oldpersonintx2

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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
Rust will be fine. Tools get overhyped on sites like HN and people overestimate adoption rates.
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
> If AI undermines the incentives for human beings to update the web with their news, opinions and arguments, it will also cut off its own future no new content being generated daily is no longer sufficient as training data, which is why
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
went down a similar path `anyhow` is a very cool library but in the end it just felt a little ick to use, like I was being lazy or something
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
Tesla employs a lot of people and the cars are fine Elon needs to resign so the employees can go back to selling EVs
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
rewrite your code every four years rewrites are worth it also: functional programming has never really mattered, and will never matter
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
> " Transitioning to a more equitable and sustainable A.I. future won’t be easy " if the author is such an expert on Silicon Valley, she would know that no one is using the word "equitable" as anything but a punch-lin
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean now you'll hear it in your head for the next month you're welcome!
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
> "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." GLP-1 has freed Americans from the burden of thinking about what they eat. The drug dictates their appetite now, and any old junk will fill the shrunken void.
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
but their rate of improvement is like 1000x human devs, so you have to wonder what the shot clock says for most working devs
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
this works out so well for Trump it would not surprise me if it was set up the tariffs get rolled back, which Bessent has probably convinced Trump is a good thing (drowning out Luttnick who is increasingly MIA)...but Trump can blame judicia
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
right, but they could have polluted the google.com page with endless garbage based off of the popularity of search....but they didn't for example...they could have dropped some links below the search bar to some homegrown sports site t
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
don't forget the greatest webdevs of the late 90s...Larry and Sergey people now don't seem to appreciate how much Google's radically simple homepage changed the web look at web design right before Google took off - it was alw
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
Google has a union and also has RTO
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
> Coffee Badging > Buddy Badging this will result in making life crappier for your coworkers no respect for people who want to make a "statement" but really just causing collateral damage if you've decided to be the off
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
joining bsky was just a protest vote, not a legit desire to engage threads felt the same, its also dead
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
the same neoclassical trend popping up everywhere in architecture I don't think it will last...there's a difference between honoring the past and living in it the neoclassical projects of the last few years have a plastic-y, Disne
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
To a certain extent it looks like they tried with AI PCs...although not strictly produced only by Microsoft, the AI PCs had higher hardware baseline requirements. No one seems to care, I expect the AI PCs to eventually sell for 75% discount
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
the real innovator here was FreeBSD, even before Linux. In the mid 90s, a FreeBSD user could build their entire operating system and apps with code and tools managed by FreeBSD. Eventually systems like Debian improved on this, but FreeBSD w
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
it can be arbitrary, like for any nation screening entrants
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
what does "resistance" look like? RTO mandates have been just that, mandates RTO or you will be terminated with cause pretty simple really, not sure what there is to "resist" most CEOs talking through this have said quit
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
not just with new grads lots of people laid off from tech who cannot find work after a year of grinding, applying, lowering their standards HN doesn't like to talk about it though, doesn't fit the narrative
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
they're just copying the other carriers... intro a fee, offer to waive the fee if you use their credit card or start a miles program...
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
how to "help" without actually doing anything
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
the rent vs buy calculator does not tell me what to do when I am in my 60s and cannot find work a homeowner in that scenario can sell their home; a renter is in trouble
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
"Not retiring" in the US will be more dictated by inability to purchase a home than Social Security. Look at all these people around you in their forties who are still renting. They are basically too late to buy. They will be &quo
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
data centers apparently
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
that ship sailed, the US went to war to protect the Kuwaiti regime in 1991
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
oh come on, Google Glass was so early, it could never be expected to be anything but a hint of a tech demo. no one believed it was a "product"
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
isn't this normal for any new emerging market?
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by oldpersonintx2 1y ago
won't happen but the point is to reset the balance of power basically Alberta will be like Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction: " You can't ignore me! " but Americans also tend to underestimate or disbelieve that right-win

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