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by themafia 9mo ago
> It's a B2B product And how exactly is the NHS making use of it? What problems is it solving for them? What new capabilities do they have now that they've deployed it? > who is ignorant of anything? B2B is as generic of a
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by themafia 9mo ago
> buys software To do what, exactly? This is public money being spent. Why are you so eager to be ignorant of it? > from massive multinational. Let's be honest: "Health company buys software from US defense monopolist.&q
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by themafia 9mo ago
> If I had sent out an email with even a quarter of the typos they had, I probably would've lost my job. Who told you that? Or maybe... what state do you work in? I cannot even imagine starting the HR process to fire someone becau
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by themafia 9mo ago
> It took decades It took one September. Then as soon as you could take payments on the internet the rest was inevitable and in _clear_ demand. People got on long waiting lists just to get the technology in their homes. > no new ad
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by themafia 9mo ago
> discussion should be limited to what's happening on the ground Does anyone actually have any idea what's actually happening "on the ground?" > without actually gaining any protection against authoritarian styles
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by themafia 9mo ago
> These clowns will absolutely kill millions if they’re not put in check. They already are.. but.. have you seen the DOW?
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by themafia 9mo ago
They dump all your stuff into a schemaless database and then attach widgets to it. That's literally it. It's not even particularly good technology.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Bleach and Ammonia are perfectly shelf stable on their own. Mix them up and they're literal poison. What you've described are just benign ingredients. The poison is turning them into a "analytics" or "adtech"
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by themafia 9mo ago
What people have "willingly" given their data directly to any company? It's usually buried in an agreement or hidden behind some dark pattern. Suing your government generates results. Suing a company usually results in it s
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by themafia 9mo ago
The challenges I have were selected because I enjoy solving them and because very few, if any, people have taken the time to work on them already. As such I have no desire to "one-shot" a solution and I additionally have seriou
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by themafia 9mo ago
> a third of them were instantly converted to being very pro-LLM. That suggests that practical experience I wasn't aware one could get 'practical experience' "instantly." I would assume that their instant change
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by themafia 9mo ago
You write more efficient software for the task. Having had to support many of these systems for sales or automation or video production pipelines as soon as you dig under the covers you realize they are a hot mess of amateur code that _bare
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by themafia 9mo ago
Was MSDN always free? I remember their access prices for the services in the late 90s and early 00s were eyewatering.
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by themafia 9mo ago
So the system is corrupted by money and influence and your idea is to "let the people feel the pain." The Hacker News casual misanthropy bubbles up to the top yet again. Instead of trying to use your hacker instincts to find a sol
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by themafia 9mo ago
So.. you had _all_ this.. and for some reason just didn't want turn it into a useful set of "man" pages in your OS? If they had their eye on the actual ball they wouldn't need to write Halloween memos and rant about de
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by themafia 9mo ago
> sucked the oxygen out of journalism. They helped monopolize the industry. Willingly destroying the utility of RSS for end users is a prime example. > Google/Twitter/Facebook need a constant stream of new links Yet people
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by themafia 9mo ago
It's a cesspool of ripped off videos, AI generated slop, and people doing a really jazzy reading of a wikipedia article. I mean, you can eat Doritos for dinner, and maybe you can convince yourself it's nutritionally sufficient
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by themafia 9mo ago
You've got to permanently block 1000s of "popular" channels. Then youtube starts working like it did in 2006 again.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> to hire in meatspace. That's just called "hiring." We have no AI just LLMs and they are not persons with a choice or salary so they do not get "hired."
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by themafia 9mo ago
As if "higher-ups" is an assigned position. If you fail as a "higher up" you're no longer higher up. Then someone else can take your place. To the extent this does not naturally happen is evidence of petty or majo
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Unless you estimate the odds of a breakthrough at <5% I do. Show me any evidence that it is imminent. > or you expect that AI will usher in enough prosperity that your job will be irrelevant Not in my lifetime. > it is straig
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by themafia 9mo ago
"Creating garbage is easy now." It runs poorly, loses keystrokes, and easily gets bogged down with too much terminal input. I don't want candy coated monospace ASCII graphics. I want something fast and functional. The gra
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by themafia 9mo ago
It's still worth criticizing the minds of the people who come up with this garbage and those who spend their time and money on it. Hacker News, as of late, is filled with ideas that are bad for society and mankind as a whole.
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by themafia 9mo ago
RentAHuman. What a boring misanthropy. It's work. You're hiring qualified people. For qualified work. You're not "renting a human." Which is just an abstract idealism of chattel slavery, so, is it really a sur
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by themafia 9mo ago
We've entered the age of "yellow social media." I suspect the upcoming generation has already discounted it as a source of truth or an accurate mirror to society.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> With SSH keypairs Which is just an abstraction of a password. Instead of storing it in your mind and sending it over the network you store it on your harddrive and use to calculate things on the network. Haven't you just moved t
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by themafia 9mo ago
> over the wire You know what wireguard is? > If telnet can use keypairs Kerberos exists, so, yes, it can.
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by themafia 9mo ago
If you want to criticize my post, it would be best to actually provide the data you're being snarky about. You didn't need any money to start that did you? Why suddenly do you need it now? What a crappy and bad faith attitude.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Why use ssh when wireguard is available?
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by themafia 9mo ago
Would you happen to have a link to that?

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