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by sh34r 10mo ago
It varies a lot by store. I’ve been to HDs where they’re all useless, and others where there’s a good number of knowledgeable DIYers working there. I think a lot of people just expect too much from a big box store employee making $17/h
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by sh34r 10mo ago
I like Haskell, but I never want to work with Haskellers, ever again. I’ll do personal / solo Haskell projects. But never professionally on a team. Haskellers are not team players. Rustaceans should really take Haskell as a cautionary
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by sh34r 10mo ago
Like monopolies, monopsony power exists on a spectrum. For example, Walmart exercises extreme monopsony power over suppliers, despite not being the only retailer in town.
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by sh34r 10mo ago
While I can certainly think of ways in which ordinary segmentation can be stretched beyond the limits of what’s reasonable, the example you give is categorically different. In your example, you’re paying extra for additional capabilities. D
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by sh34r 10mo ago
0.27% + credit card interchange fees feels more than fair to me. Apple should be thanking their lucky stars that the court isn’t forcing them to spin off the App Store business and pay back every stolen cent from their criminal bundling sch
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by sh34r 10mo ago
I believe it depends on which parties are responsible for the criminal antitrust violations. Is it the manufacturers abusing monopoly power, or is it OpenAI abusing monopsony power? I’m not a lawyer or a forensic accountant, but given how r
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by sh34r 10mo ago
You should look up the monopsony provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, as well as the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 which prohibits predatory price discrimination schemes. Scam Alt-Man should be paying the same price for RAM as us
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by sh34r 10mo ago
The Sherman Antitrust Act has outlawed abuses of monopsony power since 1890. What we should really be asking is, why did we ever stop jailing wanton criminals like Scam Alt-Man?
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by sh34r 10mo ago
> I know part of it is that sales wants to be able to price discriminate and wants to be able to use their sales skills on a customer You say that as if it isn’t the entire reason why these interactions should be avoided at all costs. Dy
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by sh34r 10mo ago
There’s no honor among thieves. You don’t get to cry about Chinese “bandits” when Anthropic just had to pay $1 billion to settle a massive copyright infringement lawsuit. All of these models were created through the mass-scale theft of huma
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by sh34r 10mo ago
Add the Export Clause to the list of flagrant violations of the Constitution by this despicable regime.
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by sh34r 1y ago
It is a purely subjective design decision, but I personally prefer the stricter rules that don’t do backwards type inferences like this… type hints shouldn’t follow duck typing semantics. Otherwise you’re not providing nearly as much value
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by sh34r 1y ago
If you know your way around the Docker CLI, you can mount your workspace in a new container environment and run it however which way you want. You can attach VSCode to arbitrary containers. You can find the commands used to build the dev co
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by sh34r 1y ago
> I have no idea why people buy pistols that aren’t Glocks. A G45 was my top pick if price were no object, but this is the worst job market in 20 years for SWEs. I’ve been out of work more often than not for the last 2 years (never takin
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by sh34r 1y ago
At least they could pivot Hotdog or Not into a dick-pic classifier, which was less trivial when that show was airing. $14 billion for a glorified mechanical turk platform is bananas. Between this, the $6 billion Jonny Ive acquisition, and a
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by sh34r 1y ago
That word, “healthier,” is doing a lot of lifting in the parent comment. I read it in the maximally-utilitarian viewpoint, in which all the individual harm is completely ignored, and all we’re talking about is the collective health of socie
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by sh34r 1y ago
It’s a nice lie the right tells themselves, that there isn’t one long gun for every military-age liberal already in friendly partisan hands. This country is so flooded with guns, that it spills over to Mexico, a country where guns are almos
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by sh34r 1y ago
I wonder how many civilians will be disappeared before a Dem governor finds their balls and musters the state militia. There’s millions of patriots out there just waiting for the call to action. This nonviolent shit will get you killed. MLK
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by sh34r 1y ago
Gitlab begs to differ. The number of times I’d google my problem and find a ticket from 6+ years ago with dozens of users participating in the comments, confirming it’s a consistent, common problem, and not a peep from their devs. It’s like
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by sh34r 1y ago
My best guess is that legalizing corruption has made everyone a bit more deranged. Some more than others. I don’t think it’s such a huge leap that a policy with such unanimous opposition was put in place by the select few special interests
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by sh34r 1y ago
How many companies in Silicon Valley can trace their history back to eight postdocs who absolutely despised William Shockley (for good reason)? They didn’t climb the same ladder, so much as run away from the same bear, using the same emerge
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by sh34r 1y ago
On a finite planet, we probably ought to care about how many orders of magnitude more energy that the LLM must use to perform a task than our 20-watt chimp-brains.
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by sh34r 1y ago
I’ve been asking myself that question regarding dating app companies for 10 years. The status quo is so dystopian already. Sure, go ahead, put an LLM in it. How much worse could it get than a glorified ELO rating?
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by sh34r 1y ago
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when aw
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by sh34r 1y ago
I’m used to embellishing things a bit, telling a more favorable story of the truth. That is categorically different from what hiring panels crave now. People used to be able to smell flagrant bullshit. Now, they don’t just fall for it. They
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by sh34r 1y ago
From a more left-wing perspective, it certainly doesn’t feel like a coincidence that Section 174 kneecaps anyone who’d try to compete with the FANG trusts. I’m sure an oligarch paid good money to insert this rubbish into the tax code. Well,
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by sh34r 1y ago
Judging by the Big Law shakedown, enforcement will be based on how much of your corporate cash is held in Taco’s shitcoin.
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by sh34r 1y ago
A sufficiently idiotic tax scheme such as Section 174 can destroy far more income tax revenue than it collects, by destroying jobs and small businesses, and knocking high earners down a tax bracket or three. Section 174 isn’t doing much to
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by sh34r 1y ago
I feel like this is a rite of passage for all engineers: messing around with things like Lucene long enough to realize that search-for-humans is a relatively hard problem, even at small scale. Improving your simple website's search fun
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by sh34r 1y ago
Those tire kickers are looking for any reason not to hire people. Trying to prepare for their mind-games is a fool's errand. They've almost always made up their mind when they see your face and decide whether you're fuckable

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