GianFabien

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by GianFabien 1y ago
The pertinent question is about your company as a whole. If it wasn't for your manager would you be content to stay? If "yes", then blacklist his number and never answer after hours. When asked to do something different alway
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I guess that's one way to do it. For a simpler approach, I'd just use a basic 4-chan mixer and feed its output into the computer.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Never mind that ... look at next quarter's profit numbers and dividend. Like all corporations the only cohort they care about are their shareholders and executive suite.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Two perennial opportunities in Australia IT are fixing up outsourced systems and building workarounds for enterprise shovelware. Job ads tend to be for Java/C# coding and project managers willing to harangue techies to deliver improbab
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by GianFabien 1y ago
AI's capabilities are very unevenly distributed. If there is a wealth of quality information on the internet about something, then it usually comes up with a solid answer. But where information is scarce it often just bullshits its w
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by GianFabien 1y ago
From what you've written I deduce you are living in a rural community in the UK and plan to got to Cambridge uni to study CS. Your GitHub works are both in C. I see two options: 1. Since opportunities for your skillset are limited in y
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by GianFabien 1y ago
The observations reflect the deeper cultural differences. Japanese corporate goal is to build a company that lasts 500+ years. In the West the corporate goal is to maximize this quarter's numbers, deliver profits for the shareholders,
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by GianFabien 1y ago
The majority of folks are consumers and unable and/or unwilling to handle the complexity of self-hosting, self-sovereignity, etc. They will gravitate to what is free and easy . There are no incentives for the major vendors to im
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Democracy is a mirage. The industry groups and lobbyists own the politicians. Persons who strive to work their way up within the political parties are driven by hubris and greed. Pure ideology gets you nowhere. Being a good party operati
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by GianFabien 1y ago
The worst thing that happened to Unix was the MBAs at AT&T and then Novell wanting to extract the maximum possible revenue from it. Whilst large vendors licensed the code, e.g. IBM, HP, Sun MicroSystems, sundry workstation vendors and
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by GianFabien 1y ago
The big question: How is pilot training and certification going to ensure that accident rates are further reduced? Will also need huge changes to training and certification of aircraft mechanics. Existing air traffic controller shortages, u
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by GianFabien 1y ago
IBM has been doing that for decades. They have even been repeatedly sued over unfair dismals, etc. But for them it's only the cost of pursuing their off-shoring goals.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
If Australia doesn't have the capabilities then why are the university campuses full of overseas students? So they can learn, return to their homelands and work at some outsourcing org? CBA like all large corporations don't care
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Best TLDR;
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Ok, guesstimating that the 6 figure sale was around 3x earnings, the total of all the revenue is less than $450k for 5 years. Then you need to allow for expenses and taxes. Might be Ok as a side hustle, but probably insufficient to replace
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by GianFabien 1y ago
The managements who hire consultants to tell them what they should be doing.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. Good to read that after trying so many different things you are actually facing the underlying psychological factors. The anxiety over breaking things is common, especially when what you are deploying is critical and the
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by GianFabien 1y ago
There are several dimensions to your question. I can only touch upon a few that immediately come to mind. The easiest and quickest is to throw up your hands, give up and do something else. I suspect your question doesn't expect that op
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Perhaps I'm mistaken. But I thought that several of the original MIPS designers, etc became the leaders of the RISC-V movement. The ISA and its implementation are two different dimensions. Look at the x86 ISA how it evolved from 80386
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by GianFabien 1y ago
So ... what's new? It's standard MS attitude. The CTO bought it! Who are you to question his wisdom (after a bozzy night out with the sales team).
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Contrarians betting against the herd have often been very successful. For example, John Paulson and Michael Burry made billions by shorting CDOs that lead to the 2008 crisis. The movie "The Big Short" is an Ok dramatization of ho
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by GianFabien 1y ago
This is a very raw read. Yet, I have to admire the honesty and the clarity of the introspection.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
When you manage a team, the team's successes and productivity are a reflection of your leadership skills. Your role becomes rather meta . In my experience, pushing back against unwarranted scope creep can be draining but very necessar
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by GianFabien 1y ago
I've had conversations with people who didn't even know that the name "Tesla" comes from the prolific inventor, Nikola Tesla who was Edison's competitor as in DC vs AC power.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
We have to remember that VCs are investing other people's money . So an AI startup could be hyped up to $1T level, just for the bragging rights.
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by GianFabien 1y ago
I vaguely recollect that in Unix v5 as distributed to universities by Western Electric in 1976, there was a chdir command. Which if only the first 3 chars were compared would have been like chd . But that's almost a half a century
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Eliza was there in 1966. For those are late to the party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
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by GianFabien 1y ago
Musk's comments reflect upon what is wrong with our education system. Exams are about assessing students' ability to regurgitate what they have had to read / study. When you look at the typical exam, you'll notice that c
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>In each of the three companies that survived, it was the founders, not hired CEOs that drove the transition. This is how VCs destroy businesses by bring in adult supervision . CEOs are not incentivized to play the long game. The differ
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The article is rather misleading considering how often CBT is being offered even by professionals as an avenue of treatment for depression. Are we supposed to consider CBT good, but ChatGPT bad ?

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