EliRivers

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by EliRivers 4mo ago
To what degree do they really invest it? A lot of rich people just buy shares (other than at an IPO) and just move money around each other's pockets rather than investing in something wealth creating, or just swap already-existing over
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
Physical sales are dead. Well, 80% of sales are physical rather than digital. In what way is that dead? The evidence indicates that you are incorrect, and while I appreciate your passion, if I must choose between you and reality, reality
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
You already have the answer, contained in your own question; because I'm not so sure. Puts are a dangerous game. I'm sure enough that the UK consumer is getting poorer to divest of shares; not sure enough (especially on timescales
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by EliRivers 4mo ago
Whoever slows down will get eaten by some hungry upstart that is willing to work 996 to eat the incumbent’s lunch. Is this true? There are a lot of low-productivity and zombie companies trudging through year after year.
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by EliRivers 5mo ago
I am but one data point. I have a fairly broad portfolio of stocks, ranging from blue chips to outright bets inspired by the wallstreetbets crowd. I have divested entirely of anything that relies on the spending power of the British consume
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by EliRivers 5mo ago
Books might have once been seen as luxuries, and the idea of a lending library allowed those in poverty to get a taste of wealth, so to speak... but they get dumped into landfills by the truckload today and can be had for pennies (or fract
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by EliRivers 5mo ago
The majority of my activity today as a professional software engineer with two decades' of experience; trying to get Team Sales to express what they want. It's so hard. I see no way an LLM can do this. I could possibly be replaced
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
Isn't that the whole point? That one should NOT be able to investigate all of their systems?
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
If the AI finds the code is not up to scratch, it will be reverted and you'll be given a chance to try again. That's the Platinum Premier tier. If you're on the regular tier, paying the minimum, the AI will silently fix all
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
Electricity prices in the UK are painful, and galling when set by the price of gas It's painful indeed. Today, I watched the price go negative as wind and solar reduced the gas contribution to about 3% of the mix. As that gas mix ros
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
The core conceit lent itself so well to a (subverted) introductory "As you know" chapter that I didn't even notice it until I'd read it. Bravo for that alone. That said, from the review: "open source maintainership
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
just start a company and do it yourselves. Do I recall incumbent providers lobbying to ensure that competition be forbidden, so that they can continue to charge a lot for bad service? I think at least a couple of years ago, 16 US states h
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
Thank you for PartitionMagic. In the late nineties I cut my teeth repeatedly building and breaking windows PCs. PartitionMagic was a core tool. I regularly see its echoes today in GParted.
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by EliRivers 6mo ago
Why use Oracle indeed.... Here's a tale from somewhere around the year 2000. https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A-Software-Problem%2C-A-Mar... For Jason R., it was an exciting time. His company was trying to break i
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by EliRivers 7mo ago
Well of course. If I trawl the world's collected texts, "Are you sure?" correlates very strongly with the following words being an indication that previous statements were erroneous. If I used that body of text to make a stat
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by EliRivers 7mo ago
"Everyone says that they value directness, and from what I can tell the vast majority of people actually don't." Well sure, of course we do. We (or at least, a lot of the readers of this who live in a US and similar economic
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by EliRivers 7mo ago
Like it or not, in many places amongst many peoples, beginning a conversation with zero social niceties or couching carries a negative message that makes people simply avoid interacting with that self-styled hyper-efficient colleague.
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by EliRivers 7mo ago
"There was a time when everyone used Github Copilot." There was no such time. Even if everyone means "every software engineer" or any variation thereof, and we substitute any other such tool for GC.
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by EliRivers 7mo ago
"the skills that the new engineering landscape actually requires: system design, architectural thinking, product reasoning, security awareness, and the ability to critically evaluate code they did not write." These, surely, are th
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
Apropos, I once had a boss who said he was running a headcount reduction pilot and anyone who had the time and availability to help him should email him saying how much time they had to spare. I cannot deny this had a satisfying elegance.
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
"They exist because the company gets more benefit out of the job existing than it costs to employ those people." Sure, but there's no such thing as "the company." That's shorthand - a convenient metaphor for a
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
Continuing the theme, a new starter at my place (with about a decade of various experience, including an international financial services information player whose name is well known) had never used git or indeed any distributed, modern sour
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
And it will run rings around me in all the languages I don't know; every case in which my standard would be shockingly bad (I speak no APL whatsoever, for example) it would do better (in some cases, though, it would confidently produce
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
"They can write code better than you or I can" They can not. They can make some average code. On Friday one suggested an NSI installer script that would never bundle some needed files in the actual installer. I can only imagine th
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
"Waterfall is never great." The only software I ever worked on that delivered on time, under budget, and with users reporting zero bugs over multiple deliveries, was done with heavy waterfall. The key was knowing in advance what w
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by EliRivers 8mo ago
About 15 years ago, I worked on code that delivered working versions to customers, repeatedly, who used it an reported zero bugs. It simply did what it was meant to, what had been agreed, from the moment they started using it. The key was t
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by EliRivers 9mo ago
The complete refactor, bringing it forwards from VS2008 to VS2022, and from a home-built, source-code edited Qt 4.7.4 to Qt 6.something, took about two years from start to finish.
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by EliRivers 9mo ago
Don't use standard library containers because we have our own containers that date back to before the STL was even stable. Flashback to last job. Wrote their own containers. Opaque. You ask for an item from it, you get back a void po
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by EliRivers 9mo ago
"He still lives in the same home he bought when he was 28 years old." Good for him. Big savings right there. Buying/selling/moving house can cost a fortune.
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by EliRivers 10mo ago
The Running Man. It's really the foundation action in a good shuffle dance and it really has to flow naturally and consistently.

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