tofuahdude

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by tofuahdude 1mo ago
Aren't worth what? The tax? Or the vice being legal in the first place?
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by tofuahdude 1mo ago
What, are you expecting them to just work for good vibes?
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by tofuahdude 1mo ago
Objectively untrue, unfortunately.
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by tofuahdude 2mo ago
"Just use AI" is definitely not the solve for the problems Github faces.
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by tofuahdude 3mo ago
The prospect of cleanup duty has never stopped anyone at war. Fields of landmines maiming children for decades, unexploded ordinance in cities, etc etc. Near earth orbit will be a field of debris until gravity takes over.
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by tofuahdude 5mo ago
I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static. For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time. It's great for short-lived throwaway stuff, but as soon as you know you'll be mainta
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by tofuahdude 5mo ago
Anyone finish burning the files yet? I tried... but it looked like it would take awhile...
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by tofuahdude 7mo ago
Why unjust? Who promised you that the way software is made will stay static? Our software industry has specialized, for decades, in "rug pulling" / changing / "disrupting" other industries on a massive scale. I
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by tofuahdude 7mo ago
That was a great read, very interesting!
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by tofuahdude 7mo ago
Direct quote from Peter Thiel: > I no longer believe freedom and democracy are compatible
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by tofuahdude 8mo ago
My dad was Woz's RA in the Berkeley dorms. He often tells this story: One night, dad was on duty, probably smoking pot with his student residents. The phones all stop working. So dad goes down to the maintenance closet, opens it up...
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by tofuahdude 8mo ago
Pretty hilarious write up and interesting frontier research project. I love it.
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by tofuahdude 10mo ago
Same situation over here. Multiple family members only know chatgpt / think that chatgpt knows them and have never heard of the competitors.
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by tofuahdude 10mo ago
> it’s clear that Labubus are on the downswing On the other hand, they've only recently penetrated my greater social circle, so I'm not so certain as this author that the trend has ended.
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by tofuahdude 11mo ago
FFMPEG, at no cost to Google, provided a core piece of their infrastructure for multiple multi-billion dollar product lines.
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by tofuahdude 1y ago
I really like the way you said we emit meaning. It is kind of funny, that we seek meaning and/or purpose in everything - our lives, our actions, our thoughts - but there is a nice change in perspective in considering it as something th
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by tofuahdude 1y ago
Anthropic literally stated yesterday that they suffered degraded model performance over the last month due to bugs: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c Suggesting people are "out of their mind&qu
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by tofuahdude 1y ago
Grafana log search does this if change the currently-applied log filter, and then they charge you for search volume! I've had to adjust my UX usage so that I don't get billed for every character I type, rather than the string I&
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by tofuahdude 1y ago
I've worked with many people who directly stated that they went to grad school because they "didn't know what else to do". As well as several who couldn't get a job, so they went back to school. It definitely isn&#x
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
No, instead, they had two annoying CEOs who grandstanded their own egos.
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
Top notch monday morning rant!
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
I'm curious what you'll "blame" the next 50% price increase on.
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
If I sell a bitcoin on Coinbase, Kraken, or any of the other highly regulated exchanges, I am sure as shit getting USD and not USDT, which does not exist on the bitcoin chain.
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
Don't accept that premise!
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by tofuahdude 2y ago
Your communication style in this thread is adversarial and curt, yet you aim to provide good service. You clearly have a very, very long personal journey ahead of you if you want to satisfy the good service objective.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Great write up, thanks for sharing this. As a founder, I'd always though that >1x was predatory with no excuses, but your #2 really clarified that an appropriate situation.
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Why is it that SMS is so damn expensive? (or more specifically, what is it about Twilio et al's businesses that makes them cost so much?)
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Very cool work and explanation!
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by tofuahdude 3y ago
Hypothetical use case I've been thinking about: Say I want to log all http requests to the server (I know I said a keyword of log) and then process those logs into aggregates, stick them in a time series. Would it be insane to "lo

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