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by tpmoney 8mo ago
> Obviously yes I don't think this is obvious at all. We don't make the keystroke logs part of the commit history. We don't make the menu item selections part of the commit history. We don't make the 20 iterations you
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
You have the source code though. That is the "reproducibility" bit you need. What extra reproducibility does having the prompts give you? Especially given that AI agents are non-deterministic in the first place. To me the idea tha
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
Unless your company is investing in actually teaching your junior devs, this isn't really all that different than the days when jr devs just copied and pasted something out of stack overflow, or blindly copied entire class files around
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
From elsewhere in this discussion, it's likely for the motion sickness functionality they added in recent years: https://support.apple.com/en-om/guide/mac-help/mchla3c4f1da/...
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
I'll raise you one better. Cannabis is Schedule I, that means per the DEA there are no known safe medical uses for the drug. But if you synthesize out the primary active ingredient and bundle it in capsule, the DEA happily recognizes t
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
And so what messaging do you propose Uber puts in their app for this? "Your driver has a higher than average probability of assaulting you, you may want to wait for another driver"? That will last until the first driver sues for s
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
> Also, on a personal level it rubs me the wrong way to have my insurance premiums go towards something that people could just do themselves, from something they did to themselves. The usual note for this is your insurance premiums were
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
The article also says that Uber sets various thresholds around this already and that their system flagged it at a score that was "higher than the late night average". What it doesn't tell us is what the threshold is/was
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by tpmoney 8mo ago
User is definitely a term that long predates the modern SaaS world. And it’s an appropriate term in many cases because even today the customers of a computer hardware or software company are often not the same people using that hardware or
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Doesn't that linked webarchive page say specifically that the ACE is a "Apple/TI co-designed USB Type-C Port Controller" If that isn't a "USB Controller" what do you mean when you say "USB Controller&
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
The purpose of an election would be to effect a change in "management". For 15 years, whenever I wanted a change in management for where I was living, I simply changed what property I was renting at the end of my lease. And every
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> Does your landlord stand for election? Yes, every time my lease was up, I elected to stay or move. I did that multiple times for 15 years. By contrast, every time I moved, I was in the same state, so never changed governments.
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
So without landlords, we'd still have landlords, they would just all be named Donald Trump?
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Landlords also contribute to educational and class mobility. Students can study at distant but better schools because they don't need to buy a home before they can move and they can return home or anywhere else much easier because they
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> a follow up, sparkfun seems to still be doing business with while not doing business, The linked website indicates this decision was made on or around Jan 7. Your own liked page is dated for the 12. Unless you’re asserting that the dec
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
I would argue that laws are “bad” if there’s no way to get a proper hearing when you’re accused of violating them. Laws should constrain both sides of the law (the person subject to them and the person enforcing them) otherwise they’re just
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
I'll propose my pie in the sky plan here again. We should overhaul the copyright system completely in light of AI and make it mostly win-win for everyone. This is predicated on the idea that the NIST numbers set is sort of the "he
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> I understand companies needing to profit, my question is why does an open source library need a company? Because people like to eat and have homes and not everyone wants to work full time on someone else's code and then come home
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Well they clearly don't "need" that many devs just to maintain it, since they just laid off most of their devs. But "need" and "want / have the revenue/work to hire and sustain" are different que
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
According to that document, they spent ~1.5M eur (1.75 USD) on developer salaries. If we count up all the people in the "Development Team" section (other than the ones paid by grant, which I excluded from the number above), we hav
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Let's say you're paying your devs $100k / year. All in costs on those devs are probably $150k or so. That means your $1m / year will fund 6 full time developers with a little left over. This podcast from the CEO[1] says
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> I doubt that would be an efficient use of money It works for ice cream trucks, and when you ban all other forms of advertising, it's not like there's any more efficient places to spend that ad money. > Blocking that double
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> Looking up records now, it looks like most of these equity firm purchases are back to actual people owners! Interesting. What does this mean? Firm bought property and resold at a profit? I never went far enough to get all the details b
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Part of the problem is how hard it is to sell a home in the first place. I'm not interested now, but for a while I was looking at needing to move states, and that was going to involve selling my home and buying (or renting) in the new
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> but it's still a huge commitment, especially given how hard it is to assess potential problems with a living space before you've actually lived there. Now imagine trying to asses the potential problems with a living space bef
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
How does one propose to supply the market for temporary housing without landlords? Students, travelers, new residents to an area, people early in their careers switching jobs frequently, all of these people have a need for temporary housing
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
You should probably be more careful with absolute statements like that: >ICE should be disbanded and most of its leadership jailed for their crimes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535404
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
Sure I get it. I just don't think your annoyance level is going to go down that much. It wont take many sign twirlers on every corner, or people driving up and down your neighborhood at all hours of the day with a "ad truck"
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
I will note we effectively have that law already for political text spam. No robo-texting it has to come from a “real” person. Doesn’t seem to have changed the amount of text spam I get, they just all start with “This is Bob from People Aga
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by tpmoney 9mo ago
> Weren't those better before ads got involved? The directories? Ads were part of those pretty early given that they were modeled on real world directories like the Yellow Pages in the first place. Here's a webarchive of yahoo

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