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Just more evidence that eng managers (not product managers) and the myriad layers of executives are a waste of time and money. Engineers don't need babysitting. They don't need titles and they don't need someone running interference if people just leave them the fuck alone.

Give them a product goal and they will accomplish it. Tell them what you want to track and they'll figure out how to track it. Tell them what your long term vision is and they'll set you up for it.

Let us do our work and we'll do it well. Stop micromanaging engineers and stop telling us how, and instead, tell us what. This is software: it doesn't take a ton of people to make a product that's profitable. Stop burning capital on useless people.

On your second point, that might be a little less of a concern. Granted there can be dark places anywhere, they're _so much easier_ to find online, and have to potential to be so much more reinforcing for problematic behavior.

I would assume you would use the LLM to not only check the source exists but check that the citation referenced actually says what the author says it does. That's not something you can do heuristically, I would think.

To me, this is exactly what LLMs are good for. It would be exhausting double checking for valid citations in a research paper. Fuzzy comparison and rote lookup seem primed for usage with LLMs.

Writing academic papers is exactly the _wrong_ usage for LLMs. So here we have a clear cut case for their usage and a clear cut case for their avoidance.

They're starting to up their quality. Frankenstein and Death by Lightning were two standout successes recently.

That said, I'm more uncomfortable with the continued consolidation of media ownership and more outsize influence of FAANG tech over media.

I think it's more about enforcing having easy mechanisms to opt out, which seem to be absent with regards to AI integration.

It's better to assume good faith when providing a counter argument.

Had the same issue switching to cursor. Cmd + k multiple selection skip is now no longer the key map. Drives me fucking nuts.

Oh, now I have a name for the epidemic pervasive through our company.

Almost all of the tech debt we have was introduced by leadership guidance to ignore. And all additional debt to manage it or ameliorate it (since problems don't just go away) is also guidance from leadership to fast track fixes.

What happened to the days where software engineers were the experts who decided tech priority?

I would be willing to bet the current administration would in fact do whatever they could to undermine the dollar's value, including propping up a digital currency when it should fail.

> The illegal content was promptly removed from Archive.today after we notified them.

Everything else aside, this is a big issue for archive.today and makes it very difficult to defend its continued existence. Crap.

I think OP is sitting on some other product here that he hasn't figured out yet. It definitely isn't in the high-end luxury retail space, but it might be in B2C, think Home assistant or something akin.

Not trying to "gotcha" here, but are you using AI to converse?

How can we get away from this mindset as a society, where craft and art are sacrificed at the altar of "it's not monetarily worth it."

There's a fucking lot of things that are not worth it monetarily, but worth it for the sake of itself. Because it's a nice gesture. Or because it just makes people happy. Not to sound like some hippie idealist, but it's just so frustrating that everything has to be commoditized.

Are there no ads on the site?

One thing is not the other. A corporation is not a human (and no I don't care what Citizens United says). A corporation has no inherent rights.

I'm having a hard time following the through line on these first principles. Likely it's just a "me" problem because I have status quo system designs set in my head, but here are some ideas that seem conflicting to me:

> Hardware and software must be designed as one

In here, they describe an issue with computers is how they use layers of abstraction, and that actually hides complexity. But...

> Computers should feel like magic

I'm not sure how the authors think "magic" happens, but it's not through simplicity. Early computers were quite simple, but I can guarantee most modern users would not think they were magical to use. Of course, this also conflicts with the idea that...

> Systems must be tractable

Why would a user need to know how every aspect of a computer works if they're "magic" and "just work"?

Anyway, I'm really trying not to be cynical here. This just feels like a list written by someone who doesn't really understand how computers or software came to work the way they do.

No one is "putting up with it." We don't have a choice.

The way our government is designed right now, the populace doesn't really have elected representatives. More accurately, they have a corporate bought-and-paid for stooge that managed to be more likeable in a political race than their opponent, so we don't actually have anyone representing our interests _as a country_ at the federal level.

Their editorial department is an embarrassment imo. Sycophancy for conservatism thinly veiled as intellectualism.

> 5. Many Amazon features are available in that region first and then spread out to other locations.

This is the biggest one isn't it? I thought Route 53 isn't even available on any other region.

You're talking about currency formatting while they are talking about currency value. In essence, you're both correct.

They are correct in that if you're displaying a currency value, you have to know which currency it is in, right? It wouldn't make sense for the server to be "unaware" of the locale of the value.

That said, your comment sidesteps that issue and addresses how the number itself is displayed, since ultimately the value itself is a number, but different locales display numbers differently.

So the person you're responding to is asking: since the server ostensibly already knows which currency it's in, shouldn't it already be formatting the value appropriately, and that's more a question of where one thinks localization formatting should ultimately live in web app context.

> you can never plan on using it

In off-roading, we have a similar rule with 4 wheel drive. You don't use it to go in, you use it to get out.

As someone who loves their laptop, I couldn't disagree more. I would absolutely love a single device with that kind of flexibility.

I've yet to see any company show actual factual revenue increase from employing AI. So I doubt they have created the internal analysis structures to ensure what exactly they're using AI for.

I understand the need to frame arguments in an objective and clinical way. At the same time, it's frustrating because it just feels like being so distant emotionally doesn't drive deep enough into the way the current environment shakes so many people to their cores. It's an egregious assault on individual experiences and there's no real way to sugarcoat that.

You can deport illegal immigrants without taking away their dignity and without frightening the ever living shit out of everyone. But this isn't that. The intention is fear.

There is only one "side", and they're die-hard. The left is a rag-tag group of misfits who simply don't identify as conservative for one reason or another, which is part of the reason it's so hard for the democratic establishment to find a message that resonates with such a varied and untethered group.

So no, no one is talking about "sideS." A single, cohesive group of people has been building an unearned narrative of persecution and victimhood as a pretext to lash out at and antagonize every person who isn't them.

I was so surprised in BotW and TotK to see NPCs duck, huddle, gasp and otherwise react to odd shit you might be doing. Also in dialogue, do contextual things like talk about the weather and time.

I would love to see a Zelda game implement LLM dialogue for random inconsequential dialogue or relating dialogue to the game context.

It feels like the difference between someone painstakingly brushing away eons of dirt and calcification on buried dino bones vs just picking them up off the ground.

In the former, the research feels genuine and in the latter it feels hollow and probably fake.

> Starbucks in the UK don’t sell cake pops! Do a deep investigative dive

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I used to play games on my computer a lot. Not so much anymore, don't really want to lock myself in a room alone and play games. I have kids and a wife, and it feels isolative.

But those days I would, and often the hardware I had was underpowered to be able to experience the game in its full glory. I would often spend hours and hours just honing settings and config and environment to get the game to run at peak capability on my machine.

At some point, I would reach a zenith. Some perfect arrangement of settings and environment that gave me a game running at top quality on my machine (or as close to top as I could get). The experience for me is joyous. So enjoyable that I often didn't even play the game except maybe to test the boundaries of its performance at that level.

Reading this article made me sad for people who don't put in work for some sort of accomplishment that amounts to nothing. And it made me think of my own experience with it. Accomplishment for its own sake is still accomplishment. And it's still self realization, which is important to existing.

Yeah they point to Chinese work culture but I think it probably resembles more Japanese work culture where you're just filling a seat until your boss leaves.

> Another purposeful animation is this subtle scale down effect when pressing a button. It’s a small thing, but it helps the interface feel more alive and responsive.

If you haven't watched the Half Life documentary, I can't recommend it enough. In it Gabe Newell talks about the way he wanted the game to be different from games that came before it in that you could interact with things around you so you felt like you were actually in with and interacting with this world. He then related it to a psychological concept (maybe associated with self realization or external validation) and how as humans we crave the kind of physical objective feedback as recognition of our existence and how important and valuable that is. Really a neat idea and whether or not the science is sound, there is something immensely satisfying about interacting with virtual objects and having them respond in a physical manner that replicates physical reality.