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> We were downstream of the business model; our job was simply to wait and prepare for its eventual success.

Hard thing to learn and to stomach. The you are essentially a few nodes downstream from the decision makers who commissioned the software in the first place. They have some long-term view even if you can identify in the short-term that things won't be working out well long-term. Hard to reconcile that with a steady paycheck.

You can then get yourself into product decisions, to try to steer the direction a bit, working wirh sales, but that has all its own issues too (the article mentions "selling whatever we thought would entice the salespeople enticing the salespeople enticing the brands." at one workplace)

How does anyone find fulfillment when this is the long-term prospect at most companies for software?

How do you configure the backups with NixOS? Didn't see that explained in the article at all

Id caution against using Cloudflare for DNS. They rewrite your CAA record so multiple other CAs can sign certs on your domains. It's non-obvious unless you query your own CAA record

I tried getting it to run on a Pixel 3a and struggled for hours, eventually gave up (albeit I tried running it with Wayland and Niri which seems less tried-and-true).

Is all your browsing history already with chatgpt or something?

This has an MCP server specifically so a workflow like that would work for you. This is just made to gold the data, and I'm a human accessible way should your AI fail you

> ranking comfort instead of what you expected to help most

But don't we, in real times, turn to the people we're comfortable talking to? We are not machines ranking the effectiveness of our peers for best outcome, though some of us surely still weigh that! It would be nice to go the most effective route, but sometimes that brings a lot of pain, judgement, or unforseen externalities.

(and hopefully we pick our close social relationships to make us more effective too!)

> "according to your community norms ..." ... without much real reveal

It puts data to what our understanding of those norms are. I don't know if there's a bigger reveal than "yeah, people generally are pretty comfortable with their spouse"

Tbh I was surprised anyone would/could open up and have an emotional conversation with a neighbor (when looking at risk vs reward). But, there are a lot of types of neighbors too.

Gave me a laugh, but comment was also originally dead'd because I assume sounds too much like AI. (For obvious reasons)

Perhaps they can't or refuse to consider ethical arguments surrounding it? It's just tech as-is to them, without externalities (which is disingenuous).

Feels like a language limitation to me. It is hard to describe succinctly the complexities of AI use that preserve a human element or recognizes externalities. The wording is not immediately obvious and require subtlety that I rarely see in HN, unless it's about the tech itself and it's minutae.

Curious to see if HN could have any kind of thoughtful conversation on it but so far I haven't seen one.

Fully accessible to all? Not when there's money to be made by putting it behind a paywall. Unless it's served with ads I guess.