ramesh31

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by ramesh31 3d ago
>"the SLA is literally just a middleman's 100k cut" Indeed, welcome to enterprise software.
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by ramesh31 3d ago
>What do you make of the fall of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain in Europe? As bad as the Soviet Union was, what came next for Russia was far far worse. The Soviets at least had party rule; Russia is now an absolute autocracy ruled
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by ramesh31 3d ago
They're not "adding no value", the SLA is the value. I have a business problem, and I pay you to solve it and support your solution for me, is a completely different proposition than standing up your own solution as a non-t
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by ramesh31 5d ago
>but at least the political class would get on TV and pretend to feel bad for it. Yeah. Words matter. I do indeed wish we were back to a time where that was the case. America has always been flawed and contradictory, but our greatness ca
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by ramesh31 5d ago
>"So, America good, China bad?" No. Democracy good, autocracy bad. America is speed-running toward the latter at this point.
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by ramesh31 5d ago
As I get older it becomes more obvious that the whole "moral arc of history" line is complete nonsense. Evil usually wins. Goodness is a strange outlier in all of history. It has to be fought for relentlessly, and is fleeting at b
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by ramesh31 6d ago
>""Genuine creativity" for mundane web sites is a reason to close the page and buy from someone else." Ling's Cars would like a word with you: https://museum.lingscars.com/ I'd bet my life c
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by ramesh31 6d ago
>Its still astonishing that any sort of generalized computer program can solve a problem of this magnitude, and we have witnessed it happening in real time. I think about this a lot. I'll have to explain to my kids some day that the
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by ramesh31 6d ago
>"Counterpoint: Facebook was written in php." ...Which was a perfectly valid choice in 2005. It was that or Ruby, more or less. Java, ASP, and ColdFusion were a thing for enterprise, otherwise it was Perl CGI, Python, or some c
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by ramesh31 7d ago
>"I think they're daily grindfests now." They were never not grindfests. EQ, Lineage 1/2, FFXI, and most of that era were almost entirely about the grind. The difference is that you were forced to grind with friends.
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by ramesh31 7d ago
It's kind of like ARK, they spent so much time on all the "cool" stuff that looks great in trailers without focusing on what actually would make a game like this incredible, which is a real persistent singular world with cons
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by ramesh31 7d ago
Quitting Anthropic is the new dropping out of Stanford
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by ramesh31 8d ago
>"Still can't make sprite sheets :(" The key is making them one frame at a time, rather than asking for the whole sheet. Adherence frame-to-frame with a reference image is really good, so just prompt with the previous + di
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by ramesh31 8d ago
Please for the love of god have a human write something that you expect other humans to read
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by ramesh31 9d ago
>"The more interesting question is why would so many thousands of people in a big firm seemingly be fine with frustrating customers and giving the appearance of a gaggle of clowns?" Existing in a large org over the long term be
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by ramesh31 10d ago
SWEs better start looking for the job cannon.
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by ramesh31 11d ago
They never cared about the policy at all. It was just something to get a bump in the Fox News cycle for a day. Leadership knew that, and quietly let it go.
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by ramesh31 12d ago
>"Clearly not self-awareness per se but alarming line of reasoning anyway" Awareness is not necessary at all to create great harm. Biological viruses know nothing of what they do, yet destroy whole populations. I suspect the fi
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by ramesh31 14d ago
Cool. But the question remains, what is the point of this? I don't mean to pick on this project specifically, but it's indicative of AI usage in general. You end up with something that's like "wow an AI made this"
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by ramesh31 14d ago
What a gigantic bucket of slop. Didn't even have the decency to hand write an announcement after all that work.
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by ramesh31 14d ago
Making a perfect album is really a once in a lifetime thing, I don't really blame them for going out on it. Hard to imagine following it up.
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by ramesh31 20d ago
>"This is like if a plumber said. I no longer do any construction, I just tell people what to do." I'm pretty sure that's the dream goal of any plumber. No one "plumbs for fun". No one wants to truly do the
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by ramesh31 21d ago
Need to work on your chroma keying. Still frustrating Nano Banana won't output transparent PNGs natively.
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by ramesh31 21d ago
>"Guy should have been allowed to live the rest of his life in dignity quietly, tending to his garden, not tap dancing for 40+ year old adults still obsessed with "The Time Warp"." You dont become Tim Curry unless you
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by ramesh31 21d ago
>if the only way to save on the daily ski cost is to get a season pass and ski 13 days in a season I will pass- there are not that many good skiing days in a season in Western WA any longer because of climate change. I say this with the
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by ramesh31 21d ago
>How are you avoiding full retail prices? Skiing more than 3 days a year. Pass prices are trivial at that point. The entire business model of the resorts is based around the family that goes once a year for 3-5 days, so if you're in
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by ramesh31 21d ago
>Not true. If you're on vacation looking to ski for 3 days, you're right in the crosshairs of the ski resort's price model, and you're not getting around it. That's exactly my point. If you take a 3 day family sk
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by ramesh31 22d ago
On the other hand allowing the high window prices and holiday pricing are what drive the ability for these companies to make the massive capital investments that they have, while season pass prices have plummeted for anyone local that actua
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by ramesh31 22d ago
Ah, Louisiana — when even Texas won't let you pollute enough.
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by ramesh31 22d ago
>2 hours east is roughly Grass Valley, or anything in between (including Sacramento). Tell me you've never lived in the Bay... 2 hours is Antioch/Pittsburgh in an average rush hour.

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