georgebarnett

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Warning HN Going all in on corporate backed home control is fragile(old.reddit.com)
1 points by georgebarnett 2y ago|0 comments
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
What sort of positive effect would you expect? What do you think is wrong with people over 60?
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
Again I disagree on cost. I just had a look again at what it costs to buy a company off the shelf in the UK (last place I did that). It’s about £299 and another £50 a year. Theres probably some other small change fees in there. I completely
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
If the worker in Shanghai had similar economic freedom and rights to workers in the west have then this would not be an issue. Instead, useful idiots everywhere are proposing to add restrictions to the parts of the system working well.
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
This is a rediculous assertion. To begin, you know nothing of the circumstances of millions of people. Certainly not enough to make sweeping statements. In 2023, there were 5.5 MILLION new businesses started in the USA. Do those people all
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
Your overly abstract language has no value here. Profit is not surplus value created by worker - that’s a 4 year olds understanding and negates all the other components of the system of which labour is only one. We have tried “choosing” var
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by georgebarnett 2y ago
Take it from the workers? Are you suggesting that workers do not have employment contracts where they agreed to trade labour for wages at a fixed price? Workers always have the choice to take the risk of starting their own company for highe
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by georgebarnett 3y ago
What I'm wrangling with is this: I agree that a particular sequence of words is copyrightable. What I'm struggling with is that facts _about_ that corpus of text are not copyrightable. A simple fact could be that the word "b
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by georgebarnett 3y ago
Maybe I've got the completely wrong end of the stick here, but why isn't an AI model treated as a fact, given it's essentially a factual summary of the most likely bit sequences to occur given an input sequence?
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by georgebarnett 3y ago
NFS scales and operates incredibly well however it has constraints. Like any tool, it has its appropriate uses. Why would you exclude a useful tool from your arsenal because of perceived downsides that are easy to hide from the layer above
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Burnfeed – Squash the news feed in Safari(burnfeed.app)
2 points by georgebarnett 3y ago|0 comments
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Perhaps we are speaking about different concepts. I was referring to the pace layered architecture.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Collaboration tools are some way from being systems of record and there is substantial difference between competitors. Generic chat apps are not yet useful enough (despite years of development) for most companies - IRC failing to win is evi
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
I disagree - tech _is_ software and it’s so ubiquitous that it’s essentially invisible.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
With all industries are converting to software and every person on the planet moving towards owning a smartphone it surprises me that there’s an ongoing narrative that tech is collapsing.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
If everybody thinks the sun will rise tomorrow, it won't. Reminder: Nobody can predict the future.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
She grew up with computing systems that had no concept of keyboard shortcuts and intentionally abstracted away the concept of the file system and documents. I think her assessment of the situation is fair.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Sturgeons law (1950’s) states that 90% of everything is garbage. I see no reason why computers and software should be exempt. I also do find myself chuckling at posts like this being upvoted on a website which also leans to new shiny things
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
The change will happen slowly, and then very quickly. Look to Australia where renewables are being installed at very high rates. There are many areas where they are dominating the power mix for large portions of the day.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
How long is the half-life of architectural best practice? It seems to me that after ~10 years, half the cargo-culted ideas that young developers go all in on fail. Perhaps that's just long enough for them to get older and gain experie
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Right this very moment I have an iPhone 11 and a Pixel 5 in my pocket, both running fully up to date OS versions. I keep two phones because of personal reasons not relevant to this discussion. I prefer the iPhone.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
This is a ridiculous assertion. Google won’t do anything like that. They’ll comply with the law, because they want European money.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Advertising can be helpful if it’s done carefully, with taste (Daring Fireball is a good example). Apple it would appear are losing their taste which is a real shame, because they’re willingly giving up their edge over Google. If I’m forced
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
I find the generic “workers are important” quotes remarkable, in the sense that they do nothing but contribute to the sense that these companies really don’t care. It would almost be better to say nothing.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Yes, I agree and its a significant concern I have. If this occurs, it may be quiet some time before we see another company able to cover this use case.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Nowhere good really. If they force through into the space, rather than (for example) limiting themselves to boosted App Store listings, that would be clear indicator to me that their internal priorities have shifted and would be a signal t
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Advertising isn’t the problem - it’s how and where it’s presented and how that influences the rest of the system. As Apple continues to deploy ads across their platform and where they “stop” will be a good indicator of their current taste a
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
People keep using the power plant analogy as if somehow there isn’t a massive shift towards solar and batteries, which are literally building a power plant on your roof.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
One under discussed issue I’ve noticed is how the size of The compute sold to the end user does not increase at the rate the underlying hardware improves at. It’s reasonable to presume there’s now an entire generation of developers who simp
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Blocking the browsers isn’t a solution because they likely fall back to being open, so the user doesn’t notice. Instead, you need to break the user experience so they complain to the developer of the app, thus impacting reputation. It’s unf

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