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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Yes I was joking
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Bleak stuff I’ve noticed sometimes my wife puts on a playlist and it’s almost like weird covers or remixes I can’t quite put my finger on. Like it has a melody of a real song but the style / tempo / vocals are changed.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
I’m sure more agentic coding loops will improve these inefficiencies
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
I timed how long it took to open Spotify and play a song on a $2500 Mac on low latency gigabit fiber internet. 15 seconds. Incredible stuff.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
They are in my top-3~5 list of "actively & aggressively getting worse" software products.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
The Big AI Lab LLM Industrial Complex does seem a pull back to the era of thin clients & thick servers. You will own nothing.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
There's a big difference in level of Veblen between a silly $200 gadget and a $3k handbag.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
> buy fresh fruit and vegetables in the middle of a harsh winter This is extremely recent, most people even in my age range (40-50) recall growing up on frozen/canned in the off season for the most part. The idea of getting year ro
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
> Yet they still tried it... Must've been a helluva famine. Humans have lived at subsistence level, one bad harvest away from famine for most of history. Our modern abundance is very recent (1-3 generations) thing depending on wher
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Indeed. Guys who think women have it too easy speaks to how far things have come in a generation or two. Some don't understand how second class citizen their mothers & grandmothers were in their time. If you think 50% of the count
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
The mechanics of this are really bad and speak to the difference in regulations between ad exchanges & stock exchanges. Matt Levine had a good write-up of it - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
This kind of stuff seems obvious. It's a big headwind to all of the "the world will become agentic, the bots will just go out and do stuff for you" hype. Anything involving money is an adversarial adaptive system. Besides GEO
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Right, unless this is counting some broad definition of "underemployed" its obviously off by a large multiple. What is interesting though is that, despite whatever they are trying to convey about how high their made up rate is.. w
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
A mature organization does not want the liability and if contacted by previous employer with evidence of these kinds of allegations, immediately gives said employees the boot.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
> I forgot to sign out of my personal Gmail Never, ever, ever sign into personal mail/messaging on work machines. Even the appearance of having done so just sets up for bad things. This was kinda iffy 20 years ago, now its crazy to
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
I think I spend more time debugging my "smart home" (which is mostly used for turning lights on&off) than any time saved from using it. My dad had the old Radio Shack plug 'n power stuff when I was a kid and it .. just wo
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
The part where it worked for 18 months before something software broke is perfect 2020s tech.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Sure software moves fast, but it also moves slow. How many bad UX redesigns do major desktop/phone OSes need for their phone/text/mail/photos apps? We're at least 30 years into email apps for example, and yet the UX
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Smart users forced to use work arounds may also find the workaround is to switch to your competitors product !
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Wild to me and speaks volumes of HN/SWEs that this is getting downvoted.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Cognitive decline from age is something the SWE community also neglects to think about. You may feel superior to the average IQ person right now, but we're all going to regress to that point & worse at some point. Design software &
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
> there is cohort of users who are absolutely not smart enough The average IQ is 100, half of people are below that. Being surprised that customers may be of different intelligence is the kind of thing that comes out of people who have
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
> often love to condescendingly assert that users are just not reading the docs, or are not smart enough to understand the software. The older I get, the more annoying I find this habit in the SWE community. It's not even a well ea
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
They've been designing this thing for 20 years now ..
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
this is great, thank you
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
good point, I missed "insurance against"
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
Lots of bespoke insurance already exists. Lloyds will insure your rocket cargo or even provide terrorist strikes. Doesn’t mean we need people wagering at kalshi on “number of terrorism fatalities in London before end of 2025”.
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by steveBK123 1mo ago
To be more specific, I think most of us would like to have a "not the current tech thing" page. So a front page that isn't 50-90% LLM content in 2026. In 2020 that would be crypto. Etc
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by steveBK123 2mo ago
She made money doing what she loved, and gave a huge amount of it away to help others. Can't ask for better than that, she will be missed.

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