oliyoung

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by oliyoung 6mo ago
Cursor ($60b) being valued the same as Twitter ($51b inflation adjusted) is _willlld_
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by oliyoung 6mo ago
I get the want to define architectural relationships as a node & edge structure rather than just purely diagrams, which is an argument for D2 over Mermaid but why not just use https://github.com/jsongraph ?
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by oliyoung 6mo ago
Yeah, this seems more like a copyright issue than a "spoilers" issue
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by oliyoung 6mo ago
But then that furthers the argument that Figma is dead-in-the-water These are a design communication tools, in the same way FrontPage and Dreamweaver back in the day - they enable a designer to communicate intent to create solutions to UX d
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by oliyoung 6mo ago
From the article > Replacement batteries for any model will have to remain available to users for at least five years after the last unit of the product is placed on the market, the regulation also states.
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by oliyoung 6mo ago
I think they mean "consumer" or "off the shelf" as opposed to "custom build for the mission", we've seen iPhone and GoPro photos
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
So what died first? The Disney deal or the Sora app
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
> better off building a war chest and pulling a Valve They tried, it's called the Epic Game Store
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
As the author points out, it's not really a "MP3 vs Uncompressed" conversation, it's a "which encoder are you using" conversation ... because any of us from the late 90s/early 2000s who used the early vers
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
> what happens at a company like Apple that leads them to not cancel this product and come up with something totally new I'm in the suburbs of a middling Australian city, nothing special and not in particularly high socioeconomic a
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
"reefer madness" has put legitimate research of that plant back immeasurably
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?
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by oliyoung 7mo ago
> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life. And here we come back to the aged old "can you seperate an artist from their art" because I'd argue when you watch a movie you are watching a product
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
Not all VISA or Mastercard transactions are credit backed, I'd argue that the large majority aren't anymore they're more commonly debit VISA/Mastercard
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
+1 For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
I'm in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent, we have a backup desalination plant and water security is common on the political agenda - water is probably as expensive here than most places in the world "The 20
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
This is SUCH a great story. Thanks for writing up both the human and technology parts with equal love and depth.
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
> I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them The Network Effect. That's it. Their friends are there so they're there.
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
You're using Discord to describe the same thing that could easily be applied to any social network. Yes, it's borne of teenagers and gaming, but for all it's dark corners it's just the modern IRC. There are good servers,
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
BNW has proven to be far more prescient, and insidiously so, than 1984
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
I don't like that this is reminding me that I'm not in my mid 20s anymore The aesthetic hasn't aged well, but the nostalgia hits great
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
This might be the single most 2026 headline i've seen yet
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
Curious timing https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
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by oliyoung 8mo ago
Probably worth flagging that Silver sold FiveThirtyEight to, and then worked at, WaPo's biggest competitor
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by oliyoung 9mo ago
Same. If I had a dollar for everytime I've said "hey siri where are my keys/airpods/phone" they'd have paid for themselves several times over.
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by oliyoung 9mo ago
Headlines like this are inversely proportional to how cheap flights into the US are right now, it's almost as if no-one wants to travel there.
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by oliyoung 9mo ago
Yes, but it's optional
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by oliyoung 9mo ago
Love this! All I've ever wanted is a modern version of Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
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by oliyoung 9mo ago
The sooner this "communication as entertainment" era of humanity passes the better

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