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by al_be_back 1mo ago
Makes sense to me... leaving to start their company with Google being an investor. Clayton Christensen [1] says (paraphrasing) it's a good idea to spin-off (or invest) in a startup that you've a say on, before the ecosystem sprout
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
of course they are. his original quote says 'political' but often translations or quotes may say 'social' (informally).
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
>> Ordering, consensus, and mutability policy are application concerns outside this series. [1] Of course, immutable means as-is, but since you're not dealing with ordering etc (that's pretty big), I might as well use existi
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
> 2. "Happiness depends upon ourselves." he's quiet possibly referring to happiness as a relationship (with family, friends, colleagues, citizens etc) rather than just by oneself / isolation / individual. he fam
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
> Myth 3: Lines of Code Written by AI... how come lines of code (or expressions) by an engineer aren't a good way to measure progress (Gates point etc) but GenAI tokens must count and be paid for?
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
yes. the point in this post was not to replicate their title and/or content, but to point to the the issue.
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
For some reason, this made me think of privacy & security issues: user fingerprinting, user-type detector (devtools open = dev/engineer) etc. Detecting the difference between window.innerWidth (viewport) and window.outterWidth (win
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Advert banned for glamorising smoking – BBC shows it(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by al_be_back 1mo ago|4 comments
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by al_be_back 1mo ago
NOTE: BBC is public-funded broadcaster in the UK, so it cannot show commercial ads in the UK. Ads rely on cleaver imagery to hook the viewer. So when a media org (bbc) reports the image without a mask (and even enlarged it, high-res), they&
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by al_be_back 2mo ago
Very interesting. The media tracks may've been em dashed during prod. Spotify seems to use this format "Artist — Album".
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by al_be_back 2mo ago
Em dashes are indeed amazing! Go U+2014 ! has anyone used/seen em dashes in file/dir names? just wondered — I have't. It's certainly easier to read than a hyphen/minus...but i guess it may become problematic cross-p
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by al_be_back 2mo ago
I agree with Codeberg, I think they're arguing for some sort of AI Code-Gen Fair Use policy. My take: If ai generated the code, let ai pay for it, unless it has been proved worth it's upkeep. Basically, show me some sort of: AI c
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
A houseplant with tiny turtles for leaves… very informative if under the influence of some substances. It’s not a Hello World equivalent. So much around generative ai seems to be around “look how unrealistic you can be for not-cheap! Ai -
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
Makes no sense to sell their entire position on a key infrastructure player, if you’re going all in on ai. That’s very odd.
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
this is not practical or desirable in my view: de-google, de-apple, de-meta, de-aws etc etc etc What next, become stone masons? nah, that's too corporate, pick berries instead ;) Come on, what happened to moderation, discipline and pla
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
>> doing, or is it about getting things done Who says the thing is done? there is a massive danger now, with the sheer amount of complexity & speed brought by ai, in that it's increasingly harder to verify / do proof-of-
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
Couldn't agree more, if posting on coding sites/forums, they usually have code highlighting. However, a screenshot acts like a print-out / pdf, and very handy for sharing in other platforms e.g social media, mobile devices. L
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
> the movie 300 In high-tech warfare we're seeing these days your metaphor is reversed. These artisans (potters etc) are tech engineers, mathematicians, chemists. They are quick to mobilize and become effective (operate drones, robo
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by al_be_back 10mo ago
It is relative, depends on the "type of warfare" being fought, and the countries/economies involved. In a high-tech modern warfare, the countries with a fighting force that has higher academic education, higher tech literacy
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
happy anniversary! > Uses the fast and bloat-free FLTK GUI library [1] Bloat as a moat, is sadly the strategy of much of the web or apps in recent years. High Performance has shifted into how fast we can serve bloat. Efficiency has becom
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
Removing html and css would also make the browser more secure - but I would argue also very counter productive for users. Most of read-only content and lite editing can be achieved with raw data + xslt. The web has become a sledgehammer for
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
Replaced them with App stores, why one code base when you can have N code bases: web sites, ios, android , tv … cheaper, privacy-oriented and more secure lol obviously not, doesn’t help the consumer or the developer. Xslt is brilliant at t
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
Well, by that token, opensource + stackoverflow was vibe coding all along. I can download, pick and choose, mix, modify, run, ship lol how about developing using WYSIWYG? drag + drop + connect + theme/style + preview.
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
i think traditional UI should be decoupled from the language - only providing CLI and web UI (w3c web standards). Apple's ui is very nice, but you're stuck with a whole ecosystem for life. If you want to cross-platform, as you men
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
I don't mean www, that's a different beast. i said distributed nets, as was before www. It's not actually about aws per se, or whether the cloud improves - evolution doesn't necessarily favor improvement just because. th
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
preventing a catastrophe was ARPA's mitigation strategy. the point is where it's heading, not where it is. It's not about AWS per se, or any one company, it's the way it is consolidating. AWS came about by accident - cle
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by al_be_back 11mo ago
Postmortem all you want - the internet is breaking, hard. The internet was born out of the need for Distributed networks during the cold war - to reduce central points of failure - a hedging mechanism if you will. Now it has consolidated in
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by al_be_back 1y ago
Cyber risks notwithstanding (they concern me greatly), I still think the Gov is better placed than Private sector to guarantee citizens privacy and security (at that level). Why? The Gov is better placed to be the ultimate non-profit org: c
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by al_be_back 1y ago
dynamically-typed languages were typically created for scripting tasks - but ended up going viral (in part due to d-typing), the community stretched the language to its limits and pushed it into markets it wasn't designed/thought

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