dccoolgai

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by dccoolgai 11d ago
Read through this, some of the targets are government/.gov sites. Remember how eager the Feds were to "make an example" out of Aaron Swartz?
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by dccoolgai 12d ago
They murdered Swartz for TOS violations
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by dccoolgai 12d ago
Member when they murdered Aaron Swartz for doing something less bad than this?
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by dccoolgai 25d ago
"a really good UI framework that is cross platform." Just curious re: the obvious example of "The Web" - do you consider it "not good" or "not really a cross-platform UI framework" as such?
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The AI Debate Is About Control, Not AI(fastcompany.com)
3 points by dccoolgai 27d ago|0 comments
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by dccoolgai 1mo ago
3 generations of wealth poured into the most expensive military in recorded history - the reason that we don't have health care, clean energy, decent social safety nets and so many other things... and they can't even control a sma
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
It's gone the instant the CEO takes your options by laying you off a week before they vest. ^ that has happened to me. Along with a million other slights: health care reduced, vacation time reduced, etc. etc. A hypothetical union boss
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
The police? Like you would call fir any crime. The union boss is also elected, so you don't vote for people that would do that. You have a lot more power/leverage in that situation than a CEO laying you off right before your optio
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
Yes. It's called a "union". They were discovered around the turn of the 20th century, caused the greatest increase in prosperity and wealth for the greatest number of people of any idea in history but then we decided we were
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Meta to Address Low Employee Morale With Snacks(mashable.com)
6 points by dccoolgai 3mo ago|2 comments
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
It's so hard to do that but it's really the only way. I had this idea that tech companies should organize _each others_ unions. Like Google employees should organize Meta's union and visa versa so no one is "sacrificing
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
At least this would give you the leverage of seeing that the role is or is not still posted. It would give you a job to do as a candidate in enforcing honesty and seeing that the company wasn't stringing others along with fake postings
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by dccoolgai 3mo ago
I've been thinking more lately about how to get "Basic Web" - just like normal HTML and maybe a little bit of CSS (No Service Workers, Background Sync, DRM, etc.) and make it work over a LORA/Meshtastic rig somehow.
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
This looks awesome but I've read in the past that there are a lot of PFAS chemicals on these thermal printer papers. Is there like "safe" paper they have now that you can use for these things?
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
Right - this is the natural extension of the dichotomy "There are those the law protects but does not bind and those the law binds but does not protect". The law doesn't bind Musk - those visa infractions are enforced on peas
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
You might also really enjoy the work of Rory Sutherland - listen to one of his shorts on tiktok/YouTube.
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
Not exactly on the "casino" nose, but "100 things every designer should know about humans" by Weinschenk has a lot of these principles outlined (backed up with academic references).
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
You're describing the deal from three years ago: pay premium for premium talent that's willing to go above and beyond. I'm telling you about the new deal they have: premium prices for mediocre demoralized talent. They're
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
Like any market, they will not be the only ones in it. People remember how you treat them - especially in times like these. They will be paying premium prices for a demoralized workforce. They put themselves in a real tough position here.
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
You're confusing _evil_ with _cruel_. Palantir is the former, but from what I have heard they treat their employees well. They are attracting exactly the kind of people they want.
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
Certainly, everyone has "a number" they're willing to suffer for - but telegraphing the suffering ensures that number will be maxed out and morale/motivation will be rock bottom. So: you're paying a huge premium for
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
Imagine trying to hire engineers in 2 years with all of these stories lingering. There was maybe a brief window where "everyone understood" there had to be a correction to the post-pandemic overhiring spree... but we're well
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by dccoolgai 4mo ago
AI polls lower than "congress". People hate it - they hate it so much. They probably _wanted_ to call it that but someone who knows anything put their foot down.
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by dccoolgai 5mo ago
TBH if I see "late Meta" or "post-Musk Twitter/X" on a resume it gets filed as "low morals / low trust".
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by dccoolgai 5mo ago
This is fascinating: Carthage will always be somewhat of an enigma, I suspect. I've heard some classicists posit that they were essentially the first "modern" society that appeared in the world with respect to ideas of plural
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by dccoolgai 6mo ago
The tricky thing about that is it depends "what period of time" you choose to look at. When the Serbs had the upper hand in the 90s, yes - a lot of the aggression was due to their actions... But if you choose to look 50 years befo
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by dccoolgai 6mo ago
Fitting - as this is likely emblematic of the way America is failing more broadly: we can't fix real problems with pipes, roads and other infrastructure because we created a generation (s) of people who were taught to look down on that
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by dccoolgai 6mo ago
Why would I need this tool if I can just say "Claude, make me a CAD drawing of XYZ"? Not trying to be rude, just generating some empathy for the OP's situation, which I think was missed: Like them, there is something you are
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by dccoolgai 7mo ago
50 years ago, the U.S. was a nation that _made things_ whereas today it's primarily people conference calling and making slide decks for each other (perhaps not for long, given the progress of LLMs). What if that's the real underl
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by dccoolgai 7mo ago
The risk profile is "exposed to asbestos" which - as the video correctly pointed out - was _never banned_ despite the well-known risks. It's a common misconception that asbestos was banned (because it seems like it should be)

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