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by willio58 4y ago
> Oh dear, oh dear, it's with a heavy heart That we must make an announcement, and we must impart Some news that's not so jolly, not so fun But we promise to make it better when all's said and done The Dr. Seuss one is ama
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by willio58 4y ago
Nope, I totally agree. Most of the complaints I'm seeing are valid, but a lot of people see Twitch as a dying platform when in reality it's just getting bigger and bigger. There was a momentary huge spike in viewership during covi
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by willio58 4y ago
The U.S. needs to establish a process for collecting externality taxes from companies. Of course, it's impossible to track all externalities, but certain ones might be easier to track and it would make companies think twice before gett
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by willio58 4y ago
Looks interesting, especially around their "multiplayer" editing. I wish them success, we need more serious competition in this space. VSCode is so damn good I probably won't switch, but if this came to parity with some featu
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by willio58 4y ago
This is exactly why I find no solution fits all here. For me, I use an ORM as a catch-all and then for certain applications I manually write the queries. It's best of both worlds, and I know what components in my app have custom querie
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by willio58 4y ago
Ever since iPhone introduced Lidar, I've wondered why Teslas got rid of it. They said it was due to additional cost and complexity in models. Of course Waymo heavily uses Lidar but they have huge sensors they mount on cars to do so. Wh
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by willio58 4y ago
I don’t think that year figure changing really matters though. Let’s say Germany halves its CO2 output in 25 years instead. What does that mean? Does it mean we should all stop buying EVs now and just buy combustion engine vehicles for eter
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by willio58 4y ago
Hydrogen is even harder to find than charging infrastructure. It’s not easy to convert a gas station into a hydrogen station. To me the two solutions revolve around simple battery tech. 1. Charging stations like we have now but 100x as many
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by willio58 4y ago
Lovely read. I’ve been in TS and React land for a year now and it’s been so great but as our codebase grows I do see the walls closing in a bit. Signals are interesting, I wonder what react could look like if they supported them more native
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by willio58 4y ago
Yep! I’m full stack and have no clue why some people want to say frontend engineering is “less than” backend. It’s all a means to an end. The product requires both sides equally in most cases, and neither side is trivial.
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by willio58 4y ago
Agreed, this is how company communication should be. I don't use Fly but would consider them in the future even given their recent issues. I look at this in contrast to Twitter who had/has? an outage today. Their leadership is opa
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by willio58 4y ago
I was seeing it completely down ~3.5 hours for me so not _super_ fast, just not long after this got to HN.
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by willio58 4y ago
It’s kind of amazing in a sick way.. cities are allowed to make such an uneducated and horrific decision without the input of their citizens in the name of short term cash, and VCs are able to basically purchase a money printing machine tha
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by willio58 4y ago
It’s insane that the U.S. government are squandering this opportunity to force Starlink to provide internet to those without any other access at say 50$/mo. The government is giving the okay to deploy thousands of satellites and start
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by willio58 4y ago
I don’t think that’s how this works. Amazon doesn’t print money when they give employees stock. They give x% of the company as stock (where x is a really really small number). They might give less or more depending on a number of factors, b
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by willio58 4y ago
> They effectively entrust the keys to your entire digital life to (right now) either Google or Apple. Yeah this seems like a big one. Of course password managers will add support too but that isn't an actual solution since those of
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by willio58 4y ago
This is exciting, I love that we're moving toward passkeys. When I tell non-devs that passwords will be going away in the years to come they almost can't understand what I'm saying. Like we've all lived this life of pass
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by willio58 4y ago
Agreed and I find this happening a lot in discussion of testing. It seems everyone/every company has "their way" of doing testing, which at times even includes new words for certain concepts that they find useful (e.g. stubs)
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by willio58 4y ago
> the "notoriety" of the AI is (IMO) mostly a publicity stunt Have you _used_ ChatGPT? I mean not just asking it random factoids but using it to genuinely help you with something. Are you aware that it's hit 100 million us
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by willio58 4y ago
I believe you but you should know you are in the minority here. Part of why TikTok has taken over the social media space is because of how addicting it is compared to the older players.
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by willio58 4y ago
Living around one of Tesla's Gigafactories, I have lots of friends who have worked/do work there. In the case of our gigafactory, there's horror stories not just inside (machines injuring people), but everyone I talk to speci
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by willio58 4y ago
I think in a case like that, it would be hard for AI to get it done right any time soon. But I think that case is kind of an outlier in the audiobooks world. Or potentially I just listen to a lot of non-fiction..
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by willio58 4y ago
> Probably would also help to have a single figure who can unite us to share more and all take personal responsibility for the collective good. Part of me feels like climate change is this single figure. Instead of a single person rising
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by willio58 4y ago
Yeah this is good, but just imagine in 5-10 years how good these models will be. I think indistinguishable from human speech.
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by willio58 4y ago
To preface what I'm about to say, I'm anti-mass extinction and I definitely agree that as a planetary society we need to continue pushing to slow down and eventually reverse climate change. But I really think the "all life is
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by willio58 4y ago
>“The voice is how voice actors make a living,” Friedlander added, “and this is literally taking the words out of our mouths without our consent.” The way Apple and Spotify went about this in this circumstance is bad. They should face ch
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by willio58 4y ago
I think they should have built a separate app. Music is different than Podcasts in multiple ways, and shoving them into the same app just negatively affects both experiences.
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by willio58 4y ago
Oh interesting! Thanks for clarifying. I knew there was an office like a decade ago but I guess I forgot how old Github is!
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by willio58 4y ago
You can almost picture the Executive team at Disney on one of their private yachts on an island somewhere being fed food and drinks cackling at each other about how they'll be able to convince people they "Had to" layoff work
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by willio58 4y ago
It's really nothing to worry about for the average dev. Companies are taking this opportunity to cull the heard of the under-performers. Doing so at this time means they'll stir up less controversy since every tech company is doin

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