rambojohnson

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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
u sweet summer child.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
outside of just the tech sector, this country has already crossed MANY irreversible turning points. also, good luck with your midterm elections. we have started war with Iran. cheers from Barcelona from this American refugee.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
The subtext is peak tech-founder theology: We built something amazing. You built it, technically. But now the real builders are smaller teams, intelligence tools, and whatever abstraction survives the next earnings call. For the parade of m
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
Europe’s reading the room and building exits. They’re also cutting dependence on Visa/Mastercard because tying your payment rails to a declining, unstable empire is a bad long-term bet. Wero, the digital euro, local infrastructure, all
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
I mean you're not wrong, but let's not shy away from the usual pattern we see on here where the YC-brain sees a camera, a cloud dashboard, and a monthly SaaS fee and immediately calls it "the future," then acts blindside
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
"We weren’t hacked" is doing PR triage for "we exposed sensitive internal implementation details." Spy company semantics are always incredible. The house didn’t burn down, it just leaked gas.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
how is it weird for you exactly? we didn't have masked gestapo thugs before.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
everyone on linkedin sounds like chatgpt / claude.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
in America, he would have been given a second term.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
yikes.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
glad it’s not just me. we used to have multi-playlist saves with a modal that showed more than three pixels of your library. now it’s slow, cramped, and forces you to hit SAVE over and over even though the backend supports it. feels like a
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
If a few minutes of outage sends your org into existential crisis mode, the problem might not be GitHub. It might be architecture.
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by rambojohnson 8mo ago
bye Discord.
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
I mean no shit, right?
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
but users do care eventually. they just don’t yet have the vocabulary that “other sausage makers” do. dismissing these concerns implies that outcomes matter and provenance doesn’t, which may be convenient if you’re building wrappers, but it
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
100%
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
I don’t think the study claims alpha waves are literally the body model’s clock. What they show is that the speed of alpha cycles influences how precisely the brain binds sensory signals to generate the feeling of body ownership.
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
AI-generated ads. Dead-internet dog food. I’ve had to block recommendations across multiple SNS feeds because they’re flooded with blatant AI slop: synthetic video, synthetic images, synthetic music, topped off with a fake voice narrating t
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
too much vibe coding.
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
This, along with the AI slop and agentic nonsense gutting real work, is exactly why I pivoted my career. The industry feels like it's being driven by chest-thumping, siege-heiling authoritarian inbreds at the top, propped up by tepid c
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
oh how naive you are... do you not watch the news / go outside?
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
except that what you’re describing is the CONSUMER SIDE of meaning, not the SOURCE of it. yes, listeners project their own memories onto music, no one’s disputing that. but that doesn’t make the creator, context, intent, or labor irrelevant
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
you're dodging the point by retreating into silly abstractions. I’m talking about cultural and economic displacement of artists, not a pedantic debate about latent spaces. "Training isn’t copying" is the cynical AI shill stat
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
AI takes all of that old school idm and electronic music and repackages it without a human story to tell, ripping off actual musicians in the process. AI didn’t magically ‘make old IDM its own.’ It scraped decades of artists’ work, stripped
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
> generative AI catch on not by just imitating other instruments, but generative AI didn’t catch on by "imitating instruments." It caught on by imitating artists, which streaming platforms and record labels then repackage and o
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
pussy-footing and reaching across the isle never did anyone of good conscience any good.
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
“Bit rot is a myth” is junior dev bro pedantry. Bit rot isn’t some mystical decay, it’s dependency drift: APIs change, platforms evolve, security assumptions expire, build chains break. Software survives because people continuously adapt it
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
stop calling it "enforcement." also, there’s no data...
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
you’re treating narrative completeness as a prerequisite for legitimacy. that makes any systemic issue unfalsifiable unless someone can account for every market, municipality, and incentive simultaneously. this is an impossible burden of pr
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by rambojohnson 9mo ago
Flash/Flex/Actionscript was the most fun I've ever had programming in my entire engineering career.

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