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stemlord··on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
Agreed its just the linkedin feed with fancier css
stemlord··on Breaking Bad is a co-founder story disguised as a drug-dealing story
It literally is a cofounder story, no disguise or metaphorical analysis necessary
stemlord··on Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise
What does pihole block that ublock doesn't?
stemlord··on Show HN: I made this tool to re-design your room in one click
Virtual staging is already a thing that real estate agents do, as long as the photo is watermarked as "virtually staged"
stemlord··on US startup charging couples to 'screen embryos for IQ'
You have a very optimistic view on eugenics in practice
stemlord··on Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
Hm fair point. Rudeness is actually a sign of humanity. Like that one black mirror episode
stemlord··on Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
Sure but most common LLMs aren't going to be patronizing and presumptuous while they say so
stemlord··on Studios: Please Don't Spoil the Movie We Are Seated to See
This is the best part of indie theaters. You show up and when the clock hits about the time shown on the ticket, the lights dim and the film just... starts
stemlord··on Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
The article suggests opting out of PimEyes.

https://pimeyes.com/en/opt-out-request-form

So go ahead and upload multiple face pics, your government issued ID, and email address. What a joke

stemlord··on The Slow, Painful Death of Agile and Jira
Same, now that I'm forced to use Monday. Jira was so feature rich and power-user-friendly in comparison.
stemlord··on The End of Advertising
I really do think the inadvertent earnestness of the shittiest ads amidst all the streamlined trickery in our current media ecosystem wrought with distrust does work best to win over consumers
stemlord··on Meta is discontinuing the Quest Pro two years after launching it
Apple doesn't really build products for niche markets. Serving niche markets doesn't mean death to the sane buisness owner
stemlord··on Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
>likely to bring the hammer down when discovered

People would forget a week later and continue to use the app. I think that saying is a bit naive to the post antitrust capitalist world

stemlord··on Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say
Yes that is how "terrorism" is defined: one geopolitical entity's enemy relative to another

See here, even the US military can be labeled terrorists in the eyes of american people https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41578412

stemlord··on How a scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods
Perhaps an urban myth but my general rule of thumb as a non-expert has been: more processed = more carcinogenic
stemlord··on The "email is authentication" pattern
Preach. I'm tired of platforms nannying me with session limits and forced 2fa. Just have toggles in the settings
stemlord··on Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries
As if silicon valley has been a bastion of ethical business prior
stemlord··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
Chatgpt does it
stemlord··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
Equating participating in walled garden social platforms to simply having a computer is bleak
stemlord··on Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
I truly thought the title meant they are no longer tied to discord. Excited me for a minute
stemlord··on Zed AI
You are saying one should learn to fish with a spear not a fishing rod
stemlord··on Zed AI
Why not both? What do you see wrong with having gpt spit out a complicated ffmpeg filter chain and explaining every step of the output, which you can then look up in the docs and unit test before implementing? I find verifying the gpt output is still quicker than consulting giant wall of text man pages
stemlord··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
To be fair when I was <10 years old my siblings and I had a lot of fun in AOL chatrooms and various forums full of people of all ages saying all kinds of things. Not that it makes it okay but that particular aspect of roblox isn't really something new when it comes to kids exploring the web.
stemlord··on Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
Yeah as someone who only gets more or less 1 offer per few months while job searching, I'd rather take the possibly-shitty job while continuing to hunt for a better one if it comes to that than risk draining the rest of my savings with no further (or possibly worse) opportunities
stemlord··on Subway calls 'emergency' meeting with franchisees as sales plummet
Because they aren't aware that it's there or of its dangers
stemlord··on Don't make your own game engine [video]
Agreed but IME this has more to do with the mixture of GUI and scripting workflows that turn everything into undiscoverable spaghetti. I don't nearly come into this problem with entirely-code-based frameworks even with little documentation because you can trivially trace any call stack
stemlord··on Cisco slashes thousands of workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3B
Dieoffs instead of layoffs I presume
stemlord··on Core Python developer suspended for three months
Is there any way to read flagged posts? That thread is near useless without that context
stemlord··on NYC Subway Riders See 'Exceptionally High' Air Pollution
Hope this encourages some miniscule semblance of climate control in some of these sweltering stations
stemlord··on Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
Great now they just need to add back a dedicated grab-zone along the top of the window
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