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by rurp 1y ago
The times I've really had to scramble on something at work describe both some of my best working experiences and some of my worst. I think a big differentiator is clarity. If I know that X needs to be done, and it's important and
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by rurp 1y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite, most non-techie users hate pointless UI changes. They couldn't care less about some new design paradigm but they care a great deal that some action they've been using for years has now been c
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by rurp 1y ago
Interesting move from such a self-proclaimed champion of meritocracy. Especially rich buddies helping push companies into capitulating. > Activist investor Nelson Peltz, who has been a Unilever board member since 2022 and has had a close
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by rurp 1y ago
I totally agree, IJ might be the single most disappointing book I've read given the extreme hype around it. The writing style felt very self-indulgent and annoying. The funny/clever parts rarely seemed amusing to me. Enough people
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by rurp 1y ago
Good lord, I started getting a headache just looking at that image for a few seconds. Apple has always preferred form over function but this UI change takes it to a whole other level.
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by rurp 1y ago
That's largely under Kagi's control though. They don't seem to be working hard to reduce their expensive dependencies, instead choosing to focus on a number of other features/products. Maybe that's the better busine
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by rurp 1y ago
I actually saw a large observational study recently with the surprising result that people who began eating more ice cream actually lost weight. It's not that ice cream is good for you (obviously), but that people often use it to repla
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by rurp 1y ago
Yes exactly, all that's needed in practice is to learn a handful of simple heuristics and you'll be fine if you follow them. Unfortunately simple does not equate to easy, losing weight is quite hard for most people but the hard
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by rurp 1y ago
If anything it has been the opposite problem, with modern congresses having been more than happy to delegate away their powers. You might have heard the recent tariff news for example.
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Exactly! Many people on HN and elsewhere (including myself) could see that this was never a serious effort to make the government more efficient and called it out from the start. The evidence was overwhelming. It was dismaying how many peop
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by rurp 1y ago
Not much. Autonomous targeting and control are quite new and currently take a fair bit of knowledge and skill to get right, but I expect those barriers to lower dramatically in the coming years. There might be power issues with such a lon
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by rurp 1y ago
The Obama administration's decision to do nothing in that case is one of several extremely risk averse decisions that seemed questionable at the time and turned out to be quite bad in hindsight. Shrugging off Russia's invasion of
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by rurp 1y ago
Oh please, not everyone who disagrees with you is a luddite. If this feature is so great they should make it opt-in. People were clamoring to get early access to Gmail; if these summaries are as good as you assert then people will happily e
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The Gmail app will now create AI summaries(arstechnica.com)
36 points by rurp 1y ago|60 comments
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Dragonflies Embark on an Epic, Multi-Generational Migration Each Year(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by rurp 1y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
The Google Search deal seems like a much more defensible business decision to me for a couple reasons. For starters Google gets revenue almost every single time that search integration is used so there is a direct return on the investment.
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by rurp 1y ago
What happens most often is that populations whose careers get widely disrupted by technology become relatively impoverished for generations. The parts of the US where tech replaced a lot of farming, factory, and similar jobs are basically a
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by rurp 1y ago
https://archive.ph/OpYly#selection-1127.0-1127.56
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Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem(economist.com)
5 points by rurp 1y ago|3 comments
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by rurp 1y ago
Bayesian reasoning isn't a fallacy. A known expert in one domain is often correct about things in a related one. The post didn't claim that Carmack is right, just that that he's who they would bet on to be right, which seems
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by rurp 1y ago
Who on earth has the resources to create true AGI and is interested in using it to create this sort of utopia for the masses? If AGI is created it is most likely to be guided by someone like Altman or Musk, people whose interests couldn&#x2
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Subaru Just Increased Prices on Nearly All Its Models(motor1.com)
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by rurp 1y ago
True, although "unauthorized" might deserve scare quotes given the source and how pertinent those changes were to the bosses immediate interest.
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by rurp 1y ago
I get value from not having to look at content I find annoying and uninteresting, or at least avoid the negative value of having that stuff on the screen.
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by rurp 1y ago
I think you're directionally correct that military spending could be much lower and more effective but the notion of relying on a single sub as a deterrent is far too extreme. In that scenario an enemy only needs to compromise a single
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by rurp 1y ago
Remember way back in Feb 2025 when a bunch of people were claiming that Elon and Doge were going to fix the national debt?! I recall a lot of skepticism from some to the notion that Elon had zero interest in reducing the defecit and wasn&#x
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by rurp 1y ago
Popular packages are regularly being used and vetted by thousands of engineers and that level of usage generally leads to subtle bugs being found and fixed. Blindly copy/pasting some LLM code is the opposite of that. It might be regu
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by rurp 1y ago
I found myself more on the side of the meeting crashers, even though the article paints them as the villains. I've been in vastly more hour long meetings that were longer than necessary than ones that were too short. In meeting-heavy o
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by rurp 1y ago
I for one am shocked shocked that a big investment deal announced by this administration turned out to be vastly overhyped.
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by rurp 1y ago
A huge amount of staffing cuts were to teams working on things like moderation or combating bots, which are areas Elon doesn't care about continuing development on. He's not so much doing more with less but rather doing less with

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