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Why can I see other people's ball/cursor? Feels like that adds a ton of complexity to the project but like, what do I do with/gain from that?

I'd argue it's different because ephemeral, vps, baremetal, self-hosted, the skillset is still "managing a linux server" and the most radical shift is to an expectation that a serv…

There's already an obvious stench to "you should scale down your engineering team to a skeleton crew whose core competency is using our product, so that it's the only way to modify…

What's the market for linux users who want an electron app so they can vibecode in a visual studio fork but wont just build it themselves nor do they want to clone and build someon…

I used to drink a lot. I vaguely remember funneling a shitload of salt and lime juice into a bottle of whiskey to encourage a visceral repulsive reaction and help break the habit. …

social engineer: actually here's a personal anecdote loaded with goodguy words that inform you about how the thing I want you to think is correct. engineer: interesting. what probl…

Right now LLMs have a slight advantage over stackoverflow etc in that they'll react to your specific question/circumstances, but they also require you to doublecheck everything the…

This take shows up a lot and it's a bad one. "I can surround your child with dangerous unhealthy things and do my best to corrupt and poison them, there should be no limit to this …

We've had markov chain generators for a while, having enough computing power to grant them the power to regurgitate wikipedia reddit and stackoverflow content is not "a huge step t…

>The long term issue that many people don't seem willing to mention out loud is that we will eventually make humanity obsolete and robots will literally take control. what are you …

I think online matchmaking has absolutely destroyed people's ability to feel like they're good at any game. Like you'll never be a big fish in a small pond. If you played as much a…

I remember being in school and thinking that "what if my (color) is your (other color)" was a cool question, and then later I think I reasoned out that color is measurable so the a…

That makes sense; it's a predatory business model. It's like auto title loans. They want you corner you, offer you money when you're at your most helpless, then take your car away.…

"you can minimize the pain from overreach by thoroughly submitting to it so actually it's basically your fault if you don't like it"

What month was it? Because if it's summer in austin and you're standing around downtown then you probably are struggling in one way or another. Also downtown austin is disgusting; …

Print more money, that'll fix it

that doesn't explain why the white house doesn't see the need to regulate it - if anything it gives them more reason to.

When I was young, my brother knew a guy who was really into movies. If you wanted to know about a movie you couldn't remember, you would go talk to that guy. For a while, the inter…

it's not just a message board, it's an influence machine. They need to make sure the stuff they want people to think is posted often and has a big number next to it, they need to m…

If they kept their API open then by now the entirety of the site would be ai slop that was built with chatgpt and launched with the api. Then again most of what that site does is j…

idk man i bet you five bucks and a handshake it's just going to play out like the existing startup grift. There's an established player with institutional protections, then a scrap…

It's crazy how most political or economic systems would very obviously collapse in the real world almost instantly without some kind of voluntary moral contract (explicit or implie…

>some degree of salesmanship buddy every few weeks one of these bozos is telling us their product is literally going to eclipse humanity and we should all start fearing the inevita…

I sell widgets. I promise the incalculable power of widgets has yet to be unleashed on the world, but it is tremendous and awesome and we should all be very afraid of widgets takin…

It hasn't been like this for a very long time, but "You need to compile the kernel in order to get it to play sound" is still an incredibly effective attack because it puts advocat…