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Imagine a world where developers refused to build fingerprinting features.

Next-level elon defense here.

“Elon made an obvious mistake? Oh no, newb. Look on this other indicator that reinforces my bias.”

“There's nothing wrong with caring for your child. The cause of this situation is insufficient paternal leaves, not having and raising children.”

Tell me you’ve never been a working parent, without telling me…

AI plus serverless…without blockchain??

Surely the incentive mismatch isn’t this simple:

Big results are rewarded, the process is considered worthless?

So? I can punch a fish too.

Call me when they’re hyping a product they know is trash - then we’ll know they’re at human intelligence.

Never a bad time to remind yourself of what is at stake in a literal war, versus a company in survival mode.

Literal war: Many human lives - both combatant and non-combatant - and the future prosperity or collapse of all societies involved

Company in survival mode: for most employees, their income level this year.

Describing the operation of a software business as "Wartime" is nonsense.

Hacker News, where a fun fantasy game with zero world-modeling ambitions is criticized as a failed medieval simulation by software engineers who know little about anthropology/sociology/history.

“Unplugging the AI would force us to deal with our problems” doesn’t sound like a reason AI is mandatory.

If anything, it reinforces my impression that AI’s true application is allowing institutions to kick the can down the road further, just with a novel excuse.

Isn’t the root problem here municipal debt, and/or societal debt?

I am being downvoted, wee:

https://www.dw.com/en/the-truth-about-working-on-a-cruise-sh...

Look into what life is like for the staff.

A previous commenter mentioned that cruises (paraphrase) “lack the colonial feel of mexican resorts” which is a testament to the power of consumerist illusion.

“Most landlords are not complete assholes.”

Ummmm…

In my anecdotal experience, many New York City landlords don’t see their tenants as human beings, just a revenue source. Tenants complain? Maybe a city inspector shows up, a day or days later, so the landlord can turn the heat/water back on, and the inspector reports “no issue found.” People get mad and move out? New tenants pay an even higher rent! Heard horror stories about both individual and management company landlords. Can’t be the only city like this.

I’m pretty sure the long histories of social unrest under feudalism, the French Revolution, the mere existence of Marxism and Renter’s Rights Law, strongly beg to differ with your contention.

If you have a backlog of 4500 “developer years” worth of upgrades, lack of AI wasn’t the problem, and making some attention nodes go brr cannot solve the root problem.

Java is a super verbose language, yet keeps getting written because “everyone knows java.” Has the cost of maintaining Java finally reached such critical mass that only an LLM can affordably maintain it?

Have you tried ACA meetings?

adultchildren.org

It’s twelve-step based, but more focused on recognizing and managing one’s traumas. ACA can synergize nicely w/ therapy. Since it is technically free, it could be a useful companion to therapy, or even a substitute while professional is not available.

I am in US, but ACA is international.

I am a big believer in therapy, but it can be costly, and finding an effective therapist for you can be a difficult onramp to effective care. ACA + therapy has been a helpful combination for me.

trying to avoid Plaid.

Author refers to typescript code as “javascript,” considering the distinction no linger meaningful.

Perhaps a sign that it’s finally over, and typescript has won in the community.

Premise of the article is roughly: if all this litigation continues, the AI industry could collapse.

Serious naive question: How would that not be a desirable outcome for society? “AI” is becoming a scourge.

AI’s value-add that we truly need is just detecting cancer right? Obviously I don’t want anyone to die from cancer if they could be saved. But AI in cancer detection is a detection-rate booster: cancer can be detected without it. A non-AI process could try to recover some of the lost accuracy.

Weigh this against the misinformation potential of chatGPT, deepfake video fraud, discriminatory bias in ML model output, the surveillance potential of image recognition, addictive social media, the essential inscrutability of model output… (i could go on, but the research & reporting on AI as we have wielded it is voluminous)

So if litigation kills AI, isn’t that cause for celebration, on-balance?

Or shit, can’t we just legislate easier usage regulation for lifesaving medical data, so we can keep the cancer detection use cases and let the rest of the AI gold rush die?

right, good call

I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature?

I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway.

Others don't seem to agree though.

Now that generics are in beta, here's a library for those who want ergonomic slice/map wrappers that make chainable operations easy.

Or, a gateway drug for ECMAscripters who can't drop their `.map(x => y).filter(x => y).reduce(x => y)` habit.