acquisitionsilk

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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
It wouldn't have to be 79 websites, obviously - there's RSS, for example. But there's also ten other things that already exist, and probably ten other things that don't exist that neither of us could imagine. I know that
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
I'm not saying I want them to run the whole service free of charge, I'm saying I'd consider it a gain for the species if the business closed down. I look forward to alternative ideas (with e.g. no middlemen, and direct paymen
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
It also results in more money going to Youtube/Google LLC/Alphabet Inc. There are many wonderful videos and video-makers on youtube - but I think the platform has been a net negative for creativity, and for humanity, in many ways.
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
Piracy when the local pleb does it, brilliancy when the new VC-fat wunderkind does it
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
I ended up watching this talk this evening: > Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only) :: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk and it made me think of your comment. In summary, I disag
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
This response is quite the surprise - I am explicitly saying that I think this article reduces travel to "a pissing competition", as you put it, and that it is shocking to me to see it done so shamelessly. The author will be descr
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
I have entertained a similar notion when imagining the direction industries that make software might go from here. There's a possible future where some sizeable percentage of companies goes extra hard in the direction of "LLMs in,
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An Internet controlled by no-one, owned by us all(autonomi.com)
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
It is quite heartening to see so many people care about "good code". I fear it will make no difference. The problem is that the software world got eaten up by the business world many years ago. I'm not sure at what point exac
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
I wonder if it's merely some language or cultural difference, and I don't mean it as a snipe at all, but may I just say - software products have "features", human beings have traits! Maybe it's a confusion based on
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
Maybe one day I'll get used to people people putting pictures and videos of their 3-year-olds on the internet, but that day has not yet come. I see it there and can only think, oh the poor kid. It even says he's shy at one point i
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
If the business school is silly enough to accept people based partially on the idea that they climbed Everest, perhaps he was right to treat the task of getting in to the place as essentially theatre.
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
Step 1. Dev trusts Microsoft Step 2. ...? I don't mean to be facetious here. It's just that if GitHub doesn't end up going through the usual enshittification process, it'll be quite the anomaly. Now, maybe it'll be
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
Now there's a sensible point. Can someone do that, so that we can put some of these points definitely to bed?
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by acquisitionsilk 1y ago
Business emails, other comments here and there of a more throwaway or ephemeral nature - who cares if LLMs helped? Personal blogs, essays, articles, creative writing, "serious work" - please tell us if LLMs were used, if they were