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Look, I get where you're coming from, I do. In the last decade, we've seen rampant abuses and exploitation of open source projects and of maintainers. So much individual good will …

Putting aside that I don't agree with Bram (I've been using all the Claude versions he refers to and haven't experienced this), I do think it's interesting that there is no univers…

like with most things, these things are both overrated and underrated. are there performative jobs|tasks|employees|cultures? yes. are most of the things that engineers think are pe…

They're not vulnerable to this. But first, in the phrase that you quoted, you do understand that in human society "trying to harm" someone is still a malicious act. If I push a cow…

You're not wrong, but it's also so sad. FAANG used to be the _dream_. Change the world. Work on groundbreaking tech. Solve harder problems than anywhere else. Get Paid incredibly w…

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When I was making 200k, 120k of that was cash. When I was making 800k, 200k of that was cash. Like I didn't discount that it gave me the ability to buy a house. But day to day, wee…

My sentence: > other than the ability to buy a house or something, and feel safe with a retirement nest egg Your sentence: > 800k is the ability to buy a house and support a family…

Every big tech company's embrace of AI is making all of their employees miserable. Whereas if you're half-competent and at a startup, the AI is an incredible opportunity to try to …

The Three Mile Island accident is also dramatically exaggerated in the public conscience with its severity and risk factor - solely because of the default fear of Nuclear. Oil, Gas…

This is the first fundamental flaw of the article > Bob's weekly updates to his supervisor were indistinguishable from Alice's. The questions were similar. The progress was similar…

ok but i manually used arrow keys to set it to by clicking right 25 times, and that didn't work, so i gave up.

Are we watching the same clip? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This is from the pilot and I watched it based on high recommendations, and I couldn't keep going because the char…

i'm curious, how do you think other large companies operate with regards to reporting progress/status/results up the management chain? At least at companies where the upper managem…

We need to get past the point of binary perspective. The question isn't whether any one of us is innocent or guilty. The question is of what. The word "rape" makes people visualize…

Speaking of Zero Dark Thirty, it has WAY more problems than that - https://www.tiktok.com/@trademoviespodcast/video/75653617056...

Somewhere, John Carmack, in his new conservative era, is seething.

I mean I pay for Youtube Premium because I use Youtube Music instead of Spotify. I get a very unopinionated but effective music player that has all the music I need, and it doesn't…

I think there's an even simpler point that people who make fun of athletes for blowing their paychecks instead of saving them miss: * These are elite athletes at the top of their p…

Changing defaults doesn't have to mean changing existing configurations. It can be the new default for newly created VPCs after a certain date, or for newly created accounts after …

What's missing from this history though is that when WhatsApp went from an Electron app to a native windows app it got decisively worse.

I agree with you, but "better" is subjective, and this change was ON PURPOSE because most consumers would disagree with us. It's why they all have "motion smoothing" turned on all …

Doesn't the fact that they made it super-green in Matrix 4 proves that it should never have been blue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0YBqhMtcg

Wouldn't the lawyers be based in Israel - under some Israel-based shell/subsidiary of Google/Amazon, that owns the data centers, and complies with local law?