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by pmg101 1y ago
Cheap, fast, mechanised food provision does dominate the market. For price reasons Nevertheless there's still a luxury market for hand prepared food. Perhaps software will evolve the same way
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by pmg101 1y ago
I concur capitalism has it's problems but if this means we move back to feudalism I think we can safely say that will be worse.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Visual Basic didn't exist in the 80's. First release was 1991. Thanks for reminding me about Rational Rose though! That was a nostalgia trip
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by pmg101 1y ago
But what if the New Way to prepare food was to put a box into a microwave , wait 60 seconds, then hand it to the customer? Sure the customer still gets fed but it's a far inferior product... And is that chef really cheffing?
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by pmg101 1y ago
Let's say you could automate your job and go on a hike. Great! You can have a fun hike. But you wouldn't get paid for that. I think it's broadly reasonable that you would only be paid for doing something someone else needs do
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by pmg101 1y ago
"necessary but not sufficient"
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by pmg101 1y ago
When I buy a used car with a fixed budget then I can choose ICE or EV, at that same budget. It's true that I could choose more luxury or spaciousness on my ICE vs... well, everything else being better on the EV. But I wouldn't.
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The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust(cnn.com)
47 points by pmg101 1y ago|94 comments
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by pmg101 1y ago
Me neither. My fuel costs went from £1000 a year to £100. And I don't even do that many miles. Why isn't everyone jumping on this? Meanwhile a lot of moaning about the "cost of living crisis". People are strange.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Remember Joel Spolsky' guide to hiring [0]? 1. Smart 2. Gets things done Personally I think the junior/senior distinction is overstated. Yes, experience does count for something. But it comes a distant third on the list t
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by pmg101 1y ago
This sounds like a terrible idea that has been done before and will never work.
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by pmg101 1y ago
I now have a visceral reaction to being told that I'm ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!, for example. It seemed an innocuous phrase before -- rather like em dashes -- but has now become grating and meaningless. Robotic and no longer human.
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by pmg101 1y ago
You don't really know if the system design you've architected in your mind is any good though, do you, until you've actually tried coding it. Discovering all the little edge cases at that point is hard work ("a total slo
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by pmg101 1y ago
I just jumped in quick before it could go
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by pmg101 1y ago
I always assumed it to was prevent carjacking?
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by pmg101 1y ago
I wouldn't say that at all. When I think back to all the store I set by ephemeral status things like worrying what was cool or if girls liked me in my twenties .. life is definitely a lot easier now I get to just be myself.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Won't the lunch of the companies that refuse to hire/grow be eaten by other companies that don't?
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by pmg101 1y ago
Yes. I'm happy to have a sometimes-wrong expert to hand. Sometimes it provides just what I need, sometimes like with a human (who are also fallible), it helps to spur my own thinking along, clarify, converge on a solution, think latera
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by pmg101 1y ago
Can you say on what ways? I enjoyed it but I'm always keen to revisit my opinions.
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by pmg101 1y ago
The pull quotes are in black on a black background for me on Brave, made it a bit of a confusing read I have to say!
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by pmg101 1y ago
So glad to hear I'm not alone! I continue to use SublimeText for this reason. Yet it doesn't seem to bother others.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Which old browser capabilities are you referring to? Could you say more, or link to more details?
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by pmg101 1y ago
This isn't too bad but still takes a kind of panopticon style of people management for granted. Instead of letting everyone do their own thing then "talking to" certain people why not get people to work together and see how e
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by pmg101 1y ago
Somewhat true but let's also recognise all of us have a certain level of friction. Yes, Alice may be effective with using tool A, due to her knowledge and experience, but not have the higher context to realise that she's at a loca
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by pmg101 1y ago
Oh yes. Strange.
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by pmg101 1y ago
GG / BG GB GG is 1 / 3. What's the paradox?
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by pmg101 1y ago
The dot-com bubble burst but I'm betting you visited at least one of those "websites" they were hyping today.
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by pmg101 1y ago
Because ones bike is a carefully selected item perfectly fitted to ones body shape and preferences, whereas the battery is simply a line replaceable unit.
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by pmg101 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember when computer code was called "instructions". Eg, the 6502 instruction set. https://www.masswerk.at/6502/6502_instruction_set.html History doesn't repeat but it rhymes!
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by pmg101 1y ago
It's a Rorschach test isn't it. Because the technology itself is so young and so nebulous everyone is able to unfalsifiably project their own hopes or fears onto it.

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