mrweasel

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by mrweasel 4mo ago
If I'm forced to do more work I don't enjoy, I expect to be compensated better. So now you have the cost of the AI and salary increase to deal with.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
And with a small screen. The number of websites that are almost useless on the iPhone SE is getting pretty insane. Many site have a massive header, maybe a footer and a sticky ad. That frequently leaves less than half (~4.5cm) the screen us
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
> Where do you store the SQLite database files? What? On the server, where else would you put it?
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
You can easily damage a persons reputation, make them unemployable or social outcasts, create an environment damaging to their mental health without any proof. Believing that the public will dismiss claims, just because you stay that there&
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Because Mozilla, at least from the outside appears to have been horribly mismanaged for the past 20-25 years and only survived because the ad money kept rolling in. I'm not knocking Mozilla for taking money from Google, it was a smart
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
This should be one of those things that should be an quick EU win. Running Let's Encrypt is $3-4mill a year, the EU probably uses that on pencils. The EU could easily bootstrap a Let's Encrypt competitor if it truly cared about re
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Some of this is also going to die out, if the prediction of price increases for LLM tools and tokens holds true. In that case a lot of this software essentially becomes abandonware overnight because the actual maintainer was Claude or Codex
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Oh, I was thinking of going after Facebook given that they finance the operation.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
I'll avoid trying to guess what the author meant, but I found it rather relatable. Some of these "rockstars" pick weird languages, niche database, esoteric frameworks and whatnot, not because they're needed, but because
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Canada may not have laws against this, but some countries might classify this as "subversive activity harmful to the nation". That is normally punished by imprisonment, losing the right to conduct business and hold public office.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
That makes talking about the issues a lot simpler. Calling HN a social media makes much more sense if we talk about Instagram, or Facebook as entertainment or advertising platforms.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
> In a world were it (and other Chinese open models) didn't exist, OpenAI and Anthropic would be profitable already How so? The existence of e.g. DeepSeek doesn't lower the cost for OpenAI. OpenAI have almost a billion users, o
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
> Let me paint a familiar picture. Someone leaves your organisation, or a licence gets removed as part of a cost-saving exercise. That's a rather weird way of phrasing it. It almost suggested that you shouldn't audit your licen
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
You can only increase the price so much. With every price increase you're going to lose customers, which could lead to further price increases. I'm not entirely convince that the AI companies can raise prices and keep enough of th
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
The idea probably was to pour billions into technologies powering these LLMs, and gain a moat. It then turns out that this isn't as hard a problem as expected, it's just very expensive. So as long as you have money, you can be an
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Just give it a year or two and Windows will drag that sucker into the mud and run everything just a sluggish as ever. The idea that any hardware performance increase will be eaten up by terrible software is an evergreen. A computer that cou
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Apparently some phone companies can/will provide you with aux SIMs, which allows two phone to share a number, or so I've been lead to believe. I can't find a single provider here in Denmark that will issue me such a SIM. Kind
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
That depends on where you are. $18K is the equivalent of paying around 15% more for your developer.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
That was badly worded on my part, my intend was to indicate that there was no way they can or will pay $1500 per month per seat.
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
The problem isn't really Uber, Microsoft or Nvidia, it's all the smaller none IT companies that also have developers on staff. They are screwed. $1500 per seat per month is just way to expensive, but they also can't afford to
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Exactly, I really question how much value personalized ads provide over contextual ones. It's very hard to track or provide an experiment for, but right now companies seems to be accepting the "Trust me bro" from the large ad
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
The issue might be that a lot of websites are run by marketing and communications teams, that all have KPIs and metrics, which they need to track (sometimes for no good reason). Some of this could be done without cookies, but that requires
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
In this case it feels like it's a feature that the operating system should be providing or something that could be marked as an accessibility tool, which would allow it to use that API. The problem from Apples perspective could be that
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
There's definitely some weirdness to certain parts of systemd service files, but was a huge improvement over Upstart and the old SysV-style init scripts. Over all I think Systemd get way to much criticism. You don't have to use al
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Microsoft doesn't have the focus to do hardware as complex as a laptop. They want to be able to provide hardware, but they won't make the required investments, they won't delegate the responsibility to a single manager, nor w
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
If remote work is to blame, wouldn't that also indicate that you couldn't outsource part of your work to lower salaried countries. A lot of companies have their senior staff at the home office, then outsource the more trivial task
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
Yes, you could use Signal, but my take is that people don't want yet another account for something. Facebook works and it has all the other activities people need to keep track of. For most you wouldn't be replacing Facebook or Wh
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
The last numbers I saw are almost 10 years old now, and then it was $65 per year in profit for a Facebook user, in the US, a little less for someone in the EU and almost nothing in most other places. Are there new numbers that one can acces
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by mrweasel 4mo ago
You probably couldn't even sell an Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp bundle for ~$25 per month. This sort of looks like a subscription for influencers, organisation and "power users". Even if you turned off the ads, most
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by mrweasel 5mo ago
Normally Danish pension companies and banks will refuse to invest your money in weapons manufactures (unless you have a lot of money, then they apparently don't care). But as long as your money is invested as a pool, they won't do

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