danhorner · HackerTrans

14 gün öncediscuss

The book has plenty of prurient private-jet-boardgame stuff, but also deals directly with facebook's adoption in Myanmar at at time when the inflammatary online speech was directly fuelling ethnic violence against the Rohingya. It covers the inability and possible unwillingness of facebook moderation staff to intervene, including a report that one paid moderator was not effective in their work because their personal views aligned with the regime.

danhorner

2 ay öncediscuss

I tripped over the double-entendre of the teaser quote and then found it ironic that the author is a copy writer.

>> “AI agents are the future of software development. We won’t need developers anymore to slow down the progress of a business.”

> And so, to me, a copywriter, what’s happening here is that the same message is meaning two different things to two different audiences.

I couldn't tell whether to parse this as "We will be faster without those slow developers", or more cynically as "We don't need developers to slow us down; We can now be slow with ai agents". I suspect that with creeping complexity the latter reading will hold up better for large projects.

danhorner

4 ay öncediscuss

I started reading this and it gave a strong whiff of Richard Stallman’s “the right to read” - once dystopian and now a commonplace.

Then I started scrolling and thought the author was just verbose like RMS.

When it just kept going I was just mad to have fallen into the AI tarpit.

Fun idea. 5x too long. I need to calibrate my ai spidey sense better.

danhorner

4 ay öncediscuss

Ha! I remember experimenting with coins on strings as a kid in the early 90s.

What a rush when i realized it worked.

danhorner

8 ay öncediscuss

xe.com is competitive with wise rates and answers the phone. My KYC/AML journey was brief and they came through within their stated timeframe.

However all of the online companies sell the happy path and your experience will be diminished the farther you deviate from it. The right answer may be for a business to maintain a second-source in this as in all critical supplier relationships.

danhorner

5 yıl öncediscuss

I have been suspicious of their cloud config and run a docker image of the controller locally.

I'm still on version 5.14 and all of the cloud features are optional. I just ignore them. I guess now I know not to upgrade!

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