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by ravenstine 3mo ago
This subject is a near perfect example of "man bites dog" news. Is there a nugget of truth to it? Of course. My experience so far doesn't tell me that this is such an epidemic that it's anywhere approaching an existen
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by ravenstine 3mo ago
> Avoid generic brevity instructions That part is confusing because it's not like they provide an example of how default GPT-5.6 output compares with GPT-5.5 both with default output and prompted for brevity. Whenever I use such pr
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
There's a lot I don't like about Nintendo, but the one thing I admire about them is they understand that fancy cinematic graphics aren't what make a great game.
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
I thought I updated the app before my recent backpacking trip in Europe, but I will give it a try again.
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
Organic Maps a great app in many ways, but I still don't get how people can actually use it every day and say it replaces Google Maps when its search feature totally stinks. I know it's a hard problem, but this is the number one t
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
Employers in 2022: > No! Don't install that lodash thing without explicit approval from IT. Oh, you want a license for Charles Proxy? Gee, I dunno... we've got a budget to maintain. Employers in 2023: > No! You can&#x27
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
I've definitely realized this phenomenon after a few occasions of erroneously trying to rely purely on instructions to get an LLM to do a thing or take on a role, especially without persistent cloud-based sessions that have internal ch
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
It's also a kind of funny thing how HN has the attitude of "never implement your own encrypted anything" but then demand their apps build in e2e encryption. It may be one abstraction higher, but it's still fundamentally
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
I'm not sure I will ever upgrade Immich again. When I upgraded to the next minor version (I forget which off the top of my head), the data migration corrupted my database such that no images would be served. Fortunately I had the old d
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
> People want to make it seem like you need to always use the latest and greatest frontier models to be taken seriously as a developer. Except you kinda do. Try getting a job today without mentioning Claude experience. In another year it
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
Leadership at Google should face prison time for this sort of practice. We wouldn't accept it in the physical space, so why do we accept it cyber space?
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
What the author says about ego goes both ways. People often reject arguments because of ego. Arguments can imply that they way someone has been doing something is suboptimal or even flat out wrong, or at least that's how they may b
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by ravenstine 4mo ago
Not when the adult entertainment industry is in the mere billions.
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
I love this! I'm kind of sad that I'm likely beyond the point where I can ever have kids, but what you describe are absolutely the kind of things I'd want to provide them if I'm lucky. One recommendation I have is a bas
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
All these things are apparently valued at trillions of dollars these days. Where's the trillions, or hundreds of billions worth in improved quality of life? What has gotten better other than the ability to produce more crap?
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Plus I've found "legit" to be a moving goal post. One day a show is on one platform, the next it's on another, or it becomes unavailable except for [insert random foreign country here]. Even HD is a ripoff sometimes wh
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Just pay for a nanny, bro. /s I'm sure most people wouldn't outright say that, but I have no doubt that many corporate leadership types think that way. After all, the C-suite has higher incidences of NPD and ASPD so it sho
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Whenever companies make statements like this and then people act surprised when they backtrack, I can't help but think of a bit of my favorite dialogue from Star Trek Enterprise. HARRIS: We had an arrangement! KRELL: You did what I wan
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
> there don’t appear to be downsides for overdoing it There may or may not be a downside depending on what one considers a downside. In one of my other comments I just made in this thread, I mentioned my experience taking relatively larg
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Funny because I'm not sure I quite notice it immediately when I stop taking it, presumably since the body retains a certain amount of it. But I definitely notice a difference when taking it the first day after not having had it a litt
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Or maybe we can actually start paying for all the things we use on the Web, making it prohibitively expensive to deploy fleets of bots.
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Surely a "small tweak" won't take too long, right? /s
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
It doesn't mean anything. The very title "engineer" is a massive scam to begin with, especially in places like the United States where it's neither a protective title or credentialed. Any asshole can call themselves an
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
> You don’t have to look hard in tech, especially a few years ago, to find groups of coddled “workers”, doing very little And whose fault is that? When employers create "fun" workplaces, value optics over excellence, disempowe
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
They have no reason to care in globalized cultures that are morally bankrupt and have no sense of citizenry to feel any amount of allegiance to. Business leaders were never perfect, but things are at least different when you have a sense t
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
I wonder why this was flagged. Maybe too controversial an opinion for HN? It is rather unconventional. Though this isn't directly related to the topic, I do personally believe that too much updating can be a bad thing. We've be
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Because the elders haven't extracted enough wealth from younger generations? Because economics has nothing to do with people choosing not to have kids? I'm picturing Germany as Sideshow Bob walking right into another rake.
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
I agree. Brave New World has some very interesting and relevant ideas, but I just couldn't hold my attention with his writing style.
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
The problem with the idealism of targeted advertising is that it assumes that there is always an ad that fits your desires. In reality, some people have very niche interests and preferences, and not every business advertises through the sa
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by ravenstine 5mo ago
Modals rendered in the DOM are less bad than full blown windows that clutter up your taskbar and automatically play audio.

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