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by duggan 14d ago
Personally I think this problem is being solved the right way from a systems perspective. Energy production is centralized, so the benefits of it becoming cleaner is spread as soon as it arrives, whereas single-use plastic pollution is diff
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by duggan 14d ago
I don't remember energy use being the problem with plastic bags? It was plastic bags being absolutely everywhere in the environment. Streets, parks, trees. Wrapped around anything sticking out of the ground. On your face on a windy day
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by duggan 2mo ago
Hot dog stands don't often masquerade as creative expression.
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by duggan 2mo ago
Whatever they are! Using the literal word "brand" in public messaging is leaking the marketing team's lingo to customers.
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by duggan 2mo ago
For me it's when companies talk about themselves as brands.
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Fable 5 is now a standard part of your Max plan
3 points by duggan 2mo ago|1 comments
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by duggan 2mo ago
Fabulous use of meta-irony, bravo.
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by duggan 2mo ago
Maybe! Too early in the LLM rewrite era to tell whether this requires a LeBron or just someone who takes the local pickup game more seriously.
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by duggan 2mo ago
I do like these sorts of things; decoded a less exciting one from a bottle of wine I found in 2019. Significantly more eye-watering without OCR: https://xcancel.com/duggan/status/1130920846304993282
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The Dream of v2(duggan.ie)
1 points by duggan 2mo ago|0 comments
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by duggan 2mo ago
Interesting. Been to South Africa a bunch but never clocked that they were different from the more common antecedent, the tetrapod[1]. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(structure)
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by duggan 3mo ago
> As part of our ongoing engagement with the U.S. government, we previewed our plans and the models’ capabilities ahead of today’s launch. At their request, we are starting with a limited preview for a small group of trusted partners who
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by duggan 3mo ago
This person should head up writing the next Silicon Valley.
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by duggan 3mo ago
Takes all the fun out of it.
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by duggan 3mo ago
> First nobody sane want to give their domain IP to OpenAI/Anthropic. That's why local AI will eventually prevail and flourish because people who actually have some IP will have no problem to buy 10k+ EUR machine to run some pr
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by duggan 3mo ago
- FileTranscriber, for getting Whisper transcriptions of media files from the context menu on macOS: https://github.com/duggan/filetranscriber - usagi, for tracking Claude usage in the macOS taskbar. Lots of these arou
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by duggan 4mo ago
I used JetBrains IDEs for years. The refactoring tooling was fancy find-replace as far as I recall? Pretty cool in 2015, though.
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by duggan 4mo ago
LLMs are a force multiplier, not magic. They benefit from good tooling.
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Vibe Maintainer(steve-yegge.medium.com)
4 points by duggan 5mo ago|1 comments
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by duggan 5mo ago
The bar for "create software" up to this last year or so was "learn software development" or "pay someone else". Personally, I think millions more people having the ability to create some subset of software is
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by duggan 5mo ago
> $200/month is already out of reach of the majority of the population. 1. You can build small applications with the $20/month sub, much more with the $100/month. Competition and technology improvements will inevitably imp
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by duggan 6mo ago
There are some enchanting non-JR regional trains you can get in Kyushu, too. Got the Shimabara line[1] last summer and it was this tiny cute little single car sailing through farms and along the coast. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org
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Build Everything(duggan.ie)
1 points by duggan 6mo ago|0 comments
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Paddy, Not Patty(paddynotpatty.com)
2 points by duggan 6mo ago|0 comments
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by duggan 6mo ago
> I worked at a startup, they built their API in PHP because it was easy and fast. Now they're successful You can stop there! Sounds like PHP worked for them. Already doing better than 90% of startups.
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Building a Stripe dashboard with an ESP32 desktop clock and Rust(duggan.ie)
2 points by duggan 6mo ago|1 comments
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by duggan 6mo ago
> We're playing with a fire that catches and spreads so fast, by the time anyone realizes the forest is catching and starting to react, the entire forest is already well on the way to joining in the blaze. I suspect this has been sa
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by duggan 7mo ago
Very much on the same page as the author, I think AI is a phenomenal accelerant. If you're going in the right direction, acceleration is very useful. It rewards those who know what they're doing, certainly. What's maybe being
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by duggan 7mo ago
Liz is one of the most genuine and thoughtful people I ever worked with. The software world would be a better place if more people like her were running the show. Best of luck to her.
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by duggan 7mo ago
I did give additional context in the blog post I linked, but yes, to be clear, this is something that will really work best for small projects with reasonably fast build cycles. If you're already at the point where you're fielding

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