John Feminella 🌠 / is on Nostr

▶️: GM @ Nuvalence, board @ Forge, 📐 @ Two Sigma
⏪: Thoughtworks, Pivotal, VMware
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2024-03-10 16:34:27

When kids say "watch this", that's basically the same as saying "I love you".

2024-01-12 15:55:25

Amazon's quality control appears to be allowing OpenAI-generated names: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969417
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/743/790/147/201/247/original/130cce681321bd7f.png

2023-09-18 01:48:05

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@npub1f6a…pnql If they offer you a way to use the API, they can't show you ads as easily. Seems logical that they want you to forget that it's there.

2023-08-20 16:47:48

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@npub1f6a…pnql That's "hard" for me in the sense that sometimes I simply don't care to spend my daily ration of innovation and motivation tokens on figuring out relatively minor details. It's draining!

2023-08-20 16:20:54

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@npub1f6a…pnql Yes, very much this. The framing I have with others is that it drastically "lowers the activation energy" required to do hard stuff.

2023-08-15 23:53:57

Personally attacked.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/896/320/636/416/798/original/777cd72059db7738.jpg

2023-08-04 23:26:58

A classic example of @npub1hyk…3p33's "enshittification": wireless printers hiding their USB ports with stickers.
https://haunted.computer/@netspooky/110832978569741892

2023-05-23 22:39:25

As a hearing aid user myself since ~birth, this sort of situation would be a nightmare: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/
Imagine if your glasses stopped working without getting software updates. It's insanity, with shades of @npub1hyk…3p33's "Unauthorized Bread".

2023-05-02 15:32:49

History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme, in this case with the "company towns" of the early 1800s onwards.
In short, companies are building housing for workers because they can't afford it themselves -- tying them to a sort of effective serfdom.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1172301798/workers-affordable-housing-companies-building