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by psadauskas 1y ago
A weaker government would not be able to prevent corporations from doing whatever they want. A strong government makes for a richer target for corporations to lobby to allow them to do whatever they want. It doesn't matter what size go
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by psadauskas 1y ago
MacOS and Windows might break[1] less often than Linux, but when it does I stand less of a chance of fixing it. Linux is usually more fiddly, but if does something I don't want its usually only a few minutes to find the config file or
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by psadauskas 1y ago
It wasn't DHH's latest awful blog post that made Mike Perham pull Sidekiq's support. It was because Ruby Central invited him back to the last Railsconf, after having kicked him out of Railsconf 2 years prior for his awful blo
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by psadauskas 1y ago
Plus, its not a good look for RubyCentral for trying to smear Andre for it, when it is perfectly acceptable within their own Privacy Policy[1]: > We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, market
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by psadauskas 1y ago
In the US, around the turn of the last century, it used to be that if you had an idea for a new invention, you could wander into any mid-sized city and have your pick of a dozen different a machine shops that could make you a prototype. It
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by psadauskas 1y ago
And Lanai, the 6th largest of the Hawaiian islands, which is owned 98% by Larry.
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by psadauskas 1y ago
Location: Boulder, CO Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: 20 years in the Rails webdev stack: Ruby, Rails, Turbo, Stimulus, Hotwire. Various Javascript frameworks as they come and go: React, Svelte, Vue. DevOps with Terraform,
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by psadauskas 1y ago
There's also the Pink Elephant Paradox (Whatever you do, DO NOT think about a pink elephant). If you mention X or Y, even if they're preceded by "DO NOT" in all caps, an LLM will still end up with both X and Y into its c
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by psadauskas 1y ago
I really want to support the creators! But by paying for movie tickets or streaming services, very little of the money I pay goes to the creators. It mostly goes to the executives and financiers, or the megastar actors that I don't rea
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by psadauskas 1y ago
> Private companies have competition as a force that forces some amount of accountability [citation needed] Private companies these days just buy all their competitors to minimize accountability and maximize shareholder returns.
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by psadauskas 1y ago
I'm not sure "failure for Democrats" is the right way to frame it, because the system is working as intended, and the Democrats are responding to the lobbyists rather than the people, same as Republicans. Your choices are the
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All of this is extremely easily fixable, from a technical standpoint. But, every solution would make some rich guy very slightly less rich, so its going to be an uphill battle where we have to fight for each step. If there's some propo
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by psadauskas 1y ago
AIs are great at generating bullshit, so if your job involves generating bullshit, you're probably on the chopping block. I just wish that instead of getting more efficient at generating bullshit, we could just eliminate the bullshit.
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by psadauskas 1y ago
I think of AI like a Junior Engineer. If I understand the problem well enough, and have a really good description of what I want, like I'm explaining it to a junior engineer, then they do an OK job at it. At my last job, we had a codin
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by psadauskas 1y ago
> trumps not a warmonger In the last 3 months, Trump has threatened to invade: - Greenland - Canada - Mexico - Panama - Cuba > people like to act like he's on the side of the russians Trump has said that Ukraine is the one that s
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by psadauskas 1y ago
You misspelled Reagan. (Though to be fair, every president since Truman has escalated things with Russia/USSR, except maybe Clinton. Reagan just did more than most.) > You don't think trump is actively involved in negotations[s
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by psadauskas 1y ago
¿Por qué no los dos? (Spanish for _Why not both?_)
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by psadauskas 1y ago
Cory Doctorow wrote about this recently: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/ Particularly this part: > nestling comfortably alongside of th
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by psadauskas 1y ago
I'm not skeptical about AI. I'm skeptical that the companies behind AI will deliver a product that makes my life better. Anything genuinely useful will be a toy or get bought and shut down, while the ones that survive will steal m
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by psadauskas 1y ago
They're even worse at organizing and planning projects _with_ pressures like profit.
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> This past week at RubyKaigi in Ehime, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, gave a presentation on “Programming Language for AI Age”. In the keynote presentation, he discussed how Ruby can d
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by psadauskas 1y ago
In the FAQ: 07 How do you make the illustrations? By hand, in Figma. There's no secret - it's as complicated as it looks.
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by psadauskas 2y ago
I've worked at 10 startups since 2006, with equity or options each time. Only one time did it turn out to be worth anything at all (~6 months salary), and that one time wasn't even a successful "exit". It was more of an
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by psadauskas 2y ago
"Security" and "Convenience" is always a tradeoff, you can never have both.
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It also has the additional benefit of not being based on Tailwind, unlike most of the others listed in the original post and comments here.
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I like his concepts, and his stories, but agree about the characters. Every single one of them talks like a snarky sarcastic white dude. All the side characters in The Martian, the teenage girl in Artemis, and the rock alien in Project Hail
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by psadauskas 2y ago
https://hckrnews.com/ Doesn't disappear flagged articles, either.
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by psadauskas 2y ago
I'm not afraid of AI (LLMs). In fact, I think it has many useful applications that will come to light in the next few years. I'm terrified of AI companies. They have no qualms about destroying economies and societies, burning the
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by psadauskas 2y ago
Quadlet is a nice alternative for use-case of docker compose to "run all these interdependent containers in a production-like environment". I wish it (or something) was better about the other use-case of docker compose: developmen
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by psadauskas 2y ago
I wonder about that too, but I think there's two things in its favor that pretty much outweigh everything else: 1. Prevent low-wage, low-skill workers from being exploited. If the manager at a fast food restaurant is a creep or a jerk,

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