nicbou

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by nicbou 6mo ago
Same here, but with free information. I trained the Google AI overviews that are killing my website and the internet in general. I sometimes wake up so angry about it, but what can we do?
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by nicbou 6mo ago
It's already happening. My traffic is down 60-70% from its peak, because Google serves answers from my website directly before it. ChatGPT picks up the rest. I am losing motivation to put out hard-earned information if it's all go
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I had a similar experience refactoring a large codebase• The only thing that made it possible was that each commit message had a JIRA ticket number tying it to a requirement or task. I could find the people behind the business logic and ask
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Two things can be true. In this case, both are. Laundry machines were a massive improvement, but it did raise expectations around clothing.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
It’s true. There was no ill intent, just a system of incentives that not only permitted but encouraged it.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
> There was no ill intent Only callous disregard for your users > many similar tools do this as well But since we have normalised that, it’s okay?
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Good thing they are holding the economy at gunpoint.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I'm a little confused. It's still a field on the registration form and is used to collect Church tax, right? My last Anmeldung was in 2019 so I might have missed something.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Germany already has religion logged in the Melderegister
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I have come to rely entirely on human curation for the media I consume, because AI keeps putting me in the same cohort as millions of other users, and makes it really hard to discover anything new. AI recommendations feel less personal than
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by nicbou 6mo ago
The hacker ethos is to think for yourself and find ways around rigid social structures. It is not to plunder without thought.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
It's such a promising technology, but it seems like the primary use case is to drown everything in noise.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Our industry's understanding of consent is terrifying
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I crosspost to LinkedIn, Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. LinkedIn is the most effective. I also blog, but POSSE is not as good as it could be.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Liability is Pflicht (duty) or Haftpflicht (legal liability). Schuld is debt or guilt. I understand it as the outcome of liability, not as liability itself.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
The iPad is really good for digital art.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Same. It's surprisingly good as a labour saving device. It produces code that I would accept without reservations from a coworker. I still read every line and make tweaks, but they're the same tweaks I would ask for in a code revi
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Isn't the available learning material better than it has ever been? As a 30-something, basic AI uses completely blow my mind. It has never been this easy to be curious, because there is a machine in my pocket that reduces the cost of f
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Different people face different challenges, and helping them requires different strategies. You really don't think that there's anything unique about the challenges LGBTQ people face?
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I owned those devices. They were really bad, so I think it's fair to say that. There's a reason we kept calling everything else a potential iPhone killer, and forgot them all.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
That was not the question being asked
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Empathy, getting along with people, seeking mutual benefit are also valuable skills.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
If there is enough money on the table, gambles can influence real world events. Can you guarantee a fair trial when anyone can bet on the outcome, including the judge and the defense? It has changed the outcome of some sports matches. It co
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I've seen variants of this a few times. Being publicly helpful is a good way to get business. Need a lawyer to help with a specific case? You'll probably hire the person who's active in your community, or who wrote a helpful
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by nicbou 6mo ago
The fun times will also end for consumers soon enough, when the oligopolies are established and investors start asking for returns.
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by nicbou 6mo ago
My traffic is down 60% year on year because of AI overviews and LLMs. They took everything without consent, used it without credit, and pushed my retirement back a few years. Now I should make their job easier?
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I have a little pipeline that monitors specific parts of specific webpages for a value. If it changes, it makes a pull request to update a constant in a file. Basically, "if the minimum wage changes, update MINIMUM_WAGE in constants.js
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by nicbou 6mo ago
If you have no one to launch to, who are you building for? How did you validate your idea? The answer depends on what you are building and who you are building it for. The default approach is a little crowded, a little spammy. No one likes
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by nicbou 6mo ago
I am not a software developer anymore, just a guy who applies his software development skills to his day to day business problems. The switch made me more pragmatic about software, but also made coding a lot more fun since it's not my
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by nicbou 6mo ago
Good for you. I find it disgusting when people get excited about all the misery to come, because it gets them a nicer car or something. Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=chWCcec_gzg

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