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drowntoge

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About drowntoge

I hate tech

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49213903

    > The average citizen seems to be fairly poorly informed that taxes on the rich have fallen really dramatically in the past 40 years. There's an observation.

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    Comment #49204583

    > but you can actually wield a vibe coding tool with skill. There's nothing stopping you from looking at the code It’s hard to give something like “vibe coding” a rigid definition,…

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    Comment #49171921

    Do not try this at homes that belong to other people.

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    Comment #49167167

    https://youtu.be/nepKKz-MzFM

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    Comment #49077629

    I like the idea that Mr. Amodei holds these beliefs because he wants to safeguard democracy as much as the next guy. I just don’t find it believable.

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    Comment #48942383

    > But that's not how the law sees it, and I grudgingly accept that I think that is sort of their point. There was one thing that you, I, and millions of others would call infringem…

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    Comment #48209436

    Being a for-profit company does not automatically give you a free pass to do anything in the name of profit and claim immunity if your actions harm certain people. Individuals can …

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    Comment #48153264

    He's just awesome.

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    Comment #48067153

    The in-house web design team (if there is one) must've had the time of their lives.

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    Comment #48039651

    "Output-competence decoupling" is my new favorite keyword.

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    Comment #48037057

    It feels like I will forever mourn the totally self-inflicted loss of the Internet. I feel like I will never get over it, so much so that I wish I had never experienced its (brief)…

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    Comment #47840662

    To me, Tim Cook has turned Apple into a company that is both “doing amazingly well” and “in urgent need of a radical change in direction” at the same time. We’ll see how the new CE…

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    Comment #47725603

    I find myself resenting him and his ilk on a daily basis for what they did to the computing space which was once sacred to me with their profiteering. But nothing justifies violenc…

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    Comment #47724561

    I'm not sure what these people who have strong opinions like this think Openclaw is, but to me, it's a product with 1) a somewhat easy to setup prompt passing wrapper that can span…

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    Comment #47669523

    As much as I dislike what AI slop is doing to visual design, I wouldn’t mind seeing Adobe get hurt for being the comically terrible company it is.

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    Comment #47588631

    Well, whatever Oracle is doing, which brings us back to a question very similar to your original one.

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    Comment #47308837

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift

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    Comment #47297730

    Totally agree. Speech is powerful and it will always have its place. It will continue to evolve and become far more useful than it is today. But at its core, it remains a highly lo…

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    Comment #46768000

    I always scaffold for AI. I write the stub classes and interfaces and mock the relations between them by hand, and then ask the agent to fill in the logic. I know that in many case…

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    Comment #46741836

    As much as I want to buy into the premise, the article’s tone is so aggressively optimistic it feels like it was written on cocaine.

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    Comment #46421864

    Although Flash really sucked as a technology, it did inspire a lot of visual artistry on the web. Half of the cool stuff you saw on StumbleUpon was made with Flash by people who we…

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    Comment #45866290

    > This website has been temporarily rate limited Although being stuck at loading something was reminiscent of my early internet experience in a way, the site’s backend seems to be …

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    Comment #45286197

    Do not use Slack.

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    Comment #44076006

    He even got hansmayer's original comment flagged. Truly a champion of the open web we should all be backing!