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we are on k9 now?

yeah but now you need 1GB of ram to run the weather apps so..

A device thats worse than the phone you already have, which is dead the second you stop paying your monthly OpenAI sub, and is useless if you decide you prefer other LLM provider. …

It’s no accident that the schmoozer media/real estate/car dealer/mining/energy guys in US wield more power than their wealth relative to SV VC bros would seem to merit.

And many start with a personality disorder already so it only compounds

I don’t even think most of it is deeply philosophical. They just got uberrich and now worry more about the concerns of the uberrich than the concerns they had when they were normie…

Yeah it's kind of comical the framing is that a device needs to be "revived" after four years. As SWEs we should probably all be a bit embarrassed for our trade, even in the allege…

Yes. These services allow mass employment of people who are more on the margin of society without any of the protections around minimum wage, working hours, benefits, etc because t…

Right, it's not the first time we've built upon a permanent underclass, but it feels like a quiet reversion that doesn't get a lot of attention. Arguably migrant workers working th…

I do worry that the “app / gig economy” independent contractors with weak i9 verification is basically trying to import the developing-world inequality permanent underclass service…

This compares to ~$200M in dividends they were paying while a public company

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That willingness is predicated on being at war with much weaker powers / enduring FAR lower casualty rates than Vietnam / Korea / world wars. The entire 25+ year GWOT era has resul…

Right I think its only an interesting argument in separating existential vs non-existential threats to the country. So it means we aren't fighting in Iran the way we would in defen…

Hey look on the bright side - every time we cut CDC staff by 25% or kick a 100K people off SNAP, we can afford a few more weeks of missiles.

Thats a particular type of insane that might have been fun to take the offer

One thing I've taken away in my career, interviewing every 3-5 years is that difficulty of interview & difficulty of job are uncorrelated. Often they are inversely correlated. Poss…

Good luck making my record player dial into the DRM server

This stuff is turning me into a physical media pre-2010s truther more and more by the day

> don’t necessarily agree with Jeff Johnson’s conclusion that major software upgrades are impossible on an annual schedule. Call me an old man, but I'm no longer sure that annual m…

Replacing “okay” with “safe” also fails https://imgur.com/a/PgCzK1H Kind of unbelievable 4 years into this hype cycle we still have basic issues like answering the inverse of users…

Right and someone in a hurry quickly checking their phone may read the affirmative response as an OK. It's worse on mobile with large text in my example - https://imgur.com/a/wvNsp…

The longer I work and the higher I go, the less I believe that we have a meritocracy. Directionally, yes.. but the higher you go the more nepotistic the world really is. And that's…

It's also very non-deterministic. Not a 100% failure rate, seems to go up&down with time, and varies depending on plant/animal combination

I think a lot has to do with both luck and power quality as well. When I got a new apartment ~10 years ago I filled it with LED bulbs. Mostly Philips hue, but also some generic stu…