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by sshine 1y ago
The argument used to be “Let’s move FOSS conversation out of {Slack, Discord} because they prevent conversations from being globally searchable, and they force individuals into subscription to access history backlog.” Getting indexed by AI
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by sshine 1y ago
Hype, certainly. But the way I see it, AI agents created incentives for interoperability. Who needs an API when everyone is job secure via being a slow desktop user? Well, your new personal assistant who charges by the Watt hour NEEDS it. L
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by sshine 1y ago
Wars4wits
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by sshine 1y ago
My chart doesn’t mention my hobbies. But yes, she does read my chart. It’s not very interesting.
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by sshine 1y ago
Why not wish for $600,000 per hour, OP doesn’t make either.
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by sshine 1y ago
$5/30 secs is $10/minute, or $600/hour, but that's not his hourly price. I'm sure if you hire him as a consultant at bulk, you'll get a discount. You have to remember that taking 30 seconds out of your day is u
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by sshine 1y ago
>> is about 80% feature parity, and is around 17k lines of code You make a fair point that a basic framework can be expressed with much less code. And that the remaining 20% probably contains more edge cases with proportionally more
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by sshine 1y ago
I’m 39 and I see my doctor once a year, at most. This year I had a urinary thing. Last year and the year before that I had a rash. The year before that I didn’t go. For all of my twenties I went three times. She still remembers me just fine
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by sshine 1y ago
What’s sad is not his dedication and loyalty to his workplace, but that he needed to go public with being fired and tell how many hours he poured into it. I’m sure he really made an effort during his long career at Microsoft. And I’m unsure
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by sshine 1y ago
It does make hiring riskier, but don't forget the 3 month probation period at the beginning of every employment during which the employer can terminate the contract with a reduced notice period if there are indications it's not go
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by sshine 1y ago
Fun. When I started learning Rust 4 years ago, I came from a Haskell background and naturally ended up trying to do these kinds of things. It wore off, and I mainly just miss good function composition. While the latest commit is 2023, the c
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by sshine 1y ago
When “just works” means “lacks real security”, I’d rather have something experimental.
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by sshine 1y ago
They don't, and I think they argue it's a security feature. It is, at least, intentionally designed that way, for better or worse. You can get per-conversation sync by joining multiple clients to the conversation. It's one of
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by sshine 1y ago
SimpleX has end-to-end encryption, fancy mobile clients, and does let you host your own server: https://simplex.chat/docs/server.html
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by sshine 1y ago
I commuted to Switzerland (1200 km) in a Tesla 4-5 times over the span of a year. The more frequent 40 minute stops for charging are honestly a quality of life improvement, because you don’t get tempted to muscle through. But the total trav
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by sshine 1y ago
You're right, when I revisit this thought, there is nothing unfortunate about it. I've re-read https://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/revision-history.html and can say that my initial reaction was ju
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by sshine 1y ago
Does that mean gendering a baby is more determined by factors on the father's side?
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by sshine 1y ago
I read ESR’s jargon files as a teenager and was very inspired. It wasn’t until a week ago that I learned about the original hacker’s dictionary via the Scheme community. Interestingly, the preserved copy comes with this preamble addressing
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by sshine 1y ago
They’re common expectations, not common policies. Whenever there’s a policy, it means someone did something, and they had to make a rule. No sunbathing on the roof. No eating the office supplies. I’m certainly going to create a No offic
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I’ve never worked anywhere with a “no porn at work” policy. In my country we let people figure out for themselves how to spend a restroom break. Felt like these guys had had an incident, and now every candidate then has to promise to sleep
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by sshine 1y ago
Image recognition for cameras on tanks and ships using Nvidia Jetson. Job ad wasn’t very informative, and didn’t even mention they were military contractors. In the interview they kept using kittens as the example of something you wouldn’t
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by sshine 1y ago
Ender’s Game
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by sshine 1y ago
> Mozilla does this. So does Google. And Apple. And Microsoft. Those are all companies you need to be wary with, because a strategic choice on their behalf may upend your life with a few days warning, or none at all. And the sad part is
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by sshine 1y ago
This gets downvoted for being negative, but it was my immediate reaction when I saw "Mozilla": They're axing projects that don't align for strategic reasons that probably make sense, but is simultaneously very Googly. As
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by sshine 1y ago
> Kuwait seems to want to keep foreigners in. For their own safety, surely.
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by sshine 1y ago
The last time I used Jira, the CTO who decided he should be the project manager had made a ticket category named "Category". He also put all hardware and software issues into the same sprint "to work as one team", except
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by sshine 1y ago
The punchline is predictable and obligatory, but it works excellently.
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I think Jira used to be okay, too. Before it became the example of how to invoke hatred in a software team.
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by sshine 1y ago
By "I've been measuring my token count", I do mean "I've been reading my billing page and comparing my token count month over month", but thanks for pointing that out so it's clear. What the billing page d
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Nobody needs an additional expense. Well, unless you're working for government and next year's budget depends on this year's expenses. Most modern people need search engines. And most people don't care about advertising

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