Arainach

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by Arainach 11mo ago
>The counterbalance to a union and to management needs to be customers What do you even mean by this? Customers want everything as cheap as possible as fast as possible, and to hell with the employees. Go watch a supermarket checkout se
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Workers can't "leave a job at any time" when healthcare is tied to employment. They can't leave a job at any time if the job is working them at hours that prevent them from interviewing anywhere else. They can't lea
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by Arainach 11mo ago
There's a significant difference between intentional colonization in the era of large ocean-crossing ships and languages spreading in an era of smaller craft without a central goal of expansion.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
OP wanted "instant self signup". That doesn't work when malicious actors are trying to register accounts with stolen credentials. The verification flow is required because of the amount of pressure from malicious actors aga
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Instant self signup died with cryptocurrency and now AI: any "free" source of compute/storage/resources will be immediately abused until you put massive gates on account creation.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Writing isn't always about terse summaries of information. If you want that, have an LLM summarize it. Good writing expresses concepts and ideas in engaging ways. You could write a few paragraphs summarizing theology, philosophy, and
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by Arainach 11mo ago
By leaving out the following paragraph you're doing an injustice, framing a humorous anecdote as an attack: >Then I remembered that I'd heard it before. A homeless guy had been saying this exact same thing down by the beach, al
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by Arainach 11mo ago
I keep this link handy to send to such coworkers/people: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
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by Arainach 11mo ago
For brand new projects? Perhaps. For working with existing projects in large code bases? Still not living up to the hype. Still sick of explaining to leadership that they're not magic and "agentic" isn't magic either.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
The free market abhors competition. It's much more profitable to be a monopoly - and profitable enough by far to squash any competitors in infancy.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
People claimed GPT-3 was great at coding when it launched. Those who said otherwise were dismissed. That has continued to be the case in every generation.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
For most of human history we didn't have organizations of hundreds, much less tens of thousands. When we did they were rife with nepotism, classism, brownnosing, racism, and more. We aim to do better these days, which is a hard problem
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by Arainach 11mo ago
What "current results" are you referring to? No, people 50+ years ago weren't arguing that cliffs can lead to disincentives, they were arguing that the whole system is "socialism" and bad - something that has been
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by Arainach 11mo ago
"everybody else" doesn't scale. If you have 10 people, that's 90 reviews to be written. No one's going to go into much detail, and in general you get a culture of only saying nice things so that others only say nic
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by Arainach 11mo ago
"most people" doesn't scale to hundreds of thousands of employees. It's not particularly reliable in groups of dozens.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
No, optional type hinting means there's sometimes not a hint. Having a hint and then passing some type that's not that is wrong and hell.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Generative UI is incompatible with learning. It means every user sees something different, so you can't watch a tutorial or have a coworker show you what they do or have tech support send you a screenshot. The solution could be search.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Again: what money is attributable to each feature? Are subscriptions up 2% because of the new payment flow or because it's tax refund season? Are they down because of the new UI or because of tariffs? It's not realistic to tell
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>Do they? This definitely seems better to me, and I don't think I've really heard complaints about it "My manager hates me, how do I get promoted?" "My manager looks down on me because I'm a member of a diff
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by Arainach 11mo ago
"What's your proposal" is a response to unhelpful griping. Performance management does have to happen. If you aren't rewarding good performers with money and growth most of them will leave. Losing them is expensive. Hir
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Then what's your proposal? People complain about using metrics. People complain about rating performance based on what your manager or coworkers say about you. Performance reviews are an unsolved hard problem.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
What does "actually contributed" mean? Joe implemented feature A. Sandra implemented feature B. Raj implemented C. All launched in July. Since then metric X is up 20%. Who gets credit, and what does that credit really mean? N
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by Arainach 11mo ago
* This isn't 500 reasons, it's a meme about one reason * one reason that isn't explained in the post ("it does nothing" is not an explanation). * This isn't about Azure, it's about Azure Defender.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>The only feature Cloudflare (or its competitors) offers that can't be done cost-effectively yourself is volumetric DDoS protection .... And thanks to AI everyone needs that all the time now since putting a site on the Internet mean
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Far better for consumers to be able to binge Game of Thrones/Silicon Valley/whatever and cancel HBO Max than to have to pay twice as much for a subscription to both libraries to get either.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Services have costs. They don't lose money. No one says the US military "loses hundreds of billions of dollars a year" or expects them to cover it back.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Russian mass influence campaigns are well documented globally and have been for more than a decade.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>You can vibe-code a throwaway UI And then people create non-throwaway things with it and your job, performance report, bonus, and healthcare are tied to being compared to those people who just do what management says without arguing abo
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Being forced to adopt tools regardless of fit to workflow (and being smart enough to understand the limitations of the tools despite management's claims) correlates very well to being negative on them.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Starting with an acquisition is a cheap way of accelerating once your company reaches a certain size. Look at Microsoft - Powerpoint was an acquisition. They bought most of the team that designed and built Windows NT from DEC. Frontpage w

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