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by duckfruit 1mo ago
The AI writing thats ubiquitous these days - on my company email and slack, on random quotations in the newspaper, blogspam, even narrated by youtubers on camera (!) - is exactly like the Pluribus hive mind. Everywhere on the internet you e
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by duckfruit 3mo ago
Exactly. This is like that Sci fi show where the whole world is taken over by an alien organism and everyone you meet is basically the same one person. The AI is also off-puttingly nice, just like the alien.
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by duckfruit 3mo ago
Yeah, wading through an endless stream of AI slop articles posted here (and elsewhere like on reddit) is exhausting. I suspect I won't be coming here as often anymore, which is a shame, because I used to find this site very informative
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by duckfruit 3mo ago
This makes me indescribably sad. Dr. Rauschmayer's books and articles helped me tremendously early in my career. I owe him a debt of gratitude.
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by duckfruit 8mo ago
I mean, good on them but its like fighting a wildfire with a thimbleful of water. Feel like the model trainers would be able to easily work around this.
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by duckfruit 8mo ago
+1. While the author's complaint is perfectly valid, in practice the advantages of even current OLEDs - for me - far outweigh any disadvantages due to subpixel layout fringing and everything else. Even for programming, the lack of back
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by duckfruit 2y ago
But if all you want to do is render HTML then why use <canvas>? I'm only speculating, but it doesn't seem surprising that regular DOM rendering logic - which has to handle approximately a bazillion different rules and specia
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by duckfruit 3y ago
Essentially a throw new RuntimeException(e) for rockets? As a fellow engineer, I sympathize.
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by duckfruit 3y ago
Great article. The Sphere is such a ridiculous, hilarious and fantastic project. We should be build one in every city.
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by duckfruit 3y ago
It’s a patently obvious money grab or scam or PR attempt because there’s no way in hell Wordpress will be around in 30 years let alone a hundred. But that got me thinking. Will the web itself be around a century from now? ICANN? HTML? HTTP?
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by duckfruit 3y ago
Certainly not at the FAANG I work at. We hire specialized engineers to work on device drivers and OS kernels and absolutely do not ask them questions on how to design distributed web services. I encourage you to apply: https://ww
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by duckfruit 3y ago
This makes me indescribably sad. Apart from mourning the loss of a fantastic app by an awesome developer, to me it signals the end of a golden era of small indie client only apps. Since the APIs for the likes of reddit, twitter (RIP tweetbo
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by duckfruit 3y ago
Is there something remotely similar for the US market? I would love a small, cheap electric city car and it doesn't have to be solar or anything - though that would be a plus! It would be perfect for my Silicon Valley commute (<10 m
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by duckfruit 4y ago
On that vein, I recently joined home-barista, an old school web forum for coffee geeks. That site is seemingly frozen in time from the early 2000s. There are no trackers - there's no need, since it is already filled with a self selecte
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by duckfruit 4y ago
Social media promotes a vicious callout culture where everything you say in the past is permanently used against you in the court of public opinion whenever you change your mind. While I did not share PG's opinion at the time I also do
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by duckfruit 4y ago
I am agreeing with you, but I can see how my comment is unclear.
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by duckfruit 4y ago
I'm willing to bet on it! I live in the center of Silicon Valley and it would take me a 30 minute drive to the south or the east before I lose cell phone access.
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by duckfruit 4y ago
A rate hike that that was widely telegraphed and has been anticipated for years, to boot!
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by duckfruit 4y ago
I agree. We live in a golden age of gaming. Steam and all the game stores have a practically unlimited catalog (granted there's a lot of shovelware, but still plenty to chew on). Triple A games with budgets that rival and even exceed
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by duckfruit 5y ago
Worth bearing in mind that the author has himself admitted to and apologized for factual errors in his article that could change some of his conclusions. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1499465032547061767?
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by duckfruit 5y ago
Happy to see the Fall of Civs podcast on HN. An amazingly well produced, thought provoking podcast - highly recommended by this Internet Stranger!
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by duckfruit 5y ago
I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years. I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean all the coffee stains and grime it has accumulated i
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by duckfruit 5y ago
I've been on HN long enough to realize that the majority of comments here are going to inevitably devolve into a discussion of the sheer complexity and breadth of tooling listed here. However, bear in mind that the site is built by a p
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by duckfruit 5y ago
This sounds fascinating. I'm interested to learn more. How does one go about paying for passage on a cargo ship?
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by duckfruit 5y ago
This certainly happens quite often. However, speaking purely anecdotally just to add a data point - in my current team at a big tech firm, none of my teammates have left because of compensation. We've had quite a bit of turnover over t
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by duckfruit 5y ago
This is a very good point that I feel gets overlooked way too often. When people talk about the UI feeling sluggish most of the time they are talking about responsiveness . Like, who cares if your app is rendering at 120 fps if it takes me
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by duckfruit 5y ago
Even worse, when I clicked on "Continue in App" it didn't actually open the relevant page in the app, instead taking me to the product page for Reddit on the iOS app store. I already have the app installed. Native apps and UR
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Absolutely! The top hits are often SEO’d to death and so devoid of quality I often find myself appending “Reddit” to a lot search queries just to get any sort of relevant results. “best espresso grinders reddit” -> good, relatively unbri
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by duckfruit 6y ago
I don't know if I'd call it clickbait. Whimsically worded, sure, but the author did literally go from being a Director of design to an associate software developer so it doesn't seem inaccurate to call it a demotion.
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by duckfruit 6y ago
Not everything has to have a purpose. If you're looking for solutions or life hacks, there are millions of SEO-d to death pages and self proclaimed gurus out there that peddle such things. Personally I utterly relate to what the author

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