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by wmeredith 1y ago
"Legend’s death was not a fluke. It was the expected outcome of a system working exactly as designed." I find this to be a very disingenuous take. No one "exactly designed" this road to kill children. There were clearly
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Absolutely not. I've done food service work. It sucks. Back of house is disgusting and dangerous. Front of house is demoralizing and infuriating. And the pay sucks unless you're getting tipped out a high end place and the only way
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Unfortunately, this is akin to having a monopoly on the horse saddle market.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Only people who don't understand robots, computers, and buttons :)
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I had a similar reaction, probably because I don't care about dogs.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I use LLMs as a personal assistant for writing and research. I just treat them like a junior and double check their work, and I'm good to go.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I'd settle for a way to see hacker news without all the posts complaining about all the posts covering the trending tech at the moment. In the 15 years I have been on HN, these discussions complaining about content has been centered ar
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by wmeredith 1y ago
This is not the future. It's already a thing. The content_marketing subreddit has been talking about this for months: https://www.reddit.com/r/content_marketing/ There isn't a clever new acronym for it y
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by wmeredith 1y ago
> Wonder if there's a model where people could make money/not game the system too. We're up against the most basic of human nature here.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I've been doing tech for 20 years. No degree. I was pretty lost in my late teens and early twenties and college did not work out for me. I got into the web on my own and built from there.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Yikes. Hitting them where it hurts. Safe and predictable is Volvo's brand.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
> The front door is poisoned right now This is so true. Automation and LLMs have made trying to hire right now a total shitshow and getting hired is even worse due to the above factors + the unstable economic climate. Referrals are 10x m
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Are we just disregarding the differently-abled people who have a diminished sense of smell? /s
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by wmeredith 1y ago
This is very cool. The price point puts it beyond the toy category though. Maybe that will come down. Great idea.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
> and then you spend 80% of the time to get the rest of the 20% done This was my pr-AI experience anyway, so getting that first chunk of time back is helpful. Related: One of the better takes I've seen on AI from an experienced deve
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by wmeredith 1y ago
OpenAI, that's who. How long until they pull a Twitter or a Reddit and close their API because they're big enough to not need it as a revenue stream?
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by wmeredith 1y ago
10 years ago people were talking about how HN used to be more interesting.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I run an audiophile music recommendation newsletter. It pays peanuts, but it's just past breakeven less than a year in and it's fun. For the curious: https://SeekHiFi.com
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Except diesel doesn't explode like that. (I don't know what's wrong with me that I can't just enjoy movies.)
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by wmeredith 1y ago
He is the world champion of eating hotdogs. He can eat 73 or something. The joke is that he's packing them into his stomach.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
It's already being commercialized. There is a burgeoning field in the SEO-focused content crowd that is building AIO-focused content because it's driving enormous amounts of traffic.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Fake it 'til you make is time-tested human strategy.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
This is a good point. FAANG or whatever you want to call it now has spent billions hovering up a couple generations' best minds who willing sold their intellect to make endless engagement loops.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
> summarizing or reciting portions of the contents This absolutely falls under copyright law as I understand it (not a lawyer). E.g. the disclaimer that rolls before every NFL broadcast. The notice states that the broadcast is copyrighte
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by wmeredith 1y ago
Meetings can be low information, but they don't have to be. The point of meetings is to create a space where people with different knowledge sets working on the same project can ask questions and get answers in a zero latency feedback
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I like that they included a candid photo. The clothes I buy don't look the same on me as they do on a model, and I'm OK with that.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I'm fairly certain that an S2000's current worth is a rounding error in rocket-science economics.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I've used them all and Apple TV, while not without faults, is by far the best.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I also welcome the return of buttons. The en masse replacement of buttons with what looks like text links had driven me crazy for a long time.
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by wmeredith 1y ago
I find the assumption that these icons were designed huge and never tested at smaller sizes kind of baffling. There may be a difference in taste, but to think that Apple wouldn't look at their icons at different sizes is really, uh, so

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