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   I recently learned this, but the reason Steam offers 2-hour no-questions-asked full refunds was partially because of a lawsuit by the ACCC
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   by yen223 1y ago

   I nearly missed that this article was written by Corey Quinn, guy who writes a lot about AWS
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   by yen223 1y ago

   Oh wow, this is actually useful
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   by yen223 1y ago

   Without AI you'd still need to check everything, no? It's just you reach that stage faster with LLMs doing a lot of the heavy lifting
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   by yen223 1y ago

   There's a classic joke where it turns out the solution to "it works on my machine" was to ship my machine
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   by yen223 1y ago

   A lot of the points also apply to Google as a search engine, yet we're still seeing Google owning about 90% of search engine usage.
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   by yen223 1y ago

   Imagine making money from Prime ripping people off, and then making money reporting on how Prime is ripping people off
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   by yen223 1y ago

   I suppose stock buybacks are similar to dividends in that regard
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   On the contrary, this will end with wells
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    by yen223 1y ago

    I guess technically speaking, the world's cheapest source of power is nuclear fusion!
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    Yeah, something we are confident about is that a) training is where the bulk of an AI system's energy usage goes (based on a report released by Mistral) b) video generation is very likely a few orders of magnitude more expensive than t
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Real ones remember C&C, Red Alert and Generals (RIP Westwood Studios)
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    by yen223 1y ago

    As someone who grew up in a tropical country and has moved to a temperate one, this rings very true. It is significantly easier to walk in 20C, 50% humidity than to walk the same distance in 28C, 100% humidity. You get lethargic really quic
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Someone (Rich Hickey?) described this as a piano that doesn't make a sound until you play the piece perfectly, and that analogy has stuck with me since.
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    by yen223 1y ago

    There's the additional headaches of a) managing auth in a distributed manner, and b) figuring out how to evolve the data model across all participating clients. CRDTs are a complicated way to solve a problem that most services don&#x27
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    by yen223 1y ago

    AppCode gave you an IntelliJ-like experience, and personally I found it significantly better than Xcode when writing code. But the friction of needing to keep around Xcode anyway whenever you wanted to run your code meant it was just easier
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    by yen223 1y ago

    If I remember correctly, you still needed Xcode to actually compile and run the code, because of restrictions imposed by Apple.
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    by yen223 1y ago

    "Here's how overspending on my wedding improved B2B SaaS sales"
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Is this not how microchips are made?
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Things like dependabot or renovate solves the problem of letting you know when security updates are available, letting you have your cake and eat it too.
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Heh, Malaysia's two-letter country code is "MY". Guess what the national identity card is called?
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Imagine if only Google has the AI and processing power capable enough to generate Hollywood-quality movies.
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Building up community support is a thing you can do too!
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    by yen223 1y ago

    > With foreign key constraints, you have to delete all related records when a parent record is deleted. ON DELETE SET NULL is a thing for a reason!
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Over a decade, that storage space will 10x more reliably than the car
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Sudoku is kind of the same, in that the numerical values of the numbers doesn't come into play at all. You can replace the digits with fruits and the game plays the same.
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    by yen223 1y ago

    Yes. Now that I'm driving more, I miss the mental downtime when riding a train
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    by yen223 1y ago

    HN allows duplicate submissions after a certain amount of time has passed
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    by yen223 1y ago

    The first rule of Hacker News comments is it's never the engineer's fault
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    by yen223 1y ago

    My expectation of privacy when in a vehicle with dozens if not hundreds of strangers with cameras is low.