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by teeray 1y ago
> If in 2009… …is exactly inevitablist framing. This claims perfect knowledge of the future based on previous uncertain knowledge of the future (which is now certain). You could have been making the same claims about the inevitability of
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by teeray 1y ago
> why does it need to take so long? So they can wait for US regime change and not do it
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by teeray 1y ago
> proving to the support underling that you know how to run your equipment for the first 20-30 minutes I usually speedrun this by telling them something like: I am hardwired to the modem and seeing T4s in the log.
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by teeray 1y ago
ISPs are weird: You don’t call the water department if your sink is backed up—you call a plumber. You also don’t call the electric company when you want to wire your finished basement—you hire an electrician. ISPs somehow became responsible
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by teeray 1y ago
> I cancel the virtual card I gave that business. Then you get sent to collections and pay with your credit report
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by teeray 1y ago
I feel like noncompetes could work under one condition: the person is paid at 100% with full benefits for the entire non-compete period. You want contract terms that make someone unemployable for a year? That means you’re stuck paying for t
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by teeray 1y ago
I was lamenting the other day how stagnant the whole navigation app space has become. It seemed like Waze was the last innovative one, and that was quenched after they were acquired by Google. It’s nice to see a new entrant in the category.
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by teeray 1y ago
Finally, the meetings that should have been emails are being turned into emails for the organizers of such meetings. The only meetings that will survive are those where genuine discussion is warranted. If it’s simply an “all hands” address
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by teeray 1y ago
If the only way to escape a proof of work tarpit is to pay the toll, you’re either going to pay in money or time & compute.
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by teeray 1y ago
> unless they are a licensed service animal The problem in the US is that there is no such thing. You can ask “whether the animal is required due to a disability?” and “what tasks has the animal been trained to assist with?” The trouble
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by teeray 1y ago
This gives the whole raptor clicker training Chris Pratt did a whole new interpretation.
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by teeray 1y ago
> Critical Section – guarded by a single mutex. Simpler than read‑write locks because writes dominate. To call out this triviality feels like a hallmark of AI Slop for sure. “No use a regular mutex instead of an RWMutex,” and then the AI
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by teeray 1y ago
> Because the AI-agents we use with direct code-access aren't very chatty. So they’re even more confident in their wrongness
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by teeray 1y ago
It’s like the seemingly-confusing gates passing through customs that say “nothing to declare” when you’ve already made your declarations. Walking through that gate is a conscious act that places culpability on you, so you can’t simply say “
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by teeray 1y ago
Nobody wants a subscription to the Podunk Nowhere Times—they just want to read the one damn article they published this decade that is actually interesting.
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by teeray 1y ago
You see, the dream is another AI that reads the report and writes the issue in the bug tracker. Then another AI implements the fix. A third AI then reviews the code and approves and merges it. All without human interaction! Once CI releases
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by teeray 1y ago
I’ve seen a lot of “distraction-free” writing apps up to even e-ink screens glued to mechanical keyboards. There’s still plenty of typewriters out there—they’re just paper-free now.
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by teeray 1y ago
And that’s our judicial system: whoever has more ability to sustain prolonged cash flow wins.
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by teeray 1y ago
It also likely gave us Sandwich, MA, which consequently gave us the police there, who are literally “Sandwich Police”
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by teeray 1y ago
It’s basically the same idea as applying for a line of credit
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by teeray 1y ago
It’s a Volunteer’s Dilemma: why train juniors when you can hire the juniors other companies trained to become seniors?
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by teeray 1y ago
As soon as notifications started being (inevitably) used for advertisements, they started getting disabled on my phone. The most insidious are those that you want for order status for something like food delivery, then they get leveraged in
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by teeray 1y ago
> the Wave signups were so rationed that it was impossible to get everyone on it. IMO, this is what killed it. There was so much excitement for Wave, but it completely failed to build the network effects it needed. If you had it, you cou
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by teeray 1y ago
How is IRCv3 doing these days? I remember it was supposed to address all the pain-points people had that made them want to use Slack, but I haven’t heard of anyone using it in years. Seems support for its feature-set is pretty decent: http
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by teeray 1y ago
All the while though, they’re taking the air out of the room for any alternatives you might choose in the future. It only gets really enshittified once market dominance has been established.
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by teeray 1y ago
I think the most plausible AI disaster is going to be of a Therac-25 nature. Some "everyone must use AI" shop will ship an AI-generated feature that some dev signed off on and it might kill people.
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by teeray 1y ago
But how? I usually have never heard of some publication and literally want to read one article and never visit the site again. I don’t want to whip out my credit card, fill out a form, have a subscription on the books that I have to cancel,
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by teeray 1y ago
Because an informed public helps the proper functioning of a democracy (I know, I know, it’s a hilarious thing to say in the US)
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by teeray 1y ago
> the current administration… seems pretty ambivalent about collecting taxes that are on the books. I wonder if there will be an inconsistent definition of who is a software engineer, based on how friendly the company is with the adminis
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by teeray 1y ago
> The core question is to what extend software constitutes an asset Maybe we can finally deduct all that technical debt.

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