popcorncowboy

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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
This ends in Idiocracy. The graybeards will phase out, the juniors will become staff level, except.. software will just be "more difficult". No-one really understands how it works, how could they? More importantly WHY should the
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Aw man :( I too loved the promise of Zed. Well done I suppose to the Zed founders as they're on the Sequoia gravy train now. But as others have noted this puts an inevitable clock on the enshittification no matter how hard the team cro
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
The Gary Marcus Schtick at this point is to shit on LLM-anything, special extra poop if it's sama-anything. Great, I don't even disagree. But it's hard to read anything he puts up these days as he's become a caricature o
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
I'm funnier on stage.
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
You are clearly not a front-end developer
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
I'm legitimately asking what people "should" be building new projects in?
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
And the Social Network: https://youtu.be/Rqnt17APIbc?si=ytKruPAWZ9lAlnOz&t=283
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
If you really wanna get your blood boiling how about some Doom with HTML checkboxes - https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
I get the "earnest, 'authentic', 'responsible' engagement by the CEO", but this post and title is lifted straight out of media-playbook-fails-101. Post a title like this at your peril. The content doesn't
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Impeccable quote. I suppose the interesting thought experiment here is, what if Babbage is wrong? I don't know the answer here, but (and go with the thought experiment) what if model collapse wasn't an inevitable outcome of feed
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
> From now on, all employees will be monitored in order to replace them. This is going on a t-shirt.
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the process. Step 1, open source project. Step 2. Step 3, profit.
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Or perhaps even racketeering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeering
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Larger than all but 2 other countries. https://www.businessinsider.com/california-economy-fourth-la...
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
> Sustainability and climate are not products or businesses in themselves. Tell that to the funding programs.
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
Because 1, 2, skip a few, 99, ASI. Check, and mate.
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by popcorncowboy 1y ago
...eschews abstractions...
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
> a red herring fueled by investor optics Exactly. Plus we kind of want to believe it. The "extrapolate to infinity" bias writ large. It's seductive. Step 1: AI that genuinely does some amazing things. Step 2: handwave,
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
If you reframe agents as (effectively) slave labor, the economic incentives driving this stampede become trivial to understand.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Because late stage open source capitalism is now bypassing the messy business of building something popular and going straight open-core/vercel-model on the back of already popular libraries and frameworks. The emerging playbook is: -
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
> but that deprives me of the joy of configuring and updating dovecot/postfix/etc, writing custom backup scripts, writing my own anti-spam tooling I'm 90% sure you're serious, but that didn't stop me having the b
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
@tipiirai your measured and patient responses in this thread are impressive to witness. It's bloody hard to not come back fists swinging when you're dealing with this level of resistance, regardless of why. <Chapeau />
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Can confirm this approach works well for us too.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Both look great. The aesthetics of FlexLayout's drag box are _really_ nice, and the vertical tab handling is such a good touch. Dockview looks like a strong contender though, and the HN effect on stars may well give it momentum to inte
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
And to your point "past performance is not indicative of future results". The extrapolate to infinity approach is the mindfever of this field.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Clicked for the bait, stayed for the background tile.
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
@jmduke might wanna look at that
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
But nowhere near as clickable a headline
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
`D x n` multi-dimensionality reference?
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by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Does Terraform still use computers under the hood?

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