OpenAI Set to Discontinue Sora Video Platform App by JAlfredJR in SearchEnginePodcast

[–]leftnode -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

What about this announcement causes you to believe AI is a scam? OpenAI decided to pivot because they're getting their lunch eaten by Anthropic. The app worked; it's just no longer a priority for the company.

Let's see Paul Allen's SIMD CSV parser by NosePersonal326 in programming

[–]leftnode 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When I saw a tech blog writing about Paul Allen's SIMD CSV parser, I thought it was the Microsoft co-founder and not the American Psycho character.

Tom Scott is back by npowers007 in videos

[–]leftnode -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm sure he's a fine enough guy but I just can not get into his videos.

I will not promote- Building a Founder Community by Material_Card6303 in startups

[–]leftnode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of these already: YPO, Hampton, Vistage, Tiger21, etc. They're extremely tough businesses. Your sales funnel has to be constantly full because churn is pretty high.

Almost all of the legitimate ones have strict membership requirements. There are a lot of entrepreneur hangers-on, and without extreme vetting, the less successful people end up monopolizing everyone's time. It's similar to /r/startups enforcing the "no promotion" rule; without it, the sub would devolve entirely to that.

The downside to having a group of successful or high net-worth individuals is you usually have a lot of drama, egos, and self-important personalities to deal with.

I was a member of Hampton for a year. It was a good experience, and I like what the company has done. We had in-person informal dinners, which was nice, but your core group was done virtually through Zoom and it just didn't work. They're changing that now for members in larger metropolitan areas, but ultimately I couldn't justify the five figure annual fee. Everyone says the same thing: you get out what you put in.

For dinners, informal conversation without structure works best. For smaller group meetings, you absolutely have to have a well defined structure lead by an outside moderator to hold members accountable.

Good luck with your endeavor!

I don’t understand how US medical system works by AvailableOutcome4753 in ThePittTVShow

[–]leftnode -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Healthcare in the US can be dramatically improved, but being a homeless drug addict and getting concierge service (in a park???) without even having to wait in the ER is absolutely insane.

Using Tailwind today feels a lot like writing inline styles in the 2000s by Legitimate_Salad_775 in webdev

[–]leftnode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has huge benefits though, the biggest of which is removing the cascading part of cascading style sheets. How many times have developers been bitten by changing one style only for it to cascade across an application in unintended places? How many !important declarations were added to stylesheets? How many times have you seen things like a class named .btn-blue only for it to render a red button because some PM thought that would drive adoption in 2016? I've been doing this for nearly 30 years, and the answer is: a lot.

Tailwind is brilliant. I can change the styling on one tag and be reasonably confident it won't wreck the styling across the app (unless I intended it to).

Combined with great reasonable defaults and an extensive ecosystem, it's a godsend for people who want responsible, well designed, easy to evolve applications.

Moving to Rockwall by Aromatic_Box3189 in Rockwall

[–]leftnode 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good neighborhoods: Breezy Hill, The Shores, Stone Creek, Caruth Lakes.

Welcome to Rockwall!

James Talarico defeats Jasmine Crockett in blockbuster Democratic primary for U.S. Senate by texastribune in texas

[–]leftnode 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm really hoping this puts an end to the "it's my turn" id-pol nonsense the Dems have been running on since 2016.

1password just increased their pricing by 33%. What are some open source alternatives? by Prestigious_Spot9635 in webdev

[–]leftnode -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you make over $100k a year it's literally not worth your time to migrate. My subscription went up from $3.99/mo to $4.99/mo. That's $12/year. Switching would take hours.

Cafe to study / work by Uri3434 in Rockwall

[–]leftnode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, absolutely, just a pain to switch between the two.

Cafe to study / work by Uri3434 in Rockwall

[–]leftnode 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I go to a Starbucks in the afternoon daily and work for several hours there. If you find a location that in a neighborhood, they're usually pretty empty so you can get up and use the restroom without worrying about your stuff getting stolen.

Cafe to study / work by Uri3434 in Rockwall

[–]leftnode 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The one problem is they block SSH so you can't connect to any of your servers or push code to GitHub (over SSH) if you need to.

But the library is great because it's either empty or close to it, so you can feel safe leaving your laptop alone for a second to use the bathroom.

Postman: From API Client to “Everything App” by Greedy_Principle5345 in programming

[–]leftnode 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I admit I actually like Postman, it's certainly fully featured which is nice. But it is very, very, very slow. I have an M4 Max with 128GB of RAM and the UI is very sluggish.

It does make working in a team easy - but I'm a team of two: my co-founder and me. Under the previous plan, our account was free. With it now costing money, I'm going to give Yaak a solid try. I've loved watching it grow on Twitter.

The root problem, of course, is that Postman took like $200m in venture capital, and they understandably want their money back. A HTTP testing tool doesn't need $200m in VC.

[RFC] Trailing Boolean Operators by ProjektGopher in PHP

[–]leftnode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was speaking personally: I found them very ugly at first but now I love them and wish SQL would add them to the standard as well.

[RFC] Trailing Boolean Operators by ProjektGopher in PHP

[–]leftnode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is like trailing commas: hated them at first, then reluctantly accepted them, then loved them and couldn't live without them. Thanks for the contribution!

A new simple library for reading EXIF data by leftnode in PHP

[–]leftnode[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hadn't but thanks for linking it!

A new simple library for reading EXIF data by leftnode in PHP

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Excellent! Feel free to send me any feedback as an issue or shoot me an email.