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by devsda 8mo ago
Thanks. It took 6 levels of comments to point the obvious sarcasm. May be I give too much credit to average HN'er skills at recognizing sarcasm without an explicit /s :)
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by devsda 8mo ago
you are hung up on the usage of the word "fair" with no room for alternate interpretation but want others to let bygones be bygones because it is normalized and maintains the status quo. That's a really convenient position to
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by devsda 8mo ago
> The usual rejoinder I've seen is that AI can just rewrite your whole system when complexity explodes. Live and even offline data transformation and data migration without issues are still difficult problems to solve even for human
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by devsda 8mo ago
In what twisted imaginary world is saying that a serial killer was fair to all his victims by being equally brutal with all of them means killing was the desired ideal. I'm not sure who proposed going backwards or what it even means. E
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by devsda 8mo ago
> As an American I will argue against my government's unilateral global adventurism all day long I'm sure there are many Americans who would oppose this adventurism. I'm not sure whether that's because they believe
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by devsda 8mo ago
True. Those who think they are being unfair just now, this is actually the fairest they've been since forever. Fairest in terms of arm twisting and other tactics being applied to everyone equally instead of being selective. Previously
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by devsda 8mo ago
Do you think the govt will not force Google to revoke developer certs once developer verification is in place to prevent sideloading or not order Google/Apple to forcibly uninstall them ? These are great tools in American toolkit if it
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by devsda 8mo ago
I don't see much discussion on maintenance of software built by LLMs using LLMs. We already know the hard part of software engineering is designing and implementing code that is maintainable. Can LLMs reliably create software and maint
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by devsda 8mo ago
Yeah I meant using it as an experiment to test with two different links(or domains) and not as a solution to evade bot traffic. Still, I think it would be interesting to know if anybody noticed a visible spike in bot traffic(especially AI
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by devsda 8mo ago
> Must generate quite an upside for them if it is indeed a strategy. This is the same Airtel that auto opened payments bank accounts without customer consent or knowledge while getting a sim card. They even got cash deposited into those
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by devsda 8mo ago
I wish this came a day earlier. There is a current "show your personal site" post on top of HN [1] with 1500+ comments. I wonder how many of those sites are or will be hammered by AI bots in the next few days to steal/scrape
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by devsda 8mo ago
Nothing much to be honest. The occasional idiot who would zoom past everyone dangerously on their new powerful and expensive toy is replaced by the idiot who loves to show off the new found torque on their ev bike. The only difference is be
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by devsda 8mo ago
> Main issue is having a parking space with a charger and/or having to pay for it Agree. New apartments in metros are coming up with shared charging spaces but the supposed cost benefit of owning ev is offset by high prices at these
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by devsda 8mo ago
End users are easily influenced but they could have targeted developers. I think they should have pushed for a gecko based electron alternative. End user dont really care if their favourite markdown editor or notes software is based on elec
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by devsda 8mo ago
You are probably referring to language support plug-ins. IIRC, debugger support for java needed a component from one of the official plug-ins.
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by devsda 8mo ago
It is more easier to secure revenue/funding from Google once they retain existing market share and gain more. They need to improve the product for that to happen. With all the distractions they are abandoning their primary product and
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by devsda 8mo ago
I should really thank them though. I disliked the black bars release(v3 I think) so much that I moved back to KDE and then also tried lxqt, xfce and i3 but never GNOME. If not for that release I would have probably been stuck with only GNOM
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by devsda 9mo ago
> Your job isn’t to complete tickets that fulfill a list of asks from your product manager. Your job is to build software that solves users problems. The main benefit of understanding the purpose and real world usage of your software is
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by devsda 9mo ago
My naive over engineered retro kind of solution would be 1. Add a pointer mode into the os 2. Build touchpad/trackball type sensor tracking gestures using non capacitive sensors probably at the nav bar level and on the bottom edges or
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by devsda 9mo ago
May be not resume driven. But hearing MS and AI, I can't help but wonder if this is result of one of those mandates by "leadership" where everyone is forced to come up with a AI use case or hack.
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by devsda 9mo ago
Don't forget the other moat. While their competitors have to deal with actively hostile attempts to stop scraping training data, in Google's case almost everyone bends over backwards to give them easy access.
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by devsda 9mo ago
If Google can allow apps to block screenshot capability then it should also allow specific set of apps like financial apps having an option to block overlays too. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
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by devsda 9mo ago
Is it related to the fact that monkeys/humans evolved around dense green forests ?
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by devsda 9mo ago
Its a fair point but its probably not practical. I don't think there's enough jobs in prisons that need physical labour where they can cover the costs. You would then have to train them in useful skills but incompetence is not a c
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by devsda 9mo ago
> The government isn’t making any money here. Hypothetically let's say govt is allowed to use unpaid labour outside menial tasks and the prison system is setup in a way to efficiently utilize the skills of their labour pool and is a
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by devsda 9mo ago
Because it creates perverse incentive for government to put more people in prison. Right now the punishment is confinement. When you add effectively unpaid labour in prison as part of acceptable punishment, you're also paving the way
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by devsda 9mo ago
> I remember the CEO of my tech company having to bend the knees to keep the software team happy so they don't leave and because he doesn't have insights into how the software is written. It is precisely the lack of knowledge a
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by devsda 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure its called a Trait these days.
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by devsda 9mo ago
Challenge issued. I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season. Merry Christmas!
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by devsda 9mo ago
Law is a strange and possibly the only aspect in human societies where people are by default assumed to know, understand and follow it to the letter when everybody acknowledges that law is open to interpretation. You cannot in most cases cl

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