snarf21

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by snarf21 9mo ago
My understanding is that the main reasoning for this isn't revenue growth but rather one of the big triggers for his $1T pay package (10 million FSD subscriptions).
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by snarf21 9mo ago
"If a cop follows you for 500 miles, you're going to get a ticket". - Warren Buffet 'Show me the man, I’ll find you the crime'. - Lavrentiy Beria (Stalin secret police)
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by snarf21 9mo ago
There is an old saying that rings true here: "People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses."
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by snarf21 9mo ago
Some of this "I can do it for free " stuff gives me the vibes of people who monitor gas prices every day. Only to drive 10 miles out of their way to save $0.30 a gallon filing their 15 gallon tank ($4.50 savings - $2.00 gas used
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by snarf21 9mo ago
This feels like a far better reason to code your own; when your use case is just a bit too niche to ever be prioritized but you otherwise need a similar tool.
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I keep wondering what would happen if China and the EU came together and agreed to move all trade to the Euro as a pushback of all the current insanity. I don't think the Yuan can ever be the global trade currency given China's cu
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I used to work with a guy in the data group at MapQuest a long long time ago and the stuff he could very quickly do with nothing but awk and sed was insanely impressive.
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by snarf21 9mo ago
Yeah, we need a law that these are very much visually distinguished and in the same color so we can learn to ignore them. So much of the web is completely anti-consumer. I used to look for stuff on Poshmark but now when you search it is alm
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by snarf21 9mo ago
This is a great first step but the review system needs to stop commingling too. I get a bad produce can be bad from all sellers but then you would see that when you try to buy from someone else.
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by snarf21 9mo ago
That is quite interesting to me as someone who is suffering from CIRS (chronic inflammation from toxic mold exposure). The prevailing wisdom in CIRS circles is that an ideal diet is nothing but unprocessed fresh grass fed beef and berries a
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I fear that in the last decade, even the PBSs of the world have pulled back. They still create content but they have been very loathe to come out against any interest that the billionaire philanthropists might object to.
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by snarf21 9mo ago
You are 100% right. However, I personally think it is worse than that. Let's just say that local papers found some new feature (no idea what) that could fund local journalism. Do we think the money would be spent to create great jour
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I find this type of idea very interesting. Much more of a "check in" than the normal social media blast. I love the idea of a weekly status update and check-in window. It was unclear to me if you have to give your own update befor
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I'm not sure. I asked one about a potential bug in iOS 26 yesterday and it told me that iOS 26 does not exist and that I must have meant iOS 16. iOS 26 was announced last June and has been live since September. Of course, I responded t
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by snarf21 9mo ago
This game was interesting but I found it very confusing. * WARNING: SPOILERS * * It is confusing when you are trying to find 15 words but then the 's top right number shows 23 and you are told that this means 23 answers start with R.
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by snarf21 9mo ago
I thought one of the big problem with Wall Street buying housing inventory is that they were turning them into AirBnbs because that is more profitable (generally) than renting. This pressure takes a lot of units off of the market for normal
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by snarf21 10mo ago
I was under the impression that the majority of all bills (laws) are written directly by the lobbyists and think tanks. The staff just copy/pasta the requests all together.
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by snarf21 10mo ago
Thank you kind stranger for a wonderful laugh on Christmas!
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by snarf21 10mo ago
I was involved in a (obviously smaller) situation with an acquisition that went to a top consumer CPU maker (you can guess). The investors got nothing as the buyout money was used to fund new pivots in the existing company. So no options or
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by snarf21 10mo ago
Worse yet, these were done by the managers of the Marketing team and the Mapping team. Plus, these are high profile issues that (somehow) required getting the CEO involved too! (Obviously there is a lot of dysfunction in our organization, l
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by snarf21 10mo ago
Yeah, it is way worse than that. In the past two days, I have had two separate non-engineer team members ask some AI agent how some mobile bug should be fixed and posted the AI response in the ticket as the main content and context and acce
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by snarf21 10mo ago
I'm untrained in this area but it sounds like similar ideas I heard of in the last decade where injected tumor with virus (polio?) that quickly kills the tumor but then is easily cured in the rest of the body since we have solutions to
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by snarf21 10mo ago
Agreed, this is like AI doing your homework. A select few will use it to learn but most will copy/pasta, let it create their PR and slack the rest of the day. But at least they are "trying" so they won't get fired. And i
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by snarf21 10mo ago
In my experience, it is mostly like 3-5 very close friends and about a dozen "good" friends. One thing I hear from so many people is the mindset of "well, they didn't call me back" and turn it into score keeping. No
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by snarf21 10mo ago
I find it ironic that this perspective is being shared in such a "thin" way. There are some insightful observations but the whole thick/thin perspective just doesn't resonate with me. As an old man ( shakes fist at cloud
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by snarf21 10mo ago
To be fair, Oracle acquired Java (via Sun) specifically so they could sue Google for billions. They may not have killed Java but it wasn't altruism.
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by snarf21 10mo ago
That has been my greatest stumbling block with these AI agents: context. I was trying to have one help vibe code a puzzle game and most of the time I added a new rule it broke 5 existing rules. It also never approached the rules engine with
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by snarf21 10mo ago
The ASC website isn't loading correctly either.
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by snarf21 10mo ago
Including the camera and microphone in our pocket that pings every cell tower every time we move.
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by snarf21 10mo ago
The ad supported is just the reason to make it addictive. Get rid of all likes/thumbs/follower(counts)/notifications and it loses the endorphins and stops being the problem it is today.

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