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3 gün öncediscuss

IME: Cycling bibs and shorts from knockoff amazon brands seem to be of equal quality to entry-level name brand stuff (pearl izumi) at a fraction of the price. Plain underwear, on the other hand, has serious want of quality vs 'real' athleisure brands (nike, underarmor, hanes). I was surprised to have such different experiences with two similar product categories.

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22 gün öncediscuss

Love this, it's like Randall Munroe x Lynda Barry

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2 ay öncediscuss

About time somebody started flooding the millennial nostalgia collectibles market with fakes.

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2 ay öncediscuss

Ah yes, my first love. I remember creating a quiz game based on greek mythology, and a little RPG where I realized the power of exponential functions by wrecking my power curve.

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2 ay öncediscuss

I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.

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2 ay öncediscuss

I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we've lost the zeitgeist perhaps. It makes me wanna move back to NYC and go to BrooklynJS again.

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3 ay öncediscuss

I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather than gatekeeping.

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5 ay öncediscuss

If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.

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5 ay öncediscuss

I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a ton of agents, I typically have one main task I am focusing on and possibly another smaller task on the back burner.

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6 ay öncediscuss

Yes, look at the massive 'success' of Vail, Colorado.

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6 ay öncediscuss

While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet realized the impact of only consuming food that has been dead and stored for several days.

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6 ay öncediscuss

By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes with the territory.

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7 ay öncediscuss

My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. The service started being buggy (lagging, repeatedly restarting the day's question series) and now they've moved on.

If anyone knows of an open-source alternative I could stitch together, I am all ears!

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7 ay öncediscuss

After the better part of a decade spent with chromecast and legal streaming, I have been forced back to the high seas as of late. I can't reliably get programs without onerous subscriptions, each for one or two shows I actually care about.

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8 ay öncediscuss

Getting into climbing was secondarily a health choice, but primarily a social endeavor for me.

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8 ay öncediscuss

vanilla ice would like a word

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8 ay öncediscuss

A lot of people will need to stop identifying as 'someone who makes art with enough value to trade it for the decent wage'. Millions of egos destroyed, not a dollar of GDP lost.

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9 ay öncediscuss

If one claims to be able to write good code with LLMs, it should just as easy to write comprehensive e2e tests. If you don't hold your code to a high testing standard than you were always going off 'vibes' whether they were from a silicon neural network or your human meatware biases.

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9 ay öncediscuss

Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.

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9 ay öncediscuss

LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. This is without needing to master the arbitrary grammar of a no-code system. Does often inevitably turn out to be a 'toy' version of what a real business needs? Yes, but it's still strictly better than previous ways of working.

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