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by nikanj 1y ago
Cyberark put AI into every slide in their investor deck
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Ah, the classic investment strategy of eating up the cost of keeping a house empty, so that others who do accept renters would make more money ”The rich” aren’t that stupid, why would they take the losses to support someone else making a pr
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All of the housing stock was bought up. In 1953.
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Every avenue of life has it’s weirdoes, but why have we as a society decided a single weirdo can stop a hundred homes from being built?
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Attention is the scarcest resource for people who have ample other resources.
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I'm surprised buckling spring keyboards are not widely available, despite being years out of patent
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There’s two things that are real torture to google dev teams: 1) Being told a product is completed and needs no new features or changes 2) Being made to work on legacy code
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The cost of dealing and supporting an old codebase instead of burning it all and releasing a written-from-scratch replacement next year
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And the Watch Next always insists on showing me some crazed anti-jew, anti-wax misogynistic conspiracy horseshit after three episodes of Dick Van Dyke. You can't even block creators on Youtube to make sure their content is not autoplay
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The usual dark triad: DNS, BGP and IPv6
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That ticket was opened in March 2025 with enforcement starting in April 2025. Pretty short notice.
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The law is good, but websites implement it badly on purpose to inflict consumer ire towards the EU. There's good money to be made if they manage to make the voting public hate the cookie banners so much the anti-tracking legislation ge
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Every few months Sun / Oracle would release a new update requiring new incantations in the manifest files. If you didn't constantly release patched versions of your applet, your software stopped working. Javascript from 20 years a
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Who? Investors. If your company is not "doing" AI, your stock price goes down.
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Canada’s GDP is awesome as long as you include real estate, but selling the same set of houses back and forth with ever increasing prices doesn’t really improve the lives of anyone
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by nikanj 1y ago
Living in a police state can be awesome, if you don’t want to dissent. Way less crime, no homeless drug users living on the city streets, etc. For a law-abiding middle-class person, Singapore isn’t too terrible
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by nikanj 1y ago
HTML WYSIWYG editors lead to eldrich horrors, the likes of which haven’t been seen since someone tried parsing HTML with regex
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It’s like oil drilling, completely unsustainable but great money to be made short-term. It just needs to be milkable long enough to make more money than the acquisition price
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Safari has a minuscule team and brings in the Google money
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Increasing price five-fold and losing three out of four customers still means you come out ahead revenue-wise, and your internal costs probably go down as you have so many fewer customers to support
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What is RL in this context?
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I don’t care about that. I care about the number of DMs I get from ”superhorni420” offering me her nudes I don’t really see a future where Discord would let an AI company post the kind of 24/7 porn+crypto+scams you get in your email sp
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And honestly, with the advent of AI spam everywhere, I'd be quite happy to visit a version of the internet where everyone is a certified real person
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If you hire Wayne Gretzky, don't skimp on skates. A software engineer costs more than a laptop per month, and it's insane that companies have devs waiting on builds a single second longer than necessary. The faster the edit-compil
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> Cost is a big one (satellite data is still quite a bit more expensive than you think, especially with many stations) I can pay $10 to have internet for the entire flight. Reasonably low bandwidth of course, but if I can splurge $10, th
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Airlines are decades behind on tech. You can get satellite internet almost anywhere on the planet and GPS can give you ten-foot accurate positioning, but we've still _lost_ planes because we haven't mandated a system that sends th
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I wish there was a random button
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Oh my. Well, today I've learned something new about gen z and the internet
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I know I'll regret this, but how do you navigate to bookmark by column id?
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And taking photographs is not painting, but it doesn't mean it's not a form of visual art that requires skill to do well

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