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residentmarchant ,

Not sure if sarcasm, but the article is actually super insightful into a few different methods bad actors could use to accomplish the same feat (short of giving them a formula, from what I can read, but I’m not a battery maker)

residentmarchant ,

Are you like building a mobile app or have 100k tests or is it just super slow?

residentmarchant ,

Open tiktok or shorts or whatever vertical video platform you prefer and scroll like 5 times, you’ll be bound to experience it.

residentmarchant ,

Nothing says boomer more than warm, raw Jimmy Dean’s!

residentmarchant ,

What can a box of cereal cost, $30?

residentmarchant ,

Ooo, candy!

residentmarchant ,

Also a good use case for a government-developed app. They have the most up to date access to satellite photos (likely already paid for other departments to use, too) and a desire to make their fisherman more efficient.

residentmarchant ,

I’ve had my bike(s) stolen a few times.

It really sucks since usually I’m expecting to be able to bike somewhere (much faster than driving or public transport in my city) and can’t so I end up being late to whatever I was going to. Not to mention the whole process of buying a new bike, a new lock, new lights, etc.

I’m pretty fortunate in that it doesn’t ruin me financially to buy a new $400 Craigslist bike plus $100 in accessories but I would rather not do it every ~2 yrs or so

I’ve heard some people say that they feel violated because someone took their personal stuff, but I guess I just see it as the cost of locking your bike up in public in the city.

residentmarchant ,

I wish this happened more often! Why not infuse art into routine notification lights/bells?

residentmarchant ,

Fair point! I figured the money thing but didn’t think about the standardization thing

residentmarchant ,

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

residentmarchant ,

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a “Pugina” was, should have just clicked the link

residentmarchant ,

As compared to a recall and re-fitting a fab, a class action is probably the cheaper way out.

I wish companies cared about what they sold instead of picking the cheapest way out, but welcome to the world we live in.

How did you get into coding/programming?

I’ve always had trouble getting into coding/programming because I’ve never truly dedicated myself to it. Mostly, this is because I kinda always lose momentum to learn it. I’m a heavy FOSS user; I love coreboot/Libreboot and am interested in getting into firmware development. I’ve already helped test hardware for...

residentmarchant ,

I feel like you’re trying to fight an uphill battle. I find it’s always easiest to learn in a way that motivates or invigorates me.

For example, I wanted to play games with my friends so I got into hosting a Minecraft server. It was hell at first to learn all the individual pieces, but I was motivated and it led me down the path of learning networking, basic server client architecture, and performance monitoring. That kind of spiralled out into making my own plugin, too. Despite the fact that I never ran a server with more than 5 active players or finished my plugin, it sent me down a path learning tons of new stuff because it was fun for me.

I transitioned into webapp development later on by trying to make an idea I had come to life. This was well before I had even heard the word “startup” and I had no business sense, but I wanted to make something and was very motivated to hack my way through it. I didn’t finish that either, but I still use those skills I learned today.

residentmarchant ,

Seems like it could be converted to a vending machine pretty easily if you could add your own OS

Already has security, waterproofing, payment processing stuff, and a screen to choose your item.

residentmarchant ,

And they’re making things worse as we use less and less paper at the same time… Geniuses

residentmarchant ,

“the dotcom crash is when the proto-humans lost all their money and regions that they called ‘countries’ devolved into chaos”

residentmarchant ,

Do people ever post real content there…? I’m concerned if so

residentmarchant ,

What did you prefer? Lenovo?

residentmarchant ,

This has strong Always Sunny energy

residentmarchant ,

I don’t know anything about how it works, but I assumed it was absorbed by the skin on your head not the actual hair.

I still doubt that putting vitamin whatever on your head everyday will actually make a difference

residentmarchant ,

I know how to read them, but I still always read the top tweet first, then the original tweet, then the top tweet again…

I know, I’m dumb

residentmarchant ,

The “article” is like 100 words and just restates the title in more words.

Maybe the only information it adds is that they won’t target passengers under 18

residentmarchant ,

It’s truly amazing…they must stand at the front of meetings and just ask “how do we make our passengers hate us most?”

Maybe I don’t understand the economics of this move, but are they really going to make that much more money from targeted ads? If it’s double the price, I assume it’s worth it, but if it’s a ~10% gain it’s just dumb.

residentmarchant ,

Basic economy will eventually only let you select any ad in their library. Actual content is for regular economy passengers only!

residentmarchant ,

The funny thing about this ad is that it’s already lodged deep in my brain and anytime someone says they have a headache I think about it

residentmarchant ,

No, no, no, Rust is so good it doesn’t even let you create race conditions!

residentmarchant ,

Just…uhh…move to a place that has a balcony?

residentmarchant ,

WW3 material for New Yorkers, right there

residentmarchant ,

Stremio + Torrentio has changed my life recently!

Tons of tutorials online and it’s dead simple to set up. Takes ~ 5 mins

I have some family members that have HBO and Hulu that I borrow logins for, but I never visit the apps directly anymore, it’s just not worth it when you can get all the content all in one place with no hoops to jump through

residentmarchant ,

But act now and get AdamEatsAss Basic with 5 min unskippable ads for only $4.25

residentmarchant , (edited )

Care to share some of your favorites?

One of my favorites recently has been Djesse Vol. 4 by Jacob Collier

residentmarchant ,

This was actually the whole original point of Duolingo. The founder previously created Recaptcha to crowd source machine vision of scanned books.

His whole thing is crowd sourcing difficult tasks that machines struggle with by providing some sort of reason to do it (prevent spam at first and learn a language now)

From what I understand Duolingo just got too popular and the subscription service they offer made them enough money to be happy with.

residentmarchant ,

This is almost an accidental case study in what the most popular platform is at any given moment! I wonder which one is next?

residentmarchant ,

Good thing my company just switched from their service! Their customer service was truly awful, too.

residentmarchant ,

No, it says that making an effort requires no talent.

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residentmarchant ,

I’ve thought about this a bit (but by no means extensively) and I feel like the stakes are different for tech companies because growth doesn’t require as much capital as a non-tech business.

For a SaaS tech company to scale from 10 users to 1000 users doesn’t mean a bunch more sales people and a new factory, it means having a great product and turning on new servers, likely only incurring a higher hosting bill from AWS (or similar).

In that sense, I feel like it’s easier for the sentiment to be “we’ll be better off with 1000 more users” over and over again until people start to want to optimize the business. Which means doing more traditional “shareholder value creation” that big companies do today.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see it happen, but i think tech just scales so differently and easier than other business types.

residentmarchant ,

While very cool, I have to say I was not expecting the stripteases in all of his videos

residentmarchant ,

How are you raising that kind of capital in this environment!? I can only dream of it!

residentmarchant ,

In this rare case, I would totally suggest you read the article. It has the perfect amount of humor mixed with shocking facts (revealed via email evidence from the Google antitrust case) and it wraps it all up in a way that’s easy to understand.

residentmarchant ,

Holy shit this would have been an amazing line for Micheal Scott to say

residentmarchant ,

The best part of starting a new job is that you don’t have years of built up “status checkins” that we’re never cancelled for some reason.

residentmarchant ,

I think it’s because a lot of people though: “hmm, yea, that checks out for a reddit mod”

residentmarchant ,

I feel like this section is rather disingenuous for the article author to just drop without mentioning that this is how all machine learning models are trained. The idea is that now (and for the next year or whatever) it’s trained manually until the system is good enough to do it on its own with a good enough accuracy rating to not lose money.

Now, since Amazon is shuttering this, it’s totally possible that they determined they’d need too many years of training data to break even, but at the very least this is standard industry practice for any machine learning model.

residentmarchant ,

They would rather spend a cool Mil or whatever the contractor over-charged for this instead of a few salaries on people who can argue with pharma over prices. It’s a sad state of affairs

residentmarchant ,

Agree completely, this is how every machine learning system is built! Maybe this one was taking too long, but that’s exactly what beta’s are meant to prove.

residentmarchant ,

I find if I write one or two tests on my own then tell Copilot to complete the rest of them it’s like 90% correct.

Still not great but at least it saves me typing a bunch of otherwise boilerplate unit tests.

residentmarchant ,

They put their best high school interns on it! What more could they do!?

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