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badrequest··on AI Is Defeated in Hollywood–But What About Music?
Genuine inquiry: are there broad-reaching unions in the music industry involved in creative work? I know they exist for things like stagehands, not sure if they exist for songwriters (who might be covered under the WGA agreement) or other producers.
badrequest··on Map Men: Undersea Cables
Map Men is such an underrated YouTube channel IMHO. Consistently informative and cleverly humorous.
badrequest··on Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online
"I care more about revenue than most people" is a very nice way to phrase "I don't give a rat's ass about the user, I want my money!"
badrequest··on Show HN: Bigcapital - A open-source alternative to QuickBooks
Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software.

I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. Required running a few different Typescript servers, a Clickhouse instance, Redis, MySQL, the lot of it. I'm sure it was a fully-featured service that made adequate use of those resources, but it also reminded me of why people pay out the wazoo for DataDog: nobody wants to manage all that stuff!

EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis. There doesn't appear to be any explanation in the deployment docs for why all three are necessary.

badrequest··on Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic
You can enter a DPA (data processing agreement) with OpenAI that forbids subsequent training on submitted content.
badrequest··on Show HN: Summary Cat, a YouTube Video Summary Generator
It literally says in the original post that it only works for English videos.
badrequest··on Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
I use sqlc and it makes this a non-issue.
badrequest··on Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Please point to when Go has broken backwards compatibility.
badrequest··on Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
I write Go every day, and can count the number of times per year I have to involve an `interface{}` literal on one hand. Unless you're doing JSON wrong or working with an API that simply doesn't care about returning consistently structured data, I can't fathom why you'd be using it "all over the place."
badrequest··on Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Are you suggesting Rob Pike has no experience designing a programming language?
badrequest··on Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
I also can't imagine a case where it is useful or even truly intended to rely on this behavior.
badrequest··on static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content
People are allowed to write code/tools that are useful to only themselves. They're also allowed to post about these tools. Nobody is going to make you use them.
badrequest··on RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE
When Goland launched it wasn't that much different from IntelliJ IDEA with the Go plugin. In the intervening years it has come to feel like a significantly better product than that combination.
badrequest··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
So to have an old phone that is still secure you have to know how to flash an OS onto a phone?
badrequest··on US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art
If I generate a base image with Midjourney, and then apply a mild gaussian blur in Photoshop to a 10x10 pixel space within that image, can I say I've created it? If not, why not?
badrequest··on Domain Registrars Which Developers Recommend
I'm sure Cloudflare provides a great service, but putting both DNS services and domain registration under one umbrella feels like too large a single point of failure to me. Switching registrars is super annoying (I'm so glad I didn't trust Google Domains long-term for anything important)
badrequest··on Google pledges $20M for responsible AI fund
"Google gives lobbying firms $20M to make boogeymen out of the independent development of AI models"
badrequest··on Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: It’s probably not going to work out
Everyone I've ever interviewed who currently works at Amazon is desperate to leave an environment ripe with overwork, backstabbing, and nasty office politics. You create the culture you want.
badrequest··on This isn’t the way to speed up Rust compile times
/shrug He is to me.
badrequest··on Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities
Since when are highways more important than the first amendment?
badrequest··on Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities
What is unpeaceable about gathering on a highway?
badrequest··on FP-Go: Functional programming library for Golang
It feels like they buried the lede, because the referenced Go code is horrendous. I'd be afraid to put that on the front page of my repo, too, if my library lead to code that reads/looks like that.
badrequest··on Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
> Python made it through a backwards-incompatible source change.

It took them a decade and permanently tarnished their perception with many programmers. They "made it through" in a similar way to how cancer survivors enter remission.

badrequest··on Speed Test
I ran the test from Austin, and it showed the test server as located at the Dallas Airport. I wonder how they decided on which landmarks to represent each data center.
badrequest··on Go 1.21 Released
I've seen the API, and it's not either of those things if you've already used a structured logger?
badrequest··on Go 1.21 Released
I am really excited to start using the new structured logger.
badrequest··on Austral Programming Language
You might, but I don't. In the argument `--entrypoint=Hello:main`, where does `Hello` come from? Is it some root module? What about `main`, is that some default, or the name of a file without an extension? This strikes me as just enough verbosity to be confusing, and not enough to be explicit.
badrequest··on Mold 2.0
Are there available benchmarks around how much the performance changes?
badrequest··on Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos
OP didn't suggest it was any of those terms.
badrequest··on Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI
American produce aisles have these as well, but now I have to create the waste of a printed sticker and most likely a bag as well to get groceries I could have otherwise purchased by weight.
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