davidashe

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by davidashe 2y ago
Imagine a world where developers refused to build fingerprinting features.
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by davidashe 2y ago
Next-level elon defense here. “Elon made an obvious mistake? Oh no, newb. Look on this other indicator that reinforces my bias.”
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by davidashe 2y ago
“There's nothing wrong with caring for your child. The cause of this situation is insufficient paternal leaves, not having and raising children.” Tell me you’ve never been a working parent, without telling me…
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by davidashe 2y ago
AI plus serverless…without blockchain??
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by davidashe 2y ago
Surely the incentive mismatch isn’t this simple: Big results are rewarded, the process is considered worthless?
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by davidashe 2y ago
So? I can punch a fish too. Call me when they’re hyping a product they know is trash - then we’ll know they’re at human intelligence.
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by davidashe 2y ago
Never a bad time to remind yourself of what is at stake in a literal war, versus a company in survival mode. Literal war: Many human lives - both combatant and non-combatant - and the future prosperity or collapse of all societies involved
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by davidashe 2y ago
Hacker News, where a fun fantasy game with zero world-modeling ambitions is criticized as a failed medieval simulation by software engineers who know little about anthropology/sociology/history.
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by davidashe 2y ago
“Unplugging the AI would force us to deal with our problems” doesn’t sound like a reason AI is mandatory. If anything, it reinforces my impression that AI’s true application is allowing institutions to kick the can down the road further, ju
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by davidashe 2y ago
I am being downvoted, wee: https://www.dw.com/en/the-truth-about-working-on-a-cruise-sh...
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by davidashe 2y ago
Look into what life is like for the staff. A previous commenter mentioned that cruises (paraphrase) “lack the colonial feel of mexican resorts” which is a testament to the power of consumerist illusion.
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by davidashe 2y ago
“Most landlords are not complete assholes.” Ummmm… In my anecdotal experience, many New York City landlords don’t see their tenants as human beings, just a revenue source. Tenants complain? Maybe a city inspector shows up, a day or days lat
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by davidashe 2y ago
If you have a backlog of 4500 “developer years” worth of upgrades, lack of AI wasn’t the problem, and making some attention nodes go brr cannot solve the root problem. Java is a super verbose language, yet keeps getting written because “eve
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by davidashe 3y ago
Have you tried ACA meetings? adultchildren.org It’s twelve-step based, but more focused on recognizing and managing one’s traumas. ACA can synergize nicely w/ therapy. Since it is technically free, it could be a useful companion to the
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by davidashe 3y ago
trying to avoid Plaid.
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Ask HN: FDIC insured banks in US with API access?
3 points by davidashe 3y ago|3 comments
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by davidashe 4y ago
Author refers to typescript code as “javascript,” considering the distinction no linger meaningful. Perhaps a sign that it’s finally over, and typescript has won in the community.
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by davidashe 4y ago
Premise of the article is roughly: if all this litigation continues, the AI industry could collapse. Serious naive question: How would that not be a desirable outcome for society? “AI” is becoming a scourge. AI’s value-add that we truly nee
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by davidashe 4y ago
right, good call
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by davidashe 4y ago
I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature? I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway. Others don't seem to agree though.
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Go Chainable: .map().filter().reduce() in Go(github.com)
50 points by davidashe 5y ago|58 comments
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by davidashe 5y ago
Now that generics are in beta, here's a library for those who want ergonomic slice/map wrappers that make chainable operations easy. Or, a gateway drug for ECMAscripters who can't drop their `.map(x => y).filter(x => y)