ToucanLoucan

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by ToucanLoucan 5d ago
Agency occurs in individuals who operate within systems and Americans are some of the most propagandized people on the face of the Earth, and some of the worst educated in the global north. Average reading level is 6th grade. Critical think
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by ToucanLoucan 5d ago
The politicians (and more directly, their corporate sponsors) stoked that opinion. It didn't come from nowhere. From day 1 of the pandemic the reactionary media ecosystem would not shut the fuck up for even a MOMENT about the unneces
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by ToucanLoucan 5d ago
Doesn't matter. Literally the same calculus as reopening everything far prematurely for COVID: "But the economy!" The people running this show don't give a flying fuck about the working class. They'll march us into
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by ToucanLoucan 5d ago
They will if they run out of money to light on fire.
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by ToucanLoucan 5d ago
As an iOS dev who then got Mac development effectively for free in the bargain, fucking this. Xcode is not perfect, far from it, but it is still head, shoulders, cock and balls above every other toolset I've ever used, bar none. And wh
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by ToucanLoucan 6d ago
Also they bloated it to death. VSCodium gets you the same solid core app without the oodles and oodles of useless "features" Microsoft has bolted to it.
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by ToucanLoucan 6d ago
What's extra egregious there is I do understand the logic because developing for Windows is such a fucking nightmare, that they're also responsible for.
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by ToucanLoucan 6d ago
> It is the job of management to figure out how to make gains over the next 90 days, not make gains sustainable. This is the cancer that has killed so many otherwise good businesses here.
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by ToucanLoucan 6d ago
It's objectively bad because of how hot my phone is. It's subjectively bad because it's an embarrassment. Like you're seriously going to tell me something like Discord, worth 15 BILLION, cannot afford native apps? Spare
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by ToucanLoucan 6d ago
This, 100%. The only other headset I was aware of even remotely in AVP's price zip code was the Valve Index, priced at $999 and the AVP was three times that. And even then I proooobably would've been able to justify it? But no e
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by ToucanLoucan 8d ago
Tbh I wonder if it's related to AI at all, or just a consequence of Microsoft being institutionally unable to ship working software anymore and people are finally tired of spending so much money for such garbage products. Buddy of mine
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by ToucanLoucan 8d ago
> the "never" is what gets me here. The process is the point for any passionate creative. And yes, for every passionate creative you have a burned out creative who's trying to make ends meet who will use more AI centric
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by ToucanLoucan 11d ago
> Imagine saying this about a graphing calculator, because that is essentially what the LLM is for knowledge work. A frankly hilarious statement given several key facts: * You don't get and in fact are usually barred from using a gr
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by ToucanLoucan 14d ago
> The question for doomers is why is this time different? Difference 1: The tools themselves only exist due to rampant exploitation of vast intellectual resources that were created, catalogued, and published with the intent to help peop
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by ToucanLoucan 20d ago
Genuinely unhinged that companies can just lie this way to the public and it’s completely fine. Normal even. You didn’t agree to shit, Meta. You’re scum, so much so that even in the incredibly hostile to industry regulation environment we f
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by ToucanLoucan 20d ago
I mean I did word that carefully, "as much of the workforce as possible." So yes entirely possible that the middle managers get automated out too. I genuinely don't get what the endgame here is, just AI's talking to AI&#
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by ToucanLoucan 20d ago
IMO the top end goal is to allow capital to access skill without allowing skill to access capital. IF they can make these products work as advertised (big if, very very big if) the corpos can fire shitloads of low-end workers and give their
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by ToucanLoucan 20d ago
> Not too different from what "the cloud" did to this market from 2015 or so... I mean for all the inefficiencies of the cloud, it solved a lot of problems. It also created a new category of problems but rarely does any particu
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by ToucanLoucan 23d ago
It also surprises and bewilders me that businesses (usually tech or tech adjacent) apparently expect and have for some time expected the ability to do business internationally completely without friction. Which is less something I think is
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by ToucanLoucan 28d ago
It’s not about regulation it’s about intervention. It’s not that you’re not allowed to saw pieces of yourself off with a chainsaw, stranger of a choice as that may be. The idea is people in your life who care about you may want to intervene
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by ToucanLoucan 29d ago
> If I cut my leg off with a chainsaw, am I addicted to the chainsaw? If you repeatedly willingly do so despite the harm, then yes.
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by ToucanLoucan 29d ago
> What I meant to say was, the standard for when we call something addictive is more hazy than that. If you as a person engage with a product to a degree where it causes demonstrable, measurable harm to yourself or your life, you are add
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
It’s become clear to me that any company acquired by Microsoft should be avoided. All software dev is hard. Software dev within a huge organization is damned hard. And Microsoft is SO HUGE and has so much infighting and finger pointing go
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> The overall goal with these kinds of projects should be to maintain parity between the citizenry and people in positions of power. Oh for sure, I'm not disagreeing with the principle being discussed, I'm saying in our current
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
I mean they don't hide much anymore. Our current admin is simply awash in corruption, and nothing happens because a majority of lawmakers are also in on it, getting rich, and just aren't required to do anything. Our police rob and
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
Would add this is not exclusive to large corporations either. My smaller employer is also struggling hard because leadership simply cannot prioritize. Everything is either not being worked on or is the highest priority which in practice jus
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> There are also a lot of folk remedies that have been disproven as medicine. They too were ‘common sense.’ "You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." - Tim Minchin
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> If it is all relative, then how is she determining that someone has good or bad taste? Is there anything between moral relativism and mathematical proof? Social proof. Everyone has taste and everyone's taste in a given space is i
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
Oh yeah for sure, I'm not suggesting the fine is bad, I'm suggesting it's insufficient. I want to "yes and" this, not replace it. Fine them, and incentivize change for them and all other businesses in the space. F
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by ToucanLoucan 1mo ago
> You dont need deeper understanding of knowledge for everything. Ask Grandma whether she needs a chemical engineering degree to bake apple pie. You've clearly never baked before. Baking is a chemical science. You have to adjust t

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