bloomca

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by bloomca 20d ago
In general, yes, but I would say "experimental features" is a pretty widely used term, so in my mind the association with something user facing is strong.
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by bloomca 21d ago
Prototype is usually something working, while spike can be pure research (e.g. validate that APIs are feasible and enough, or that something satisfies requirements). Prototype is usually more polished/usable. Experiment in my mind is s
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by bloomca 27d ago
> So you end up doing a bunch of weird commentary on say a book where you as a teenager have no idea where to place it. Like if you read Dickens, will you know enough about the industrial revolution, the condition of cities at the time,
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by bloomca 28d ago
For women it is much harder as they don't even have an option to put less energy into kids at all, society pressures and berates them if something is off (men might get a comment but largely it is ignored and accepted), so I can totall
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by bloomca 1mo ago
I assume there is enough variation to be aware of -- seasons change, constructions, car crashes, so you need to alter the route a bit. Today you have the maps with navigation, but I assume you still need to be quite aware on where to park,
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by bloomca 1mo ago
The thing about taxi drivers is that they have something at stake, while video games have no fail state effectively. You can be punished in-game, but overall it does not matter. Also video games in general are pretty derivative, so playing
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by bloomca 2mo ago
The argument basically boils down that in non-component approach (so not a modern web framework) it is harder to reason if you use tailwind classes. The rest is some serious bikeshedding, imo. I personally started with atomic CSS framework
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by bloomca 2mo ago
But software has been lucrative for very long time at this point. Can you say that the quality went downhill more than a decade ago? I personally do agree that when I see an update I feel something between annoyance or dread (what is broken
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by bloomca 2mo ago
I have a sizeable collection of CDs and during last year wrote my own CD reader and a ripper CLI. As ridiculous as it sounds, but there is some intent in doing all of that and listening to the files on your hard drive. We have a vynil/
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by bloomca 3mo ago
> the underlying infra isn't strong enough to ward off the many competitors that will embrace AI at the heart of the engine Who are the competitors? Something lower level like bevvy? The way I see it even with vibe coding you need t
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by bloomca 3mo ago
Yes, this is the direction I am observing. Ironically, I don't think anybody is happy about it and we keep saying that it is a tool and you need to verify everything, etc, but this is not what is happening. There are tons of people who
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by bloomca 3mo ago
VLC does have atrocious UI but it works great, while macOS stuff both looks bad and does not work well, so I would take VLC easily.
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by bloomca 3mo ago
Developers at big companies need to pay per token, they don't have subscription available. So in case you use that, you likely spend way more than $20 in tokens. As for how to spend that much -- not that hard, to be honest. Just give i
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by bloomca 3mo ago
I agree with your message but not sure about the conclusion. Cars themselves are commodified luxury available (in the US pretty much required) to everyone, and they do need to be subsidized, both in terms of infrastructure and the lifestyle
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by bloomca 3mo ago
You can't uninstall Apple Music as far as I am aware, so it is not just a "music player" but a specific app, which I personally don't use. For the play button I at least see the point, but it opens it when you insert an
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by bloomca 4mo ago
I thought about "poisoning" in this context as well. Even if there is not that much AI, if there is enough that you start second guessing every other comment, I start thinking what am I doing there.
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by bloomca 4mo ago
Could be just the team culture. The meeting thing is pretty weird, but what happens if you just show up and tap them on the shoulder? Do they get annoyed or overall happy to chat? What about just drinking coffee/tea? It also can be tha
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by bloomca 4mo ago
I suppose the issue is that they will simply ask their LLM to summarize and to reply, so if anything, it might just normalize and justify it a bit more.
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by bloomca 4mo ago
Turning people down when they ask questions is such a short-sighted perspective. When you answer, you can tailor it to them, you can give extra context, you can elaborate, you can dive into specific nuances. Long-term it will be very likely
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by bloomca 4mo ago
I've seen people on reddit having entire conversations with clearly bots, often on a post clearly written by a bot itself. I am sure some people are disgusted by that (I am certainly not a fan), but it seems that many are fine, or who
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by bloomca 4mo ago
Every other post too. At this point it is quite challenging to find a genuine human interaction on popular online sites.
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by bloomca 4mo ago
All you need is to invest into the index funds tracking some sort of the total market and you are golden. Not sure if I would describe that as aggressive. But I fully agree that mortgage forces people to actually save money, most people wou
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by bloomca 4mo ago
The biggest advantage of buying a house is that it forces people to actually put money into a giant savings account which is not easily accessible. Otherwise people just spend the vast majority of the money they have. As an investment, hous
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by bloomca 4mo ago
HOAs can be very tricky, the money comes to maintain some shared amenities. Usually it is not too bad, but in case of condos HOAs maintain much more and sometimes the board makes very questionable decisions and can end up short on cash when
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by bloomca 4mo ago
> If you take the money you'd use for a down payment and mortgage and invest it instead (after paying rent) you end up in about the same place. You'd actually end up in a much better place historically, homes were never a part
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by bloomca 4mo ago
I love to walk and think through things, but I honestly think walking itself is just a tool. It just allows your mind to wander as long as you are not busy (not alone, listening to a podcast, etc) and in the modern world it is a bit too eas
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Show HN: CD-DA Reader, Rust library to read audio CD data(github.com)
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by bloomca 6mo ago
The biggest issue is that there is no native component support for that. So everyone implements their own and it is both brittle and introduces some issues like: - "ctrl + f" search stops working as expected - the scrollbar has wr
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by bloomca 6mo ago
It's about the same as talking to yourself, LLMs simply agree with anything you say unless it is directly harmful. Definitely agree about talking to an abuser, though. Sometimes people indeed just need validation and it helps them a lo
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by bloomca 6mo ago
It is just the most obvious, macOS is a death by thousands cuts

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