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    Comment #48992354

    > Being told that 'you should be happy without owning' to a party that can't afford to own by another party who is actively scooping up the same resource can feel extremely invalid…

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    Comment #48949938

    How do we know, or would Feynman know, that they can count while reading and not just that counting and reading are simple enough tasks broken down into discrete steps that our bra…

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    Comment #48949769

    Knowing the variety of lives lived on earth as we speak, I'm fairly certain the first space born generation would adapt to it. Provided the Earthlings that were sent along don't le…

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    Comment #48868803

    It'd be even funnier if the 'message' was a text sent from their iphone.

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    Comment #48765723

    > most of them fail to hit a hundred views per video. I get your point, but many of them fail to hit some hundreds of views due in large part to all of the large, professional chan…

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    Comment #48736719

    > Should I capture the increased output You do capture the increased output by benefiting from a society where the cost to build safe buildings has drastically reduced. Just becaus…

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    Comment #48735871

    Clearly those in floors 1->7 were less important and thus allowed to take the day off and/or work remotely, right?

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    Comment #48735529

    I'm not fully aware of the tech here, are those posts flagged as 'Intolerant' by bsky or by the protocol itself?

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    Comment #48722038

    Sometimes places close streets for traffic control. The 'main' roads end up getting backed up and then people naturally start drifting over to a bunch of side-roads to get to the d…

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    Comment #48308504

    Interesting. We use Kiro here and looking at the public pricing subscriptions and it's benefit to my workflow, it is clearly a significant productivity increase per dollar spent. A…

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    Comment #48251661

    Yes, lambda's and our dev's use mac's so it enables that. We deploy some apps to some unix based server as well but the company is mostly windows servers anyway.

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    Comment #48196604

    Sure, some do. But also... I use Kiro. I open a terminal into a folder where my repo is. I run kiro-cli. I don't know if it has access to the credentials file in my .aws directory.…

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    Comment #48179269

    > My mother is in her 60s and uses Gemini every day. If your mother is at all like my mother, she isn't burning through nearly as many tokens as developers who are utilizing AI eff…

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    Comment #48094430

    > you need to micro-manage it. It is significantly easier to micro-manage an AI than a suite of junior developers. The AI doesn't replace a principal engineer, it's replacing junio…

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    Comment #48050601

    People think money is enough because they look at their lives and think 'how could I afford kids? Clearly I need money to do that.' and they don't think 'if I had extra money, woul…

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    Comment #48035553

    > nakedly hypocritical How is it hypocritical? If in the old world, the very important process that used up a lot of time and benefited greatly from no distractions was the actual …

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    Comment #48013906

    > Having passwords on post-it notes does make certain types of attacks much easier. It also makes other attacks much harder. Namely I don't need to worry about some zero-day in my …

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    Comment #48009290

    Not necessary. But also, 'Not necessary' doesn't mean 'not worth subsidizing'. If you think the government finds value in having a connected population with easy access to informat…

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    Comment #48009227

    > indirect economic impact of travel Like what? Nearly all 'goods' are going to travel more efficiently by rail and truck. And I say nearly all to cover the outliers like maybe an …

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    Comment #47933941

    People in power want the information to identify a narrower set of people who may have been pregnant and then did not have a child and so may have had an abortion. And facebook doe…

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    Comment #47875143

    > the app on the device does not run. That explains an oddity I was experiencing. Work uses Webex. I had work webex installed on my phone. My password changed on my account in the …

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    Comment #47853763

    > The visual risk of walking out without paying is much greater than the risk that anyone actually investigates AND tries to track him down for it. So scan everything, then put it …

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    Comment #47833758

    > Wait, so.. how are we supposed to test Intel builds of our macOS apps from now on? Isn't this a general form of 'how do we deal with the transition from a to b?' If your client's…

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    Comment #47752506

    Why not? That continent is not their target audience. It probably wasn't worth the effort to block foreign countries just from random unnecessary compute cost to serve a site to th…

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    Comment #47618417

    Yes, great response. But is the failing here an individual one 'This person is bad at their job and needs more training/be replaced' or a company one 'This company only hires bad p…