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Sometimes, yes. Other times, no. It depends who's leveraging the technology to write these things. Though even in the positive outcome cases, the volume alone is suffocating. My br…

I've noticed early into AI adoption in the workplace that some colleagues took advantage of the technology by appearing to be hyper-proactive; New TODs weekly, fresh new refactorin…

It's as if what William Gibson wrote about in Idoru has already become a reality. Soon we will see celebrity AI gossip.

Large institutional landlords use Equifax data, TWN, and other 3rd party financial tracking systems to dynamically price renters across the board; new rentals, security deposit, re…

Here in Ontario at least, when you transfer ownership of a bike, you have to get it certified for safety. In my case, the bike was an '81 xs400 which required a fork seal replaceme…

I'm currently enjoying Zero to Production in Rust. It assumes you already have some experience building production-ready systems, and applies rust-specific syntax and concepts to t…

Personally, I take it seriously and I think that we at least have the opportunity to make our concerns known here as well. To boil down my job title would reduce me to a computer p…

I think the intention was to spark conversation loosely around SPAs vs SSR. It seems we're at yet another turning point and frankly, I'm enjoying the debate.

It's nice to read that someone else has had a positive experience with the zero2prod book. I'm working my way through it and my impression so far (even after reading the official "…

It's actually quite simple even without using some of the advanced features: What I do is create a directory structure for each domain as I explore them. I.e. Toplevel: - Work -- J…

Do we work for the same company? :P Confluence has been the bane of my attempts in finding any relevant docs. Which one is the source of truth? Which one was a draft written by an …

I've been considering htmx for some of our more complex forms with a lot of colocated information. One approach I have in mind is using a small frontend state management library li…

More code results in more bugs. You need to throw money at software developers to build something, anything really. Only then do you hire a 3rd party pen-testing company for a few …

I recently moved to a newly built condo in Toronto and there was a special resident onboarding email, which happened to include a promotional offer from Rogers, advertising a rock …

They legally have the right of way to build infrastructure to connect to newly developed, last mile locations? Interesting.

Admittedly I scrolled down to find the obligatory archive link to read this for free, but it's got me wondering now, how do the economist and other online publications make money i…

This is great, thank you. I love a good music exchange. And the comment below on Adam Curtis leaves me with hours of digging down this particular rabbit hole. Good stuff.

Interesting examples of related art. M.F. also mentions the paintings of Nigel Cooke in one of his writings > https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/paintings-by-nigel-cooke/ One music arti…

There's also this common obsession around Burial with music geeks that he (Burial) was so mysterious that no one ever knew who he was, or that he never gave interviews (except to M…

It's good to see the occasional Mark Fisher thread here. On the topic of Hauntology and lost futures, I think this guy does a great job of explaining it through the analogy of the …

What are the rules / law for identifying an instagram post as an ad? If this isn't enforceable then young people don't stand a chance against the insidious nature of marketing. In …

The fact that the messaging was there to begin with is the issue. People assume tech companies are immune from the law based on make believe claims that their ideals allow them to …

All these name drops makes me think we should have another "Best Sci-Fi" post/thread. I recall a past HN discussion based on top sci-fi according to reddit, which led me to Greg Eg…

Gibson and Stephenson have different styles of writing. The comments throughout this thread are evidence enough. I could see many liking one over the other so I have a hard time ta…

I've also been a developer for almost 10 years without any Computer Science training (aside from my college diploma). I've also felt the same way about not needing any further form…