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by falkensmaize 2mo ago
Thanks OP for posting this enjoyable read. It’s always fun when my first love - music, and film music in particular - somehow leaks into my world of software engineering.
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by falkensmaize 2mo ago
If the price keeps going down, how are they ever going to be able to make back all the money they’re spending? If the price stays high, how are they going to undercut the cost of labor?
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by falkensmaize 2mo ago
I assume they already have access to all that information via IRS records, right?
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by falkensmaize 3mo ago
My wife too was a public school teacher for a decade, and resigned from sheer frustration and exhaustion. It became abundantly clear toward the end of her tenure that no amount of effort or technique was going to make the situation better.
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by falkensmaize 3mo ago
If your goal is high academic achievement, the only real answer is a stable home life, parent-enforced discipline and high parental expectations (note I said expectations not involvement - highly “involved” parents can be worse than the n
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
It seems like there’s very little upside to allowing one in your state. They don’t bring in large amounts of new jobs once construction is done, they leech power and water like vampires increasing costs and depleting resources, they add noi
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
That’s fine because an enforced TLD system would default to them being allowed to access social networks and parents having an easy way to block them. It makes it easier for parents to do their jobs and doesn’t affect everyone else. Want yo
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
One very simple way to give parents control over what their children see and participate in without violating everyone else’s privacy is to create adult and social TLDs and require these sites to migrate to them. So instagram.com becomes in
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
Like a lot of tech trends, home automation tends to be a solution looking for a problem. Video doorbells are a useful exception, but light switches, kitchen appliances and thermostats just aren’t something I need to be connected to the inte
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
Given that Plex just bumped their lifetime subscription price to $750, I can no longer recommend them. They are clearly more interested in becoming another streaming service, and are I think trying to push out their core users who probably
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by falkensmaize 4mo ago
The problem is that code it spits out on the fly is untested and untrustworthy. Identify the parts of your workflow that could be accomplished with regular code - write and unit test that code, with LLM help if you want, and use the llm as
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by falkensmaize 5mo ago
I’m a bootcamp grad (although it was an intense 5-night a week, year long bootcamp, not some 6-week build-a-demo class). I have a college degree but it’s in the arts. I do try to continually improve my skill set, refresh on design patterns,
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by falkensmaize 5mo ago
"get obsolete in months" If you mean obsolete in the sense of "no longer fit for purpose" I don't think that's true. They may become obsolete in terms of "can't do hottest new thing" but that&#x2
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by falkensmaize 5mo ago
I mean...yeah? If your child says they've learned their multiplication tables but they can't actually multiply any numbers you give them do they actually know how to do multiplication? I would say no.
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by falkensmaize 5mo ago
Yeah this is the way. Blender has a higher learning curve than AE but it’s ultimately much better at actual 3d than AE is, and the recent improvements to the interface have made it a lot more usable.
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by falkensmaize 5mo ago
There is a whole world of expensive virtual samples instruments that can very convincingly replicate an orchestral performance in a DAW. See Spitfire Audio, EastWest, Cinesamples, etc.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I guess the point I’m making is that a lot of popular JavaScript libraries were created to address deficiencies in the core api that don’t exist anymore, but we keep using these libraries mostly because of entropy and familiarity.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
The fetch api has been widely available in browsers for a decade now. And in node since 18. A competent developer could whip up a more axios-like library with fetch in a day easily. You can do all the cool things like interceptors with fetc
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I guess to me this doesn't seem like that big of a deal? I mean if you have a 100 million subscribers, do you really care much about a few $million increase? I thought the big players like Youtube had already moved to open source codec
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
They are not intelligent. Full stop. Very sophisticated next word prediction is not intelligence. LLMs don’t comprehend or understand things. They don’t think, feel or comprehend things. That’s just not how they work. That said, very sophis
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
What the people excited about the race to the bottom scenario don’t seem to understand is that it doesn’t mean low skill people will suddenly be more employable, it means fewer high skill people will be employable. No one will be eager to e
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
They will still be turning out the same problematic code in a few years that they do now, because they aren’t intelligent and won’t be intelligent unless there is a fundamental paradigm shift in how an LLM works. I use LLMs with best practi
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I think there’s a pretty good argument to be made that this is discriminatory. Certainly it’s not something I would tolerate as a consumer. I suspect there will be heavy pressure to regulate this practice out of existence if it catches on.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I suspect casual users are MUCH more likely to either cancel their account or switch providers on a whim.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
There's a lot of people who think the only thing keeping us out of a serious recession or even depression is AI investment.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I too, want to hear details about what this person did that they could be replaced completely with LLMs.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
Management has made it very clear that we’re still responsible for the code we push even if the llm wrote it. So there will be no blaming Claude when things fall apart.
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
Thinking carefully about the details of implementation MATTERS. Even with crud apps. Getting something “built” fast isn’t and should not be the only consideration. I can go to a junkyard and assemble the parts to build a car. It may run, bu
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
Absurdly high markups? They just released a very good laptop for $599. The Galaxy S26 Ultra is $1299. The OnePlus 15 is $999. A Dell XPS 16 with 32gb ram is over $2000. I won’t argue that they charge a premium for memory and nvme, but I ha
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by falkensmaize 6mo ago
I always wondered - were the huge fines applicable because they shared the files, or because they downloaded the files? The two things were always conflated and poorly understood in media reports at the time. Seems like it would be impo

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