wmeredith

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by wmeredith 10mo ago
Want to unsubscribe from this email? Ok, you can do it in one click, but we have 16 categories of emails we send you, so you'll still get the other 15! It's a dark pattern for sure.
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by wmeredith 10mo ago
AI slop
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by wmeredith 10mo ago
I find it deliciously fitting that the UX on this website kinda sucks.
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by wmeredith 10mo ago
Shit umbrella is not a great analogy. More like a shit filter. Let through what needs to be let through and block all the distracting crap.
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by wmeredith 10mo ago
This is the huge benefit of in-person work. Personally I've not found it worth the tradeoffs, but it cannot be discounted.
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by wmeredith 10mo ago
Genuinely curious: How else would you coordinate a large software project? We have 7 teams of 5 working on the same platform and Jira is fine for what we're doing, but I've been at this almost two decades and I haven't used a
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
It's the Mirror of Erised, one of the deeper concepts presented in the Harry Potter series. Good stuff: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_of_Erised It shows the viewer their deepest desires. And many have
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
I think the commenter you're replying to was talking about dictating to ChatGPT, which I also find extremely useful.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
The electorate in the U.S. commonly votes against its own interests.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
E.g. I have the personal liberty to host card game for money at my house. But if I require a house take, now I'm running a gambling business.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
The mods on HN don't have police forces and standing armies with guns.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Seems like a pure logistics issue to me.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
I've heard a similar maxim that being rich is fantastic, rich and famous is good, poor is bad, poor and famous is a nightmare.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
The street drug Ecstasy is MDMA usually mixed with speed. MDMA doesn't have a stimulating effect.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Ebert called this "Idiot Plot"
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
> Good Will Hunting. The entire movie feels like it could’ve been skipped if literally any emotionally intelligent person said to Matt Damon’s character: “I feel like you have a tremendous amount of intellectual potential that you’re was
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Yeah, this is a "Show HN" not an "Ask HN"
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Chastising people for fixing their own mistakes is not a great strategy for getting mistakes fixed.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Thank you for calling this out. As a long time console gamer, I hadn't noticed this creeping bloat until I started playing games with my young children. My son begged for a new Madden game after playing it at his friend's house. W
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Casio were decidedly not the most high tech watch company in the world in 2016. The Apple Watch had come out in 2015 and Android watches had been around for years before that.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
There's a bunch of damning stuff in the report, but this is the smoking gun: "The team tasked with vetting fraudulent ads had a guideline not to impact more than 0.15% of Meta’s revenue — roughly US$135 million of US$90 billion in
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
It's a bit disingenuous to imply The Matrix did not catch on until DVD release. The Matrix broke several (minor) box office records, was critically hailed, and an awards darling for the below the line technical awards. Having said all
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
The law is very much like a programming language in that it is attempting to abstract a concept from practice, so that it is useful in many applications instead of just one. In both cases these abstractions are always flawed. In the law&#x2
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
We've got a lot of space.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
People doing exclusively what's important to them is fine until they need a network/community.
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by wmeredith 11mo ago
Amazon - 14,000 layoffs; significant Microsoft - 14,000 (multiple rounds); significant Meta - 600 layoffs; insignificant for company size Google - "Several hundred layoffs"; insignificant for a company size Apple - No layoffs Sour
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Me and a dungeon master friend of mine are interested in developing for this. Is there a cost associated with the SDK? Or can we just buy a Board and get to it?
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I don't have a comment on the tech, but Board (homonym for bored) is genius branding.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I lieu of a donation I'll continue to not pay for ad-laden garbage.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Wall Street will go wild. Meanwhile, Apple's customers have just been handed the buggiest, jankiest set of operating systems that Apple has ever released. (In my estimation, as an Apple user of 30 years.)

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