futuraperdita

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by futuraperdita 15d ago
> we believe the world would benefit if the industry adopted a lawful, verifiable, effective mechanism for coordinated pacing as soon as possible. So, a cartel? After watching Ant's narratives, I'm not inclined to provide them
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by futuraperdita 21d ago
That happened in 1957, but we can’t leave well enough alone.
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by futuraperdita 26d ago
This is an expensive design object that just happens to contain a laptop.
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by futuraperdita 2mo ago
Many of the decisions Mozilla has made throughout the past decade have felt more like it’s a resting place for a professional-managerial class, post-capital set of leadership who want to perform tech-goodness from within the same playbook a
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by futuraperdita 2mo ago
For me, Opus 4.8's thinking traces for the chatbot will sometimes willingly ignore instructions, saying something along the lines of "I've noticed an instruction in the system instructions that states I shouldn't do this
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by futuraperdita 3mo ago
I’m not sure why this is interesting. Wealthy people often retire early, and if you’ve spent three decades at Microsoft, you likely could have retired a very long time ago.
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by futuraperdita 3mo ago
So you turn it off by default in BIOS and allow those that feel it's useful to them to enable it, and you solve for both sides of the problem.
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by futuraperdita 3mo ago
“We don’t have good, unique data” is a pretty good out to keep Wang collecting extreme payouts and fleecing the leadership that has built trust in him, because it also plays to the one place where he’s demonstrated profitable expertise. It’
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by futuraperdita 4mo ago
I’m not an AI stan by any means and certainly no fan of Andreessen, but using the term “clanker” immediately biases your statement and can discredit what is a well-referenced or well-meaning comment.
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by futuraperdita 4mo ago
I found a syllabus for each of the two current classes that they teach: https://cif.uiowa.edu/sites/cif.uiowa.edu/files/2026-03/syll... https://cif.uiowa.edu/sites/cif.uiowa.edu&#x2F
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by futuraperdita 4mo ago
Infiltration of government institutions has been doctrine for the group since the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
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by futuraperdita 4mo ago
The difference between HR, which is often policy and governance driven, and “people operations” probably points enough to the dynamic here. He wants to avoid red tape, hire and fire fast and accept the minimal risk of consequence, and HR so
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by futuraperdita 5mo ago
> Is it fully legal and in the clear? Probably not. Will they still 100% get away with it and leave employees with no realistic options or upside attempting to fight it? Of course. I am aware of "how the C-Suite thinks about this t
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by futuraperdita 5mo ago
> A handful of engineers were let go as the result of a re-alignment, and their AI counterparts are actively maintaining their code. I know you’re in India, but in the US, could this not be considered intellectual property theft on “righ
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by futuraperdita 6mo ago
It feels like the output you’d get from an LLM if you had asked it to write in a literary style. It’s not well-written, and reads more pretentious than capable.
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
9front is a legitimately cool software project and from what I can tell a cool set of people. I find it bizarre how many people have a negative reaction to a community that doesn't dress itself up in Corporate Memphis and idolize start
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
Just to clarify that the parent may have edited, but wrote "non-H1B" workers, so they would be speaking about domestic / citizen employees, not ones on visa.
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
> but the time to organize was back when we still had the upper hand This is learned helplessness. It's not going to get better for software engineers anytime soon, I'm afraid. The time to organize is like planting a tree: the
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
I feel like a lot of people that are looking for a nostalgic device can get the experience they need by uninstalling most applications and then turning off all notifications first. In doing so, you don't end up with a device that is mu
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
My point was that it is not "[rolling over] for the government".
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
> Too many tech workers decided to rollover for the government and that's why we are in this mess now. It has nothing to do with the state and has to do with getting the RSUs to pay the down payment for a house in a HCOL area in ord
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
AI middle managers are coming. The highest-level corporate authority can and will continue to exist as a person that makes sure the AI systems are running correctly and skim profits off the top of the AI substructure, with the lowest stratu
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
But the thing is that they really aren't rigorous economic studies. They're a sort of UX research-like sociological study with some statistics, but don't actually approach the topic with any sort of econometric modeling or gi
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
Which ThinkPad has a 14" 4K 100% Adobe RGB compliant IPS display?
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
I don't see how the control and enforcement of "social media age verification" solves for the "people who are unable to stop... under their own willpower." My grandparents are more addicted to the phone than I am. T
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
The point to any preparation for any adverse event is to prepare more than one solution to a problem, and to have a solid understanding of your actual adversary. By asking that question, you have already defeated yourself on the sake of who
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
Alexander Hamilton explains his definition of what "well-regulated" is - and the purpose of a citizen militia - in contrast to the standing army in the Federalist Papers, No. 29. Most of the idea has become much more federalized t
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
I have a haptic touchpad on my current X1 Carbon and actually don't mind it. The ancient Haswell-generation clickpads were terrible but the Sensel ones are underappreciated.
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
> For reasons unknown online technology forums have always had some kind of "underdog" that they cheer for. I've found it's usually a relation in sorts to the underdogs, in some way or another: a vengeance against the
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by futuraperdita 8mo ago
If you're an engineering manager, you should communicate with your team, know their strengths and weaknesses, stay sharp on modern technique, and, most importantly, ask them what workflows work best for them, not us on Hacker News. I

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