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by skrebbel 5mo ago
This is like a vegan refusing to be around, let alone eat with, meateaters. As vegans and vegetarians (and decades earlier, non-smokers) have shown, you can have a principled stance on something without forcing that stance on others. Yes, i
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
My entire argument is that techno-libertarians can enthusiastically say that all great innovations were done inside companies, and progressives/marxists/etc can enthusiastically say that well actually, many of those developments s
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
This article's premise is entirely built on the idea that CEOs who layoff people citing AI aren't just lying. And, well, of course they are. If AI was really making these companies meaningfully more productive, they could use that
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
This is genius. Whenever a company does some fundamental discovery, you can point at some grant they once got for something vaguely adjacent and say "see! quasi-publicly funded!" and your worldview is saved.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Okok what I meant was, too many companies would've hid this in a ToS update, and these guys actively market the change, and the worst crime we can accuse them of is using the wrong word for "enable". I agree that's not
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I really struggle to believe that this was just a little oopsie. I flagged the article, it seems more misleading than the average Claude hallucination.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
They could’ve done a lot worse, and most companies would’ve.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Hahah excellent. I love that the terrible job interview came through a terrible recruiter, it just fits perfectly.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Did you get the job?
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Wow I had to Google that and it's amazing indeed! https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/do... check that TOC, this is amazing and it should totally be a much more widespread thin
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I love how excited you are about this and it's rubbing off on me.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I don’t understand your point at all, C++ objectively has a much stronger type system. It’s turing complete! I’m not arguing that that’s better, or worse, but it’s definitely true and by no means a myth.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
> committee members who may not use modern C++ in their daily workflows Are you sure about this one? I don’t know exactly who’s in the committee these days but last I checked they were all hardcore C++ programmers with decades of experie
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
C’mon folks, I can’t really be the only one on HN who’s never heard of this Paxton chap. If you’re going to namedrop someone at least add some context.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
who?
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
yep I meant it positively.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
That was amazing. I once witnessed a protest like that, in Hannover Germany I think. The idea of 4chan people actually going up the stairs and out of the house into the open air and talking to people, like with molecules and sound waves and
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Everytime something gets posted on HN about a bad or unfair state of affairs, some cynical nihilist posts “doh why r u surprised” and I’m sick and tired of it. These comments aren’t insightful, helpful or thought-provoking. You’re just help
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you all that Wero is called Wero because Euro is pronounced "you-ro" and when you share your you-ro it becomes a we-ro.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I think this is the key point. HN commenters on this thread and related ones like to assume everybody’s an activist luddite but actually I bet the majority of the audience is just rolling their eyes at the amount of open doors being kicked
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
yes
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
This is never going to work. Sufficiently many of these people are going to find maintainers' home addresses and send them death threats and the likes. If you see how badly some people flip out just because their PR is rejected, it&#x2
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
This is not just any large organization, it's Anthropic. Their entire shtick is that AIs can do Real Work now and it'd be weird if they didn't behave accordingly themselves. This is also why Claude Code is full of weird bugs
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Easily? You think the kind of people who think it makes sense to make bogus slop PRs are going to react reasonably to overburdened volunteer maintainers refusing to give them their US$10 back?
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Madness. “The only things that matter are my hobby and my favourite right-wing trope”
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Good thing the servants didn't need food or fridges.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
You think a bot cross-posted this tweet to HN?
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
That seems… normal? I know several stories of people who got fired (or contracts not prolonged) who finished their task at hand, did some handover to colleagues, and then left.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
Sidenote I love that the DHS prod DB is called “dhsproddb”.
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by skrebbel 5mo ago
I often wonder why the model of Dutch news site https://decorrespondent.nl/ isn't more widely followed. In a nutshell, it's: * Only paid subscribers can read * Subscribers can share an article (= copy a un

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