Edd314159

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by Edd314159 3mo ago
I’m in a similar situation. I’m just saying that I know a lot of people who work much harder than me, without anywhere near the same financial freedom. I think it’s good to meditate on that fact regularly.
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by Edd314159 3mo ago
I’m making no comment about how things _should_ broadly be. Only that we should consciously appreciate how rare it is for quitting to be a practical, and non-ruinous, option.
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by Edd314159 3mo ago
What an utterly privileged life we lead when we can just decide to quit our jobs because things are getting too “absurd”.
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by Edd314159 4mo ago
I, like most people, always just click whatever option is larger and easier to click (or closest to my cursor at the time). It never seems to matter to my experience which I pick. Sometimes it’s the “all” option, sometimes it’s the “none” o
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by Edd314159 5mo ago
It’s true. AI slop is not what will kill the fun Internet. It’s just the mechanisation of the forces that already killed it.
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by Edd314159 5mo ago
Is there anything out there that is the opposite of this? Like a directory of old things that are, against all odds, still alive
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by Edd314159 5mo ago
There is no realistic scenario where, no matter your extractions or bean selections, 6-10 shots of espresso a day is not an enormous amount of caffeine
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by Edd314159 8mo ago
Right there with you. Everyone else on HN is a genius so will love it, but for me this is just incoherent words.
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by Edd314159 11mo ago
Why not both! Delicious caffeinated in the morning, less-delicious-but-still-quite-nice decaf after 12:00. You don’t need to go entirely caffeine-free to enjoy most of the benefits.
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by Edd314159 11mo ago
The Purrrr app (which shows feeders like this) is really quite an experience. It’s just as hyperactive as a Temu or AliExpress, with as much dopamine hacking as a TikTok, but… for good? I think?
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by Edd314159 1y ago
stop putting them in control of aircraft then
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by Edd314159 1y ago
We have a TonieBox that has been much loved by one kid, and now another. And even though everything in my being is telling me to hack it to make it do cool things (mostly because of all the “you just own a _license_ to content” stuff rubs m
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by Edd314159 1y ago
I also use a notebook and pen constantly as a software engineer - but never when I need any of the properties you just mentioned. It is absolutely the wrong tool for any long-term information store. Ephemeral think-it-through process notes
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by Edd314159 1y ago
Sure, "toxic" is word that means bad things. But I don't think you read the article. It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the food we eat from that soil (in fact it explici
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by Edd314159 1y ago
Oh I was just talking about the “transmitting to the server _at all_” part, but yeah some end-to-end encryption would be nice.
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by Edd314159 1y ago
It has to, how would it deliver the password to the URL’s recipient otherwise? I suppose to keep it fully stateless you could encode the password in the URL itself somehow, but then that would defeat the purpose of not having the secret han
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by Edd314159 1y ago
When my career was just beginning (maybe choosing to freelance on day 1 was the mistake), if a client was even a couple of grand behind on invoices then I would have been toast financially. Early in your career, with no savings, working for
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by Edd314159 2y ago
“Paper Apps” seems like an overly snobby and infantilizing term for something we already had a term for: Puzzle Books / Notebooks.
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by Edd314159 2y ago
How many early adopters of _any_ novel technology are male? Is it roughly 85% perhaps?
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by Edd314159 2y ago
Isn’t this technically the original _Steam_ UI, not just Counter Strike?
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by Edd314159 2y ago
This reminded me of a game but I couldn’t remember which one. I opened this comment thread hoping someone would know, and you delivered. Thank you!
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by Edd314159 2y ago
To be clear, this is not Google getting it wrong. This is the AI-generated slop website getting it wrong, Google is just pulling an extract.
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by Edd314159 2y ago
I have somewhere between 0 and ~60 years left to live. I don’t trust this service (or any service!) to remain active and live for even 5 of those years.
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by Edd314159 3y ago
You're absolutely right, but the article we're talking about misses the point. It focusses on the sensational-sounding part of this, the implication that people will blindly take these recipes and make them and eat them and then d
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by Edd314159 3y ago
Something I've wondered: how much has AI/ML _helped_ actors' careers by providing effective content recommendation algorithms, drawing more engaged eyeballs to their work?
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by Edd314159 3y ago
I don't think serf is calling anyone wrong. Just that there is more to the arts than financial success. It's ok to let people like the Marvel stuff, _and_ lament the fact that there is less effort going into making more interestin
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by Edd314159 3y ago
I did this a few years ago during taxi before take-off, in a business class seat on a flight to Tokyo (I’m not bragging, it’s literally the only time in my life I’ve ever not flown economy) I had to move to another seat when I wanted to rec
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by Edd314159 3y ago
The “correlation is not causation” people were right all along!
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by Edd314159 3y ago
I wonder if there are some issuers out there who still have some active legacy backoffice process for processing transactions with carbon copies from imprinter machines
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by Edd314159 3y ago
Right there with you. I simultaneously love my smartphone and everything it has enabled for me and billions of fellow humans, _and_ frequently advocate for taking breaks from it to interact with real people for a change. A (clearly hypothet

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