andrekandre

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by andrekandre 4d ago
i hear a server rack had been hit with a subpoena...
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by andrekandre 4d ago
"boys with toys"
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by andrekandre 7d ago
n+1, i hope they continue it as well its a great form-factor and pretty tough as well
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by andrekandre 7d ago
whats that saying? "i broke in to steal the tv and found you already had stole it"?
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by andrekandre 9d ago
> People everywhere want to strive, work hard and get ahead. i think you need to visit more countries and cultures because you would discover this is not at all true
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by andrekandre 10d ago
column view is the one saving grace of finder; the rest is best left untouched
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Cory Doctorow on the Big AI Lie [video](youtube.com)
11 points by andrekandre 10d ago|0 comments
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by andrekandre 10d ago
its like in the exorcist, except the demon is the charity: "the power of capitalism compels you!"
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by andrekandre 11d ago
i literally tell it "explain it like a 5 year old can understand" and "keep it under 100 characters".. helps somewhat (its still an llm so caveat emptor)
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by andrekandre 11d ago
> But as this type of task is literally the least liked task in programming, the programmer passes it off to the LLM as well to avoid burnout... this is my daily life now and its miserable its an overload spiral that gets worse a
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by andrekandre 12d ago
jira and confluence come to mind...
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by andrekandre 12d ago
at some point we need to stop caring what china is doing and start doing what is needed for ourselves... this "china is doing x so we have to do y" china derangement is ruining everything.
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by andrekandre 12d ago
> But nobody gets rich that way so you end up buying into a worse system software development is like this too; you can do fine without all the fancy ceremonies and tools as long as you get the basics right, but rent-seeking and
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by andrekandre 12d ago
your absolutely right!
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by andrekandre 12d ago
thats an awesome example giving ai to children without limits is like giving them leg-braces or wheelchairs; they'll get used to it and never learn to walk or run by themselves much less karate... they'll be cripples from the star
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by andrekandre 12d ago
> said complexity doesn't go away by moving it to a server. complexity for the client or for the developer? > why do software engineers bother with JavaScript frameworks? because the dev cycle is much faster for th
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by andrekandre 14d ago
> Just tax those with high incomes to get it back. it also has the direct benefit of drastically reducing the bureaucracy since you don't need all those eligibility checks and associated paperworks (and associated costs)
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by andrekandre 14d ago
yea, a lot of people claiming "but its a clinton judge" dont really get this i think...
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by andrekandre 14d ago
> Meanwhile China is operating on government initiatives china fosters intense internal competition though; they don't just create and then subsidize some monopoly... avoiding breaking up mono/oligopolies feels the oppo
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by andrekandre 16d ago
ai has been an excuse for people to shove into pr's all kinds of shit that would never be tolerated otherwise; from super long descriptions to annoying emojis in commit messages and overly verbose comments and code that has the mpg of
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by andrekandre 18d ago
> he distrusts the research on the impact of line length on readability. whats the reason for that?
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by andrekandre 18d ago
i mean, theres capitalism as the ideal, and there is capitalism in practice, so maybe you are both right...
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by andrekandre 19d ago
> Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, et al. have become increasingly hostile to blockers maybe at some point we should just stop visiting these sites if they are so hostile... we keep going to them despite all of this and it just serv
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by andrekandre 20d ago
marketing dept says hello...
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by andrekandre 21d ago
you shouldn't have to join a private group to get public information though; i think that is the op's point
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by andrekandre 22d ago
it is interesting how the early iphone got such good performance and low memory usage with objective-c compared to android (java)
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by andrekandre 22d ago
n=1 but my macbook pro constantly runs out of hard disk and memory and the two biggest culprits are jira/confluence/docs and other web apps (like 1gb+ of real memory consumed by a single instance), and the other is dev tools which
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by andrekandre 23d ago
> his goals are contrary to building a game people enjoy, quality of the code is completely irrelevant i think this happens a lot inside and outside of games when people get obsessed with the tech or process behind it; they compl
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by andrekandre 24d ago
> cheaper to modify software UI at some point, beyond aesthetics, sometimes a function is done and doesn't need tinkering anymore.... especially in something like a car that is 2 tonnes of steel and metal...
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by andrekandre 24d ago
i used to think the same as op but i think you are right. though they can change the eula at any time im sure....

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