cavem0nkey

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by cavem0nkey 24d ago
Sorry I didn't feel this was scolding but I look back and see it may be taken that way. The nature of the comment was that we should strip the narrative about this being a non-profit from the discussion and apply what is left to oursel
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by cavem0nkey 24d ago
Sorry if the tone was off but I'm trying to peel off the layers of narrative on this and get to the real story. And that is the all too common story of a combination of poorly defined and enforced policy by a vendor and a strategy of h
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by cavem0nkey 24d ago
Microsoft wouldn’t have a business if there weren’t so many fools around.
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by cavem0nkey 24d ago
No Microsoft is not to blame. Whoever sells themselves into an all encompassing ecosystem with no exit plan or backup is to blame. It’s absolutely stupid thinking even if it’s the norm these days. The cloud is a convenience at most and an e
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
Realistically companies just start an outsourcing operation if this happens and employ people who live in fear for pittance.
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
Yep. We’re tribal apes. This is just a foot on the accelerator.
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
Well it’s a little more complicated than that. It doesn’t just manifest itself. People create it. And people do that for a reason. So there is intent. And that means it’s not naturally inert and consequence free and “ok” in a social constru
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
I would have gone for FreeBSD myself but alas it didn’t run on the SPARC stuff I lifted out of the company skip :) I think the thing with the BSDs in general was the fact I didn’t always even need any extra software packages on them. The ba
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
Couldn’t agree with this more. Stuff I wrote 25 years ago for NT4 still actually works on windows 10 without a recompile. The Linux situation reminds me of unix back in the 90s even across distributions.
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
NetBSD was my favourite playing around OS from the late 1990s to about 2010. Worked on any old crap I had lying around which was mostly thoroughly obsolete SPARC and x86 kit. Did the job. Never went wrong. Good documentation built in. Netbo
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by cavem0nkey 25d ago
I have a large and varied experience of “developers”. The majority aren’t any more morally virtuous than a brick. They wake up, get down to the sausage factory and make sausages. Again this is mostly our biases playing us. Within HN and sim
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by cavem0nkey 26d ago
I think there’s a genuinely huge divisive opinion on AI companies. We don’t see this due to our particular industry echo chambers but really the majority of society has bigger problems and this offers them no solutions and threatens to take
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by cavem0nkey 26d ago
And both have been damaging to society. And are getting fined and chased out of certain countries. Why would you throw investment in this unless you’re just leveraging the growth in the time it takes for regulatory issues to appear? Which i
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by cavem0nkey 26d ago
You can shit on TUIs but macOS isn’t the panacea of GUIs. This really compromises the argument. In fact I’d argue it’s one of the worst platforms for GUIs. Sure it looks pretty but it’s impossible to drive from the keyboard without mutant
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by cavem0nkey 26d ago
As I said at [1] they want to centralise it as a control point so they can monetize it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376040
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by cavem0nkey 26d ago
Yes. Apple Music is the most egregious example of this. It could be ridiculously fast on your pocket supercomputer but the moment a web request gets fired off from stumbling blindly across the field-of-dung user interface, bam, you’re done.
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by cavem0nkey 28d ago
Yes. No money no work.
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by cavem0nkey 28d ago
Sewage worker
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by cavem0nkey 28d ago
SaaS companies never had any ideas in the first place past turning a one off software cost into a monthly one and making you an addict of their crack supply. The coding agent just puts them between you and getting shit done again so they ca
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by cavem0nkey 28d ago
Same here. All I do now is spend all day on calls with people whose shit exploded and I'm trying to scrub it off the walls, ceiling and the customers.