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by rurp 9mo ago
Slightly off topic but this describes a lot of what I love about used book stores. I enjoy browsing around and often buy things that just seem interesting since the prices are low. I've found all kinds of great books that would never
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by rurp 9mo ago
Infrastructure Week was literally a running joke throughout Trump's first term because his staff would start by hyping up some substantive policy changes they wanted to pass, only for it to be completely derailed by yet another ridicul
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by rurp 9mo ago
The wealthiest people in tech aren't spending 10s of billions on this without the expectation of future profits. There's risk, but they absolutely expect the bets to be +EV overall.
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by rurp 9mo ago
This was a disappointing read for several reasons. The product/management/PR issues are very relatable. The community good of a database like iNaturalist is incredibly valuable, both now and for untold uses in the future. I'v
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Microsoft turns Copilot chats into a checkout lane(axios.com)
1 points by rurp 10mo ago|1 comments
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by rurp 10mo ago
If you lookup how to do any sort of standard front end operation there's a good chance the top SO answer will reference jQuery or some other outdated approach. I don't typically save these cases for future reference but have seen
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by rurp 10mo ago
Google and Microsoft have immense money printing machines. They can lose many billions of dollars for years and be fine as a business. OpenAI, not so much.
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by rurp 10mo ago
The problem is that higher performing devices will still exist. Those engineers will probably keep using performant devices and their managers will certainly keep buying them. We'll probably end up in an even more bifurcated world wher
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by rurp 10mo ago
I switched from mac to linux for my personal dev machine 5-6 years ago but kept using macbooks at work until recently. The keyboard and trackpad are slightly better on macs in my experience, but the difference is small enough that I never t
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by rurp 10mo ago
It sounds like you're building a lot of prototypes or small projects, which yes LLMs can be amazingly helpful at. But that is very much not what many/most professional engineers spend their time on, and generalizing from that form
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by rurp 10mo ago
The chances of your kid being abducted by a stranger because you let them walk home from school are so many orders of magnitude lower than 0.5% that the analogy doesn't make any sense. You're probably more likely to kill them by h
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by rurp 10mo ago
Everything except the bed size has grown enormously on modern consumer trucks. Nowadays truck beds look proportionally tiny compared to trucks from 20-30 years ago when the bed made up a much larger percent of the vehicle. Ford knows thei
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by rurp 10mo ago
Even that might be changing. I follow some defense industry folks and I've never seen a time when they were less pro-republican. The gross incompetence and maliciousness by this administration is deeply concerning to most people in the
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by rurp 10mo ago
Wait, so you've literally experienced these tools going conpletely off the rails but you can't imagine anyone using them recklessly? Not to be overly snarky but have you worked with people before? I fully expect that most people
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by rurp 10mo ago
I literally couldn't load their website with my previous Pixel phone. The performance was so terrible it would grind to a halt and freeze or crash.
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by rurp 10mo ago
A few years ago I had the head of a devops team at a large company say that the project I was working on should switch from postgres to a "real" enterprise database like oracle. This happened while we were having zero issues with
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by rurp 10mo ago
I don't think this is the scenario most people are worried about. Having basic needs met while also having a lot of freedom and time probably sounds great to the majority of people. But there's roughly 0% chance we end up in that
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by rurp 10mo ago
Reminds me of the anti gay marriage folks who claim they aren't discriminating because any man can marry any woman of their choice and vice versa.
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AI Assist is now available on Stack Overflow(meta.stackexchange.com)
2 points by rurp 10mo ago|2 comments
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by rurp 11mo ago
Many people did choose to live as hunter gatherers all over the world, until they were universally slaughtered and subjugated. We don't really know if industrial societies lead to more fullfilling lives or not, because they clearly lea
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by rurp 11mo ago
I'm unsure how someone could use LLMs regularly and not encounter significant mistakes. I use them a lot less than some devs and still run into basic errors pretty often, to the point that I rarely bother using them for niche or comp
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by rurp 11mo ago
HBO became an incredibly valuable brand because of a well deserved reputation for quality. Any one great show or highly visible screwup will only move that needle so much, but they do compound over time. I still remember the leaked audio fr
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by rurp 11mo ago
Hah, that's great. My dentist has overhead TVs in all of the rooms. Before a longer appointment I asked if I could bring some over-ear headphones to connect to the TV. Surprisingly nobody had asked that before but they were fine with i
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by rurp 11mo ago
We better get rid of database constraints at the same time, since people were constrained on those same ships. I don't see how we can move forward as an industry until these grievous harms have been addressed.
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by rurp 11mo ago
I used to feel that way up until about a year ago. At worst I would roll my eyes at the silliness and then move on, because this stuff rarely matters much one way or another. But then the 2024 elections happened, along with a bunch of exit
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by rurp 11mo ago
This is a huge issue in my experience. I've done some work as a government contractor and often the govt offices have been so heavily outsourced there's nobody left with any technical knowledge at all to oversee the projects. Like
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by rurp 11mo ago
Yes exactly. In a decade or two people will wistfully look back on 2025 era GenAI similar to how people currently remember when Google Search was great 10+ years ago. The AI enshittification will probably be even more dramatic though, in pa
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by rurp 11mo ago
Tenant laws vary dramatically by location. Some cities are like you describe but in others an eviction can happen within a few weeks with minimal trouble. California cities are some of the most stringent, so plenty of people in tech will ha
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by rurp 11mo ago
I think a more charitable reading is that OS upgrades left their devices barely usable to the point of having to be replaced. I'm not a big Apple person so don't have personal experience but have heard similar stories from multipl
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by rurp 11mo ago
Seems like a typical trump Big Announcement. No details, doesn't really fit with the actual state of the world, and no clear path to even getting these things built. I'll be surprised if >0 get built in Philadelphia in the next

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