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ra_men··on Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
In a newborn? Infant? I think not. Nurturing is vital in the early stages of life.
ra_men··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
I’m guessing development is so slow that they have stacks of teams working in parallel to accomplish what 1 team could normally.
ra_men··on JCal – Jeffrey Epstein's Activities Recreated in Google Calendar
There's a more obvious explanation.
ra_men··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
AI is turning in to an addiction and crutch for some people.
ra_men··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
It feels like intellectual dishonesty when it's not declared at the top of the article. I have no issues with AI, when the authors are honest about their usage. But if you stamp your name to an article without clear mention that LLMs wrote at least a significant piece of it, it feels dishonest and I disconnect from it.
ra_men··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
Or honesty about the author. If it's written by ChatGPT, say that. If I start to read an article with the expectation of it being written by a human, then see something like this, I instantly check out.

> Last week, I updated our pricing limits. One JSON file. The backend started enforcing the new caps, the frontend displayed them correctly, the marketing site showed them on the pricing page, and our docs reflected the change—all from a single commit.

ra_men··on Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
Very few people are switching to Bluesky so they don't have their data scraped for AI models. X has become a messy cesspool of spammy ads, toxic comments, and an owner intent on making it his personal echo chamber.
ra_men··on Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' tech was powered by low-paid Indian workers: report
Confirmed from AWS side. It’s been like that from the beginning (outsourcing the checkout flow).
ra_men··on NYU Student Owns a $6M Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out
For most industries and investments, sure. Shouldn't matter who owns what.

Property and real estate have a different utility, in that it provides one of the most foundational needs a person requires. It's not the same as a chinese investment firm buying up various asset classes, non-native investors buying up real estate that could provide shelter to native citizens is a problem.

ra_men··on Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
I'd rather run IE on Windows 8 in a VM than go through a 4-5 min initial load.
ra_men··on Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
ra_men··on Seattle to permanently close 20 miles of streets to traffic
The roads aren’t major arteries, they’re pedestrian/neighborhood roads. This is to improve safety for the kids that are still out of school while everyone rushes back downtown.