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by spopejoy 1mo ago
See other top HN article rn about "expertise is essential for using LLMs". Nobody is debating whether illustrators, graphic designers or marketers are going to use AI. In addition to being a thoroughly sailed ship, the sheer deman
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
Being in management is a kind of brain virus that is infectious no matter what kind of organization is being managed. Humans just don't do hierarchy well
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
> There are union-busting law firms? What are they gonna do? Infiltrate your meetups? Infiltration is just one tactic that a law firm that blares their union-busting credentials on their home page can certainly advise your c-suite on. Wo
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
You're right that WF is attacked and operates as a public resource which makes it a target. But that means they also need to be held accountable by sympathetic forces because a fortress mentality can easily emerge. Unions have few frie
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
Workers unhappy with their treatment looking to organize makes you hate them?
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
Hmm someone responded to you with their demands, asking which demand you find unreasonable, no response? Does your prompt forbid actually reading responses?
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by spopejoy 1mo ago
> Honestly, I'm on Wikipedia's side: there should be a true secret ballot. Mission accomplished for Jimmy Wales then, "aw shucks I like unions but there's this one thing about a process that has worked for literally e
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
At this point I don't understand why to use a JVM language with anything but Java. Java is a "good enough" language now and is still the premier ecosystem driver, getting all of the big-budget upgrades and attention -- but it
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
If you're not from the US maybe not tipping is understandable. If you are from the US and you don't ever tip, you're an insufferable jerk, on the left or the right.
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
In a way, the AI-text-policing is a golden age. Allasudden, folks actually give a shit about style??? Before AI was there _ever_ comments on HN "bro, the semicolons ... I just can't"? Everyone's on high alert. Maybe writ
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
Before the guaranteed wages all the apps had the tip option at checkout. When NYC enforced a liveable wage, the delivery apps raised holy hell including intrusive popups in the ads telling you how horrible it was for you the innocent consum
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Delivery workers made $104M more in tips after NYC began enforcing new law(nydailynews.com)
41 points by spopejoy 2mo ago|28 comments
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
Is there only one solution per game?
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
The title is bad. Anything "-pilled" is incel speak until proven innocent
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
Has anyone made a similar resource for zero-to-hero FPGA programming?
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
In theory I'm in OP's described target market here, b/c I am absolutely terrified of agents wrecking my pooter/home network/life as they 100x my sw dev. Every day a new story comes out about OpenCode, CC whatever be
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
The similarity of LLM tone to Axios' house style is more evidence IMO that LLMs have been trained to adopt business/CEO/VC-speak over less "punchy" styles that would be far less annoying (not to mention maybe less i
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
"Yes—and I actually think this is the right way to think about the construction." Always the smarmy tone.
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
I'm a longtime emacs head and partisan ... but I learned vi to compose emails in the Berkeley computer lab in 1989 and somehow have never forgotten vi key commands ever since. Emacs is my preferred sw dev editor for most things but I f
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
Is cargo really a reason to love rust? I'm not a full-on rustacean but in my limited experience cargo certainly had its flaws and warts like any other build system. I find it a little puzzling when a language ships the one build system
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
I was actually expecting that article to say something about performance. In the 90s telecom DBs removed all constraints including primary key from their ingestion tables for speed, and in general constraints are for OLAP not OLTP. Having s
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
> Just give us the prompt Two showstopper problems with this: 1. Many of "us" don't like interacting with LLMs more than we have to, and view reading as a pleasure that would be extinguished instantly at a chat prompt. 2.
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
It's a pretty functional design if you accept that the extruded antennae are necessary. They're really small, like half the footprint of my old Asus 6 antenna beast, and the fixed antennae are so much less fiddly. Finally, fast an
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
I got one of those off of one hit of some absurd resin moonrock preroll. Not fun
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by spopejoy 2mo ago
CBD gave me anxiety as much as sativa. The only thing I actually enjoy is low-dose indica+hash/resin. Point being, ymmv.
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
The founder portrait is surprisingly sympathetic given what a train wreck is being described. This one stood out for me: > The founder has it all figured out: the problem was never the plan. The problem was the execution "Execution&
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
You being a doctor matters how? Plenty of idiot antivax doctors out there.
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
> Switching to a more modern topic, the introduction of the Rust language into Linux, Torvalds is disappointed that its adoption isn't going faster. "I was expecting updates to be faster, but part of the problem is that old-tim
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
And yet, all the spending couldn't dent DSAs huge gains in NYC and now Colorado. US apparently still has a functioning democracy, at least when candidates ignore the consultants and insiders and speak straight to the voters. Worked for
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by spopejoy 3mo ago
> I could have read a few man pages and iterated on the script by hand to eventually get there after maybe an hour or two of futzing I'm not even sure losing this method is such a bad thing. Tooling, build scripts, home networking -

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