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by devsda 6mo ago
Imagine going to work or a social meeting where everyone looks and sounds the same(or just a limited set) all with the same perfect tone, body language and communication style. Sounds like a nightmare and I would find it hard to relate and
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by devsda 6mo ago
My bad. I too should have considered that the term "Indians" is ambiguous and should have looked up the reference book. Thought the title "Great Plains" was referring to plains including the Indo-Gangetic plain. Is &quot
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by devsda 6mo ago
> but they had no weeks, hours, or minutes. I don't think this is true. We (Asian) Indians make a big deal out of beginning and doing important tasks at auspicious times. That wouldn't be possible without some means of measurin
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by devsda 6mo ago
Some believe that few organizations are actually real-estate businesses masquerading as tech, restaurant or other types. For those kind of business having full occupancy is more important than worker productivity.
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by devsda 6mo ago
> What is the point of a job if not the results? The idea is to not fret over results and give your best with dedication. E.g. An athlete shouldn't be worrying about their results while playing and should focus on the play. > How
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by devsda 6mo ago
> If anything it seems to promote rent seekers by telling you - stick to your lane and don't complain. I.e. the caste system I was wondering if that would come up and HN delivers without fail. Anyway, you are free to interpret it a
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by devsda 6mo ago
Off topic. Did anybody read the linked fortune article about Uber ceo expecting people to work on weekends. It has that paid PR post and satirical piece vibes at the same time. With words like "unparalleled work ethic" working on
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by devsda 6mo ago
> there will be discovery platforms with “algorithm”s. We already have platforms like feedly that has optional AI curated feeds.
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by devsda 6mo ago
Instead of engineer vs PM/manager I separate those jobs based on these categories. 1. How long they can survive in the job while being mediocre or outright bad at their job. 2. Probability of failing upwards. Engineering roles tend to
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by devsda 6mo ago
The world and its countries are only a safe place as long as the US believes no one is doing anything remotely against "American Interests" or they are doing enough to promote "American Interests". In this century, excl
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by devsda 7mo ago
What if a dns software has an RCE and a prosecutor thinks it satisfies "facilitates download" clause ?
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by devsda 7mo ago
Remember that feeling when you successfully wrote, debugged and ran your first useful program ? I think we are always chasing after that feeling in our own way with our little side projects. Using AI is probably the fastest and shortest wa
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by devsda 7mo ago
How ? I don’t think they can suddenly declare "these 10 bills with serial number 1,2,3 in blitzar's wallet are not legal tender" and everyone starts rejecting your cash.
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by devsda 7mo ago
I know we all carry fully charged batteries in our pockets and sometimes keep them in our ears too. But something about travelling in crowded and closed space like train with a fully charged diy (or even commercial) battery pack sounds risk
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by devsda 7mo ago
Ah, just in time summarizing what we went through recently. Our "leaders" officially added these to our already nonsensical list of goals. A. Measurably demonstrate that atleast 50% of code/tests are AI generated. B. X% Fast
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by devsda 7mo ago
> guess humans will eventually also start writing more like the AIs they learn from. With the AI feedback loop being so fast and tight for some tasks, the focus moves on to delivery than learning. There is no incentive, space or time for
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by devsda 7mo ago
> Leaked key blocking. They are defaulting to blocking API keys that are discovered as leaked and used with the Gemini API. There are no "leaked" keys if google hasn't been calling them a secret. They should ideally preven
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by devsda 7mo ago
> first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff. I heard there is a GDPR'esque Right of access(SAR) to see your records i
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by devsda 7mo ago
Does a business have right to produce whatever it wishes even if it affects the environment ? Does a business have right to pay literal pennies per hour if it manages to find people willing to work at that pay ? Does a business have right t
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by devsda 7mo ago
I suggest asking it to identify/count the number of fire hydrants, crosswalks, bridges, bicycles, cars, buses and traffic signals etc. Pit Google against Google :D
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by devsda 7mo ago
Not a good idea to enourage that sort of behavior though, because the same tools can embolden them and can be used to pull out of say California if it pushes for a strong pro consumer legislations. Corporations don’t act on the moral princ
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by devsda 7mo ago
> But why wouldn't they interpret it that way, when that's exactly what it says I assumed online by default because honestly 79% of all trafficking happening on Meta's platform sounded so implausible I didn't even con
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by devsda 7mo ago
> But the source it cites actually says 79% of online social media cases I'm curious about what other conclusion you may have reached when reading "on Meta's platforms". Offline by nature cannot happen on Meta's
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by devsda 7mo ago
On a PC we atleast have an out. On mobile, user certs are pretty much ignored unless opted in by apps. Even firefox allows user certs (for now) but only via an obscure hidden config. This means we cannot use self-hosted services even using
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by devsda 7mo ago
May be we'll get something like cardboard egg cartons which are designed for vertical loads but for other types of goods.
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by devsda 7mo ago
I think GP is making the opposite point. Blindly rejecting all PRs means you are also missing out on potential security issues submitted by humans or even AI.
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by devsda 7mo ago
Overzealous moderator issue was probably the main reason but I think the direct answer and summary from Google directly also had a significant impact on StackOverflow. It took away potential contributors and reduced the incentives for activ
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by devsda 7mo ago
If not for the accomplishments, advancements and potential benefits, the whole AI story since LLMs looks a lot like sophisticated DDOS attack at multiple levels. AI bots are literally DDOS'ing servers. Adoption is consuming and makin
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by devsda 7mo ago
We need something similar to FIPS for interoperable software and standards. Organizations will fall in line when money is at stake. Say for example your local/state/federal agency publishes (or accepts) documents exclusively in o
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by devsda 7mo ago
In our part of the world that's Meta/WhatsApp. All school and class related information is shared exclusively via WhatsApp communities.

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