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by onion2k 8mo ago
Snark aside, we have massively more people alive today than in 1900 and yet the proportion of people that die in armed conflicts is— while horrific- barely noteworthy in most years around the dawn of the 20th century and not infrequently d
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by onion2k 8mo ago
TUI is German rather than UK-based, and they're not a package operator (although they do own several.)
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In this case (and probably lots of others) the amount of resources needed to make an impact on the problem means that it would never work if the funding was decided through a democratic process. As soon as a committee of people are deci
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by onion2k 8mo ago
I don't think it's entirely due to US politics. The strength of the dollar against the pound, the perception of the US as not being a fashionable place to go, the fact that most news about the US in the UK media is either war, E
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Allegedly the biggest package tour operator in the UK has seen a 72% drop in holidays to the US for 2026.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Every business that's taking AI seriously is giving their team enterprise accounts to AI services. Otherwise you have no control over where your code, data, company info, etc is going. Someone deciding to drop a spreadsheet of customer
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by onion2k 8mo ago
A/B tests are a statistical tool, and outliers will mess with any statistical measure. If your data is especially prone to that you should be using something that accounts for them, and your prompt to Opus should tell it to account f
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by onion2k 8mo ago
They MUST have access ALL THE TIME, no matter the downside. The problem is that the downside is incredibly small (government isn't interested in most citizens) until it's suddenly massive (government is interested in you .) Tha
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Also the language that runs half of the web. The bottom half. ;)
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Is that different to the number of people who have that going on in their life even without AI though? If it's 0.01% outside of AI, and 0.07% of AI users, then either AI attracts people with those conditions or AI increases the likelih
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by onion2k 8mo ago
While my friend was offered a bump with the promotion to EM, the total compensation was less than the offers he received for Senior/Staff Engineer at other startups. "At other startups" is the important bit here. I assume &
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Honestly, I'm not good enough at distinguishing between AI and human-written content to know. I don't want to read 'bad writing' for sure, but that's rules out a lot more than AI. I also believe that the human (hope
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by onion2k 8mo ago
There's been a lot of "the world doesn't work the way I want it to" on HN recently. I suspect this is a function of an aging readership more than anything particularly groundbreaking about hot takes on the up and coming
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by onion2k 8mo ago
I'm experimenting with building an agent swarm to take a very large existing app that's been built over the past two decades (internal to the company I work for) and reverse engineer documentation from the code so I can then use t
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by onion2k 8mo ago
You have 32GB of unified ram. It's not split between RAM and VRAM. The website cannot tell this using the browser's APIs.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel that same kind of treachery when somebody tries to pass off a piece of AI-generated work as if it were their own voice. There's a flaw in the Milli Vanilli argument. The band had no input into their son
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by onion2k 8mo ago
This seems to really reason through only the happy path, ignoring bad actors, and there'll always be bad actors. True, but the bad actors can defeat any security mechanism you put in place with a proxy, or a copy'n'paste, s
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by onion2k 8mo ago
That wouldn't be very portable. A benefit of committing to your history is that it lives with the code no matter where the code or the AI service you use goes.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
That site says my 24GB M4 Pro has 8GB of VRAM. Browsers can't really detect system parameters. The Device Memory API 'anonymizes' the value returned to stop browser fingerprinting shenannigans. Interesting site, but you'
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by onion2k 8mo ago
I agree that fully agentic development will change things, but I don't know how. I'm still very much in the human-in-the-loop phase of AI where I want to understand and verify that it's not done anything silly. I care far m
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Conceptually this is very similar to the question of whether or not you should squash your commits. To the point that it's really the same question. If you think you should squash commits, then you're only really interested in the
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by onion2k 8mo ago
My first thought was that you could just obfuscate the code and that would stop the LLM. So I tried. I put the following into ChatGPT 5.3: What does this JavaScript do? function _0x2dee(_0x518715,_0xdc9c42){_0x518715=_0x518715-(0x639+0x829
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by onion2k 8mo ago
If this is what AI ends up as it'll be fine. Those ads are easy to detect and block. The danger is if the ads are far less intrusive, so an advertiser bidding on which hosting company to use would be the only result mentioned in the
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by onion2k 8mo ago
And InTune needs user's to put Edge on their devices, which means a significant set of users will just give up being able to open links on their phone from work apps. That puts a drag on productivity which is definitely more costly tha
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Getting a job offer is very different to raising a funding round.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
In the section about Cognitive Debt the author wrote... Apply this directly to fully agentic coding. If you stop writing code and only review AI output, your ability to reason about code atrophies. Slowly, invisibly, but inevitably. You ca
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by onion2k 8mo ago
I want this for my company's documentation.
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by onion2k 8mo ago
This isn't even close to true. VCs aren't silly, and it's not the 2010-2015 days of free money any more. Having a big company on your resume is not enough to land your seed round. You need a product, traction, and real money
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by onion2k 8mo ago
I think it'd be surprising if money is the limiting factor in Gemini's success considering Google has very deep pockets, so that's probably not true. Also, Gemini with DoD money and DoD direction is likely to result in an
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by onion2k 8mo ago
Pick a lane or perish. Literally every industry has examples of businesses that don't excel at anything and still do well enough to carry on. In fact, in most industries, it's actually hard to see any business that's clearl

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