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by Vegenoid 6d ago
…which we attempt to constrain by encouraging the use of tools that make it harder to fuck shit up.
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by Vegenoid 6d ago
Spotify, the comment I replied to drew a comparison from Shopify to Spotify. I think I’ll start a company called Shpoptify.
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by Vegenoid 6d ago
Spotify has progressively gotten much worse over the last 15 years, all while the size of their engineering team has ballooned. I am very unsurprised by this outcome. People wonder why good software becomes bad, and it’s because the people
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by Vegenoid 7d ago
The difference is that Minecraft gives you much more granular access to manipulate the world, which enables a lot people to feel more connected to the world and become more invested in it.
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by Vegenoid 11d ago
I think that convincing people to go vegan is one of the least plausible ways to combat climate change, but livestock are responsible for 10-20% of greenhouse gas emissions: https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agr
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by Vegenoid 26d ago
Agree with the thrust of your comment, but I had to comment on this: > In a full banana republic, technical compliance with the law will not prevent consequences for failing to do what the authorities want. In a jurisdiction with perfect
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by Vegenoid 27d ago
Using a corporation's free offerings isn't freeloading . Microsoft wants people to put their code on GitHub. They want GitHub to be the place where source code is hosted, it is incredibly valuable. Saying "GitHub is suck
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by Vegenoid 1mo ago
I don't understand how you can read a thesis that predicts AGI in 2027 (and the subsequent explosion to ASI) and say that it "all ended up becoming true in 2026".
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by Vegenoid 1mo ago
"My vibecoded stuff is indistinguishable from handwritten stuff" and "I got anti-AI comments after vibecoding my website even though I didn't say anything about AI" are not very compatible with each other.
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by Vegenoid 2mo ago
Taking the lack of ability to identify good AI fiction as evidence that there is good AI fiction is absurd, because it means that there is no evidence which could ever point to there not being good AI fiction. There must be evidence which c
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by Vegenoid 3mo ago
If a job is well-paying, there will always be many people going into it for the money. High paying and only people who love it do it are pretty much incompatible.
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
I do not understand why people who get serious about it want so badly for it to be called table tennis. Ping pong is a way more fun name, and table tennis just seems to make it out to be a smaller, inferior version of tennis.
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
I think people get distracted by the "percentage of revenue paid to musicians" thing, when the bigger reason streaming pays out so little to artists is that people pay $10-$15 per month for unlimited access to all music. Even 80%
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
> They are indicted in federal court… what kind of mindless ideologue thinks this was just a whim for giggles? It is well-known that the bar for securing an indictment is very low. There is a famous quote about it: "Any good prosecu
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
Good to know, thanks for reporting back
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
This would require LLMs being good at knowing when they are doing a bad job, which they are still terrible at. With a good testing and verification harness set up, sure, then it could just go to a more powerful model if it can't make t
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
Unfortunately I do not know, I haven’t done anything to configure this as far as I am aware. I am on macOS.
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by Vegenoid 5mo ago
AFAICT Backblaze does back up .git directories. I have many repos backed up. The .git directory is hidden by default in the web UI (along with all other hidden files), but there is an option to show them. You should try downloading one of
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
Yes, I agree with you, I think that regulation is needed here and that this was a dumb thing to say. I'm just saying that my reaction to Zuckerberg saying that people must love his product if they use it a lot is exactly what I'd
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
> Can you imagine saying the same thing about oxycodone or cigarettes? No, but unfortunately I can very easily imagine people saying it, just like the people who made loads of money from pushing those products did. Also just like the p
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
Prod in this context doesn't refer to one person's website for their personal project. It refers to an environment where downtime has consequences, generally one that multiple people work on and that many people rely on.
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
The "this isn't new it's always been happening" talk is disingenuous and incorrect. Yes, there has been some evidence of insider trading over the previous years. However, the scope and frequency of evidence pointing to i
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
The point of the metaphor is not to say "spending time is mechanically similar to putting things in a container". It is to look at spending time from a new angle, and see if it helps you understand it better. A wise person sees a
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
> it seems more like a downstream consequence of the fact that there’s no real innovation anymore This doesn't sound right to me. We are currently getting smacked upside the head by an enormous technological innovation. I believe th
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
No, because the function of code is distinct from the implementation of the code. With software, something that is functionally identical can be created with a different underlying implementation. This is not the case with media.
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by Vegenoid 6mo ago
Will you elaborate on the “indefensibly bad legislation”?
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by Vegenoid 7mo ago
This is just unrealistic day dreaming. You can go be in a field picking produce for work - we have a shortage of these laborers. Most people don’t actually want to do that, they want a cushy office job that doesn’t wear down their body and
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by Vegenoid 7mo ago
This sounds very interesting, could you elaborate on your methods and tools?
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by Vegenoid 7mo ago
As a teenager I worked at a company that rented rafts for a short trip down a river. We’d take the rafts from the customers at the end and truck them back up to the start. As they became bigger and busier, it became more important to keep t
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by Vegenoid 7mo ago
I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus t

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