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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Considering this guy has made an obscene fortune by not fulfilling promises, I can't say I have the slightest sympathy.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Those are also common hallucinations reported for recreational Benadryl dosages.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
So basically it's a codebase mostly composed of bugs, and the features mysteriously work because they're based on bugs that happen to be mitigated by other bugs. :)
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Exactly. Software quality has become worse, online media has become even more trash than before, and life is otherwise basically the same, lack of jobs notwithstanding. The legitimately useful things regular people can use AI for would be m
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
How am I supposed to know if I want to sign up for Bloomberg if I can't read any of the article, then accept cookies, and then get two nag screens? Dumbass website.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Doesn't that describe all eBook readers? I've owned a few Kindle and Kobo devices and meaningful improvements are never shipped to them. No actual performance improvements, no new useful features, nothing.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
"Real" numbers make it easier for them to lie to leadership who then use or ignore those lies to justify decisions they were already going to make in spite of users.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
No offense, but the humor of it has gone right over your head. Building an InfoWars clone isn't nearly as funny as acquiring the real one just to mock it.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
> Which is how most of the world does it. That's not persuasive. America does a lot of things different from most of the world, and they're not inherently wrong for doing so. The rest of your comment makes an interesting point
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Jira is buggy as hell these days. Lots of desyncing that forces me to refresh the page. I can have a ticket open on a sprint board and the modal spontaneously closes after a while, forcing me to reopen it frequently. The other week there
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Amazon can and already did this for my circa 2015 Kindle. I think it's just a lack of will to do so for devices even older than that.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
I deal with it by progressively developing some ideas that might one day allow me to exit the software industry entirely. Simultaneously, I'm holding on to my job and collecting paychecks while secretly giggling as various Dilbert stri
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
They're likely doing this because it's likely the only remaining loophole to their new DRM scheme. Too bad for them it's caused me to buy all my ebooks elsewhere.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Sounds fascinating! If you wrote an article on this I bet it'd have a good shot at making it to the home page of HN.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Thanks, Tim Berners-Lee.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
I see what you're saying, and our labor isn't the bottleneck from the perspective of engineers. However, I'm pretty sure that business leadership would beg to differ. They see engineering as a necessary evil to getting thei
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Truth! I converted my still to electric and would never go back to gas now that I know how easy the conversion is. Also uses air cooling so that almost no water is wasted.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Corporate leaders don't learn lessons. They follow trends, chase growth, reduce the perception of risk, diffuse blame, get their business acquired, and exit with money bags in both hands. No learning from experience necessary.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Not explosive, but still a potential fire hazard, especially if a still gets way too hot (coolant system fails) and alcohol vapors escape. The risk becomes extremely minimal when using an electric still.
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by ravenstine 6mo ago
Imagine telling workers at a construction company that the hard problem was never building stuff but figuring out what needs to be built. The saying also ignores the fact that humans are not perfect programmers, and they all vary in skills
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
Though I think these companies are wildly overvalued, I don't see LLMs as a service going away in the future. The value in OpenAI is that it provides extra compute, data access, etc. My money is on local AI becoming more of a thing,
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
They were more or less remarketed as a luxury, though. Historically (at least in the US), lobster and crab were considered low class foods, if not outright fertilizer for crops. Some terrestrial bug could theoretically be given the same
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
It's not even more economical than raising chickens. Just because raising relatively small batches of crickets uses less water per unit of protein (which isn't even necessarily a problem) doesn't mean that it's manageab
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
Good thing those gold plates give aliens the wrong directions to Earth anyway.
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
Exactly. There's a sucker born every minute. I'm not saying people deserve to be taken advantage of. The reality is that there will always be people who can be lead off a cliff with minimal effort. There will always be people who
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
This has nothing to do with keeping people safe. If it did then power users could continue to install their own software by being given that ability as a developer setting. The fact that some people are gullible enough to go into a hidden
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
> How come this is trying to install its own vendored dependencies, including executable binaries, instead of checking for what's already installed? That approach can lead to both security and performance issues. I've been symp
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
That's totally fair, though I personally don't share your experience. It could be that we just use search for slightly different reasons. One of the reasons I love Kagi is that it respects double-quotes for exact matches. This m
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
Wow, I had no idea the reason my peers and I can't find another position in less than 12 months is because the market for software developers is growing faster than average!
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by ravenstine 7mo ago
This is something I already knew, but I realized it even more upon seeing the film Wendy and Lucy . Yes, it's an arthouse flick. No, it won't be everyone's cup of tea. No, it's not blockbuster material. But, what it doe

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