waisbrot

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by waisbrot 27d ago
It's written from the perspective of one of the masters. > The role of the head coachman was well defined. Toward his superiors, he was deferential and obedient. So the chauffeurs and typists are not as deferential and obedient as t
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by waisbrot 28d ago
Don't they force you to sign up for a Google account to be able to gate access to a Google Drive file?
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by waisbrot 1mo ago
That's an interesting topic you might meditate on. Microsoft would never hold such a vote. Would you be better off with their OS? Debian is one of the more free-as-in-speech distributions; would you rather run your VMs on one that had
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
The article appeared to state both the facts and the assumptions being made off of them pretty clearly.
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
> Insurance was illegal at different times in history because it was considered gambling. And it was, in fact, gambling. You could take out a life insurance policy on anyone without any relationship with them.
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
I want the setting to steal YOUR focus
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
In my experience, ORMs save a little bit of writing SQL and then cost an unbounded quantity of time in debugging mysterious problems because knowing why a query is slow now requires understanding the DB, your own code, and also the ORM.
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
This is an excellent distillation. Yes, in practice you may find that one or two of these don't apply to your own special start-up. But probably they all actually do.
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by waisbrot 2mo ago
Developer community. "Open source" historically implied that an interested developer might hack on the code and submit their changes. But if the entire code-base is rewritten by the maintainer every year, then there's no deve
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by waisbrot 3mo ago
An easy example: you need 5 minutes of planned downtime (which is entirely within SLAs) to execute a major upgrade, but the system is also used by Sales for demos to major new clients. "We're going to take 5 minutes of downtime on
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by waisbrot 4mo ago
Are Seattle, the Rust Belt, and upstate NY examples of higher taxes driving wealthy job-creators out? I think they were the opposite: the market moved and then the wealthy people left to follow it. NYC has always been extremely expensive, a
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by waisbrot 4mo ago
Most Americans cannot get a mortgage for $1M.
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by waisbrot 4mo ago
Now picture NYC, symbolic of wealth and power. Owning property there is a great way to show off. This tax may make it more attractive to own a second home there, because it proves you're not one of the fake-wealthy who can't aff
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by waisbrot 4mo ago
And "large" just means that AWS will assign an account manager to talk with you. I was at a start-up who spent $300k/year on AWS and that was enough to get special attention and discounts. Enterprise pricing is confusing.
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by waisbrot 4mo ago
Nowadays, the top Google result is probably LLM-generated blog-spam of lower-quality than whatever chatbot your company is paying for. Back when most Google results were authentic web-pages, something like "here's a web page that
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by waisbrot 5mo ago
I think the down-votes on this comment are too bad. It's legitimately funny to write a muli-paragraph rant in high dudgeon calling other people "exhausting".
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by waisbrot 5mo ago
"Spider and Web" is quite short, pretty easy, mostly gives good hints. A great starter-game, I think. I also love Zarf's writing. https://eblong.com/zarf/zweb/tangle/
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by waisbrot 5mo ago
That sounds like https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere ?
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by waisbrot 6mo ago
Looking back, it would have been neat to have more metadata in my old Git commits. Were there any differences when I was writing with IntelliJ vs VSCode?
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by waisbrot 6mo ago
Claude adds "Co-authored by" attribution for itself when committing, so you can see the human author and also the bot. I think this is a good balance, because if you don't care about the bot you still see the human author. An
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by waisbrot 7mo ago
For example, I just asked ChatGPT "The boat wash is 50 meters down the street. Should I drive, sail, or walk there to get my yacht detailed?" and it recommended walking. I'm sure with a tiny bit more effort, OpenAI could patc
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by waisbrot 7mo ago
I would still recommend trying Bazzite today. If we take the post as truth (it's not clear to me whether we can), then Bazzite will get iffy kernel updates that will particularly break handhelds. But desktop will be more stable and you
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by waisbrot 8mo ago
https://gizmodo.com/dilbert-creator-claims-he-taught-chatgpt... Scott Adams taught ChatGPT to put humans into an instant bliss-state. "Seems at least plausible"?
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by waisbrot 8mo ago
IME, taking on extra responsibility doesn't get you promoted. However, you can take it on and then find a new job with a better salary where the responsibility you added is part of the expectation. The blog is not terrible advice, but
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by waisbrot 8mo ago
The technology is currently being heavily subsidized and made widely available. If we decided to ban it globally things would look very different. Would it be worthwhile for scammers to run a massive server farm and spend thousands on train
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by waisbrot 9mo ago
I love the Aphyr posts. > “Can I use any language?” > > “Sure.” > > Move quickly, before he realizes his mistake.
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Rabbit employees haven't been paid, while company teases new AI hardware(tomsguide.com)
3 points by waisbrot 10mo ago|1 comments
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by waisbrot 10mo ago
"Following an interview that Tom’s Guide conducted with Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, in which he said the company was planning to launch next-gen AI hardware in 2026, we received a number of tips alleging that Rabbit has failed to pay since l
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by waisbrot 11mo ago
The article is mostly talking about using the `cron` scheduler and running things at 2am on Sunday because there's especially low traffic. These cron jobs are "I don't care when it runs, but it should have minimal chance of c
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by waisbrot 11mo ago
I think people generally mean "state", but in the US-centric HN community that word is ambiguous and will generally be interpreted the wrong way. Maybe "sovereign state" would work?

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