Anamon

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by Anamon 4d ago
I just had a horrifying flashback to the Creative Labs driver download page... some wizard-style abomination three levels deep, nothing just a simple link. Still, the archive was complete and you'd end up getting what you went there fo
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by Anamon 4d ago
> Bill was in charge of MS at the time No, he wasn't anymore.
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by Anamon 4d ago
My favourite bit was this: > Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable?
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by Anamon 5d ago
I don't subscribe to that absolute of "everybody". Counter-example: me. I define enough money as not having to worry how to pay rent, bills and food, and being able to do spontaneous purchases without thinking too much about
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by Anamon 8d ago
Indeed, the most authentic memories you have may be the ones you never think about.
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by Anamon 16d ago
I've met my fair share of people throughout the years for whom this wasn't self-evident. Anecdatally, they also don't tend to stick around for too long. I suspect it's because teams don't tend to warm to people who
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by Anamon 16d ago
People who value their time more highly than wanting to spend 5 minutes reading something that took someone 3 seconds of effort to produce, if that. I visit HN because it's supposed to surface interesting, novel, engaging, challenging
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by Anamon 16d ago
The Chesterton's Fence one also says in the caption that the fence has been removed, while in the image it's actually wider than in the first panel. Yeah, nobody took one second to look this over before posting it directly from th
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by Anamon 16d ago
That's not true. The Data Protection Officer doesn't need to be a dedicated person, an employee can simply be given that role in addition to their regular roles. There are rules to prevent a conflict of interest. But I don't
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by Anamon 16d ago
> The solution to children in Africa suffering isn’t me living worse It may very much be, to be honest. The causalities aren't that mysterious.
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by Anamon 16d ago
This isn't a technical article, though. It's about contracts, so one party's self-admitted habit of ignoring contractual obligations seems very relevant and not a random ad hominem.
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by Anamon 16d ago
I don't like being that guy, but wow, the AI slop copy on that website is so terrible, it's almost impossible to read. Every other sentence means absolutely nothing. Slop website indicates vibe-coded software, and I wouldn't
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by Anamon 16d ago
Exactly, looking at a few of these traces is enough to realise that it's a waste of time to read them. A friend once described it as like reading a fever dream, which seems fitting. They're a necessary crutch for how the tools wor
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by Anamon 16d ago
On the one hand, I'd love to see Cursor/Grok/xAI/SpaceX/Musk disappear forever. On the frustrating other hand, Cursor is the absolute best LLM IDE by such a ridiculously wide margin. Everything else feels so broken
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by Anamon 16d ago
You're still overlooking some glaring issues in your scenario. How many tech workers can affoard such a homestead? How many will be able to afford it once millions try to go down the same path after the economy crumbles? Is running a p
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by Anamon 17d ago
The amount of people voluntarily leaving the business to "do something with wood" right now is insane. We always used to joke about it as inevitable, but now it seems to actually be happening, for everyone at the same time.
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by Anamon 17d ago
Not my experience, an I'm a heavy daily user of frontier models for software development. Have they improved at all in the past ~2 years? Not really, at least not noticeably. We've improved some of the tooling around it, developed
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by Anamon 19d ago
Internet Archive provides their scans in various formats and AA seems to mostly archive a very poor one. I think what you're describing is the result of a post-processing step for one of the space-saving derivatives. It's worth lo
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by Anamon 19d ago
I'm not sure if this was ever really confirmed, but it's been said that in the beginning, before they were big enough for record labels to care, they used unlicensed MP3s to build up the library.
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by Anamon 20d ago
This is heavily dependent on where we are talking about. I live in a fairly rich place and here, taxis were fine, too. When Uber came, they mostly just eroded salaries and protections for taxi drivers, while lowering the quality of service
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by Anamon 20d ago
I don't think humanity will run into any capacity problems because of that, due to how grotesquely overpopulated it currently is. As far as I see it, every country in the world should be well below replacement rate, for the long run.
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by Anamon 21d ago
Digital effects also look a lot worse (as in, less believable) than real special effects, pyrotechnics, etc., and I think the quick editing also has to do with that. You have to make a lot of cuts and shaky shots in order to not let viewers
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by Anamon 21d ago
I'm not sure I see the benefit. Everyone can make up their own what-ifs in their mind. But isn't the joy and value in movies as mass media the fact that it's a shared experience, that everybody saw the same thing that they ca
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by Anamon 22d ago
It's very close to the truth in any case. Poor service providers can take comfort in the fact that there's usually no considerably better provider that people could switch to. The race to the bottom is at peak speed.
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by Anamon 22d ago
That may be true for the relative amount, but it doesn't negate the assumption that since at least around the turn of the millennium, a lot of our knowledge, culture, and communication happened purely digitally and is at severe risk of
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by Anamon 23d ago
ID3 is hell... The answer to every question about how to use/write it is the counter question: well, which software or player do you want it to work with? Here are your 8 mutually incompatible options.
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by Anamon 23d ago
> Even if it didn't, it would still be the easy part because you're just building computer algorithms that are like specified and defined and testable. I'd challenge that. Have you looked at the specifications of any reaso
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by Anamon 23d ago
The most bewildering thing about the redesign is that the button to visit an application's website -- arguably the most important one since one would assume people are on the site to try out alternatives -- is now hidden somewhere far
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by Anamon 24d ago
Can you explain what you think makes today's LLMs more than glorified Markov chains? I know they're not technically Markov chains, but conceptually, it's still close enough. There's nothing revolutionarily new. No amou
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by Anamon 25d ago
That's a problem of visibility, though. No one in management currently cares much that the delegator is actually the one 5 times less efficient in the long run (or just the one leaving the rest of the team with years of technical debt)

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