Daishiman

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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Anything that can't be done by the company will be outsourced to a consultancy. This already happens; a lot of work in Google products is done by external agencies.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
> If being in the U.S. didn’t offer advantages they wouldn’t be here to begin with. For companies hiring H1Bs it's about being closer to clients and colleagues and just being managerially far easier than opening an offshore office,
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
I don't agree. Certain optimization skills are learned on the job if people work in specific areas of compilers or performance. Also the reality is that modern CPU microarchitectures are so different from what old-school assembly progr
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
Almost nobody knows how to program in assembly but we're doing fine.
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
> This thing makes no sense to me when they can already enjoy everything the world has to offer and on top of that they're for all practical purposes above the law. It doesn't have to make sense because these are not well-reaso
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by Daishiman 1mo ago
What exactly are you talking about?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
People used to buy new phones every year or 2 because the technology differences were enormous. Nowadays a 4 or 5 year-old phone is perfectly usable and you're not really missing out on anything. That changes the economics of phone man
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Ai slop article
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Maybe someone here who works for a living doing pharma research might chime in but to me "AI curing cancer" makes about as much sense as "datacenters in space". The biggest barrier for pharma research AFAIK doesn't
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
And the decade prior to that the IDF would do random incursions and kidnap and shoot a few dozen people at a time in Gaza while it allowed settler terrorists in the West Bank to steal homes and land and you guys always ignore that aspect.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
You think the fact that US researchers are leaving for China because the US does not value basic science anymore but China does is not evidence of anything?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Countries that are on an upward research trajectory are likely to continue high-tech industrial progress.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Migration flows are lagging indicators. Look at where researchers are moving, that's the leading indicator.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Due to less land clearing in other continents. Did you read the report?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
> Are there any experts that might shed some light? The experts have been consistently predicting that the destabilization of the climate can lead to civilization-ending events and that we'd be clearly in that territory by the end o
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Nah you don't get to 40% obesity in some countries due to genetic issues. It's all hyperpalatable foods and the effects of extra adipose tissue are know to be bad for pretty much every health metric under the sun.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
I always read these articles with pure bewilderment because that's most definitely _not_ most engineers' experience. We're doing feature development twice as fast as we used to and we can now take on legacy refactoring effort
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Your one way is f-strings, that's it. Disregard the others unless you have an extremely good reason not to.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Ideas are a cover for the execution as it's the results that matter. Whoever is against government waste?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
Are you actually using these agents on a day-to-day basis?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
> Taste was all that was left when product design peaked in like 2010-12 too and it was a great time. I'm not sure I agree. I spent a good chunk of those years converting designer's PS sketches into CSS. Bootstrap and friends w
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
The OP is actually talking about the studies that the WHO was using to classify meat as a class 2 carginogen. For meat preserves the evidence is clear and known mechanistically, but for meat in general it's inconclusive at best and bad
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
> I’m always skeptical of studies like this because the group that shifts to a vegan diet might just be shifting to a healthier diet in general and therefore that might be the effect you’re seeing rather than an effect that shows veganis
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
In the case of India the time zone difference is killer.
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
What can the US administration do about it?
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by Daishiman 2mo ago
> But this is 2026. Many people have solved this in in-house solutions. Every place I have worked at in the last 10 years had solutions in place. Some had wrinkles but it all worked in the end. Github sees itself as the leading provider
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
> and if Anthropic hadn't released Fable, would we have Kimi today? If the answer is no, then I think that's still a very important point to consider. That works both ways, competition and performance spur new developments. You
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
I am as close to a fan of a clear backlog as it can be, but I would also say that an insufficiently deep backlog is probably a sign that you're spending too much on refactors and cleanups.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
You're saying it in jest but this is closer to the right answer. Features make you money. A large enough project has an infinite backlog. You will be unlikely to make much money from clearing out your backlog.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Once the OpenAI/Anthropic-driven hype dies down people with decision-making power will be taking a look at the numbers and look at real productivity metrics. And they'll see it makes little sense to pay so much when competition is

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