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Comment · 1 year ago
I think it's a drivers market. When the ridesharing apps cannot afford to fire drivers in fear of losing market share, that allows the drivers to pull of scummy behaviour for maxing profit. I heard uber drivers go out of their way for 5 star reviews in America. Sounds like the balance of power is on the plaforms side over there and in some specific markets in Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
There is a reason to go the extra mile for juniors. They eventually learn and become seniors. With AI I'd rather just do it myself and be done with it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Eat less. But don't worry.
Comment · 1 year ago
It seems quite common. I happened to drive past one in Taiwan. It's still special so I don't think that meme applies.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was probably misusing the term in that case. I have a negative and pessimstic view about AI, but I think humanity will be fine.
Comment · 1 year ago
Mostly I just find discussions about/including it tiring, uninteresting and predictable.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is show HN. From articles and discussions it feels more than half being about AI. As an AI doomer the interesting content on HN has plummetted.
Comment · 1 year ago
That would already be great progress. For context Ubisofts the Crew shutdown only after 3 months of stopping sales.

It could also work as a deterrent on making dedicated servers only architecture. If you can disable dedicated servers instantly(instead of 2 years) but enable private servers that might be more cost efficient.

Comment · 1 year ago
Why not apply it to Saas? If you sold lifetime licenses and you don't want to run it anymore, just let your customers self host it. Even better if you can open source it.
Comment · 1 year ago
You shouldn't blame consumers that you failed to negotioate proper terms for your licenses. Maybe having legislation to point at will help you out to get more reasonable terms.
Comment · 1 year ago
It depends on the domain. Any complex long lived mutable state, precise memory management or visual rendering probably benefits from debuggers.

Most people who work on crud services do not see any benefit from it, as there is practically nothing going on. Observing input, outputs and databases is usually enough, and when it's not a well placed log will suffice. Debuggers will also not help you in distributed environments, which are quite common with microservices.

Comment · 1 year ago
Typically trains are powered from above, and subways are powered from the rails. Perhaps this is the distinction, rather than running underground.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd do separate one on ones. A big one gives off main character vibes.
Comment · 1 year ago
What would be the issue with global lock? I think repo creation is a very rare event when measured in computer time.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think he is implying that that is neutral, not a loss. It is opportunity cost.

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