oliyoung

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by oliyoung 2y ago
Wonderfully executed joke. 10pts.
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by oliyoung 2y ago
The keys here for me... > After probably a good year of writing Rust and Svelte, it dawned on me that our users didn't benefit from any of this. > With days and often weeks on end being spent on adding absolutely no direct value
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by oliyoung 2y ago
Because Rails solves problems the others don't. Also, 1. Spring outdates Rails (2002 v 2007) 2. Go is a language, Rails is a platform, Ruby is the language. Ruby and Go solve for different problems, Go doesn't have a singular web
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by oliyoung 2y ago
A battle of a Tumblr user named Woodsfae versus advanced LLM transcribing new goth literature? That's like bringing a knife to a gun fight my friend, never underestimate the power of a committed Tumblr user
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by oliyoung 2y ago
There's a name I haven't heard in many years
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by oliyoung 2y ago
First thing that came to mind was the song-lines of Indigenous Australians, they code long journeys through country through narratives and songs, it's the macro form of this research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by oliyoung 2y ago
Yeah, it's the same here in Australia. Massive basketball (top 5 domestic league, huge NBA market) but baseball is relegated to a 2-month semi-pro competition in front of maybe a thousand people. Which is a shame, a lot of the enjoymen
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by oliyoung 2y ago
To me it was dystopian in all the ways a good Black Mirror episode is, a future where humans are falling in love with LLMs is not a utopian outcome
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by oliyoung 2y ago
Exactly, it was absolutely meant to be Johansson's voice
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by oliyoung 2y ago
The indigenous warning isn't "trite", it's a culturally sensitive practice that most Australians are used to seeing.
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by oliyoung 3y ago
> How can a regular employee joining a startup know beforehand that there isn't a high chance of their equity (which is probably a significant part of their total comp) being worthless even if a big acquisition is made? You don&#x27
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by oliyoung 3y ago
Same. I'm very cynical and suspicious about most of the YTers, he seems like he's a decent dude just trying to run a business making entertaining videos. His LinkedIn posts are interesting, he seems like he's enjoying hacking
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by oliyoung 3y ago
`<button onclick="this.classList.add('bg-green')">` Encouraged? Huh? We spent YEARS splitting logic from presentation and not describing presentation with visual characteristics. This is a terrible idea.
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by oliyoung 3y ago
I'm sitting here on an M1 Max with two external screens ..
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by oliyoung 3y ago
> absolute pinnacle of music commercialisation I'm a fan (her latest work with Bon Iver and the National is great) but yes, there's no one else in the world exploiting the music industry right now quite like Taylor
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by oliyoung 3y ago
Once again the cardinal rule of front-end engineering proves true "never ever trust the client"
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by oliyoung 3y ago
didn't know a hackernews comment could make me feel old with two words
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by oliyoung 3y ago
The study might be flawed, but there are lots of opinions here from a lot of people who don't suffer from ADHD who really should reach out to us who do, and find out that it really is a '"disorder" or "disability&qu
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by oliyoung 3y ago
How many times are we seriously going to say > the failure of this Apple product is going to be a big turning point for the company and then Apple go on to make a billion dollars on it?
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by oliyoung 3y ago
As @dagmx said above, we've already had a great bunch of features added in the last 18 months, time and geo sensitive focus modes that can lock a device to only certain apps and/or certain features, notification center batches not
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by oliyoung 3y ago
"Burying" Personal Voice halfway down a press release, in the second item, is so typically Apple. > Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhon
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by oliyoung 3y ago
There's nothing stopping you from scheduling your own (said as a 43 year old who has one every January)
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by oliyoung 4y ago
it's akin to "jack of all trades", we're broadly skilled over having a singular focus on one area. It's in OP's favor; we tend to be more easily employable because we can step into roles with admittedly less of
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by oliyoung 4y ago
I want it to be Mastodon I think it'll be TikTok
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by oliyoung 4y ago
All of the other posts are wonderful advice, but confronting the reality of a situation but with deep belief and understanding that "this too will pass" has always held true for me (I never knew the name of it until recently, but
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by oliyoung 4y ago
There are millions of us who still count to 12 like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcx44e2gnfI
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by oliyoung 5y ago
> at least a couple hundred comments. for context, that's when a "a couple hundred comments" was as big as "a couple of thousand/tens of thousands" of comments is now. Slashdot was the centre of the (tech) i
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Townscaper just got a wider release too from just being on PC for a long time, it's on iOS/Android and on Xbox Game Pass too. Wonderful fun.
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Square's hardware business model, they'll just be a software company now
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by oliyoung 5y ago
Pleasure! I had reservations about it, and I was surprised how much I liked it and how on board I was with it. I mean, it's not perfect, the third act is soft and there are plot-holes you can drive a truck through, but that wasn't

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