Dioxide2119

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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
> A key feature of a platform should be that the developers choose when a deployment happens. Agreed. When I was on a platform team we wrote tools to take a process that used to be done by a deployment team (change a DNS record was a hel
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
So I'm pretty (very?) young compared to most HN luminaries. I've never even started a company much less did something HN famous like writing the LGPL. But I love to hear these discussions. I'd love to ask the elders this: whe
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
> Maybe that's the global social depression everyone is talking about. Dunno. Sorry, I'm not familiar with this, is this a reference to something like [1]? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935605
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
> The company has previously said that its practices do not violate antitrust law. In defending its business practices against critics in the past, Apple said that its “approach has always been to grow the pie” and “create more opportuni
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
The Hacker News mic drop strikes again. I have nothing super substantive to add except to agree with your point and add that yes, it feels like work to put in the formal policies and procedures, but when the stakes are high enough (rocket t
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
"Scary cloud things" like this are why I moved off of Dropbox and Onedrive years ago and got to a new normal of "syncthing all my main devices together" for file sync, then have Backblaze backup my machine that holds the
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
This looks cool! Good work on shipping it! So I tried to click new map and drag n drop a few shapes from the toolbox into the map, but my mouse did not indicate that the map canvas was a place where I could drop the SVG icons. So I tried to
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
I remember seeing that yahoo default option, then having to switch it back to Google (so this was long enough ago I didn't use DDG/Kagi), but I never noticed them remove yahoo outright as a search engine option. But indeed, it is
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Ask HN: What are the "conventional commits" email equivalents?
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
In the same way that using a limited medium like some oil paints, paintbrushes, and canvas to create images = the art of painting, there will become the art of hacking / abusing / advanced prompt engineering / pushing AI to d
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
Hm. Gives a bit of truth to the Amish claim that having themselves be photographed steals a bit of their soul. Your voice is (was) unique to you. Recordings moved the needle to your voice (when saying new phrases) is unique to you. These vo
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
Ops is not peripheral to the job, ops is an essential part of the job. The job is always to make that computer box there do X when I the paying customer click Y button. On the inside there is some algorithm design and logic that tells the c
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by Dioxide2119 3y ago
> The root cause is probably the incrementalist approach we take to developing software. I would blame the "unix philosophy" and "worse is better" approaches of the past, but I bet they were more symptomatic than caus