speakingmoistly

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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
> Given that children can generally work from 13, which is around the time that they'll be able to use VPNs, this seems like an interesting situation. Just a hot take, but perhaps the focus shouldn't be "how can we ensure
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
I'd also toss in that it feels like the consumer demand for smart cars is just as manufactured as the demand for "smart" components (not limited to but including AI features) in everything. It makes products less reliable ove
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
Perhaps going all-in wasn't the best move after all.
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
Is the source available anywhere? <no-longer-relevant>Given that it captures messages and processes them somehow, having visibility into the business logic involved would help create trust (especially so since "messages that soun
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
Sans paywall: https://archive.is/ugEfC
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
The problem that I see with background agents in general is that not following along and making it interactive adds compounding interest to the cost of editing, reviewing and understanding the agent's output since it's not somethi
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
I'm curious: given that migrating is generally a "once and done" deal, what led you to wrap this up in Electron instead having that same logic as a simpler (at least from a maintenance perspective) CLI tool? Presumably, the a
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by speakingmoistly 9mo ago
> "Isn't life too short to have to deal with this for ANY amount of money?" Those feel like pretty mild annoyances resolved by either taking those as an opportunity to try and drive change (in cases like lengthy standups,
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by speakingmoistly 10mo ago
It's less about pulling and more about tools like DeepWiki making the assumption that its inputs live in GitHub, so repository URLs are expected to be GH URLs as opposed to a URL to a git repository anywhere. That being said, there&#x2
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by speakingmoistly 1y ago
Sans paywall: https://archive.is/ggXs4
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by speakingmoistly 1y ago
I do wonder how this works in the case of job seeking while still employed. Since there's no commitment on either end, feels like the seeker would have to either take leave or resign, exposing them to a ton of risk while the company ha
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by speakingmoistly 1y ago
Fair point, I glossed over that part a bit fast. It does go in the direction I thought it would though. I'd be curious to see (or to take) a look a little deeper at what those thousand of packages are.
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by speakingmoistly 1y ago
[Relevant xkcd.]( https://xkcd.com/2347/ ) It's interesting to see the periodic rediscovery of "capitalism + technology relies on unpaid, voluntary labour", or as the author puts it, "Open source, the
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
If very visible, then it must be rather simple to pick some sources to support this. Looking forward to reading what you have to share there.
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
> NL is the most complicity nation to both five eyes and economics agreements woth USA. there's a reason all eu offices from silicon valley companies are there. Citation needed. In any case, I wouldn't call divesting from US te
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
Sans paywall: https://archive.is/GimSx
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
> Brave is what Firefox could have and should have become. On the flipside, Brave went kinda weird with crypto and embedded it in the browser rather than having it be something you can tack on via extension if that's your jam. They
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
I'm glad to see this come back up (even though the title frames the issue entirely backwards: it's less about one guy breaking things and more about the malpractice of building systems that are brittle from day one) because I don&
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by speakingmoistly 2y ago
> Who pays for telecommunication cables on the ocean floor? TIL, it's a mix of private venture and public money [1], depending on which cables we're talking about. The ownership of those cables is also interesting [2] (granted,