sdellis

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by sdellis 9mo ago
"Instead of believing everyone is out to get you, you believe everyone is out to help you." Worst advice I have ever heard.
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by sdellis 1y ago
These AI tools are hyped as "look how easy and fast it is to build an app with no coding experience." But then I see posts like yours saying that the tools are so _hard_ to use that developers with advanced skills struggle to get
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by sdellis 1y ago
I have been doing Object Oriented Programming for 25 years, but am now learning a new framework that uses a functional language. So, while I have lots of experience with code, I'm very new to this paradigm. I thought that AI could help
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by sdellis 2y ago
Ok, yes, "no forced exploitation" if you need someone to translate the out of context cherry pick. There is that nuance in definition of the word "work" that enables these myths. Also from the author: "Let’s be clea
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by sdellis 2y ago
That's because hacker news is often an echo chamber of venture capitalists (or VC wannabes) whose success depends on perpetuating these myths.
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by sdellis 2y ago
Can you quote the definition of work that the article uses and how it excludes women's labor? I don't think you actually read the whole article. But in terms of steps, yes the problem of capitalist exploitation is solvable. Of cou
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by sdellis 2y ago
No one said anything about "no work", but that's an attractive straw man. Most people don't mind working hard, but they don't want to be exploited which is the point of the essay. Exploitation is rewarded under capi
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by sdellis 2y ago
Do you have counter evidence or a critique on methodology that disputes this study? If so, it would be great to post here for comparison.
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by sdellis 2y ago
You'd be surprised. Many places, including my neighborhood in New Jersey, don't have any access to drinking water at all. We are cooking with and drinking bottled water for the foreseeable future.
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by sdellis 3y ago
Still can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
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by sdellis 6y ago
#FreeBritney
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by sdellis 7y ago
EchoNest's were the best at the time because they added social data into the mix. They analyzed people's playlists/libraries to generate recommendations when everyone else was using descriptive metadata, audio comparison, or
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by sdellis 7y ago
This is not true. There are recommendation algorithms and there are recommendation algorithms. Spotify's VP of Engineering in the US contacted me in July 2011 due to my work with EchoNest and wanted to know what my experience was. His