wolvesechoes

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by wolvesechoes 11d ago
> They weren’t trying to solve aging or bring everyone to the highest standard of living The latter is a matter of policy and AI is not needed for that. I hate this framing. Nickname checks out.
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by wolvesechoes 16d ago
> do some real research It is funny that only real research on productivity gains from AI shows at best very minimal gains, but AI bros will always tell you "no no no, you have used wrong model, try a different one, there are more
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by wolvesechoes 17d ago
OOP, like most stuff discussed in dev-related web, exists so that permaonline people can have another reason to create their own tribes and fight each other.
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by wolvesechoes 17d ago
> For my doorbell I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell sound But... why?
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by wolvesechoes 22d ago
The difference is that capitalism is a human creation, whereas mitogenesis is not. And this kind of naturalization is one of the reason we end up in the current situation, where it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
> Ricardo, Mill, and Smith all saw this dynamic, but "capitalists" like Andreessen have shown zero interest in combatting it for the health of the capitalist system as a whole. They just tried to cope by denying the essence of
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
Where this demand for the "end game" comes from? Why do you people assign some long-term vision to a bunch of sociopaths with money and influence that came from being born in a proper family and having lot of luck, whilst ditching
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
I doubt it. Software is, well, software. Most people have their aesthetic preferences in regard to clothing or furniture, and aesthetics of these are obvious to anyone. Code that runs on a device and implements some functionality is not lik
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
Free market was a tool, yet for you it is a venerated idol.
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
I guess US and European societies.
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
But Meta can share with NSA what kind of porn are you into or that you've said few bad words about US president, whilst CCP doesn't care, so who is a real adversary?! By the way I am an INDIVIDUAL, my personal FREEDOM and FEELINGS
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by wolvesechoes 23d ago
> What's short-sighted and naive is believing that globalism can be reversed, that economic efficiency can be overcome by political will, and that knowledge can be contained to one country Peak ideology. > Economic nationalism an
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by wolvesechoes 24d ago
With digital nomads is like with standard, recreational tourism. It is always promised by local decision-makers it will bring multiple benefits to locals, including economic boost, but it always a pact with a Devil where few reap rewards wh
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by wolvesechoes 28d ago
> How readable and accessible is this book? As with most works of cultural theory you need to read it few times, and also check other works of his. Otherwise you may end up reducing concepts from this book to social media or AI slop. Mor
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
Well, maybe they lie, who knows. But "hearing people talking" is rather poor counterevidence.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
My god, do people really lost the ability to read such short article? No, built-in Android and Chrome are not blowing these numbers.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
AI Overviews are not accounted for in that number.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
Read the article? "These 1 billion users may also be encountering Gemini in all those places, but that’s not the MAU metric. Pichai is talking only about people who are opening the Gemini app or visiting the Gemini web interface to ent
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
Somewhat tangential, but when Google doesn't participate in frontier churn, earns money and make heavy investment in infrastructure that they rent to those participating in the churn, while still they are "losing the AI race"
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
The same inflation caused to a large extent by constant increase in revenue to satisfy your insatiable shareholders?
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
> If there's one place that's "worked-owned" it's a startup. Sweetie, it is called cooperative , not startup.
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
> Why would a developer use Windows in 2026? To have somewhat working desktop OS with access to one of the most powerful dev environments in a form of Visual Studio?
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by wolvesechoes 1mo ago
To a casual reader of this thread - look at comments, this is what ideology is.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> You could ask a human to "do something with 1M dollars" and get garbage too At least the human's brain requires about 20 Watts to operate. Cheap garbage is better than garbage requiring whole power plants nad billions of
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> Democracy is an engineering exercise, just like any other system. God, tech people should have stayed in basements.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Who? But in all seriousness - you can even bring up Pope himself. Don't care. Show me data, show me the leaps our software made with all this 100x productivity boost. Show me a myriad of better LLVM projects, new usable kernels, and so
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
Uncle Bob was a dev celeb before there were dev celebs.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> Remember there was a paper saying programmers were 20% slower with AI? Key thing was not that they were X% slower, but that they were slower while being convinced they are faster . Of course, any analogies with the current hype cycle
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell Oh yes, dev celebs that rely on constant validation through social media. Very reliable source of data.
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by wolvesechoes 2mo ago
> You should stop using social media as your yardstick. Yes, don't believe people posting on HN.

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