splwjs

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by splwjs 3mo ago
Why can I see other people's ball/cursor? Feels like that adds a ton of complexity to the project but like, what do I do with/gain from that?
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by splwjs 3mo ago
I'd argue it's different because ephemeral, vps, baremetal, self-hosted, the skillset is still "managing a linux server" and the most radical shift is to an expectation that a server is a thing that is created and destro
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by splwjs 3mo ago
There's already an obvious stench to "you should scale down your engineering team to a skeleton crew whose core competency is using our product, so that it's the only way to modify your product"; that's going to res
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by splwjs 3mo ago
What's the market for linux users who want an electron app so they can vibecode in a visual studio fork but wont just build it themselves nor do they want to clone and build someone else's repo
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by splwjs 4mo ago
I used to drink a lot. I vaguely remember funneling a shitload of salt and lime juice into a bottle of whiskey to encourage a visceral repulsive reaction and help break the habit. I vaguely remember drinking some whiskey that definitely had
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by splwjs 2y ago
social engineer: actually here's a personal anecdote loaded with goodguy words that inform you about how the thing I want you to think is correct. engineer: interesting. what problems has it helped you solve social engineer:
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by splwjs 2y ago
Right now LLMs have a slight advantage over stackoverflow etc in that they'll react to your specific question/circumstances, but they also require you to doublecheck everything they spit out. I don't think that will ever chan
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by splwjs 2y ago
This take shows up a lot and it's a bad one. "I can surround your child with dangerous unhealthy things and do my best to corrupt and poison them, there should be no limit to this behavior whatsoever because if I succeed it's
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by splwjs 2y ago
We've had markov chain generators for a while, having enough computing power to grant them the power to regurgitate wikipedia reddit and stackoverflow content is not "a huge step towards agi"
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by splwjs 2y ago
>The long term issue that many people don't seem willing to mention out loud is that we will eventually make humanity obsolete and robots will literally take control. what are you talking about; the main marketing strategy for so te
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by splwjs 2y ago
I think online matchmaking has absolutely destroyed people's ability to feel like they're good at any game. Like you'll never be a big fish in a small pond. If you played as much as you currently do but could only play with p
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by splwjs 2y ago
I remember being in school and thinking that "what if my (color) is your (other color)" was a cool question, and then later I think I reasoned out that color is measurable so the actual color is objective, and the differences betw
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by splwjs 2y ago
That makes sense; it's a predatory business model. It's like auto title loans. They want you corner you, offer you money when you're at your most helpless, then take your car away. If not that then they want to lock you in a
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by splwjs 2y ago
"you can minimize the pain from overreach by thoroughly submitting to it so actually it's basically your fault if you don't like it"
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by splwjs 2y ago
What month was it? Because if it's summer in austin and you're standing around downtown then you probably are struggling in one way or another. Also downtown austin is disgusting; maybe they were just stunned someone would be ther
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by splwjs 2y ago
Print more money, that'll fix it
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by splwjs 2y ago
that doesn't explain why the white house doesn't see the need to regulate it - if anything it gives them more reason to.
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by splwjs 2y ago
When I was young, my brother knew a guy who was really into movies. If you wanted to know about a movie you couldn't remember, you would go talk to that guy. For a while, the internet had an end-run play that made that guy less useful.
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by splwjs 2y ago
it's not just a message board, it's an influence machine. They need to make sure the stuff they want people to think is posted often and has a big number next to it, they need to make sure things that people like are associated wi
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by splwjs 2y ago
If they kept their API open then by now the entirety of the site would be ai slop that was built with chatgpt and launched with the api. Then again most of what that site does is just blend and regurgitate the information that's curren
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by splwjs 2y ago
idk man i bet you five bucks and a handshake it's just going to play out like the existing startup grift. There's an established player with institutional protections, then a scrappy upstart takes a bunch of VC money, converts it
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by splwjs 2y ago
It's crazy how most political or economic systems would very obviously collapse in the real world almost instantly without some kind of voluntary moral contract (explicit or implied), yet we've got huge clumps of people demonizing
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by splwjs 2y ago
>some degree of salesmanship buddy every few weeks one of these bozos is telling us their product is literally going to eclipse humanity and we should all start fearing the inevitable great collapse. It's like how no one owns a car
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by splwjs 2y ago
I sell widgets. I promise the incalculable power of widgets has yet to be unleashed on the world, but it is tremendous and awesome and we should all be very afraid of widgets taking over the world because I can't see how they won'
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by splwjs 2y ago
It hasn't been like this for a very long time, but "You need to compile the kernel in order to get it to play sound" is still an incredibly effective attack because it puts advocates on their heels trying to defend it as base
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by splwjs 2y ago
Last time I looked at the amortization schedule for a 30 year fixed mortgage the payback was about 250% of the loan amount. No other figures are consequential. Mortgages are a predatory thing pointed at the financially illiterate and the ho
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by splwjs 2y ago
open car door trash car (or don't) report trashed car ride for discount