pauljonas

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Why Is Everyone in Tech So Sad?(noemamag.com)
15 points by pauljonas 1mo ago|7 comments
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by pauljonas 6mo ago
Still using that 2019 MBP (16 inch, 16G memory) as a daily work machine. Is still handling the load well, though at times, fans get quite loud, especially with all the background processes and VM setups. Hope to get a new MBP this year, as
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Apps like Grok are banned under Google rules–why is it still in the Play Store?(arstechnica.com)
54 points by pauljonas 8mo ago|20 comments
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by pauljonas 9mo ago
https://archive.is/PZCAo
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The Bruising Reality of Searching for a Job at 65(wsj.com)
7 points by pauljonas 9mo ago|1 comments
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H-1B Disruption(prospect.org)
4 points by pauljonas 1y ago|1 comments
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The Internet Was a Place(gabydelvalle.substack.com)
4 points by pauljonas 1y ago|1 comments
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AI's Productivity Theater(pluralistic.net)
2 points by pauljonas 2y ago|0 comments
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It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk(pluralistic.net)
2 points by pauljonas 2y ago|0 comments
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A billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller"(pluralistic.net)
3 points by pauljonas 3y ago|1 comments
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KOSA isn't designed to help kids(zephoria.medium.com)
1 points by pauljonas 3y ago|0 comments
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by pauljonas 3y ago
Yes. Partly because of ephemeral nature of most cloud platforms / services, and also the vagaries of proprietary specific configuration.
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by pauljonas 3y ago
No. These factors that I'm speaking of were more along the lines of: - a slab caster implemented, but there is already a bloom caster and only one crane facility to support both so both ran at less than optimal throughput. - choosing t
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by pauljonas 3y ago
It's been a few decades but I worked for USS as a developer, after attaining a computer science degree. I know it's a tired old adage that labor / labor unions was the reason for American steel manufacturing decline and rise
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by pauljonas 3y ago
There are still many features not working. I used to search within lists (was like the best feature of Twitter, for my usage) quite a bit -- after Musk gutted the team after taking over, it no longer works, and has been that way for many mo
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by pauljonas 3y ago
1. Doppleganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein — have read other titles by this author & they were mostly meh, but this is an incredible book, hard to describe, better to experience. Ostensibly is about how the author is
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by pauljonas 3y ago
>Sorry, but the Here Comes Everybody phenomenon Clay Shirky predicted has not worked out so well. Public discourse doesn’t work at scale. It’s fine at the corner pub. Watch out for Joe. He says crazy bigoted stuff. Whenever Joe comes in,
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Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People with AI(futurism.com)
6 points by pauljonas 3y ago|3 comments
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by pauljonas 3y ago
It seems we need a CSS: The Good Parts guide here.
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by pauljonas 3y ago
Obligatory Cory Doctorow link on enshitification: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
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by pauljonas 3y ago
A few years back, I wrote a web based publishing tool that used `wkhtmltopdf` to generate PDF from database content along with web images (& even more complicated with API access & Google Maps API). It took a lot of tinkering but it
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by pauljonas 4y ago
This is a thing now when applying for developer jobs. When I was looking for a job in 2020-2021, I think it happened everywhere I got past the original opening interview round. Sometimes the task was trivial or even submitting code samples
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by pauljonas 4y ago
My own app concoction, written in Ruby & Sinatra and JS-less at the moment, one of these days going to upgrade and enhance as I wrote it while I was out of work during COVID days. As I age I don't have the energy to keep pace with
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by pauljonas 4y ago
Absolutely, the WP ecosystem cultivates this mindset. The reliance on plugins to do a lot of heavy lifting (admittedly, a lot of these stray far from the original blog engine WP provides) but that is because WP is used as more than a blog n
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Lyft’s business model is broken. Here’s what I saw when I became a driver(slate.com)
36 points by pauljonas 4y ago|16 comments
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by pauljonas 4y ago
Definitely, https://gomakethings.com is what I instantly thought of after reading the OP.
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by pauljonas 4y ago
Universal Baseball Association, J Henry Waugh, Prop -- Dice Game http://sagarin.com/sports/dice.htm
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by pauljonas 4y ago
They already have been, since the early 90s & I'm sure most mainframe / COBOL codebases are maintained by offshore staff.
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by pauljonas 4y ago
My favorite: https://classless.de/
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by pauljonas 4y ago
Yes. Mostly in digital form (O'Reilly Safari or whatever it's called now, though I don't know if I can heartily recommend, quality of titles has seemed to diminish in the offerings). Occasionally will spring for a hardcopy bo

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