ant_li0n

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by ant_li0n 6d ago
For real. I can take a walk around the block and guarantee you I'll find at least two discarded vapes. Meanwhile, I'm still using the AirPods Pro I bought 3 years ago.
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by ant_li0n 15d ago
Thank you, I have attempted to modify my original reply with one a little less dickish.
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by ant_li0n 15d ago
Ah I understand what you're saying. Yes I agree that if you pull back to, "We're in a bubble," then you can say that Zitron is correct, at least fundamentally, despite being wildly inaccurate in almost every other predic
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by ant_li0n 15d ago
(edited to remove snark) Your comment seems to miss the point that the article does not (necessarily) have a problem with Zitron being insufferable/annoying/smug. It's that his predictions are verifiably wrong. It's on
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by ant_li0n 3mo ago
Over the years, I have accumulated a really sweet desk setup: standing desk, Herman Miller chair, Kinesis Advantage, BenQ programming monitor, nice lighting, decent audio setup, etc. I have a dedicated office, entirely separated from the re
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by ant_li0n 4mo ago
(Assuming that LLM does indeed multiply productivity) We are likely in for some rough days, as it's much easier to just fire people and maintain the same level of productivity. Musk (arguably) did that with Twitter, even before this s
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by ant_li0n 4mo ago
Yeah I don't disagree with him on a lot of the substance, but it's more about the tone of his writing (there's like 20+ exclamation marks in that article). Listening to his podcast, he is even more insufferable. It just has
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by ant_li0n 4mo ago
I agree. He plainly has an axe to grind. I'm as AI-skeptical as the next guy, but I can't handle Ed Zitron. Doesn't seem like a good faith actor.
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by ant_li0n 11mo ago
It's only a feeling that I have, but I think that some folks live in a scarcity mindset, where they are only barely holding on to what they have. Note that this does not actually have to be their lived reality - you can be rich and th
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by ant_li0n 1y ago
it wrecks my guts. so, no.
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by ant_li0n 1y ago
You come off like a dick, but it's really true. I saw a tweet where some Zoomer was roasting an "Elder Millenial" for switching devices from a mobile phone to a desktop when making a big purchase (airline tickets? I forget).
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by ant_li0n 1y ago
Interesting. If it's not too personal, would you mind sharing what the "cause" turned out to be, and how you were able to discover it?
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
I think the population of people buying bespoke suiting is small enough that you would not want to alienate your existing customers. I agree that they should raise the prices, but I've got to think there's an aspect of a relation
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
You can assume they'd rather be constructing new clothes, rather than doing alterations. You can also assume that there is some amount of their previous customer base who aren't interested in restarting the process at 0 with crea
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
Fifteen years older?! You think that woman looks 78? To me I'd put her in her mid-60s. She's 63. She looks like a 63 year old. I think part of the problem of this talk is that it introduces the fact that older people/people
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
Hey can you help me understand what you mean? There's an entry about "Hardware Root of Trust" in that document, but I don't see how that means Apple is avoiding stating, "we can't access your data" - the
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
I feel like using copilot chat in my editor has really been a boost for me, in the way you describe. But it's also super janky. Like lots of times I'll be having a conversation about my code, and then I say, "what if I were
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
> The first step to alleviate these specific situations could be to stop marginalizing this kind of content and give them a regular professional status, instead of systematicly pigeon hole it I dislike arguments made in this vein, it&#x2
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
> This is one of those things I don't get why people go so gaga over them I think it's because they look so fucking cool.
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by ant_li0n 2y ago
A housing development will create parks because they are required to do it. This is not market forces at work.
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
I agree, it's not exclusive to NY. I live in a college town of around 65k (100k with the student population) and it's amazing. We have a very modest home, but it's super walkable: 1/2 mile to a small grocery store, 3&#
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
Wow yeah you really hit the nail on the head for me. My wife and I weren't trying to have kids but we weren't trying not to have kids either, if you get my drift. Looking back on it, if we had been "smart" about deci
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
User data (and the resultant behavioral prediction) is the new gold rush. Even if the data is not immediately useful, it can be stored and used later. There's the (now) old saying, "if the product is free, then you are the produc
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
You know what’s even worse? The audiobook version, narrated by Will Wheaton.
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
Yeah it's complicated. I guess an analogy could be like walking up to a fat person and shouting, "Calories in, calories out, bro!". Simply, it's not helpful. Fat people know they're fat because they have a caloric
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
Yeah, same here. I don't exercise as much as you - 3, maybe 4 times a week - but yeah, it doesn't help. Sure, it feels good right when you're doing it (sometimes, hah), but the feeling doesn't persist. Some days, I ac
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
I'm certainly no expert, but I believe all that historical talk about corporations doing the right thing by their workers (and by extension, society) came after many years of struggle (unions) and regulation (trust busting etc). This i
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
I was hired in Aug 2022, laid off yesterday. Looking at it from their perspective, I would have made the choice to lay me off (or fire me). The reality is that I just did not get enough meaningful project work. I talked to my manager freq
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by ant_li0n 3y ago
Most of these kids are not addicts, they bought what they thought was a Xanax from some dude on Snapchat, and it turned out to be fentanyl. I somehow feel that maybe the pharmaceutical marketing machine, which has successfully turned drugs
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by ant_li0n 4y ago
c'mon, dude. his hair is an icon of classical music in itself

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