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by sublinear 3d ago
> Since startups make the best stuff, they're strongest on level playing fields. They're weakest in markets dominated by companies you'd describe as mafia. Record labels are mafia. PBMs are mafia. In these worlds you don&#
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by sublinear 3d ago
Thank you for your reply. Yes, we could all work a bit more effectively cross-team. It's missing the point to focus on the "what" and the "doing" instead of the "why" and the "planning". If there
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by sublinear 3d ago
The actual risk from AI is not its "intelligence", but the profound stupidity of the humans connecting it to important infrastructure. This has got to be the last straw with the anthropomorphization. I swear listening to the pro-A
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by sublinear 3d ago
It's also worth pointing out how many businesses have always had a dev team that can rapidly prototype regardless of AI usage. They tend to be the largest businesses (outside of SV) that employ the majority of people in the USA. They
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by sublinear 3d ago
Delusional. Let me illustrate with a similarly dumb question: When anyone can buy legal forms from an office supply store or make photocopies from books, why pay for a lawyer and who decides what needs a contract anyway? That was likely a
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by sublinear 3d ago
It's funny that we almost agree except you have it 100% backwards. The out of touch kung fu masters are all retired or close to it. They continue to shout about their big bet on AI as loudly as possible to protect their egos and, as a
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by sublinear 3d ago
So, don't be John Carmack. Got it.
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by sublinear 5d ago
It's a shame that it ever felt like a hassle. We should be introducing people to vim long before they are learning it under pressure. As you say, it's really not a lot to remember.
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by sublinear 5d ago
Once again, what is that "pain" exactly?
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by sublinear 5d ago
> Put plainly, we do not believe that Git is the future of source control. Git has served developers well for many years, but it was designed around the constraints of 2005, not 2025, let alone 2035. For example, it was built for the Lin
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by sublinear 6d ago
I'm not going to argue splitting hairs about what ADHD is. Many of the most famous CEOs and startup founders have properly diagnosed ADHD and have been very vocal about it. This is also often true of any business owner you've me
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by sublinear 6d ago
Everyone remembers, but ADHD is overrepresented in the high-level positions of leadership.
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by sublinear 6d ago
All well and good. I agree with the sentiment, but why are we asking for permission? Does this not strongly demonstrate the inherent corruption of institutions?
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by sublinear 7d ago
Yes, people realizing that for themselves was the intent of my link. This discussion about trivia we're having right now is the only mojo left in the bottle. It's the same parent company as the security guards at your local shoppi
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by sublinear 7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitas_AB I've gotta take the wind out of your sails a little bit on the "Pinkerton" name.
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by sublinear 7d ago
You're also welcome to put your two cents in, but your replies sound identical to the bots and throwaways of last year and the year before that. Every time it's the same agenda: trying to keep up appearances of meaningful engageme
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by sublinear 7d ago
I've been hearing this retort every year. The only difference this time is you're not a green account. If things have actually changed, you wouldn't be begging the question. LLMs, as popularly used, are still just a new kind
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by sublinear 7d ago
Do a few bad grades really harm economic outcomes, though? Educators took a hard stance against AI rather quickly. Outside of delusional grifty startups, the broader corporate world is only using copilot for taking meeting notes and (sort o
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by sublinear 8d ago
A war movie... yes a theme is emerging from these replies. Thanks for assisting making my point.
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by sublinear 8d ago
> It is not the direction one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. Such a satisfying quote.
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by sublinear 8d ago
You're right. I wouldn't bother with a review for any comedy. A sense of humor is very fickle and you usually know if you're going to like it ahead of time based on who is involved.
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by sublinear 9d ago
I feel similar, but haven't seen a "film" worth a review in ages. It's always the same problems: glacially slow pacing, one-dimensional characters, dialogue and plot insist on injecting politics or memes (that are probab
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by sublinear 9d ago
I think back on when I consumed the most "content". It was way back before I worked from home. The peer pressure was a significant part of why. I agree with you otherwise, though.
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by sublinear 10d ago
You're absolutely right to react that way.
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by sublinear 10d ago
I guarantee your specs/testing are either inadequate and/or you're not leveraging lots of existing (and probably free open source) code that was already written by humans and meets the spec better without ever needing an LLM.
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by sublinear 10d ago
I like Heliboard a lot, but its autocorrect gets stuck in the mud all the time. It completely falls apart and starts injecting nonsense phrases made up of nonsense misspelled words moment you miss a space ('v' or 'b') or
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by sublinear 10d ago
HN only (lazily) filters content. It doesn't engage in ideological vetting, and doesn't need to either. A good amount of the commenters on this story probably would encourage violence, or at least agree with the sentiment on a dif
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by sublinear 10d ago
The discussion around privacy is always framed the wrong way. The authoritarians use the red herring of "nothing to hide", while the liberals only argue on the most sensational abuse cases or somewhat flimsy high-minded principles
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by sublinear 11d ago
You're conflating "predictable" with "reproducible". "Predictable" assumes there is an observer making a guess, but we all live by the knowledge that our assumptions may be wrong. We care less about that,
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by sublinear 11d ago
Everyone is trying to figure out the chess board not realizing that they are being completely distracted by a simple game of chess. :) In other words, since the USA endlessly debates everything, you might as well put out messaging that crea

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