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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
Same energy as when airlines make a gate announcement that they’ve got too many bags and they’re offering free baggage check for anyone willing…
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
The ads in Apple Wallet for their credit card drive me insane. So invasive.
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
I could see SO being helpful for more niche questions where one guy somewhere knows the answer from experience or he wrote the framework. But then over time, those will be absorbed into LLMs anyway, so…
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
This seems like the most likely answer to me - though we all have our grievances with SO, the culture likely didn’t contribute to its decline as much as simply AI being a better tool.
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
Similar with lifted trucks. Lifts are bad for driveshafts, suspension, tires, etc
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
> When the Biden administration introduced a junk fee rule in 2024, the US Chamber of Commerce argued it was “an attempt to micromanage businesses’ pricing structures”, and apartment fees were cut from that federal rule after lobbying by
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
> How can we push terminals harder? > I don’t support pushing terminals to the extreme… Reminds me of what Warp has become these days
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
[if the article’s analysis is true] cost controls would reduce the supply of ambulances, since the article claims Medicare actually is a loss. You have claimed it isn’t, but you haven’t really provided much evidence other than “there’s no w
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
Ambulance.ai (Shudders)
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
Some of them are volunteers who do it because it’s about the calling to help their communities, not pay. Some do it because they actually want to be firefighters but it’s helpful to be an EMT as well. Others do it because it’s an easy entry
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by Esophagus4 2mo ago
He covered that in the article fairly thoroughly. Did you read it? The anecdote illustrates the issue then he dives into the analysis.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Thank you for the original. Given that, the pattern I saw in my head was that Zuck sees a new toy, get excited and thinks it will change everything, invests in it, then admit he’s wrong, but at least we have an ads business to keep this who
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
A percentage of our 10x engineers just left. Morale problems can be just enough to make your best people pick up the phone when recruiters call.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Not another one of these. The connected, small community internet still exists. The article comes off as kind of a curmudgeonly old man yelling at clouds. More nostalgia bait… I hope one day I get downvote privileges for posts.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
En, I think you’re just trying to justify your pre-existing position that this can’t work. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-026-02619-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-025-00007-8?from
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
I dunno, I could see it working. I do something similar with reviewing code: I have one agent write the code and another reviews it, then they go back and forth for a bit improving the code. Seems to yield better results than one agent alon
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Have you ever let the LLMs “discuss” with each other to see if that would give better answers? You might end up with the answer from the most persuasive LLM, but you might also end up with better results. Wonder if there is a paper out ther
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
That’s a long way to go for 3d printing… It probably would’ve been cheaper to just buy the gun at a store if you wanted one that bad.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
The good news is those skills of getting people to believe in you and your thing are critical to leadership as an EM too. I’m sure we all can think of managers who don’t have those skills but rely on the stick, and those managers are lousy
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
I know three really good engineers who have said the same for exactly those reasons. (eg “I don’t want to choose who gets laid off” etc) I totally respect that, and the people I know who said that to me are typically very strong and experie
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Absolutely. This is the hardest part of the transition to manager: your engineering skills alone won’t make you a manager. It’s a different role.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
> Put your phone away, don't wear your airpods and live in real life- or continue with your airpods and your neck cranked down into your phone- you don't need friends anymore, AI will be your friend. I have had decent conversat
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
The same thing happened in other businesses where it became easier than ever to put out content or product, but harder to break through because of all the saturation.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Come on, get out of here with this “only true programmers can found a real company” Such gatekeeping.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Oh that makes sense. I just don’t like the discomfort of wearing one in bed.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
Any reason for not wearing yours in the shower? I wear mine pretty much all the time except sleep.
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
I think I still disagree. If K8s is new to you, sure. Definitely not the time to learn it. But I can see a world where it’s fine to use early on. Especially if your team is cloud native. K8s isn’t really a new controversial toy in my eyes,
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
> Even with LLMs, they are going to rack up tech debt And if they don’t?
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by Esophagus4 3mo ago
I thought that was the point of the article, right? That the tech benefits may not be there, but they’re using it for the non-tech benefits

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