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by ryandvm 10mo ago
I tried to use Microsoft's Game Pass and the Xbox store on a Windows machine with multiple users. It was astoundingly unusable for sharing Microsoft's own game within my own household with my own family members. Completely broke
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Seems like a year with record downtime for them is not a great time to announce a price increase...
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Indeed. Often mutually exclusive. To really build great software, you need time and space to git your head around the problem. This is obviously not possible if you're spending most of your week in meetings and tracking the work of 7 o
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
An Android live wallpaper that shows your local weather radar (US only, for now): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.radarlove....
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Not sure why you're down-voted. It's definitely a gateway drug, but only from the perspective that you've forced people to establish black market financial connections. Once you've figured out how to get something illega
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Probably because it's the equivalent of writing an article in the 1800s titled "Going to the Moon will not happen". Sure, that's a sensible stance to take... assuming that there will be no further technological developme
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Exactly. It's just so much cleaner to do it in the Cloud provider's native tooling. The impedance mismatch from Cloud-agnostic abstractions always just makes thing shitty enough that in the long run you spend more time dealing wit
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Crypto makes perfect sense if you just understand it's for doing illegal stuff. No moral judgement, but the only viable use case for the blockchain is doing things with money that the authorities don't want you to do. Other than t
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Indeed. AWS too. I feel like the cloud hosting companies have lost the plot. "They can provide better uptime than us" is the entire rationale that a lot of small companies have when choosing to run everything in the cloud. If they
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
I don't know about war, but I'm more interested in where AI goes from here. We are currently coming around a corner in the information landscape where the majority of content on the Internet may well be AI output. It's going
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
It seems like back-testing an LLM is going to require significant white-washing of the test data to prevent the LLM from just trading on historical trends it is aware of. Scrubbing symbol names wouldn't even be enough because I suspect
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
It should just be called the "well actually spectrum".
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Don't forget the bleak subtext of all this. All these engineers working 70 hour weeks for world class sociopaths in some sort of fucked up space race to create a technology that is supposed to make all of them unemployed .
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
On the other hand, nothing is quite as liberating as finding out that being batshit insane doesn't automatically disqualify you from tremendous economic success.
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Regardless of whether or not life exists out there, I think sadly from an energy perspective interstellar travel doesn't really make sense - other than unmanned probes. There's a really good chance that the speed of light is the u
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by ryandvm 10mo ago
Honestly, of all the people that should be sweating LLMs taking their jobs, it should be enterprise consulting folks - especially the ones at places like McKinsey. A large portion of those jobs involve writing bullshit rehashed documentatio
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Collective bargaining has been unpopular in this industry for so long because 25 years ago pretty much any ADHD autodidact that was interested in tech could get an extremely promising job with nothing more than a high school diploma. Natura
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Has Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
I really wish I had figured this out before my 40s. The best piece of advice you can give a young adult is: Almost nobody knows what they're doing
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
This is 100% true in tech. It's also true in any industry that has high turnover. The people that fake it the best rapidly rise to the top and then just before their reputation pops, they move somewhere else and run the same routine al
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Copilot is too stingy with context. In my experience Claude Code is much better at seeing the big picture.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Citizens United The more money you allow in politics, the more politics becomes about money.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Yes, dictatorship works amazingly when you have a benevolent dictator... The problem is that deciders are almost always picked for their ability to kiss management's ass as opposed to their technical savvy. I would agree with you if co
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Live wallpaper for Android that shows your local weather radar (US only for now): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.radarlove.... Just launched last month.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Citizens United. The decision that remorseless, logistical apparitions, that exist only to make money should have the same rights as US citizens was the single most destructive court decision in the last 50 years.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Just tell it this is actually sarcastic inclusion and it actually aligns with whatever anti-DEI goal the LLM has been poisoned with.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Can we agree that this is no longer programming? I don't know what it is, but trying to coax my goddamn tooling into doing what I want is not why I got into this field.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
I feel like that's a good summary of Amazon in general.
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
Man, I just want to point out how different programming has become in 2 years. We are literally having to play mind games with our tooling now to convince and coax it into doing certain things. I swear we are not far off from having to call
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by ryandvm 11mo ago
In my experience, "you don't need *MQ, just use Kafka" is a way worse problem. Trying to explain the distinction between an event streaming platform and a distributed message queue to your enterprise architect is an exercise

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