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Comment · 1 month ago
If this got onto Netflix, might have a wider audience
Comment · 1 month ago
So what should those in the US and overseas do? Buy things and hoard before they get expensive? Buy gold? Something else? Taking a loan might be bad.
Comment · 8 months ago
Conditioning the crowd gradually towards being monetised in some of the most egregious ways - first pay for the glasses, then pay with revelations of private life sold to government (ICE?), business (private insurance) and so on. Super evil.

And despite this, there is no strong will to detach from what they produce - in the beginning or later when it is considered like cultural fabric. That’s how good their tactics is.

And for the pay one gets working for them - screw the world! I won’t use it anywhere near my loved ones - but will build it

Comment · 9 months ago
By combining ai with space, in addition to any other plays that he might be playing around legal or financial areas, he's positioning (marketing) spaceX for the bandwagon that everyone else might jump into to deploy a space datacentre. He's providing the medium (spacex rockets) to realise this potentially unfeasible idea. He makes additional money that way - to then create a new type of money-making fuel after that. HN audience might be calculative - but the rest of the population is far less so.

This might also be a new vehicle to mask any space warfare technology deployments.

Comment · 11 months ago
Could someone help me understand. I looked at: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/s... it seems to support multiple modes.

I didn't quite get if Automatic TLS (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/s...) could use plain transfers.

So:

* Is it insecure by default or you have to be intentionally insecure?

* Why would anyone pick the flexible/potentially-insecure option?

Comment · 1 year ago
Curious why some of these posts are downgraded? Is that to be considered a rating of the company? Dislike for the advert because it misses some details expected? Etc

Would be good if the downgraders left a comment explaining.

Note: I am not a job poster and not affiliated with any hiring posts here

Comment · 1 year ago
First time coming across this project and it's amazing!! Disclaimer: not used it, but certainly going to try it.

Technology is too fragmented - day to day many of us depend on a ton of tools to go by our (work)days even for simple stuff. Log into console of X, Y & Z platform or tools (say X = Jira, Y = AWS, Z = repo) to introduce a new change/feature/bugfix whatever. Then switch to IDE of choice to eval code, then browser to read the docs, then Google/Claude to ask questions, and then be interrupted by a meeting, take notes, ... and on and on

I see an opportunity here using something like this to unify your entire workflows/data-from-tools/tools into a uniform system you can query to get answers without having to jump through hoops (and give up). It appears investing time in building a repertoire of tools with something of this sort helps one automate or quicken chores (at work or at home even?)

What else could you do with this apart from what's in the demos? Some "can it do this?" questions if anyone who has used this could helpfully answer are:

* organise meeting notes across various topics and auto-compile a searchable "decision log" that you can drill in to dive into the context at a future date?

* connect requirements (specified in excel) to JIRA tickets and Code? so you can jump back and forth in a single GUI

* Log hours you have worked on something

* create up to date management process reference / checklist along with escalation contacts, response templates, ability to engage others on roster, and later bring together all the information into a automated PIR timeline and other details

* display system metrics of deployed services in AWS based on complex rules and provide local alert

* maintain a schedule of your kid's swimming lessons

* Notion like "verification expired" notifications

* Live tables (say of stock market tickers)

Comment · 1 year ago
I know I won't be able to dig it up, but certain that I read this research paper where they concluded in words to the effect that jobs which require a bit of passion are the most underpaid/overworked - e.g. teachers, nurses, musicians, sports-people.
Comment · 1 year ago
Love it. I generally avoided excel when my previous role was a dev. Now, leading a team - I find it more useful as it's a little universe to add various computations (counts, min, max) of various sorts of data that I want to keep track across projects & create charts etc, create rapid UIs (project timelines etc) and easily change them when required, invite collaborators, use that to replace slides to drive meeting discussions

It's quite versatile. I had never considered this angle of using it to manage and sync with something external like Kubernetes here and love it.

I wish someone also solved the issue with excel around refactoring though - esp when cells are being used in formulas, if there was a "Find All References" or Cmd+SHIFT+F (global find) of elements used in formula (not their values) - it would step it up even more towards maintainability.

(I understand it buckles under huge datasets, but I believe that's really over-use of the tool)

Comment · 2 years ago
OPs blub I guess - which apparently happens outside of programming languages.

My blub was recently challenged when I recently learned about FreeBSD.

Comment · 2 years ago
This article is relating a bad experience with a push-the-envelope device on the bleeding edge, extrapolated to "Future of AI".
Comment · 2 years ago
I've completed a vocational course in Australia recently on woodworking - enough to land you an intern position at an actual shop.

Here's a few comparisons off the top (WW=WoodWorking, Soft=Software Dev/Engr):

* WW: must plan well. If you're working on a provided plank of wood, you can't "uncut" if you cut something shorter than should for example, Soft: iterative - and figure things out after some or none initial planning, and easily fix things later

* WW: higher risk of fatality/injury, Soft: relatively very low risk. Low liability for artifacts produced - but could serious affect users (e.g. cybersec).

* WW: expensive, non-scalable, Soft: scalable, non-expensive (unless u want expensive hardware)

* WW: visceral/earthy experience almost always - even on failed pieces, Soft: depends on what you produce

* WW: Tangible, Soft: Intangible

* WW: Can be repetitive - planing, jointing, routing, Soft: less repetitive

* WW: Creative, Soft: Creative

Comment · 2 years ago
Not knonwing Musk before, i was only exposed to the perception of him created by media. It seems like he has turned from someone reasonable to an idiot who is up his own arse now - with off-the-charts god-complex

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