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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
It's kind of like the Scunthorpe Problem[1]. Really, there's no better way to solve [whatever it is HN is trying to solve here] than text substitution?? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I doubt executives even go through the typical employee interview hazing. It's more vibes and "do you know the right people or go to the right prestigious school?"
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Why worry about facts and evidence when you instead have "vibes from the real world."
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Right, because only guilty people become involved with the justice system.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I don't think the general public is engaged enough to understand the difference between "license" and "buy". They will look at the button and think "This is what I click to get it" and don't understan
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I have been self hosting E-mail for close to 15 years now, and apart from the occasional and very rare delivery problem, it's not really a pain at all. Get a dedicated IP address not on a spam blacklist, don't spam, and it's
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Sounds like a good reason to start eliminating your dependence on Gmail. You don't want to tie something as important as your E-mail identity to an account that you might get banned from.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
You can bet that if the board of directors could show that unscrambling the omelet would result in greater shareholder value produced, it would suddenly be really easy to do...
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
In general, we need to take back ownership of our computers and be the decision makers about what runs on them, and what we are doing with them. An OS vendor or app developer should not have a say in what gets run on your computer. An OS ve
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Yea, it's too bad that "making whoopsies" has become such a common occurrence, treated so casually, in what is made out to be a serious engineering discipline.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I think this is a rosy view of (at least) the 1980s-1990s. There were definitely jobs that paid way below what it cost to live, and there were plenty of people who needed to take a second or third job to survive. It just wasn't the nor
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
In a perfect world, you wouldn't need an account to buy or download something, either. It's too bad we've somehow normalized this idea that you need an account just to buy something.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> Clearly we can't do nothing On the other hand, let's not fall into the common political trap of: We must do something. X is something. Therefore we must do X.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Here you go: https://gpsjam.org
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
A lot of those planes still exist and have not gotten panel upgrades, so IMO you still should learn how to navigate purely via only visual references and radio navigation. I believe you are still required to know how to use them to pass you
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Cloud is still not "your computer" so it's probably wise to take that into account and act in accordance with your own threat model.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
You keep saying "potential evidence." What does that even mean? If I factory reset my phone right now, am I guilty of destroying "potential evidence?" Do you have "potential evidence" on any of your devices? Le
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
> automatically This is the root problem. The computer should not do something that the user did not specifically command. It should not guess, "Oh, the user plugged in device X. This means I have the user's consent to downlo
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
It's about time some company was prosecuted under CFAA for this kind of abuse. This should easily fit the legal definition of "intentional unauthorized computer access." But we all know, the law is enforced aginst regular peo
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
By a strict definition of gambling, the stock market is gambling: It's a monetary wager placed on an unknown future event. Just because it (often) is positive sum doesn't mean it isn't an unknown that people are betting money
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
This is the correct reply to the constant "but whatabout" replies, that inevitably come up whenever you suggest regulation. "You've regulated bad thing X, but then they'll do Y!" So regulate Y! It's not li
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Most places I've worked have been infuriatingly uninterested in fixing bugs, and would release software with major known bugs and a vague plan to fix them later. Of course, when "later" came, there were more features to cram.
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I don't understand how we all just stood by and let "monthly subscription" sneak in and become the dominant form of paying for software (and entertainment/media, too). Almost everything else in my life is a one time purc
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
Yea a QR code is only marginally better than requiring an app. I shouldn't need a goddamn smartphone to conduct business and live in society!
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
That seems unusual to me. I've never lived in a place where water was not metered and charged by the volume consumed. A necessity like water (and A/C) should be as you describe, but I've never seen it, at least not in the U
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
How did we let "rooting" become some evil thing? It's normal to have root (or Administrator) on your devices. After all, they are yours . They don't belong to the device manufacturer. You should have full access to your
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
The company first invests in engineering/technology/product, in order to actually build a product, find the market fit, and innovate. Then the company invests in operations to scale the success they are having. Then the company in
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
OK, maybe I'll concede the point on legal oversight. But I'd at least expect an engineer to be familiar enough with where the law intersects their work to push back on things obviously illegal. Ethical issues are more likely to
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by ryandrake 1mo ago
I made an "amateur hour" error with Codex. Given Anthropic's recent reliability problems I thought I'd take a little time to try Codex with their $20/mo plan. So I downloaded it and gave it a whirl, not realizing th

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