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by ecf 3y ago
The products I’ve paid for and enjoyed for years usually become worse when businesses feel they need to spend more of their resources on b2b. Basically, enshittification.
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by ecf 3y ago
> If I didn't want others to use my code or make money with it, I wouldn't have gone open source in the first place > I'd rather use an AWS service with an open source core than a closed-source service. I guess it’s jus
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by ecf 3y ago
Well, this is concerning.
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by ecf 3y ago
This. ALL OF THIS IS A NON ISSUE. All. Of. It. These people won’t take one ounce of responsibility and not buy the damn thing.
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by ecf 3y ago
Your thoughts regarding open source are borderline irrational when places like Amazon will copy and paste your repository and start making billions off of it.
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by ecf 3y ago
> I genuinely think Apple wanted this to be relatively unpalatable to the typical consumer. You’re starting to hit on Apple’s strategy. Build something expensive and impressive, get all the media hype out of it with influencers making co
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by ecf 3y ago
Industry helps everyone. Private jets are so the rich can avoid the peasants. There’s no benefit for 99.99% of the rest of the world.
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by ecf 3y ago
And we’re told we need to be conscious of the plastic bags we’re using at the grocery to fight pollution. We’re a drop in the ocean compared to these people.
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by ecf 3y ago
> Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are. I graduated in 2016 and never once had an employer concerned about my grades. It would be a red flag if I had. Half my time in college was spent wor
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by ecf 3y ago
Obese and gluttonous society gets a drug to let them consume more without consequences. Can’t go wrong, surely.
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by ecf 3y ago
I have a hard time figuring out how those in the health insurance industry get sleep at night.
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by ecf 3y ago
In my personal experience I’ve found stand ups are incredibly easy to sidetrack. One dev starts going into too much detail about a troublesome aspect of their ticket instead of simply stating what the problem is and then organizing a time a
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by ecf 3y ago
Scandinavian system is completely incompatible with US population numbers and economic realities for the US. Their total population is less than 39 million, while the US has 10x that.
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by ecf 3y ago
You forgot some of the headline > Be gentle with the Apple Vision Pro - ITS PLASTIC!!! Clickbait-territory.
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by ecf 3y ago
> Because it hurts EU customers by not applying the rules worldwide. It’s an entirely expected outcome for wanting to enact one-of-a-kind laws that force a foreign company into doing something they’ve obviously wanted to avoid.
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by ecf 3y ago
It’s not slavery when the human has done things that society deemed bad enough to lose their rights for however long the sentence is.
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by ecf 3y ago
> I have no idea how something like this can even happen. In a company of that size it should be actually impossible for a transaction like this to occur without clearly documented processes to ingest, review, authorise and pay transacti
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by ecf 3y ago
Unfortunately this ship has sailed. The job market is broken right now for software engineers and it’s far easier to use AI to apply to a hundred jobs in the of hopes one gets backs to you instead of 5 handcrafted applications per day that
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by ecf 3y ago
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/02/the-us-added-1-2-millio... Adding EVs to the market seems to be a net negative for electricity use. Can you say the same for your imaginary coin machines?
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by ecf 3y ago
Does it matter? Crypto, arguably useless to 99.9% of US citizens is ~~using~~ wasting 2% of all energy.
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by ecf 3y ago
Humanity in a couple hundred years will look back and deem us worse than the barbarians that came before us.
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by ecf 3y ago
If it really was so easy then don’t you think every country would have their own ASML? The economic incentives are there. They’ve BEEN there for decades. To think China doesn’t have an equivalent just because they haven’t cared enough yet i
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by ecf 3y ago
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by ecf 3y ago
> but are you really sure he's still going to be a danger in 10 years? Or 20 years? Nobody knows, but the person lost the chance for society to give them the benefit of the doubt. They know it’s wrong. They did it HUNDREDS OF TIMES
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by ecf 3y ago
Society being unable to self-regulate and deal with problem people like this is a purely modern issue. I hope we find a solution because, otherwise, I don’t see how things stay together.
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by ecf 3y ago
I’d be okay with the book being thrown at this teenager. Hopefully set an example to discourage others from doing the same.
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by ecf 3y ago
In a lot of ways censorship here is worse than other places due to the weirdly attributed trust given towards HN members who think of themselves as enlightened intellectuals. For example, try to post something pro Apple, or even try to play
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by ecf 3y ago
Nostr is everything that fediverse social networks claim to be, but aren’t. I was shocked to find out that the Lemmy instance I signed up on was blocking dozens upon dozens of other instances, which defeats the entire purpose of a federated
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by ecf 3y ago
What is the point of necroing a 3 year old tweet when there isn’t anything new added to the story?
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by ecf 3y ago
My best friend’s brother in law recently paid a CDL mill to get a license. Took him less than a month. Miss me with the demanded respect for an industry that will be replaced in a couple decades.

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