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by s17n 7mo ago
The reason that European tech sucks is that people in Europe are open to such arguments. If an engineer in the US started talking about SHOULD vs MUST, some PM would just give them that "what the fuck did I just listen to" face,
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by s17n 9mo ago
Sure, but if you look at more complex picture of engine development you could just as easily support the proposition that programmers are currently not in any danger (by pointing out that the qualitative differences between IC and steam en
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by s17n 9mo ago
Idk why the author thinks that C would be a better language than Rust for vibe coding. Intuitively, I would have thought that the more formal constraints the system imposes, the better for vibe coding (since the more powerful static checks
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by s17n 9mo ago
This is a fun piece... but what killed off the horses wasn't steady incremental progress in steam engine efficiency, it was the invention of the internal combustion engine.
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by s17n 11mo ago
Its definitely wrong - I've used these exact checkout systems at places with way longer menus than any stadium has ever or will ever have. Even if that wasn't the case, it would still be way too speculative of premise to be worth
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by s17n 11mo ago
The article starts by blaming AI for the reduced food menu, a speculative claim which the author made no attempt to validate and which is almost certainly incorrect. I stopped reading right there.
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by s17n 11mo ago
People in the US prefer Signal over Telegram because Signal was created by people who took security seriously, and Telegram wasn't. People outside the US prefer telegram because they assume that Signal is probably compromised, or at le
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by s17n 1y ago
A lot of people are in fact defending the game, just look at the replies to my post. I'm a staunch free speech proponent but defending this game is like defending the Nazis' right to march - we should defend the right to create i
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by s17n 1y ago
Are there people who have been avoiding Denver because the rent is too high? I think of Denver as somewhere you go if you're sick of the cost of living on the coast.
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by s17n 1y ago
Bro it's not a "weird art game about trauma" its a rape simulator. Should payment processors be involved here? Probably not. But the game is definitely a bad thing that should not exist and whoever made it is 100% a bad pe
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by s17n 1y ago
If you need to format your one-liner, maybe it shouldn't be a one liner? Anyway whether or not this tool is advisable its definitely cool, nice work!
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by s17n 1y ago
If you've got less than 100 engineers, you aren't going to hit any of the scalability issues and there's literally no downside to a monorepo
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by s17n 1y ago
URLs lasting forever was a beautiful dream but in reality, it seems that 99% of URLs don't in fact last forever. Rather than endlessly fighting a losing battle, maybe we should build the technology around the assumption that infrastru
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by s17n 1y ago
If you're using Cursor with Claude it's gonna be pretty much the same thing. Personally I use Claude Code because I hate the Cursor interface but if you like it I don't think you're missing much.
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by s17n 1y ago
I think any time a 50+ year old problem is solved, it should be considered a Big Deal, regardless of how the solution changes our understanding of the original problem.
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by s17n 1y ago
Exactly - maybe the most significant long-term goal in computer science history has been achieved and it's barely discussed.
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by s17n 1y ago
Geoguessing isn't much of a reasoning task, its more about memorizing a bunch of knowledge. Since LLMs contain essentially all knowledge, it's not surprising that they would be good at this. As far as goalpost-moving goes, it&#x2
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by s17n 1y ago
i mean... what would any "mere mortals" use the code for other than to directly compete with Gumroad?
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by s17n 2y ago
Oh, I don't really care about IP theft and agree that it's funny that openai is complaining. But I don't think its true that deepseek is just doing this because they are too lazy to scrape the internet themselves - its all a
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by s17n 2y ago
> This is obviously extremely silly, because that's exactly how OpenAI got all of its training data in the first place - by scraping other peoples' data off the internet. OpenAI has also invested heavily in human annotation and
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by s17n 2y ago
The rebuttal is something like "things are complicated, large scale societal trends are always rough descriptions of reality at best and can never be reduced to a single 'cause'"
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by s17n 2y ago
The timing is the whole point - original website is trying to blame everything bad on dropping the gold standard, which happened in 1971.
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by s17n 2y ago
> People leaving trash outside the dumpster? Have you ever actually lived in a city? > There are piles of trash and shit? Wow. Why don't you use your freedom and move? I'm doing just that, moving to another neighborhood on F
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by s17n 2y ago
I live in an urban neighborhood where the housing is all apartments. I'm sure that some of my housed neighbors have trouble handling their trash and do destructive things to their own spaces, but it essentially doesn't affect me
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by s17n 2y ago
Yes, I think that the needs of the other few thousand others who live here are more important than the needs of a few destructive people.
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by s17n 2y ago
They happen literally every day where I live.
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by s17n 2y ago
It's the "effective" bit that the article doesn't address whatsoever.
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by s17n 2y ago
"She told me she knows that her belongings are an “eyesore,” so she tries to keep them out of the way." If only all homeless people were like this. As someone who lives in an epicenter of this stuff, I don't think that encam
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by s17n 2y ago
Safeway's store layout is definitely Coca Cola's problem. That's why they pay for shelf space and in store displays. The car dealership isn't going to "go under" since they have an exclusive franchise. Presum
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by s17n 2y ago
If you aren't writing low level code, why not use a GC language?

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