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by pllbnk 2y ago
But it wouldn't help to cut the headcount sufficiently if the question was reversed. I think that Netflix is dying and they need to extract the last drops of value for the shareholders. As a technology company, they were among the firs
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Would you mind sharing which advanced technologies am I missing out on living in the EU compared to the US? I haven't noticed any personally.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
It will most likely be there in the binary but you just won't be able to turn it on.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
The difference between cheap outsourcing by humans and LLMs is that in the former case this 50% of working code remains more or less constant, while with LLMs, I would assume, it gets exponentially lower with every iteration. I use LLMs for
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by pllbnk 2y ago
My counter to you. When you hear a few songs by the performer and like them, do you not want to go to the concert to hear them live for once? Or do you start tracking their every performance and go to every concert they ever perform at? Whe
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I share the same feelings and I live in Europe. It seems to me that people that are against suburbs either have lived in the city since childhood and given our current culture these people are very much a majority, on the web at least. What
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I decided to pay for Kagi for a month or two to see for myself what they have to offer. Now, after several months, I don't think I ever want to go back. Sure, I have to pay for it but in return I get relevant results right at the top w
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by pllbnk 3y ago
A relevant video by Veritasium which provides a lot more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFlu60qs7_4
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I had an opportunity to drive on the German autobahn for the first time this year and quite a significant distance, close to 2,000 km in total. What I personally experienced is the road quality being sub-par for unlimited speeds, most cars
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by pllbnk 3y ago
Apple, water, broccoli, bear (yes, bear), all are toxic. Beaver, on the other hand, is fine. This might be the candidate for the stupidest HN submission that somehow received a non-trivial amount of votes.
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by pllbnk 3y ago
So is live meeting fatigue. Recently I had to spend a few days in the office (I work remotely, so thankfully it's at most 10 days a year) and I must say I never felt so tired while working from home or having even long calls over Zoom.
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by pllbnk 3y ago
My take is that people want security. It doesn't matter if today you're earning what might be considered a good salary if you can't own a home by the time you're in your thirties. Usually that's the time when people
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by pllbnk 3y ago
Now it also annoyingly searches almost anything on Bing. I was interested in some coffee machine recommendation/research and it started searching on Bing, which I would have done myself if I wanted to do that. Only after explicitly ins
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by pllbnk 3y ago
That's why I think remote work could be a great equalizer. While understanding that not everyone can work remotely, it should be employer's obligation to prove that work must be done on-premise (factory workers, most service worke
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I would argue that people who potentially would like to pay for this are worth far less in terms of revenue for Meta than the rest. For instance, I use Facebook semi-regularly, mostly because I follow some people and also have a few Messeng
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I think that is why it's important for development managers (team leads, tech leads and whatever else you would like to call them) to be either actively doing hands-on work or having been reasonably good developers in the past. Then th
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by pllbnk 3y ago
I must disagree. Having resided in the residential districts of a large city for nearly 15 years, I relocated to the city center, drawn by the promise of better balance and easier accessibility. However, I found myself discontented with the
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by pllbnk 3y ago
Back when Chrome was fresh, it was pushed very hard by Google through their home page and other related services until it became dominant. It was also the time when Firefox suffered from certain quality issues which really helped Chrome. So
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by pllbnk 4y ago
I think that the next few years will be very interesting where we will see many new companies being created by prompters and many "oh crap" moments when they will be about to hit or start hitting production and just not working, e
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by pllbnk 4y ago
I have seen this before, but I think the problem is the code, not the paradigm. If you bend your mind a little and think of stateless functions as a chain of (OOP) method calls, function arguments as class instances and namespaces those fun
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by pllbnk 4y ago
Furthermore, if the author was so interested in uncluttered UI, they shouldn't say they've "done everything they could" because there's more you can do, such as customize the HTML, CSS or even JS. Clearly, they chos
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by pllbnk 4y ago
So, you are saying putin is somehow selflessly taking revenge for Iraq 20 years later? I'm curious because to the rest of the world it looks like just another attempt at occupying a sovereign nation.
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by pllbnk 4y ago
Typical whataboutism. Somehow you people manage to discover the USA as a counter argument to everything bad that is going on in the world. If you want to compare apples to apples, then go ahead and tell what has Ukraine invaded so that it d
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by pllbnk 4y ago
That wouldn't be your view if you were living in the Baltics. Trying to get away from Russian influence has been a persistent battle for the past 30 years. Sure, people are not happy about the rising prices but so far inflation news ha
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by pllbnk 4y ago
It's a joke how such a simple thing as reducing the maximum allowed working hours involves so much politics. There's nothing magical about 5-day/40-hour weeks. If it was reduced to 4-day/32-hour weeks, the employers can
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by pllbnk 5y ago
It's not just silly stuff. There is stuff such as Apple Music which opens on the foreground every time I put on Bluetooth headphones and the two ways to stop it are either modify some internal system settings via shell or use another a
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by pllbnk 5y ago
Exactly how I feel, nice explanation.
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by pllbnk 5y ago
Generally I stay away from Apple products or topics. The only reason I decided to comment was that I am forced to use Mac in my current work and after several stints I understood I was not going to get used to it. If people use it and like
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by pllbnk 5y ago
Rainbow-colored spinning loading wheel; jumping menu bar icons, trying to grab your precious attention for whatever reason; minimize button triggering "sucking" animation; app installation where you have to needlessly drag an icon
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by pllbnk 5y ago
I can't stand Mac OS infantile looks and intentionally slow UI just so it would look smooth. Where do you find laptops with creaking plastic or weird textures like that? I get that there are more options to choose from in non-mac world

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