many people there, they claim the record for the company that has most rapidly fallen from my own personal grace. When they were founded, I was hopeful that the ca
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by mindwok 3y ago
Actually yes, they do. That's what makes it abusive - the victim doesn't have the power, control, or will, to simply walk away.
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by mindwok 3y ago
I'm surprised to see so many comments here taking layoffs personally, or talking about how layoffs are stupid. Layoffs are not personal, and the corollary to that is that you should never treat your company as a friend. It's a com
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Tech books will still be useful in the future in a few ways: - When you're first learning a topic, ChatGPT isn't as useful because you don't really know what questions to ask. It's useful to get a broad overview guided b
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I'm a Sales Engineer at a SaaS company. Prior to that I did a bunch of roles, mostly focused on cloud infrastructure automation and Python development. Personally, I have grown to really enjoy the role. You have a high degree of autono
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by mindwok 3y ago
Well that wasn’t my intention. I’m just saying for me, my anxiety was a function of self acceptance and how I approached conversations. If that doesn’t resonate with you then fair enough, everyone’s anxiety is going to be different.
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For me, it was a combination of two things. First, I transitioned from an engineering role into sales engineering which meant I was meeting new people, running meetings, etc. every day. That exposure made me pretty comfortable with conversa
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by mindwok 3y ago
Good take. It's pretty much the entire function of being C-Suite, putting your ass on the line for decisions nobody wants to make and having the confidence/credentials/ego/whatever to get people to buy into your decision
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They weren’t making any money (and still aren’t profitable) at $4 a user.

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