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by zdc1 7mo ago
The AI bubble feels like it's already starting to burst. Sooner or later the market will see that AI has improved productivity by 20% (or whatever figure) and realise it's much less than the 1000% improvement they've been pri
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by zdc1 7mo ago
Even if you have the app, you get to start the fun adventure of marketing it and actually trying to grow the damn thing
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by zdc1 7mo ago
A lot of this basically reads to me like hidden tech debt: people aren't updating their compilation targets to ESx, people aren't updating their packages, package authors aren't updating their implementations, etc. Ancient br
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by zdc1 7mo ago
I assume this is one of those cases where if you're in the culture, you'll know which rules you're allowed to break (and when) vs if you're on the outside it's easiest to just follow all the rules all the time. Remi
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by zdc1 7mo ago
Australia and the US have similarly higher obesity rates. As you can see in the article, their system is simply just inefficient (arguably, by design)
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by zdc1 7mo ago
There's definitely been an enslopification of both. Endless sequels. "Franchises" with meaningless stories and common tropes. Maybe it's survivor bias when I think back on older works, but nothing just seems that excitin
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by zdc1 7mo ago
I do miss What.CD and its catalogue of classical music where it was easy to find the different renditions of any given symphony. It was the best I've seen (not that I've searched very hard since then). Spotify leaves a lot to be d
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by zdc1 7mo ago
Gen Z will often write like that, feeling that using capitalisation feels too "formal" for non-professional communication. It's feel just the next evolution in our written messaging dialect. Gen X had c u l8r? . Millennials
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by zdc1 7mo ago
Personally, I would not buy any laptop without 2-3 years of warranty support / Apple Care. Laptops are expensive and things can stop working for lots of reasons. It's why I've loved ThinkPads, though I now use Apple as my usa
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by zdc1 7mo ago
You can't really blame the healthcare system for this. Alzheimer's and Dementia existed before modern medicine. The reality is that many fit, active, and otherwise healthy people will hit their 60s and 70s and will experience cogn
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by zdc1 8mo ago
Well the games of my childhood, Total Annihilation and Seven Kingdoms, came out in '97. So for my own selfish reasons I would argue that the Pentium II is where progress should have stopped. On the other hand, at least I'll get to
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by zdc1 8mo ago
As someone who's lived there, it's definitely more about the consistency. Generally speaking, if you make a police report, it will be investigated. This includes for smaller issues like lost items too. From what I understand, thei
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I would personally want to know as early as possible, so I could get my affairs in order and register my wishes around end of life care and euthanasia while I am still recognised as having full mental capacity. It's also better for peo
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I recall studies showing that reading in poor lighting conditions is a cause of myopia in children. So I'm questioning whether we want to be reducing luminance on our devices at all. I like my (warm-coloured) lights and screens set to
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by zdc1 8mo ago
You can go one further and start with no desk. Think out your solution while you go for a walk.
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I agree with this. 1. Moats and products have already been built, so it's really about startups that are racing to get products/features to market. 2. I've slowly learnt in my own career that you need to really be careful wit
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I just went though my old bookmarks one last time before deleting my account. The number of fun, enriching, and creative videos on that platform really puts YouTube to shame. It really feels like nothing good lasts forever these days, but t
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I believe we say "the purpose of a system is what it does" is to also poke at the fact that there are mechanisms and design decisions (tradeoffs) at play that lead to certain results, and that if we want to change outcomes, we nee
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by zdc1 8mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. There's lots of literature on what the best, or at least better, voting systems (hello preference voting) and decision making approaches are. Getting them implemented is another story.
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by zdc1 8mo ago
My initial thought was: why not fork LibreOffice and spend the extra dev time closing the gap between what it is and what they need? But after some thought, I feel a cloud collaboration suite makes more sense as big orgs often run on onli
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by zdc1 8mo ago
Should be titled Prefix your script names with a comma . Current title is a little clickbait-y through its ambiguity.
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by zdc1 8mo ago
It definitely depends on rapport and how authentic someone is being. If someone asks me this and I know they genuinely care about me, I'd be happy to share. If there's less rapport, it will definitely feel like a person who can&#x
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by zdc1 8mo ago
Yep. Grandfathering, deprecation. It's a new implementation of the same concepts. And ditto for test coverage quality gates. I've seen that pattern used to get a frontend codebase from 5% coverage to >80%. It was just a cycle o
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by zdc1 8mo ago
RPG Maker XP (and later VX) were such a big part of my childhood! I never finished the game I was trying to make, but it is earliest I can remember being very deep into the creative process.
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I completely agree with this. There's a certain confidence you get when you can hear a word you don't know, but can still comprehend it well enough to know what pinyin to type into your dictionary app. Mandarin Blueprint has a nic
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by zdc1 8mo ago
And for better or worse it feels like the errors are being "pushed down" into smaller, more subtle spaces. I asked ChatGPT a question about a made up character in a made up work and it came back with "I don’t actually have a
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by zdc1 8mo ago
I basically just disable notifications for everything except apps that are useful and don't send promotional push notifications. It does mean that I need to "poll" for messages sent to my IG but if it's important I'
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by zdc1 8mo ago
Personally, I'm more anti-suffering than anti-death.
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by zdc1 9mo ago
You could potentially seal the gasses within the picture frame; double glazed window style
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by zdc1 9mo ago
I'm sure at some point it's cheaper to pay people to do nothing and have laws enforced, rather than indirectly paying people to do crime by letting stuff get stolen without consequences. Politically it sounds insane, but it would

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