ivraatiems

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by ivraatiems 6d ago
Thanks for sharing your story. How do you feel about the more recent behavior, though - the WP engine lawsuit, the buyout, etc.? Does that align with the person you saw and knew back then?
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
A price difference of 8x for what this offers seems crazy to me. A $10,000 car and a $80,000 car are going to be markedly different. Same for a $100,000 house vs a $800,000 house. This $2,000 phone does not seem 8 times better than my $25
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
That's almost three of the phone I use daily per year.
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
Good god, is it? My current phone is an iPhone SE 3rd Gen and I paid $250 for it on eBay.
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
It is also enormous and costs $2,000.
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
$2,000 for a phone? Holy price point, Batman. No thanks. I assume the people who would buy something like this have enough money not to care, and also would not care about the second part of my comment, because they want New Thing or use th
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by ivraatiems 7d ago
There's maybe something cool at the core of this - help you ideate by seeing things in images! - but it's lost in all the other awful ways this gets used. More fake menus with food that looks nothing like the real thing. More fake
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by ivraatiems 13d ago
Working as designed? Wasn't "become massively rich by controlling wealthy companies" alwayes the point of capital investment? What is it that Anil Dash thought the purpose of these firms was?
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by ivraatiems 27d ago
Opinion based on stated facts. Please share the information you have which contradicts the conclusions I have drawn from Github's statement. (And we know they're liars. They report very few of the actual incidents they have; see f
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by ivraatiems 27d ago
They had $1b revenue in 2023 and now probably more than $2b in revenue... do you have cost figures showing what their expenses are?
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by ivraatiems 27d ago
"While accelerating our migration to Azure," meaning, they will only solve problems if it helps them also use Azure more. It is unbelivable that aload of 2.8b commits was totally fine, and a load of 2.9b was a sitewide outage, unl
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by ivraatiems 27d ago
The issue with these systems is that they lack Github's sophistication for issue tracking, knowledge transfer, and automation. I think Gitlab is a mature product in its own space and unlikey to change, for instance, at this point. Code
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by ivraatiems 27d ago
"We are committed to fixing these problems, as long as it doesn't involve buying things other than AI computers, hiring humans, or using non-Microsoft products." Calling Azure the solution to this problem when it is in fact t
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by ivraatiems 1mo ago
Semaglutide was invented in the early 2000s. Weight loss is an extremely complicated and societally mediated problem that we didn't have a 'cheat code' like this for until recently.
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by ivraatiems 1mo ago
For those who use uBlock Origin Lite, have you noticed any issues/deficiencies in what ads are blocked? I haven't.
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by ivraatiems 1mo ago
This guy is the Regular Car Reviews of botany - no punches pulled, heart of gold. I love his work, especially his parody of the depraved landscapers of today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be5ZnQiZslE&t=74s
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
There are websites which will sell you a license key which is real and valid but is not sold directly by Microsoft or an authorized OEM. These keys could be volume license keys that are being "misued" by reselling them, they could
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
From one recycler to another, thanks for the work you do! Personally, I typically use gray market Windows keys. I have a hard time moving machines with Linux on them. But I think you are doing a really good thing!
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
Play this for a few minutes and you start to realize why sequencing and published flight paths are so important! Really fun, thank you!
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
Or you could just buy a manual transmission car? You can have as much fun in a car that costs a tenth of the price and where the gears actually do what you think they do.
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
It doesn't check out, you were one Google away from correct information (which I cited above), and relying on ChatGPT to confirm your priors for you and then parroting what it (incorrectly) says is an insulting way to engage in this co
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
That's not true, and you were foolish to trust ChatGPT on this instead of researching it yourself. Also, if you are spending even 20% of a budget on things that are useless or net negative for the effort you are engaged in, you are was
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
The spend is on private health insurance going to for-profit middlemen. It's not mostly on the government. People love to crow about Medicare and Medicaid (safety net government-run insurance) waste but the vast majority of "waste
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by ivraatiems 2mo ago
Not quite "open to the public," but very visible from public areas and close enough for you to get a good luck. Also, some offer tours or have attached museums. It used to be that the Davis Monthan AFB offered tours, but sadly, th
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
Something I have never understood about the "big pharma makes fake/unnecessary/harmful vaccines" narrative is how folks who believe in it (including those in this comment section) understand these companies' incenti
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
I really like this breakdown of what one has to do. For my little laptop-selling side business, I have the install-and-setup process pretty heavily streamlined, and it still takes time to do things like get all the relevant driver updates i
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
In fairness, I think this might be a case where the pure id represented by this administration happens to align with the correct and logical choice. You could be right, but for this instance, the outcome is the same.
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
I completely agree with you. I think the problem is that Anthropic believes their own BS, and thinks it IS a Doomsday device which only THEY can control. I think that's what's produced this outcome.
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
> So if you take these risks seriously, which the median commentor on HN obviously doesn't, what is the right thing to do? Easy. You oppose it. You dedicate all your resources to stopping not just OpenAI, but anybody trying to make
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by ivraatiems 3mo ago
> A CEO's blog post is not an official company statement or any sort of binding agreement. Uh, then what is it? We should not take the words of the leader of the company published on the company's website to be the official sta

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