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wildrhythms··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
But when you accidentally typed into the prompt field and hit enter it registered a daily active user metric so the feature must be a hit!
wildrhythms··on Economists Are Obsessed with "Job Creation." How about Less Work? (2017)
Seems like today's more-work-less-pay model also leads to inflation, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
wildrhythms··on The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
"Signing off" doesn't exist because even after the thing is in a MVP stage the stakeholders will still want to change it
wildrhythms··on Does anybody like React?
Not comparable because custom elements don't handle rerenders elegantly without extra plumbing.
wildrhythms··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
Nobody is getting rewarded for reinventing the wheel.
wildrhythms··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
This is what happens when your engineering company is run by warring factions of tech illiterate business people rather than engineers.
wildrhythms··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
The new goal is to flood the Internet with so much junk that human-created content can be sold back to us in a walled garden.
wildrhythms··on When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
But then how will all of the know-nothing management types get their fingers in the pie?
wildrhythms··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
All that matters is some MBA product manager at Google was celebrated for shipping this. Hooray!
wildrhythms··on Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
Glad to see the hackers have arrived to defend a billion dollar corporation
wildrhythms··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
Anecdotally, my manager is a rabid RTO advocate, he's a gen X man and messages our team sometimes at 1am, is working on the weekends, schedules early morning and late meetings that extend well past 5pm. He has kids that he never mentions. We don't work on anything mission critical whatsoever.
wildrhythms··on CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity
Outsourcing to India and the Philippines
wildrhythms··on Stop Flock
Ah yes, a pro-cop 'hacker' in the wild
wildrhythms··on Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK
After just a handful of prompts everything breaks down
wildrhythms··on ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware
All your calls and texts are intercepted anyway, so what do you think you're hiding?
wildrhythms··on Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
Assuming that a farm would be owned by one person has already put a very tiny box around your world view
wildrhythms··on Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
"We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work. Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical. It gives great demo but after a short period of time, you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. it doesn't work, it's ergonomically terrible."

-Steve Jobs, 2010

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-touch-screen-mac-...

wildrhythms··on Ball Pit
Runs smoothly and without crashes on my Pixel phone
wildrhythms··on Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
I've been running Fedora (or a flavor) on my gaming PC for two years. All my games work. I understand some competitive games with intrusive anti cheat are incompatible, but with the success of the steam deck I don't think the gaming argument is holding much water these days.
wildrhythms··on Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11
>sorry, I have never seen these supposed ads in win11

It's a setting called "Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen", and it's checked by default.

wildrhythms··on Introducing DoorDash Tasks
No, it's just an inventory check.
wildrhythms··on Marvin Hagemeister, Luca Casonato, David Sherret and Phil Hawksworth left Deno
Any clues what's going on?
wildrhythms··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
It's both the first and last thing to check
wildrhythms··on A useless infinite scroll experiment
It has never existed natively on Mac OS X.
wildrhythms··on Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to click into their site.
wildrhythms··on Facebook is cooked
Everywhere I go I see parents letting their kids scroll short form video. The brain rot starts early.
wildrhythms··on Facebook is cooked
Every social media algorithm is like this now. Accidentally viewing certain types of videos are like dropping a nuclear bomb in your carefully nursed algorithm.
wildrhythms··on DOGE Track
Judging by your comment history, you might be Elon Musk's fiercest warrior!
wildrhythms··on H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation
They are rewarded for cutting the budget, and undercutting domestic workers. Until that changes, this problem will continue. Or workers could unionize.
wildrhythms··on Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
Don't worry, I'm sure in a year about 30% of it will work! (But not on mobile)
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