teiferer

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by teiferer 9mo ago
The US economy is currently to overwhelming extent a bunch of tech companies betting hard on that AI will revolutionize everything. With huge circular economy. Once that bubble bursts, you'll see where you really stand
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by teiferer 9mo ago
It's hard to know beforehand. Like with most foundational research. My favorite example is number theory. Before cyptography came along it was pure math, an esoteric branch for just number nerds. defund Turns out, super applicable la
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by teiferer 9mo ago
>to keep temperatures cosier through the winter without turning up the thermostat. Point of a thermostat is to not have to do this. Requires a well calibrated heating system though, depending on outside temperature.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Um, nobody builds a house without modern insulation (rock wool etc) and 3-pane windows. It wouldn't be legal either.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Then I know they are capable of deep self-reflection. A good thing. Any founder without such thoughts and some point or another is either lying to you or will eventually fail big time.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> You risk $X money and time for a payoff of $Y that comes Z% Unlike in poker where you know those 3 numbers if you are paying attention, in real life you know only X, and sometimes not even that. The rest is a guessing game, and that es
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Can you separate "who you are" from that worry? Seems to me it's a part of you and you wouldn't be you without it, for better and worse.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Sure. But they explicitly claimed that a detailed reference is not useful as a reference.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> skilled pair of eyes and a steady hand But that's key here. "A hammer and a chisel can build a 6ft wooden sculpture by themselves just fine .. as long as guided by a skilled pair of eyes and steady hands"
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by teiferer 9mo ago
I agree that big tech is and has been too powerful and too unregulated. But it's not "making everybody miserable". The world is not just black and white and HN is too much of an intellectually honest forum to just throw aroun
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> a gigantic manual that lists every property of the system in excruciating detail, which is totally worthless for learning and barely usable as reference. It's the only usable form of reference! I want all the details to be pre
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Always check the code. It's similar to early versions of autonomous driving. You's not want to sit in the back seat with nobody at the wheel. That would get you killed guaranteed.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Where I work, that's exceptionally rare to the point practically non-existing.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> Big tech is making everyone's life miserable: I understand that sentiment, but it's very one-sided. I enjoy having the worlds knowledge at my fingertips. I enjoy being able to video-call my family from anywhere in the world a
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by teiferer 9mo ago
How can > capital is the only force, be squared with > A pile of money will buy you nothing in the neofeudal world. and > didn’t operate on capitalist principles ? Capital being the driving force is the very definition of capitalis
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by teiferer 9mo ago
The point of paper fast food boxes is not to recycle them but to have no trash in the end as they just burn or rot, all in a sustainable way. In contrast to plastic.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> Plastic ones are almost 100% recyclable Nope, that's a myth. Plastic is essentially unrecyclable. Some types of plastic can be made into "lower" quality types with lots of effort, but there is no circular reuse. The oil
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by teiferer 9mo ago
You don't need to get it perfect though. The right incentives get you most of the way. Perfect is the enemy of good.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
So maybe if you make the cost high enough (which is currently just externalized) then they might start disappearing by not being produced in the first place by lack of demand. People don't buy this because it's crap. They buy it b
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Why past tense? That's describing exacty the world we are living in right now.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> You need to 2x+ the transportation cost of all products As with all economics, it's not a one-way street. A change in conditions causes a change in behavior. Increased costs will cause a change in how products are designed, manufa
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Nowadays the homeless or other less-than-living-wage earners do that for us. You can see them everywhere in cities all over north america and europe if you pay attention.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
"Why stop there" is often a reason why nothing gets done. Why do small if you can go big right away? Because going big right away is costly (in social cost, in convincing, in how much people need to change behavior, ...) and that
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> Which means basically learning everything this thing did I expect that from all my team mates, coworkers and reports. Submitting something for code review that they don't understand is unacceptable.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> sacrificed to the altar of "web compatibility." What should they have done instead? Force everybody to detect browser versions and branch based on that, like in the olden days of IE5? (Serious question, maybe I'm overloo
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Or a non-local LLM to keep it all maintained.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Can just "self host" documents, email and chat on google workspace.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Vibe-maintaining is even worse than vibe-setting up. And ironically all in the name of "self hosting". Claude code defies both words in that.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
Restrict use of private devices? Though just blocking particular ports for this purpose is very 90s and obviously ineffective, as you demonstrated. Anybody proficient in installing wireguard also knows how to change ports.
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by teiferer 9mo ago
> your work phone is also your primary phone :( That's the flaw right there. Don't mix company assets with pricate use. Phone, laptop, car. Your life is already very dependent on your employer (through income), don't get y

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