Many expensive big ego engineers that want to feel useful with PMs to match.
aka what happens when you promote based on metrics rather than actual product sense
Readit Newsrepeekad commented on Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store infoq.com/news/2025/08/ne... · Posted by u/NomDePlum
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Gosh! Maybe one of these days someone will take time off from this cultural wonderment to construct a simple, easy to use, text-to-audio.file program - you know, install, paste in some text, convert, start-up a player - so that the blind can listen to texts that aren't recorded in audiobooks. Without a CS degree.
I think the issue is the compute power needed for good voice models is far from free just in hardware and electricity, so any good text to audio solution likely needs to cost some money. Wiring up Google vertex AI text to speech or the aws equivalent is probably something chat gpt could walk most people through even without a CS degree, a simple python script you could authenticate from a terminal command, and would maybe cost a couple bucks for personal usage
A service you can pay for of that simplicity probably doesn’t exist because there are other tools that integrate better with how the blind interact with computers, I doubt it’s copy and pasting text, and those tools are likely more robust albeit expensive
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repeekad commented on UN report finds UN reports are not widely read reuters.com/world/un-repo... · Posted by u/anjneymidha
NGOs are primarily money laundering operations for political purposes.
It’s one of the primary mechanics for how capital controls the execution (or not) of policy.
Very powerful tool.
In San Francisco a friend ran an event for an LGBT policy non-profit, tons of private security yet no actual members of LGBT, only rich white hetero couples and the discussion was about finances and donations, nothing to do with LGBT policy impact, it was like pulling back a curtain…
repeekad commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
I was in Helsinki for work a couple of years ago, walking back to my hotel with some colleagues after a few hours drinking (incredibly expensive, but quite nice), beer.
It was around midnight and we happened to come across a very large mobile crane on the pavement blocking our way. As we stepped out (carefully), into the road to go around it, one of my Finnish colleagues started bemoaning that no cones or barriers had been put out to safely shepherd pedestrians around it. I was very much "yeah, they're probably only here for a quick job, probably didn't have time for that", because I'm a Londoner and, well, that's what we do in London.
My colleague is like "No, that's not acceptable", and he literally pulls out his phone and calls the police. As we carry on on our way, a police car comes up the road and pulls over to have a word with the contractors.
They take the basics safely over there in a way I've not seen anywhere else. When you do that, you get the benefits.
That’s not basic safety, if you walk into a crane not in use that’s on you not the contractors. It’s paternalism, not safety, and the American in me groans at the idea of at midnight the cops showing up and causing a ruckus over that. A big hole you might fall into, yeah you need some cones
repeekad commented on “I noticed a clear violation of our contributing guidelines” github.com/antiwork/flexi... · Posted by u/slacktivism123
Don't want to be too judgemental but does "Self Serve invite link" feature really needs 50 commits, an army of bots, countless nitpicking and 140+ messages? We are not launching Apollo to the Moon here.
I don't know this particular project but seeing threads like this kill any motivation to contribute.
Haha, wait until you hear how long and how many people it takes to change the text for a single button at a company like Google
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