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There are a lot of people declaring this, proclaiming that about working with AI, but nobody presents the details. Talk is cheap, show me the prompts. What will be useful is to check in all the prompts along with code. Every commit generated by AI should include a prompt log recording all the prompts that led to the change. One should be able to walkthrough the prompt log just as they may go through the commit log and observe firsthand how the code was developed.

> npx would resolve dependencies when the command is executed

I hate that this is becoming a thing. I was pretty miffed some time back when I realized go build just went ahead and installed a whole new version of golang on my machine. These are devtools ffs, why so much mollycoddling! And what happened to half a century of good conventions where the default is always to prompt?

Brands have started getting into ecommerce/d2c directly where earlier they left it up to distributors and third parties. Amazon needs to attract them because co-mingling is a strict no-no for them.

Did you ever wonder if it's cheaper because it's counterfeit? The counterfeit industry is huge in contract manufacturing. Designs are easily leaked and near lookalikes manufactured at whatever price point you seek. Sometimes they even claim they're manufacturing it in the same facility as the original brand. These goods have flooded the market for damn near every product out there and unless you can trace the entire supply chain you don't know what you're getting.

Journalists fucked up massively when they allowed sponsored content to masquerade as editorial content. Now people don't trust media as much as they used to and are moving to other sources to get their information. What journalists around the world need to do is come together and build consensus in the industry on separating sponsored content from their own. A tiny, fine print at the bottom of a full page sponsor is grossly insufficient. It has to be more explicit. Perhaps reserve colors and styles exclusively for indigenous content or frame all sponsored content in a clearly identifiable manner. One way or another, they need to figure out how to reclaim their reputation.

It may be effective by sheer force of adoption, but it's not well designed at all. It has never been through all its iterations, with each one imposing a new programming model on its users and I predict what we have today will not be the last!

It started simple and sound idea but had its quirkiness with shouldUpdate, didReceive, willUnmount. But that wasn't enough, to write decent applications, you need to do unidirectional flow. You can do that, all you need is actions, action creators and dispatchers! Now you have all this bloat that eventually leads to reflux. While you're tearing your head screaming "What the flux", redux comes along and says hey you know what, if you just write a giant switch statement, you don't need dispatchers. And everybody liked not having to read about dispatchers, so redux was here to say. If it gave more problems you can just create a toolkit around it. Besides, it claimed to be functional. Surely that means it works, right? Now you could rub shoulders with those cool clojure kids who seem to be getting all those high paying jobs. But the cool clojure kids are not impressed. They say, class is something you are, not something you write. So you hang your head in shame and promise to never write classes again. While you're untangling yourself from this mixin mess you got mixed up with, an epiphany hits you. If you can emulate a class using functions, then you don't have to write classes again! And so you finally get around to ridding yourself of classes. Sure it means you have to write more functions, and nested functions and wrap all your functions and shove the state away somewhere you can't see, but it makes everything functional, which means it works. Except for handling exceptions globally, you'll need to use classes for that. And by the way, don't worry about unidirectionality. Everything is asynchronous now.

This is cool. What are you using to trace data flow?

Have you seen carsized.com?

What was the joke?

Are you using an off the shelf model or have trained your own? What accents is it tuned for?

Acquainting people with consumer rights is a very positive thing! Why do you think otherwise?

Product management is what you want to do, project management is what you actually do, program management is what you say you do.

If these are already expensive, there must be a lot of value for the data itself? Why not make that your core offering? If you're able to automate the process and provide more data on top, you'll definitely have an edge over them.

Aren't there services that provide normalized financial data? I don't know about the UK, but I've seen in other markets. If your USP is more towards analytics than data wrangling, it might save you a lot of headache to offload that to someone else.

So many years of software development and we just haven't figured out a way to communicate project timelines cleanly across all parties. If leadership hears a project is going to take one year, what they actually hear is two years and panic, because that just won't fly. Management realizes this and says 6 months so they can win the project. Developers panic because they know it can't be done in 6 months, but management doesn't tell them in the hope that they rush and pull it through ahead of time. In the end the project most likely takes a year, leadership is happy but don't miss out on the opportunity to grumble about overshooting timelines which management aptly pass down to the poor developers who feel hard done by all of this. It's an unfortunate game of deception, mistrust and double-guessing which has no bearing on the outcome but to add some additional stress to everyone involved, and we just can't seem to get out of it.

It's the ecosystem. Without an ecosystem there will be less adoption and consequently less investment in the OS. Where I stay, so many services offered exclusively through Android/iOS apps with no alternative. Even government services are slowly excluding the web and becoming app only. There is an implicit expectation from everyone that one will have either an Android/iOS device and this only becomes stronger with time.

I don't know how many people realize but what can result from this can be very dystopian and is scary. But the best possible outcome from this I hope is that some day a wise government realizes how much of daily life is dependent on two corporations and passes regulations to standardize app runtimes. You should be able to publish applications that can run on any OS. Only then we'll see competition in the OS market.

The numbers would quickly be blacklisted by websites. You need a very large pool of numbers and make sure you don't reuse numbers too often. Not sure if it's practical.

If a country does not allow their citizens to exchange currency, then this is as good as a black market and comes with the same risks as obtaining currency through any other black market means.

How long do you intend to be on trt? I hear the body returns back to its previous low levels on stopping.

When did you previously have a stress test before this? Would you also mind sharing what your blood pressure levels were at?

Most people own a home for living and purchase it maybe once in their life time. It's the wealthy that engage in speculation and use real estate as an investment vehicle. This kind of behaviour creates an artificial demand for the resource raising its value.

The 67% ownership is also the figure that stands today as a result of purchases going back many decades during better times. As the report shows, ownership has been reducing successively with each generation even as the dependency on mortgage has been increasing. The ease, if not ability, of owning a home is definitely going down.

It's a phenomenon world over, a very direct consequence of wealth inequality which is increasing at similar rates everywhere. Even in the best countries, the top 10% holds 50% of wealth. The remaining 90% is completely priced out as the wealthy compete with each other raising prices up.

It's a marked failure of democracy that the 90% continue to get a raw deal for themselves and cannot manage to rally together and secure their interests. Shelter is probably the highest expense item for anyone. Reducing that would ease financial pressure immensely and uplift quality of life like no other single thing can. You would think it should be obvious that people make this their top priority and use their collective voting power to limit property ownership. But there is not a single example in any democracy where people have managed to do this.

I've come to believe that people rarely change through their life. I can't think of many people neither in personal nor in public life, where I've seen a fundamental change in value system. But people are really good at putting up a persona that they want others to see. It takes a long time to really understand someone and who they really are.

I think you're misunderstanding my point. I was talking from the receiver's point of view, not the initiator. As far as the job market is concerned, when the supply/demand is so skewed and everyone is doing this kind of sales, it gets reduced to a game of chance more than anything else.

If that were the case, the sales wouldn't have mattered in the first place. The article does suggest cold emailing as a tactic, so if someone is looking at a stock standard cold email template and thinking, "hey, this guy sounds exciting!", they're gonna have a bad time.

I dunno, a better lesson to take away from this is, don't fall for sales. I think more people will do better to learn to evaluate others by what they do rather than what they say. If you don't know better, reputation and first-hand references will give you much better indicators than someone's own words.

I didn't realize either until I saw this comment. The tone of the blog post also felt like it was coming from an individual rather than an organisation, which is not typical of Amazon. I don't know if this was a recent acquisition, otherwise diverting from your primary brand is strange. Unless they feel an association with Amazon would only be negative.

Really good. I have one more proposal.

Capital gains tax that increases progressively with gains, and decreases progressively with duration i.e. incentivize significant investors to create long term value instead of chasing quick exits.

Did you lose any muscle mass?

I mean that can be said of any research, couldn't it? 400 years back, nobody would have dreamed that studying why these dots in the night sky move will help us understand tides on earth. 200 years back no one would have imagined that the key to health and diseases are some invisible organisms in the air no one can see. A mere 100 years back it would've been impossible to conceive that these imaginary "atoms" will lead to reserves of immense energy. And yet here we are today living in a world only made possible because of what people did before.

The cosmic microwave background is not even something imaginary far away in time or space. It is radiation that surrounds us in the present. It is passing by the earth constantly, all the time. There's some research trying to use it for space navigation, but no one knew you could do that when they pointed antennas randomly in the sky. The amount of cross over some research has to a lot of other research and eventually to practical applications cannot be easily comprehended. Science builds upon science in very complex and convoluted ways with each step being that people simply tried to find more about something around them that they did not know. If you knew how to find it, then there's nothing to research in the first place, is there?

There must be so much information in cosmic microwave radiation about things we may not even know. Who knows if it could lead to uncovering information about dark matter or dark energy and who knows where that information would take human civilization. At this time, research simply indicates that you find out as much about it as you can, because it is there!