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by xtiansimon 5d ago
Nobody says bring back cocaine-cola because sales.
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by xtiansimon 6d ago
Haha. And they’re your customers. I feel so triggered right now… /begin rant/ VendorPay doesn’t summarize the total payment is a bug? Nope, working as intended. Put a vendor “on hold” still permits all new invoices to go into the
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by xtiansimon 6d ago
> “Oh man. I used to think Smith was a person with informed opinions, but reading his take on a topic close to my own expertise makes me question this premise.” Snap. Mike drop. Why continue? lol. Blogs are so snappy. I love a good hot t
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by xtiansimon 6d ago
> “open-source project” I’m with you. But what are we going to get? I think this goal sits in a funny place between knowledge and convenience. On the one hand, tons of “products” promising this. On the other hand, I’m sure we can find st
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by xtiansimon 8d ago
Spam research? A “search attractor”? Content manipulation used to pollute LLM reasoning? Testing web search results washing techniques? Rouge AI testing how to dilute search results just enough so more data centers can be built until it can
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by xtiansimon 8d ago
I imagine we’re talking about air and water pollution. So my question is, How is the social feed going to be tested for these standards? I can’t imagine it.
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by xtiansimon 8d ago
Does that include the social networks themselves? Essentially forcing APIs again?
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by xtiansimon 9d ago
Meme, meme, meme, meme
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by xtiansimon 9d ago
Yes, if those statistics served accounting, and the homework was using something like Python in a Jupyter notebook.
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by xtiansimon 9d ago
I’ve eliminated TV from my life for over 20 years. I feel social media has taken some of that space back. It’s very compelling to watch videos about things you like—hobbies, arts, culture—and from people you know personally. I’m not sure ho
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by xtiansimon 9d ago
A friend of mine chose a “macrobiotic” diet 35 years ago. Apparently practitioners have conferences, too, Or so ive been told.
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by xtiansimon 9d ago
Solution—don’t watch TV
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by xtiansimon 11d ago
> “There are probably isolated incidents…” Read this and imagined corruption as non-linear. What before is “isolated incidents”, spreads like an SIRS (Susceptible → Infectious → Recovered → Susceptible) infection model.
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by xtiansimon 11d ago
> “A natural evolution of engineers losing touch with the customers and users” I’m a neophyte to software teams. I work at an accounting consultancy and deal with lots of SaaS platforms. I’m pissing in the wind about this or that product
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by xtiansimon 12d ago
> “…Gmail will no longer support the "Send as" feature for third-party email addresses […] If you own another email address, you can send mail as that address.” What?
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by xtiansimon 13d ago
Graphic design time capsule.
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by xtiansimon 13d ago
Ha! I was researching local llm’s training yesterday—I _want this_ for my local llm project.
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by xtiansimon 13d ago
> “… the left no longer seems to care about protecting American workers.” ??? I can’t imagine why this is a left/right issue. Progressive/conservative issue. It’s an economic issue. It was said in the article, “global enterpris
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by xtiansimon 13d ago
> “ Shift the judgment left …shorten feedback loops.[…] Take the things we say code review gives us. If we want to explore alternative solutions […] If we want knowledge transfer […] If we want junior engineers to learn how experienced e
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by xtiansimon 14d ago
I want to launch spaceships and have a battle like Homeworld. I’m not a big gamer, but I liked the idea of full 3D strategy. Though, Homeworld had a lock-stop on orientation, which I think was a missed opportunity. https://en.wik
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by xtiansimon 15d ago
> “…the brush had not been trimmed, so I'm told, because environmental regulation didn't allow it.” Haha. California gets a bad rap. Hands down it’s a tragedy. More like budget cuts and negligence, than anything to do with envi
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by xtiansimon 15d ago
Snapchat is so cooked
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by xtiansimon 17d ago
“SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?” https://youtu.be/-1F7vaNP9w0
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by xtiansimon 20d ago
That’s three!
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
What's the overall philosophy/design of this community visa vie the github repo? Are users meant to start their own communities? or connect their community to larger communities somehow? Or or something else?
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
> “They scroll right?” Well, it’s not the scrolling, it’s the clicking. Isn’t it?
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
Slip from where? Who talks like this putting these semantic concepts into this space? Somebody’s vector, but I don’t recall this in my college education about English composition.
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
> “Hydroelectric plants withdraw tons of water, but it goes right back into the river it came from.” The consequences to communities of hydroelectric dams are known to most communities, discoverable. And they don’t go into any place you
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
I appreciate the statement. And I appreciate the other reply about adults in the room. What needed to be said was said—Thank you both.
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by xtiansimon 21d ago
> “The best response must be complete without becoming shapeless, structured without sounding mechanical…” Anyone else scratching their head at these descriptions? Uh, your writing is shapeless. You’re 5% too mechanical. Who talks like

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