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over the last few years there was a huge demand for analog synthesizers again after them being mostly replaced by digital synths since the mid 90s for 2.5 decades with users demand…

wasn't that always the reaction historically whenever people felt like their livelihood was threatened by new technology?

now back your claim with money and bet accordingly on betting sites to see if you uncovered some actual alpha here

i'd say having "invented" the internet is a bigger claim to have influenced people rather than looking good in a bikini. so fair game to cash in on that legacy.

nice, that's another 4 years of spacex data center usage runway!

yorck unlimited made living in berlin 10x as exciting but you could always be sure that the old lady loudly crunching on every.single.crisp. was there in the showing as well

i'm swiss and also own property in central berlin. while i was having insanely fast internet in all the places i lived in switzerland since the year 2000 (first cable, then fiber),…

"that gets you on", ie. the kind of personality that literally pays & hustles to be featured on such a list to fuel their own ego? colour me surprised people still seem to think th…

hackernews as a whole has the same issue software engineers have - overestimating one's wisdom and overapplying it with confidence to everything, resulting in horrible takes that m…

your trauma is my happy memory - being a lotus notes admin/dev consultant during my studies made me live a very comfortable life as a student!

very hard to feel sorry of you when countless professions experienced the same in the past - only that they were poor / working class and not overpaid software engineers at FAANG. …

it's a tough pill to swallow for developers, but nobody cares about your ability to write code. people care about you shipping something people want. i can easily hire 100 sweatsho…

so something that is a horrible store of value, has monumental transaction fees, non-instant confirmation and is associated by laypersons mostly with speculation, fraud & illegal t…

... where they come with their own idiosyncratic mental/moral flaws you gotta treat communities like newspapers - acknowledge their bias and diversify

going off my example - chatgpt knows everything about me including desires, goals and issues im struggling with. combine this with the fact that i have disposable income. i can't f…

... and it will turn into a "technically true" rat race between the main players on what the definition is exactly while you can ask any person on the street with no skin in the ga…

from my experience in the corporate world, i'd trust an excel generated / checked by an LLM more than i would one that has been organically grown over years in a big corporation wh…

... until reality catches up with a software engineer's inability to see outside of the narrow engineering field of view, neglecting most things that the end-users will care about,…

if only they could also anticipate what will happen once the tide is falling

i have aphantasia and extensive experience with psychedelics for me, as long as my consciousness is still in control, i have no closed-eye visuals akin to what others see. the more…

leaving the use case aside (i don't think it's needed, sensible or succesful) - i have to say i'm admiring how stripe manages to be forward thinking and takes a smart strategic pos…

sorry, but while it definitely looks better than it did in the 90s, it's neither a professional level design nor better than mac os. and you don't need to be a designer to see it. …

maybe i'm too cynical but to me this looks more like an orchestrated "win" story for the eu ecosystem with some backroom dealing/incentives and some ex-post rationalisation sprinkl…

personal trauma & anecdata from working in corporate innovation for many years

95% of any pilots at corporates fail, probably even more than that, you don't need ai for that