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by pards 6d ago
> Mr. Altman promotes a future in which “A.I. produces most of the world’s basic goods and services” and taxes on the A.I. companies provide “opportunity to directly distribute ownership and wealth to citizens.” In his telling, “people w
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by pards 6d ago
No paywall: https://archive.ph/zFLhV
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Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time's Not Going So Well(nytimes.com)
3 points by pards 6d ago|2 comments
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by pards 16d ago
> I got a notification from Home Assistant that a fart was detected in the driveway. My neighbor was walking by my house on his nightly walk and ripped one as he passed by the driveway and the fart was detected. I'd have to disable
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by pards 24d ago
> You can't out-cog a robot This is such a great way to summarise the issue facing rank-and-file employees. If your job is predictable, repeatable, systematizable then you're "competing against the price of electricity [an
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by pards 1mo ago
> orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features Writing code was never the bottleneck at large enterprises.
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by pards 1mo ago
> people who can't do 2+2 and ones that can't understand the question without rephrasing it three times We resorted to filtering candidates in-person with 5 basic technical questions on pen and paper. And I mean _really_ basic
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by pards 1mo ago
> When the cost of building goes to zero Where are they getting all those free tokens from?!? I don't like this rhetoric. It still costs money to write code, only now that wealth gets transferred to Anthropic instead of to individua
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by pards 2mo ago
Same, but with GitLab pages.
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by pards 2mo ago
Every hotel I've stayed at in Hawaii charges one - usually to the tune of $50+/day - even if the hotel has no resort-like facilities. It's a bullshit fee.
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by pards 2mo ago
> a light grey text on a white background This makes the page SO hard to read. Why are "designers" still doing this? Have they no respect for their readers?
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by pards 2mo ago
> Maybe add a dedicated clear button. It's tedious to have to hit DEL 6 or 7 times towards the end of the game. Maybe ESC could clear the whole word?
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by pards 2mo ago
This.
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by pards 3mo ago
100%. It deserves more detail, too. I've spent many hours explaining how idempotency is supposed to work, and why it's important. Most teams understand the need for it, but very few thought about it up front.
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by pards 3mo ago
> I’ve been finding most restaurant dishes “low quality” Many restaurants use pre-made components like sauces bought from restaurant wholesalers which explains a lot of the sameness across establishments. Hollandaise from a bag? No thank
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by pards 3mo ago
> > But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued. > Hasn't that been a fact of life ? I remember having to split bar tabs at the end of the night before phones. No calculators. Drunk peop
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by pards 3mo ago
> “We think that all of the platforms, including Meta, need to do more to protect their customers … from the dangers that are on their sites,” she says. If the service is free, you're the product not the customer
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by pards 3mo ago
Ref: https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo
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by pards 4mo ago
We recently had an issue with our production Oracle database. Our in-house DBAs spent hours trying to get the AI support bot to assign a real person to join the incident call. It took more than 2 hours to get an actual person on the call. W
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by pards 4mo ago
> When AWS first introduced a viable cloud to the world, it was amazing. Back in the 1990s when you wanted to implement an enterprise software solution, you first had to take a guess at what computing power you would need. Next, you woul
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by pards 4mo ago
> I was unable to put clients on both Evidence and Prefect because the former failed to attend a sales meeting booked through their website and the latter failed to book a meeting after the ex-real estate agent they hired failed to actua
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The Worlds Left to Conquer(ludic.mataroa.blog)
31 points by pards 4mo ago|6 comments
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by pards 4mo ago
> Automation takes a lot of manual labour That's a great quote. https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by pards 4mo ago
I tried this (as a Canadian): 1. It asks you to optionally sign up for a bunch of other services like Spokeo 2. It asks for access to your email via Apple's Mail app which I don't use 3. I got a lot of 404s anyway
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by pards 4mo ago
> He argues that it's important to acknowledge that imperfection and work toward processes that improve results. > One way to do that is to automate the prompting process in a way that makes it more repeatable. "When you do
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by pards 4mo ago
For the non-US readers: > COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group healt
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by pards 4mo ago
This design is perfect irony. I love it.
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by pards 5mo ago
It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.
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by pards 5mo ago
Nope. Banking.
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by pards 5mo ago
It's an investment that is not generating returns. It's inventory sitting on the shelf requiring ongoing maintenance costs but generating no income.

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