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901.
by onion2k 2y ago
It's still not great at complexity. That's a feature, not a bug. Complexity is something to avoid.
902.
by onion2k 2y ago
Consider the possibility that the person here is not an adult Western man.
903.
by onion2k 2y ago
I imagine this means you can use individual icons in your app as you see fit, but you can't just embed the whole lot in a competing UI library.
904.
by onion2k 2y ago
This sort of thing is introduced when the number of bugs in production, especially bugs that aren't user-facing or a danger to data (eg 'just' an unhandled exception or a weird log entry), gets to a peak and someone decides i
905.
by onion2k 2y ago
Prioritizing time makes a product fast. Prioritizing space makes it cheap. Customers often do care about the outcome of a tech decision even if they don't care about the decision itself. Therefore the leaders at a company should care
906.
by onion2k 2y ago
You can stop using it today if you want to.
907.
by onion2k 2y ago
While you're not wrong that a crystal radio does work without power, you do actually need to have a crystal radio in order to use one. There are probably more homes with a charged USB power bank that could power an FM or DAB radio than
908.
by onion2k 2y ago
The people who said that had no idea what extent the Twitter tech team had gone to to build a robust application that wouldn't fall over. The fact it withstood 75% of the staff being removed is a testament to the good work they did, no
909.
by onion2k 2y ago
Working in the sense that the app is still up and running, sure. Working in the sense of being a successful purchase that's making a good return on Elon's investment by growing and profiting, not so much apparently.
910.
by onion2k 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with having a favorite. That's not the same as only being able to use that specific brand. A good guitarist can play any good instrument well, just as a good developer should be able to write good software in
911.
by onion2k 2y ago
A basic CRUD app around goal setting as a test for how AI tools can help write web apps to see how a modern web team could leverage this stuff to go faster, and maybe identify some missing pieces I could build one day. ChatGPT, Claude, Curs
912.
by onion2k 2y ago
That isn't useful to Apple though. Apple has a lot of money. What Apple needs more than anything else is market differentiation. They need products, patents, ideas, etc that set their products apart from their competitors. Buying into
913.
by onion2k 2y ago
On their deathbeds, no one ever says "gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office." I bet a lot of people have died regretting they didn't earn more.
914.
by onion2k 2y ago
Not quite. It assumes that some people don't verify what they're told, and so follow what people in authority tell them. That means people in authority have a responsibility not to abuse their authority. If everyone was rational
915.
by onion2k 2y ago
I think it's fair to say the "why not inject yourself with bleach!" people shouldn't be running the show while there's a class of people who do what people tell them without questioning whether it's a good idea
916.
by onion2k 2y ago
But no one wins as long as Global Human Attention isn't given purpose. The problem is that "people working in Attention Capture fields" are the exact people who are winning, at least by the most common scoring mechanism o
917.
by onion2k 2y ago
The most depressing thing for me is the feeling that I simply cannot trust anything that has been written in the past 2 years or so and up until the day that I die. What AI is going to teach people is that they don't actually need to
918.
by onion2k 2y ago
ChatGPT is a tool, and it's hard to argue that someone should be able to work without a useful tool. This is a great argument for advocating in favor of AI at work. Tools are great. However, education is not work. The point of educatio
919.
by onion2k 2y ago
I'm a huge fan of LLM-based tools, and I use them pretty much daily, but stuff like this concerns me a bit. In any dev process there needs to be a review step somewhere. Someone who understands code well needs to be looking at what the
920.
by onion2k 2y ago
I don't think people actually make that mistake. They know the chance of winning is tiny. The point is more that a non-zero chance of life changing money (plus the entertainment of fantasising about a win) is worth more to them than th
921.
by onion2k 2y ago
By doing what Google is doing and also charging users to use services.
922.
by onion2k 2y ago
Unless you don't actually care if everyone sees the same results. So long as the generated image is approximately what you prompted for, and the content of the image is decorative so it doesn't really need to be a specific, accura
923.
by onion2k 2y ago
That's less true now than it was in the 1980s.
924.
by onion2k 2y ago
They don't need to do that on their own though. They just need customers who want a supersonic plane who are willing to put their backing to overturning the ban. If a few dozen super rich people say they'd be able to create a mill
925.
by onion2k 2y ago
Aren't you buying a toothbrush with a bunch of features you'll never use though? Why not just buy a less fully-featured privacy respecting toothbrush? (Something is up with the world when you're thinking about toothbrushes th
926.
by onion2k 2y ago
Size isn't the only consideration though. Latency is pretty much a fixed cost for web resources, and caching is very beneficial if your edge cache is closer to the user than the origin server (and it is, unless you're very unlucky
927.
by onion2k 2y ago
The way to stop these distractions is not to set a bunch of rules, but to document things in clear and discoverable ways that people can search to find what they need. No one wants to interrupt; people do that because it's the quicke
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by onion2k 2y ago
Suggesting that 25% of people are compatible with each other is pretty reasonable.
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by onion2k 2y ago
90% of the images would be up someone's nose, so why bother? It'd be far simpler to sync the terminal transaction data to the shop's CCTV data.
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How to Write a Good Requirement(nasa.gov)
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