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derealized

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    Comment #36990362

    Because I don't want to hear about personal stories? How is that related? I do very much want to know how code works. It's the very core of my argument.

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    Comment #36987686

    It's full of "fix" or "fix typo" or "update blah.c"... tiny commits straight to the master branch without CI. Anyway, I really don't care about the past in this way. A simple "acco…

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    Comment #36986522

    > They're hard not to love. I often search for a clearcut answer to a technical question and I'm met with a 2 hour history lesson into a decade of company politics and failed repla…

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    Comment #36986393

    By switching to a proprietary license for your proprietary product. If we call things by their names, it's not surprising at all and actually makes solving the situation much easie…

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    Comment #36985901

    > I found out that just being better than yourself takes you a long long way. That resonates with me. There is a saying where I'm from that says "most people are just kicking dirt"…

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    Comment #36985698

    I personally care about how it looks. The facism mention is a huge leap, isn't it?

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    Ask HN: Gmail alternative for the lazy activist?

    I like Gmail and have very few complaints about it as a user. I don't like Google, the company, and if there is an easy option to migrate to that will cause me the least usability …

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    Comment #36980383

    How about tracking licenses or subscriptions sold and show that to investors?

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    Comment #36972673

    Riley gave an hour-long presentation on his prompt engineering work at Scale AI and the company's CEO said it didn't seem useful?

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    Comment #36971152

    To me, the simple models might not cross the boundary where LLMs start to be useful versus, say, a fixed menu with choices in a helpdesk app. It's a paradox because, to really feel…

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    Comment #36970878

    Airports and taxis here have agreements where the airport gives them a fixed location in front of the exit. Just makes my point about the taxi mafia. But then, does that happen any…

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    Comment #36970864

    Not here. A ride that costs me 18-20 with Uber will be a 40-50 taxi ride.

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    Comment #36958891

    You're comparing apples to oranges. Should I complain that to drill oil I need hundreds of millions of dollars to even start? Your VPS example was doing barely any computation. You…

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    Comment #36957907

    > many of us will revert back to traditional taxis. When hell freezes maybe? Why would I do business with the local taxi mafia when these are the same cars, same drivers, poor or n…

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    Comment #36957690

    Copy and paste of a previous article discussed here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36500448 EDIT: And copied and pasted here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

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    Comment #36955739

    It's nice to have alternatives and maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome about this topic, but isn't git's complexity inherent to the area?

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    Comment #36955633

    That's me! https://imgur.com/a/Zbv5da8

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    Comment #36951608

    Automattic does this. https://automattic.com/how-we-hire/

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    Comment #36943778

    I have intrisic motivation, I just like what I work with and like to do a good job. I often have high standards for my work. What changed? It's very tiresome to swim against the cu…

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    Comment #36943600

    Supposedly it needs some name (any name) for the userID so I don't think so. You can add a domain that points to your internal IPs though.

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    Comment #36943405

    I've been in this situation at a couple of companies. Very prolific in the first year, only to burn out. At my new job, I'm taking it easy.

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    Comment #36943284

    I've met people running ZFS on Linux quite reliably this days, bar Oracle.