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16 giorni fadiscuss

Everybody is missing the point. Companies that dump all their white collar employees for AI will all disappear overnight. If there's nobody being employed by the company to do a thing, what value does the company provide? Customers will always have more information to ask an AI for the work than some manager who is serving a dozen customers but also has the company's interests ahead of those customers.

26 giorni fadiscuss

Back then the whole system was designed to do stuff for us. Now, so much of it is designed to work against us. Monstrous towers of complexity for the sole purpose of stopping you getting a high definition output without copy protection, or download a permanent copy of a video you are watching, or learning how your video card works without a million dollars and an NDA. And there was so much less of it. There's huge swathes of unexecuted code just for rendering text backwards in case I wake up Arabic tomorrow, etc.

4 mesi fadiscuss

This isn't reporting, it's propaganda.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Thing is that's a question for the market to decide. Which is why we have anti-trust / anti-monopoly laws in the first place. We don't want the state setting "fair" prices for anything, it always backfires. We want them ensuring the market is free to set prices. Monopolies granted by the state (trademarks, copyright, patents) are specific and limited, and ideally we want monopolies that arise naturally to be similarly limited, or broken up if they are being weaponised against the public.

9 mesi fadiscuss

Claude is (in my limited experience so far) more useful after a bit of back and forth where you can explain to it what's going on in your codebase. Although I suspect if you have a lot of accurate comments in your code then it will be able to extract more of that information for itself.

10 mesi fadiscuss

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10 mesi fadiscuss

The idea that what's needed is for these alternative platforms to switch to "free with ads" is amazingly short sighted and disheartening. Everything bad YouTube does is driven by this business model. Switching to it might make a few people rich at the top of these alternative platforms, but it won't make anything better for any user or creator.

3 anni fadiscuss

yawn I guess you're in the wrong place, innit?

3 anni fadiscuss

Nothing I'd love to work on that sort of thing. The point wasn't that the kind of job is bad, but that even if you're working on stuff that shouldn't be secret, you still have to jump through all those hoops.

And imagine how many middle-managers they have who think a) they're the next Steve Jobs, and b) that what drove his success was being a dick to his workmates.

3 anni fadiscuss

Move to California, go back to an office for 60 hours a week, sign my life away and swear to secrecy about my thrilling position on some compiler team? Yeah I think could say no to that.

3 anni fadiscuss

I'm on an m2 pro and had the exact same experience, also Firefox.

4 anni fadiscuss

These phones aren't flat when they're open. There's a crease.

4 anni fadiscuss

> practically electron - it's runtime interpreted declarative UI plus a Javascript engine

Except, none of that is what's wrong with Electron. What's wrong with Electron is the bloat inherent in being an entire web browser, and the fact that the DOM+CSS is terrible for UI development.

5 anni fadiscuss

There would be no sites. There would be no web.

5 anni fadiscuss

Do you have any idea how few people have $150k in the bank?

10 anni fadiscuss

Not at all. Rental costs are most strongly influenced by supply-and-demand of housing, whereas sale costs are mostly influenced by supply-and-demand of credit.

12 anni fadiscuss

I was wondering how this thread got so long without anybody linking to ERB :)