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by strict9 1y ago
This is true. I've been to several conferences where FB sent engineers to talk about their open source projects or how they used a particular language or framework. I remember the conflicted feeling of strongly disliking their products
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Some of the Oldest Living Creatures Are Getting Crushed by Cruise Ship Anchors(studyfinds.org)
11 points by strict9 1y ago|3 comments
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by strict9 1y ago
I agree with all of that. The point was to counter the statement that Meta is the most ruthless and shameless of all companies. The most ruthless and shameless company would not give back a lot of useful free open source software for hobbyi
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by strict9 1y ago
Off base when considering the likes of Palantir and many others. Not a fan of the person or many of Meta's business practices. But Meta has given a lot back with Llama and PyTorch, among many other open source contributions. Which othe
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Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them(cjr.org)
4 points by strict9 1y ago|1 comments
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by strict9 1y ago
That's OK. The maintenance and visual aspect of plants can be good for mental health. If you want cleaner air you have to move air through a filter at high speed. I have some consumer grade purifiers but the Corsi–Rosenthal Box [1] is
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by strict9 1y ago
That is my take. Continuing education via prompt is great, I try to do it every day. Despite years of use I still get that magic feeling when asking about some obscure topic I want to know more about. But that doesn't mean I think my k
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by strict9 1y ago
Angst is the best way to put it. I use AI every day, I feel like it makes me more productive, and generally supportive of it. But the angst is something else. When nearly every tech related startup seems to be about making FTEs redundant vi
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by strict9 1y ago
It's not AI it's offshoring. This is what I've seen and heard throughout my network. Relentless cost cutting is sold to public and internal staff as AI productivity gains. But it's just on-shore staff reductions. Moving
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by strict9 1y ago
These are the results you can expect when outsourcing support and access to sensitive information to the lowest bidder. There are tradeoffs when shaving small percentages off operating costs by eliminating staff where your customers are. Th
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by strict9 1y ago
It should never be at the point where some random person can impact a server. That's what read replicas with read-only access are for. Production db servers should not be open to random queries and usage by people. That's only for
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Color Models for Humans and Devices(developer.mozilla.org)
3 points by strict9 1y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 1y ago
> No one remembers how to fix it. This thought exercise also gets interesting with software development. There are few prospects available for new grads and junior devs now. Relentless offshoring, headcount reductions, and AI promises f
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by strict9 1y ago
What a great article. > Without something to look at, people have to look at the each other. With that comes a lot of subconscious (and conscious) reading into reactions. Pauses in the conversation are awkward because you’re just staring
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by strict9 1y ago
A lot of good points here which I agree with. Another way to think about it is SWE agents. About a year ago Devin was billed as a dev replacement, with the now common reaction that it's over for SWEs and it's no longer a useful to
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by strict9 1y ago
> We just don't want to employ people, hence why we can't make an iphone or refine raw materials. This is it. Aside from manufacturing, most recent AI startups are almost universally aligned in the desire to use it to reduce h
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Dr. Sbaitso(classicreload.com)
4 points by strict9 1y ago|1 comments
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by strict9 2y ago
I said it in a confusing way, but I do believe it increases productivity, at least for me. But it's hazy and hard to measure. I am very rarely stuck on hard problems like I was 3+ years ago. But I lose time in other ways. I've nev
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by strict9 2y ago
I'm usually skeptical of doomer articles about new technology like this one, but reluctantly find myself agreeing with a lot of it. While AI is a great tool with many possibilities, I don't see the alignment of what many of these
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by strict9 2y ago
What you describe has echoes of allowing api lookups and such during an interview. Or if it's ide or repl only, or something like whiteboarding. You see the process and the questions they ask and evaluate how they distill the responses
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by strict9 2y ago
Because such decisions are for shareholders and not users. I guess we should be thankful we can disable it at all in some cases. Apple Intelligence was particularly a let down. It just got in the way, adding noise and distraction and not ad
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Archaeologists Finding Canoes in American Midwest as Old as Great Pyramids(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by strict9 2y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 2y ago
The added bonus of replacing laid off tech staff with overseas contractors is another morale booster. The ball is squarely in the employer's court and they are maximizing their position accordingly.
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by strict9 2y ago
I was around then and remember the promises of equalizing knowledge and removing conspiracies and falsehoods from public discourse because of the internet. If everyone had access to instantly fact check a wild claim, then false wild claims
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by strict9 2y ago
Thanks as always for the detailed reply dang!
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by strict9 2y ago
So is that one a dupe? Weird seeing it pop up again a few hours later with a different url.
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by strict9 2y ago
> you realize that everyone, including yourself, is doomed to incompetence Appreciate the perspective of applying this to one's self instead of only others. I've often wondered if I can escape this or delay it by refusing mana
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Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts(vermontpublic.org)
3 points by strict9 2y ago|4 comments
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by strict9 2y ago
I agree with this completely. A small but important suggested addition: if it's someone who's funeral you would go to, tell that person now what they mean to you. Then they can hear it while they are still alive. It is not a giv
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by strict9 2y ago
Similar vibes to lawmakers that have public hearings with airline execs and talk about air travel issues as if it's an issue American voters frequently think about. Most Americans travel 0-2 times per year. About half don't fly at

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