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calvinmorrison

2,696karma·2,275submissions·December 11, 2018
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I built a Erlang based chat server implementing a JMAP extension that Claude wrote the RFC and then wrote the server for
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I wrote a Cash flow tracking finance app in Qt6 using claude and have been using it since Jan 1 to replace my old spreadsheets! https://git.ceux.org/cashflow.git/ …
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perhaps us mere mortals should petition our lawmakers to ban mass surveillance.
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Can I just get Joe Camel and smoking sections back please? Every gas station in this traditional blue law state has beer and slot machines now! Bring back Joe Camel!!
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More like the government is treating this like the near term weapon it actually is and, unlike the Manhattan project, the government seems to have little to no control.
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mark my words, they will burn at some point. The government can nationalize it at any moment if they desire.
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funnily enough, they get designated spots and they still just stop in the middle of the street
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funnily enough, buses in philadelphia are IMO pretty nice. Especially the current fleet. No more hiking up narrow stairs. They sit low to the curb, easy on and off, go to a lot of locations, and they&…
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In the UK Chinese cars are hitting 10% of total cars sold not just imports
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The US auto market is like the UK in the 80's. As the UK is flooded with Chinese appliance cars - I seriously doubt that VAG or anyone else can stop them. It's over for domestic automotive …
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No i mean, 'a company you own'. At the end of the day you're just a worker getting paid to produce output. cross your I's and dot your T's and whatever else and then clock out…
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> By even flagging the issue and the potential fallout, I’ve put my career at risk. Simple as. Not your company? not your problem? Notify, move on.
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Twitter was for, almost ever, infected with basically spam and 'fake user counts'. These fake user counts were of course included in the numbers told to investors and it drove sales price of…
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no but if the old '10x developer' is really 1 in 10 or 1 in 100, they might just do fine while the rest of us, average PHP enjoyers, may go to the wayside
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worth a try!
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> it's helping lots of people, but it's also costing an extraordinary amount of money Is it fair to say that wall street is betting America's collective pensions on AI...
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Time for scott to make history and sue the guy for defamation. Lets cancel the AI destroying our (the plural our, as in all developers) with actual liability for the bullshit being produced.
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"is the US in a depression? 540$ for your first year to read FT!"
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I just sat on an enterprise onboarding call where their success engineer did in fact blame the AI and the client said "OK"
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how about "Active Development" without any progress in 3 decades
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> Toolchains on linux are not clear from dependency hell either - ever install an npm package. That's where I stopped. Toolchains on linux distributions with adults running packaging are just …
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> one-in-a-million events So we just made driving a million times more efficient for human labor input
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In fact, odds on someone who was complicit in developing many of the dark patterns that have run billions of dollars from consumers is reading this from their phone, thinking they should go to bed so …
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Email is about standards like browsers were about standards in 2017...
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I do. My aunt is a pattern designer for ... Shower curtains at Walmart. Yup she works for a supply house in NY that designs shower curtains and her main customer is walmart So ironic I guess
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Short sentences were popularized in writing only in the last hundred and fifty years. Styles change.
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i purchase a hell of a lot more stuff from Walmart than I do fine art.
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they hired artists and builders, they had a nice run of building domestic concentration camps that would make Nancy Pelosi scream ice faster than you could blink
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> A lot of societies have realized there is value in supporting art and culture. Basically outlandishly rich and gaudy benefactors have always had so much money they could employ OTHERS to do trivi…
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There's a great NPR piece about Vonnegut's daughter - who read and gave feedback on Slaughterhouse-Five. N VONNEGUT: And I have to say, when I was reading, he would be in the next room. If I…
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