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Comment #48072210
I don't believe the 10x claims, but since when has salary been any indication of productivity?
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Comment #48034759
The problem is, who is moving “society on” and what is their agenda. I don’t think it’s healthy to encourage an attitude to just accept all change without any sort of reflection or…
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Comment #47881421
How do you do "due diligence" on an API that frequently makes undocumented changes and only publishes acknowledgement of change after users complain? You're also talking about inte…
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Comment #47841992
Surely you jest? The software industry is in its current sorry state because of multiple generations of human developers happily producing an endless stream of shady features.
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Comment #47830463
There is no shortage of game dev talent or adjacent creatives. It’s doubtful they will go on to find roles in the industry given the current climate and they presumably don’t have …
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Comment #47748305
Get where faster? Get what over with? Aren’t you talking about destroying livelihoods? Pushing people into poverty and/or homelessness? What is the benefit exactly?
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Comment #47446368
I think this is a relatively unique outlook and not one that is shared by most. If you use a tool to automate sending emails, unrelated to LLMs, in most scenarios the behaviour on …
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Comment #47435792
What part of universal health care, higher minimum wage and lower housing costs sounds like "utopia" to you? That's just the system we have, but slightly better and completely achi…
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Comment #47317939
> As mentioned, my past experience with GUIs was with WinForms, and so I wanted to see what had changed or improved in the intervening years. They didn’t need to because they alrea…
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Comment #47211459
> A girls’ elementary school was hit in Iran. Here’s what we know vs > US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says [1] [1] https://www.fran…
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Comment #47147999
What is an example of a "high-end page-layout program" referenced in that document? I mean, of course I assume they exist for professional type setting, book publishing and such, b…
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Comment #46771411
I envy the type of career you’ve had if you find this sort of behaviour unbelievable.
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Comment #46712774
Every entertainment market is saturated. Even if every creative endeavour stopped now, there would still be more freely available content to last more then any individual human lif…
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Comment #46674123
Feels like the more important question is how are you going to do all these things when Slack cuts you off, or there is some new Slack policy that prevents it, or they increase the…
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Comment #46291436
Obesity rates have never been higher and the top fast food franchises have double digit billions in revenue. I don’t think there is any redemption arc in there for public health si…
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Comment #45485051
I personally don't think ultimatums are a tool that you should ever employ in an employment situation outside of collective action. You can just leave off the ultimatum and attempt…
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Comment #45484993
> If you start saying no to tasks assigned by your manager, you are not going to get promoted. You’re going to end up on PIP track for insubordination. I've had a lot of success in…
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Comment #45382524
Given the security and privacy history of smart devices, you’d have to be a complete moron to let a human sized robot into your home.
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Comment #45308105
Going to preface this post by saying I use and love Obsidian, my entire life is effectively in an Obsidian vault, I pay for sync and as a user I'm extremely happy with it. But as a…
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Comment #45021562
I feel like when I'm presented with most modern criticism of Apple devices/software I tend to agree, but despite all the mostly valid criticisms I see batted about, who is doing co…
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Comment #44954924
If it’s not a secret that is used to sign something, then the secret has to get from the vault to the application at some point. What mechanism are you suggesting where access to t…
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Comment #44832332
It's simple! For $50 a month we give you a thousand smeckles which you can use to crank the floba. A very good deal.
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Comment #44782779
There are countless dead programming languages without communities you can pick then.
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Comment #44740626
The fact your friend is suffering no consequences and is able to just carry on is exactly what is wrong with this industry. In a perfect world the creation of software would have b…
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Comment #44709179
Interesting that you could have posted about any of the points being made in the link but you choose this one. Personally I think the term is well deserved and am glad it continues…