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541.
by rurp 2y ago
That's still the case. I've seen a few newsletters I follow move off the platform, one of them just a couple weeks ago. I don't like to see them go though because I think Substack is great overall, much better than competing
542.
by rurp 2y ago
Sure it's not hosting full news rooms, but the big names on there who have gone independent seem to have a pretty sizable audience relative to their size.
543.
by rurp 2y ago
Is Substack really failing? I don't have any particular insight into the business as a whole but I do see quite a few prominent political writers on there who seem happy with their traffic and reach.
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by rurp 2y ago
I feel like for any place that Gemini can give you worthwhile information about there will be a number of other sources that can give you more reliable info about it. Granted I tend to take trips to oddball places so I might not be the best
545.
by rurp 2y ago
Yeah there's roughly zero chance that works reliably. It's so prone to bad failure cases I'm skeptical that they'll even ship something that tries to do that automatically. On the plus side if they do ship this we should
546.
by rurp 2y ago
Really? When did the CEO of Honda or Toyota spend immense amounts of wealth and influence to promote fascism and cripple America's strength in a multitude of ways? I suspect they haven't and you're exaggerating to make this a
547.
by rurp 2y ago
> voters clearly approved of the concept of smaller, cheaper government. Which is basically what's happening. Except that this is completely false. These haphazard cuts are a miniscule portion of the federal budget, even assuming th
548.
by rurp 2y ago
The only part I would quibble with is the fear that superficial AI generated code becomes widespread. It's not that I think this won't happen, and I wouldn't want it on my team, but I think it could actually increase demand f
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by rurp 2y ago
I left that part out for brevity, but I told Claude the version of Postgres I was using at the start, and even specified that the mistake it produced is invalid in Postgres.
550.
by rurp 2y ago
A permanent immutable ledger can be a pretty big negative when commiting crimes within your own country, such as purchasing drugs.
551.
by rurp 2y ago
It depends a lot on the type of problem. If we're talking about fixing a bug or adding a new feature to a large existing code base, which probably describes a huge portion or professional software engineering work, I would say most eng
552.
by rurp 2y ago
I recently had to do a one-off task using SQL in a way that I wasn't too familiar with. Since I could explain conceptually what I needed but didn't know all the right syntax this seemed like a perfect use case to loop in Claude. T
553.
by rurp 2y ago
Many of the announced savings are fake. The actual savings are a paltry number that will be dwarfed by the 100s of billions that will be spent on border security theater, not to mention the trillions in upcoming tax cuts for the wealthy.
554.
by rurp 2y ago
One of the best interviews I've encountered as a candidate wasn't exactly a pair programming session but it was similar. The interviewer pulled up a webpage of theirs and showed me a problem with it, and then asked how I would app
555.
by rurp 2y ago
Young fire prevention workers at the Forest Service making $30k/year, obviously.
556.
by rurp 2y ago
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This administration is already much more aggressive and corrupt than the previous go around. Trump has been abundantly clear that he does not like or respect democracy and he might very we
557.
by rurp 2y ago
That's nothing like the current situation. Those claims were based on stupid conspiracy theories with no supporting evidence. Everyone can see what this administration is saying and doing. Trump is telling us that he doesn't res
558.
by rurp 2y ago
We could start with a standard of not willfully lying about facts and see how it goes. I agree that the gray areas could get tricky, but just starting with most obvious cases might provide a lot of the benefit. I think the current status qu
559.
by rurp 2y ago
Because getting more money and power are what Elon is after and embedding his companies in the government is an effective way to do that. Tesla stock roughly doubled following the election! That's obviously not because Trump is going
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by rurp 2y ago
I recall seeing a glowing article in Axios about the product and I wouldn't be surprised if there were similar posts in other publications. I was pretty skeptical for obvious reasons and expect most people were, but some people will un
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Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending(economist.com)
41 points by rurp 2y ago|13 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
Long term and stable support through various targeted subsidies. Biden did this for some manufacturing industries and we're already seeing results with increased production and private investment that far outpaces the public investment
563.
by rurp 2y ago
The fact that such an obviously false pretext is being used and accepted by so many followers is one of the most depressing parts of all of this. It is incredibly clear that this is not about saving money or balancing the governments fina
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by rurp 2y ago
The massive interest payments he added match or exceed the entire company revenue. There is no way the company is even close to making money.
565.
by rurp 2y ago
The article is internally inconsistent and I'm not sure what it actually means. "Today’s actions postpone the efficiency standards for the following home appliance rules:" That sure sounds like they are suspending all stand
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by rurp 2y ago
This announcement is written so poorly that it might be one of the rare cases where linking to the primary article is suboptimal. > the Department of Energy will postpone the implementation of seven of the Biden-Harris administration’s r
567.
by rurp 2y ago
One of the steepest curves I've ever seen.
568.
by rurp 2y ago
I've actually seen much more of the opposite since I got into the industry a decade ago, with some developers absolutely terrified of touching a CLI. That approach can work out fine for some roles but man I think it's unnecessaril
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep, the stock price didn't double immediately following the election because Trump is going to help Elon make better EVs. It's purely about the massive grift and corruption that investors expect Elon to capture.
570.
by rurp 2y ago
This happens in many ways with potentially catastrophic tech. There are many formal agreements and strong norms against building ever more lethal nuclear arsenals or existentially dangerous gain of function research. The current system is f

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