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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
> We also spend a ton on lifestyles diseases because no one walks and culturally we eat like shit on average. And there's a pretty straight line between that and government subsidies for sugar and processed foods in general, not to
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
It's quite true. Take Medicaid grants to states for example, which then goes out to 50 different systems of disbursement to private entities. Enrollees on plans are often done so through private insurers, many hospitals are run as for-
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
It has, as has similar efforts worldwide which also saw similar or worse levels of inflation. We were dealt a shit hand and the thinking was it's less pain overall compared to the alternative. That said, the amount of fraud that was pe
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Unfortunately, much of that gets dispersed into an unfathomably complex web of private and profit-seeking interests, with much less actually going to individual beneficiaries.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
> seeing startups spin up managed postgres + redis clusters + prisma on day 1 just to collect waitlist emails is peak feature vomit. I'm pretty sure most startups just use a quick and easy CRM that makes this process easy, and that
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
I mean, it's hard to make a viable business regardless of if the tech is OSS or not, but it's often seen as more challenging this way.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
We've had this for a while now: https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/polici...
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
It's quite tethered to reality.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
The problem they're not talking about is that for all the X users they could potentially help, their messages will be actively suppressed by the platform owner. Nate Silver, famously popular (...lol) with the online left, made a post a
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Having recently migrated my websites off of Vercel and onto Railway, I can confirm, it's pretty straightforward to not touch Vercel.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Sure I can.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Maybe it's because I spend a lot of time breaking up tasks beforehand to be highly specific and narrow, but I really don't run into issues like this at all. A trivial example: whenever CC suggests doing more than one thing in a pl
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
In Microsoft's case it refers to an LLM system with some features integrated.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
This article finally discusses the new model, but uses as examples new products with less uptake than incumbents without enough time in the market to definitively say they're successful. This is no different than people making grand cl
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Yeah, uhh: > I've worked on honing my communication skills for 20 years in this industry. That's because the skills weren't good enough.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
This smells of someone's Clawd writing something deceptively, much like the other semi-viral content that landed on reddit related to DoorDash systems.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
I mean, if you ignore all the heaps of impressive software Microsoft does ship, sure.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Sooo....why the hell is the TBPN website so InfoWars-coded?
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Sort of. There's a lot of activity now in other places: - Reddit has a ton of exciting content about local models - Bluesky has some interesting developers toying with memory and social media bots since it's an open platform (unli
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
No.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
Most people know Softbank as the company who lost billions on WeWork and not the company who made several more billions on the ARM IPO.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
It certainly explains the issues _now_, IMO.
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by phillipcarter 6mo ago
FWIW if people are looking for a reason why, here's why I think it's happening: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
> Very few people with LinkedIn profiles read the social feed. Even fewer post things to it. Yes, but many of the people who matter in professional domains do. Much like all social media, the prolific few who do post have outsized infl
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
I agree for some things, but not for tools or "micro-software" like jq that can get called a LOT in an automated process. Every order of magnitude saved for the latter category can be meaningful.
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
Worth mentioning that the author wrote about this first on his substack: https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
I assume you actually read the article and didn't just post this after a quick skim, yes? Because saying this: > The distinction between Maven and Claude is futile Doesn't make any sense at all when you read the article and und
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
What you're arguing for is more or less what the status quo has been for gambling. Like gambling? Cool! You can go to Vegas or a casino on native lands to do it. We have geofencing for mobile apps as well if you don't want to sit
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
Anything to actually add?
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by phillipcarter 7mo ago
Claude Code is a Rust app now.

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