quicklime
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Comment · 1 month ago
Again I’m not the person who wrote the comment, but I think they were exaggerating for effect and maybe lost the audience in doing so. While “computer” has meant the same thing for many decades now, the term “intelligence” really does seem like a moving goalpost?
Comment · 1 month ago
> A computer is not a mammal, no matter how much you twist a set of definitions.
I’m not the person you replied to, but I believe they’re referring to the occupation of “computer”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
So yes, at one time all computers were mammals.
The people who write dictionaries generally take a descriptivist approach, that’s why slang terms enter the dictionary after they start to become popular.
The state of the art of human knowledge would be another step ahead of the common use of any language.
Comment · 7 months ago
Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re not. But if you’re right i think it’s more “investor wishcasting” than developers.
It really doesn’t matter what us devs think. Investors and industry leaders have decided that AI development is the way forward and we’re going to be managing teams of agents from now on. So we’re not going back to fine-grained task management in jira - what used to live in jira will now live markdown files, and largely be written and read by agents.
Higher level tasks might go into something like Linear, who knows.
If the investors are wrong, and this is all fantasy, then maybe people will go back to Jira, and Atlassian stocks will recover.
Comment · 7 months ago
It’s not that their employees are no longer needed, it’s that their product (jira) is no longer needed. When you’ve got AI agents taking bigger and bigger steps, you don’t need to micromanage people through jira as much anymore. Companies will likely switch to something lighter.
Jira regularly makes it to the top of lists of the most hated enterprise software, there’s definitely appetite in the market for a replacement.
Their stock has been taking a huge hit over the last few months because of this: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/ai-is-eating-softw...
Comment · 7 months ago
According to this survey, Linear: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...
Comment · 7 months ago
The article says this has been running since 1963 though. The program would’ve been running through the post-war period of economic growth, as well as during the lost decades.
It also mentions that it was done to drive sales.
Comment · 8 months ago
Pretty cool that you have a system where poor people pay for your fraud protection, cash back and rewards!
Comment · 9 months ago
Paul Allen has this Dell monitor
Comment · 10 months ago
I used to do that too, but now I go to my spam folder and grab the latest phishing email and use the reply-to address. I like the idea of some sales guy following up a lead with a Nigerian scammer, but sadly I’ll never see the email exchange.
Comment · 10 months ago
Who considers them politically suspect? I’m guessing the people who live in the countries that use them don’t, and on the contrary would increasingly be seeing the USD as politically suspect.
Comment · 11 months ago
>> This North Korean world map is centred on the Pacific Ocean, which gives Korea a privileged position on the global stage
> This is normal for asian maps, Japan does the same thing for example.
This is common in Australia too.
Comment · 1 year ago
The title also mentions that it’s open source, so it could be marketing for potential contributors.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like the Mozilla deal is still ok? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-...