fnimick

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by fnimick 10d ago
What Svelte used to be pre version 5 I think? They now also have a runtime with hooks, etc
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by fnimick 3mo ago
He'll probably get it. He shouldn't, but he likely will.
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Ask HN: Is there any data on whether users prefer voice/chatbot experiences?
2 points by fnimick 3mo ago|4 comments
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by fnimick 4mo ago
It's more profitable to eliminate employee costs than make new products. There's a reason layoffs make stock prices soar far more than product announcements.
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Palantir's Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future(thenation.com)
11 points by fnimick 5mo ago|1 comments
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by fnimick 5mo ago
No, we won't do the same, but enough people will that it doesn't matter. Such is the way it goes.
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by fnimick 5mo ago
Yeah. Her kids will be fine with generational wealth. Everyone else's - not so much. This is the problem in a nutshell - people are happy to do things they know are harmful for personal profit.
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by fnimick 5mo ago
And who knows how much of that "unavoidable future" "adapt or die" rhetoric is driven by motivated actors using LLM tools to shape the conversation?
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by fnimick 5mo ago
Clearly not a bubble, though!
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by fnimick 5mo ago
At least I'm sure LLM tools deploying code to production won't result in this happening more frequently. "Make sure it's secure. Make no mistakes."
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by fnimick 5mo ago
And you have evidence as basis for this very confident statement... where?
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by fnimick 5mo ago
> That ship left port like 30 years ago dude. Laborers have no power in the 21st century. Maybe we should fix that.
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by fnimick 6mo ago
> It's possible to use tools responsibly and effectively. It's also possible to encourage and mentor employees to do that. It's not in the company's interest to stop employees from overworking. Having people overwork
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by fnimick 7mo ago
I'm more upset about the large group of people in the startup industry, possibly even a majority, who would be totally happy about countries slipping into fascism if they made a little more money along the way. Who cares about ethics a
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by fnimick 7mo ago
Who needs to garbage collect? Just leak memory until the system dies! That strategy seems to be good enough for claude code, anyway.
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by fnimick 7mo ago
Oh hey, we've reached the "Metal" stage! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by fnimick 7mo ago
Legal? probably. Ethical? Absolutely not.
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by fnimick 8mo ago
While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.
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by fnimick 8mo ago
> A particular interaction I had comes to mind. A user here boldly and openly proclaimed he discriminated in interviews against people that look different from him, or that are neurodivergent. Actual illegal behaviour that will get you s
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by fnimick 8mo ago
I'm not sure saying "I don't care if we do fascism as long as it makes me money" is any more morally defensible.
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by fnimick 8mo ago
> Silicon Valley was full of founders who genuinely wanted to use technology to make the world a better place No, it wasn't, it was full of people who said they wanted to use technology to make the world a better place because sayin
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by fnimick 8mo ago
Exactly. Declaring that there must be no discussion when confronted with situations in which one party is doing harm to others, is an implicit endorsement of the harms being perpetuated.
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by fnimick 8mo ago
It's a privilege that many people working in tech have, who then create and populate forums where discussion of that privilege is considered political and therefore forbidden.
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by fnimick 9mo ago
It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?
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by fnimick 9mo ago
Are there public examples of "good instruction" and an iteration process? I have tried and have not been very successful at getting Claude Code to generate correct code for medium sized projects or features.
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Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?
7 points by fnimick 9mo ago|12 comments
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by fnimick 1y ago
Why can't "low end OEMs" release security updates?
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by fnimick 1y ago
While true, we really should be treating every single piece of external code as though it's malicious.
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by fnimick 1y ago
There's a lot of non-engineering people who are very happy to see someone else get unemployed by automation for a change. The people who formerly were automating others out of a job are getting a taste of their own medicine.
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by fnimick 1y ago
That would be accurate, if those immigrants could access benefits in order to be a drain on the government. They can't.

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