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forgotaccount3
·il y a 19 heures·discuss
It'd be even funnier if the 'message' was a text sent from their iphone.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
> most of them fail to hit a hundred views per video.

I get your point, but many of them fail to hit some hundreds of views due in large part to all of the large, professional channels that are spending hundreds of man hours as week producing content.

If the production was less professional do you think total viewership hours would drop significantly, or would it be distributed across more channels?
forgotaccount3
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
> Should I capture the increased output

You do capture the increased output by benefiting from a society where the cost to build safe buildings has drastically reduced.

Just because you don't get an immediate financial benefit doesn't mean you haven't benefitted from the increased output.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
Clearly those in floors 1->7 were less important and thus allowed to take the day off and/or work remotely, right?
forgotaccount3
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
I'm not fully aware of the tech here, are those posts flagged as 'Intolerant' by bsky or by the protocol itself?
forgotaccount3
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
Sometimes places close streets for traffic control.

The 'main' roads end up getting backed up and then people naturally start drifting over to a bunch of side-roads to get to the destination. This then causes further traffic issues as the locations where side-roads intersect the main roads get backed up as people on the side roads try to merge into the main ones.

A solution ends up being closing some side roads to funnel the temporary traffic into the main thoroughfare while still allowing some local traffic through the non-closed side roads at the cost of some side roads being inaccessible.
forgotaccount3
·le mois dernier·discuss
Interesting. We use Kiro here and looking at the public pricing subscriptions and it's benefit to my workflow, it is clearly a significant productivity increase per dollar spent. And we were told we have a signed a deal that is better than that public pricing. They recently just enabled overages on everyone's account so that people aren't throttled and they are shifting people up/down tiers as required behind the scenes to align with their actual usage.

However when the 'cost' to do something is relatively flat the cost/benefit analysis is going to depend on the value of the person being enabled. Someone making $60k a year using AI to gain a 20% output improvement may not be worth the cost but someone making $160k a year would.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Yes, lambda's and our dev's use mac's so it enables that. We deploy some apps to some unix based server as well but the company is mostly windows servers anyway.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Sure, some do.

But also... I use Kiro. I open a terminal into a folder where my repo is. I run kiro-cli. I don't know if it has access to the credentials file in my .aws directory. I know it prompts me for approval to use tools but that is a harness thing, does the mac itself prevent it from accessing the credential file?

I use AI because it's useful and I follow the practices dictated by our AI adoption team but I don't know the nuance of everything about it and that makes it difficult to know when some case which is not explicitly covered by training might leak important information.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> My mother is in her 60s and uses Gemini every day.

If your mother is at all like my mother, she isn't burning through nearly as many tokens as developers who are utilizing AI effectively.

Datacenters aren't being built for the handful of people using a hundred or two tokens a month but the fields where each user is utilizing 10k+
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> you need to micro-manage it.

It is significantly easier to micro-manage an AI than a suite of junior developers. The AI doesn't replace a principal engineer, it's replacing junior and weaker senior developers who need stories broken down extremely concisely to be able to get anything done. The time it takes to break down a story such that a junior through weak senior developers can pick it up and execute it well would have the AI already done with testing built around it.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
People think money is enough because they look at their lives and think 'how could I afford kids? Clearly I need money to do that.' and they don't think 'if I had extra money, would I spend it on someone else or on myself?' and the majority of people choose spending it on themselves instead of that potential child someone else.

Those people often don't even consider the time cost either. Which makes sense, if reason A is sufficient to say 'no' then why continue dwelling on other reasons? But even if there was more money and they were willing to not spend it on themselves, they now need to accept giving up roughly 90% of their non sleep/work time to someone else as well. That's not giving away something new you didn't have, that's giving up something you've been using and are accustomed to having.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> nakedly hypocritical

How is it hypocritical?

If in the old world, the very important process that used up a lot of time and benefited greatly from no distractions was the actual writing of code then interruptions for various ceremonies with limited value other than generating progress reports for some higher ups would feel like a waste of time.

That same person in the 'new' world where writing code is very fast but understanding the business and technical requirements that need to be accomplished is the difficult part would then prioritize those ceremonies more and be ok with distractions while their AI agents are writing the code for them.

It's not hypocritical to change your opinion when the facts of the situation have changed.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> Having passwords on post-it notes does make certain types of attacks much easier.

It also makes other attacks much harder. Namely I don't need to worry about some zero-day in my password manager.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
Not necessary.

But also, 'Not necessary' doesn't mean 'not worth subsidizing'.

If you think the government finds value in having a connected population with easy access to information then there's value in subsidizing that. Assume the government valued it at $10 a month per person due to increased economic activity made possible from the information flowing, if the market price for it was $60 a month then you have expanded access to anyone who valued it at at least $50 a month.

You can make the same argument for air travel by the way. Why does the government value consumers flying around the country? Why would the government want to encourage people to fly from Charlotte to Florida to go to disney instead of drive to Pidgeon Forge and go to Dollywood? Or fly to NY 3x a year to see grandma for a weekend instead of drive to NY and see grandma for a whole week 1x a year?
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
> indirect economic impact of travel

Like what?

Nearly all 'goods' are going to travel more efficiently by rail and truck. And I say nearly all to cover the outliers like maybe an organ flying across country for transplant.

So if it's not the distribution method of choice for goods, then leisure? It's probably a global positive if people fly less. People will end up going to more local vacation destinations instead of aggregating all of those resources into a few popular locations that end up being massively overcrowded. This in turn reduces carbon impact because driving 3 hours is significantly less impactful than flying for 3 hours.

If you are just talking about all of the labor that has built up to support this inefficient and wasteful enterprise, that's probably for the best to reallocate that labor elsewhere. It will happen eventually, unless you think cheap oil is a permamenent feature, so why not happen sooner than later?
forgotaccount3
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
People in power want the information to identify a narrower set of people who may have been pregnant and then did not have a child and so may have had an abortion.

And facebook doesn't care about people's rights when those people in power are able to block Facebook from acquiring some new startup they want to buy, so facebook is willing to share the information.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> the app on the device does not run.

That explains an oddity I was experiencing.

Work uses Webex. I had work webex installed on my phone. My password changed on my account in the office, if i try to open Webex on my phone I would be prompted to re-authenticate which I would never do because it required 2FA and the token generator is on my laptop which I generally wouldn't have with me when using my phone.

However, despite not being able to open the app as my account, I was still getting full messages in the push notification for anyone who had messaged me recently while the app was functioning. Anyone new would pop up as 'Message From X'.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> The visual risk of walking out without paying is much greater than the risk that anyone actually investigates AND tries to track him down for it.

So scan everything, then put it in the cart and walk off without putting in the credit card. Again, both are stealing but paying some fake, reduced rate is leaving your calling card at the scene of a crime.
forgotaccount3
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
> Wait, so.. how are we supposed to test Intel builds of our macOS apps from now on?

Isn't this a general form of 'how do we deal with the transition from a to b?'

If your client's can get intel Mac's, then you should be able to get one. If they can't, why do you need to keep supporting intel Mac's?