DragonStrength

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by DragonStrength 11d ago
I've worked with amazing people from all parts of the world. I'm a bit uncomfortable with bucketing my coworkers' abilities by ethnicity like this though. But I am American: most of us couldn't even guess our own ethnic
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by DragonStrength 12d ago
Were they on H1Bs? Most I knew from similar countries in the Bay Area wouldn’t have been. But these visas aren’t about best, btw. They’re about none available. The goalpost has moved to “none available for my price in the most expensive pla
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by DragonStrength 12d ago
Comparing getting an American to uproot themselves from their entire community to move to the Bay Area for a job vs. someone on the other side of the world who is looking to get into America just aren't the same. Ultimately, H1Bs are u
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by DragonStrength 13d ago
Yeah, maybe Open AI did some bad engineering instead of this being AGI? What's the consensus on the engineering level at Open AI, again? Every anecdote I hear is a bunch of children discovered fire and can barely keep the lights on fro
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by DragonStrength 13d ago
Oh, this one is super easy: they told them to. They set poor requirements and gave them tools which enabled "monkeys with a typewriter" to hack rivals. I mean, this is just so uncomplicated it isn't funny. We are too smart to
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by DragonStrength 15d ago
The HDMI cables are a lie anyway with how many versions I've owned. I'm sick of squinting at the writing on the wires. Just buy new ones.
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by DragonStrength 27d ago
I don't know if much has changed based on my professional experience. For me, the code was always the fast part. The hard part was figuring out what to do. Maybe others had more mechanical coding jobs, but I've been pretty baffled
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by DragonStrength 1mo ago
The context from working in a Valley startup funded by YC and run by one of their former executives is they are not seeing the talent they once did despite mining the same sources. There is little self reflection to consider the Silicon Val
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by DragonStrength 2mo ago
My grandfather’s career was in decline before my father hit adulthood (autoworker, electronics), my father’s career (nuclear control systems engineer) was in decline from the day he established it, and I’ve never expected my new-fangled sof
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by DragonStrength 4mo ago
Sounds like your brain was cooked by sound bites over reason and statistics! Culture war indeed! In fact, we see this now in Silicon Valley where 80% of workers are foreign born. Not a representative group of Americans by any stretch, and w
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by DragonStrength 5mo ago
Well, yeah, management sees a weak labor market and imagines the ability to fire all those troublesome engineers. Remember, especially in recent years, tech management is made up predominantly of grads from a select set of "elite"
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by DragonStrength 5mo ago
15 YOE, here: Well, I just interviewed between October - Decemeber of last year, and since then, the company I joined has gone full vibe-coding and is changing to AI interviews. So...
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by DragonStrength 5mo ago
It's funny because Apple said on stage Lightning was their connector for the next decade in 2012 then shipped it for exactly a decade, despite being the first to ship a USB-C device. When they switched to Lightning in 2012, the peanut
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by DragonStrength 7mo ago
Jeff Bezos started Amazon with family money. Sure, there were richer folks, but few have parents capable of giving them hundreds of thousands of dollars for a business venture.
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by DragonStrength 7mo ago
If you can point to single product he has made through his "vibe-coding" that isn't for "vibe-coding," I think they would all relent.
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by DragonStrength 7mo ago
I see a lot of folks lamenting how Yegge has ignited a fire under leadership for egoless, factory worker style engineers. I don't think many would care much otherwise, but his post here is lamenting AI is not enough of a factory worker
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by DragonStrength 7mo ago
Every Yegge post about AI reads like a Music Man style con job, but he’s got Silicon Valley startup founders salivating and pushing his book to their employees.
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by DragonStrength 8mo ago
I know plenty of engineers with expensive trucks used to carry their families around during the week and haul their hunting bounty home on weekends. In that scenario, the Cybertruck is a total failure. Where's the exposed bed for a dee
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by DragonStrength 8mo ago
BINGO: the folks buying these things are doing so to virtue signal their politics. If you need a truck for work or hunting, you're still buying a truck, not some Silicon Valley concept car like the Cybertruck.
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by DragonStrength 11mo ago
Open up an Amazon media app and navigate around enough, and you'll encounter a page with all their "Third Party Software Licenses." For instance, here's one for the Amazon Music apps, which includes an FFMpeg license: h
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
There are no empty slots for med school in America. We turn qualified kids away.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
As my manager at Amazon once told me, “Amazon prefers H1Bs because they take more abuse.”
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Exactly. The difference is doctors were able to cap the number of doctors graduated, and now we have a shortage. Welp, I know the solution to that.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
This article is saying the slowdown started as early as a year ago. That of course opens up the discussion of whether this new revision is political cover for the current administration since they just removed the BLS head.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Amazon's hallucinating a fake 1-800 number for me to call is both peak Amazon and peak AI bubble.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Yes, but when Marc Benioff says he laid off thousands of customer service agents, the reporting is "Salesforce cuts tech workers using AI." The narrative in media is a total mess right now, and there are many in VC and AI-related
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
From the subhead > Money earmarked for semiconductor company under Chips Act could be converted into equity They’re already getting federal money.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
For sure, the Dotcom crash didn’t mean the web was bad technology.
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
You’re close. The issue is we can’t discuss class, so they look for all sorts of other analogs which they can get the wealthy folks on board with. DEI is acceptable to the wealthy because they ultimately see less of a threat there than from
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by DragonStrength 1y ago
Could you please point to the whining? He says MPEG is broken, but AOM will stagnate. You’re mad at the messenger.

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