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by sublinear 1mo ago
I'm not saying "agree to disagree". The question of agreement implies the awareness of a conflict at all. I'm saying that every time we have new media there are opportunists bugging everyone else that normally wouldn&#x2
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I'm about as much of an Apple hater as anyone else, but you're probably thinking of user interface design (or CUPS).
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> Stopping progress in AI would make people’s lives immeasurably worse This is such a weaselly statement without your definition of "AI". If you specifically mean LLMs or image generation, you're way out of touch and flat
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Eventually, people realize they will never agree and therefore don't have to fight. They realize the majority of their beliefs already existed before they were born and will continue on after they're dead. They have nothing to add
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by sublinear 1mo ago
If the future of software development is more collaborative with the end user, that sounds like the beginning not the end. Nobody liked the steel tycoon era of railroads either. We were already almost there decades ago with plugin architect
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> Intelligence will at some point become a utility, like hot water, that we use when necessary and shut off when we’re playing in the yard. When that happens, you’ll be better off if you know how to play in the yard than if you know how
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by sublinear 1mo ago
What did I misunderstand?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
How do you think startups and passion projects used to work before LLMs? The cost of labor is irrelevant when it's just your own time and already have your day job to pay the bills. Paying for an LLM is always more expensive. If you&
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> The powerful are just living an alternate life... So, you consider anyone with a job "powerful"? Personal ethics are arbitrary enough to poo-poo any job. It's just as easy to call everyone else "useful idiots".
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I offer some absolutes in reply and would also love to be proven wrong. The cost of engineering and implementation has always been low. Passive income has always been a subtle lie. The money has always been in providing a well-supported ser
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Why does every health topic on HN attract so much comment spam? This was posted 2 hours ago, and right now it's the fearmongerers and pedants. I'm expecting the next wave of comments to be the promoters of bad supplement advice an
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Truncate the tips of the arrows. The lines are filled rectangles.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Ah, so you're jealous of the inheritance generation currently enshittifying everything? What word would you use to describe them? "Lazy"?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
You might be misunderstanding what is meant by "lazy". I don't think it's such a difficult perspective to understand. What if your wealth was created by self-employment and building up a business? When you see so many ta
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I still think LLMs generate boilerplate and examples that should have been in the docs to begin with. We never really needed LLMs. We needed more active communities and maintainers to care about the "boring" parts. All the rest of
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by sublinear 1mo ago
For what it's worth, I think that happens to everyone now because of all the bots and toxic astroturfing. Since comments are sorted by points, it's more of an indication how touchy or dogmatic a subject is. I expect to lose points
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by sublinear 1mo ago
They are the same length. Look at the points of the arrows and crooks of the branches.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> they were more able to follow family patterns and advice while the "brilliant" person tries to figure out everything from scratch, not able to benefit from the "well trodden paths" that are available You know, somet
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> you absolutely cannot know what it's like until you actually have them While it's less common now, I don't think anyone who grew up in a bigger family under one roof could agree with that. Nothing divine is gatekeeping t
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by sublinear 1mo ago
You do realize that you're making the exact same arguments as a dictator who just commandeered a tank, right? > business needs are perpetually exploding Ignorance is perpetually overthinking. If you want to be an engineer, you shoul
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I don't want to be rude, but if you're retired by now you should stay retired. Your comment fits a pattern I see on HN all the time from the older crowd that was promoted to management way too early in their career. It's not
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Yes. The maintenance costs of these models are very high. Something's gotta give soon. It's exactly like trying to acquire a bootleg of a movie, but all you can afford is a single blurry jpeg taken from the back row of a theater.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
What's stopping the salesman from lying about that too? The experts aren't the ones buying. The expert and salesman are getting paid by the same person.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
It's definitely signaling for the majority of people still talking about it today. Though, that's not saying much that you didn't already know about the groups you mentioned. Being that it's more of a Gen Xer pop-sci boo
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I'm curious how many people are involved in the design of your app and what their concerns are. Testing for accessibility and on mobile devices has a tendency to derail the best intentions. What tools are you using for those concerns?
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I can't speak beyond my own experiences, but yeah the "social butterfly" phenomena is also a bit of a lie. It's rare to see someone just walk into a business as a total outsider and charm their way in. See how well they
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by sublinear 2mo ago
With enough experience, it doesn't matter what you pick. Any job can become effortless. Choose a career that fucking pays at least.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Some people have been working remote for much longer than the past few years. They are doing fine. Maybe it depends on the nature of your work, but I think remote working revealed to everyone how much office "networking" was alway
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Yes, definitely. Time management is a lot easier when it's all on your own terms apart from the required meetings. You get to skip the commute and reap the benefits all day long. Even your diet improves. You can cook fresh or have deli
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by sublinear 2mo ago
To be clear, I meant that there are no threats to what has always kept white collar workers employed. The past few years have been nothing but the most asinine arguments by truly pitiable people. You're easily replaceable early on when

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