ForTheKidz

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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Eh, most of the benefits are offset by the stress of having to care about the needs of corporate america and all the ensuing implications of making a living by destroying society. Just because it's not a physical job doesn't mean
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
The dysfunction at those places is more than enough to cause burnout by itself. Source: I work at one such job now.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> I'm happier making my own deal with the boss. And i bet your boss is even happier!
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
I suspect many of these open source developers are employed in this capacity on some level by for-profit corporations (which sadly does bring a high degree of dysfunction in terms of resource allocation). But I can't imagine being this
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Hell no. That's what the state and taxes are for. I certainly don't need more crap from a gift shop in my life. The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
I don't think it's depressing—every generation has to find their own voice.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Strikes me as quite a positive thing that the romance was removed from this situation.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> You can configure it with a GUI, or in XML, or using a type safe Kotlin DSL. This is making me realize I want a CI with as few features as possible. If I'm going to spend months of my life debugging this thing I want as few corner
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
The browser is a platform lockin. One with shitty search and spam on most pages and javascript. Maybe we need a new type browser that doesn't try to be an app platform but rather tries to be a document browser.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> The fact is that if you want to maximize your "market value", you still need to be _very_ good at React. In some sense yes, but full-stack engineers are nowhere near the top of "market value". Frontend has a pretty
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
If chatgpt is scraping the web, why can they not link tokens to source of token? being able to cite where they learned something would explode the value of their chatbot. At least a couple of orders of magnitude more value. Without this cha
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
80 years ago we were intentionally firebombing European civilian populations. I don't think it's a comparable situation. Israel has no justification for engaging in total war tactics (or rather, the justification is contemptible a
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Yes, blog posters keep writing. This does not imply anything about whether or not it's a waste of time to read. But, substack is where the comments are, and the comments are generally the valuable part.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Israel is using AI to murder people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G... It's not clear this is any different from just bombing random locations, but we're certainly already at the
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Surely google translate would be less of a waste of energy.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
The downvoting here (as well as comment scoring) is probably my least liked thing about the site. It exacerbates the already prominent issue of hivemind and seems to actively lower the quality of discussion. People seem to mostly vote based
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
That's hardly isolated to this site. COVID did a number on us. Fwiw, people have been saying this since the site started. Don't worry. There will always be a safe space for rich assholes to divorce themselves from reality and roma
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> You’ll get your data synced for you How does this happen without an interface for conflict resolution? That's the hard part.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Graphs don't really capture the entirety of hashmaps and other indexing concerns. Other than that yea I agree.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
I cannot overemphasize how dumb it is to allow your isp to see what you're doing.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> If what you desire is a tiny, curated web full of like minded skilled technologists, like it was before Usenet eternal September, that exists today. I mostly remember porn. Granted, i was a child.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites Or you can log off. There's no need to post. Plus there are church doors in your physical community
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
It's not cheaper. However, Coca-Cola does consume an enormous quantity of water and it is popular and it does drive the cost of water up. I'd prolly be pissed too if I were mexican.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Medico city is basically at the level of the water table, no? Building a sewer must be a serious pain in the ass.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Brita filters most certainly do filter out "microbes". Just with low certainty that drops over the age of the filter.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
Anyone who claims the west is clean has never been to philly
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> Given that, Apple is stuck trying to catch up to the rest of the products in the AI space Oh, of course. Like...? Nothing else has access to relevant data. That's like 95% of the pitch of siri. Voice assistants are just fundamenta
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
I'd appreciate an insight into what above poster allegedly misunderstands.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> If that profit were put to better use elsewhere it would be. how economists managed to fuse math with mysticism I have no clue. This certainly never came from adam smith.
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by ForTheKidz 1y ago
> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton Let the tooling figure out the formatting, just sweat the syntax. And build whatever you can!

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