JamesLeonis

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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
They are planning to release their methodology. Buried in the article: > Beyond my own desire for relief, it also feels selfish to keep the knowledge we’ve accumulated trapped within our small team. I have more than enough. In the past s
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Housing as infrastructure, like roads and electricity. We will exit an era where housing prices always rise, because both taxes and insurance will become unaffordable. I see a combination of publicly managed apartments (like Germany or Aust
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
There are 10 million empty homes [0] and ~700,000 homeless. No matter how you slice those numbers you still have more empty housing stock than homeless right now. [0]: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
The comments here are depressing, especially coming from a forum that hypes unprofitable and niche companies competing against larger "profitable" and "popular" companies. By the logic here us programmers should never wo
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I do the same thing. It helps using a password manager to keep all of this straight.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> there are amazing companies which have fully outsourced all of their development. I completely agree... > this trend is on the rise and might hit $1T market cap in this decade… It's this thinking that got everybody in trouble l
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I'm 15 years in, so a little behind you, but this is also some observations from the perspective of a student during the Post-Dot-Com bust. A great parallel of today's LLMs was the Outsourcing mania from 20 years ago. It was worse
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> There is also ARM knocking at the door for general computing. It's already gaining traction in previously x86 dominated markets. I know anecdotes aren't data, but I was talking with a colleague about chips recently and he not
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I hear echos of my friends' stories in that kid. The author exhibits a pattern of somebody doubling down on a wrong idea in the face of increasing attempts to correct them. Eventually it devolves into conspiratorial thinking that write
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
The paper itself reports about 10% of the outstanding amount (p.840) are private. However the data is pretty hard to come by that doesn't aggregate everything. > The majority of student loans — more than $1.4 trillion — are guarante
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate hindsight than the Democratic Party's obsession with student loan forgiveness? Friendly reminder that Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities (SLABS) exist [0], an
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I have the most luck going to the artist websites or social media. They often have links to different storefronts to buy physical and digital copies. The majority are on Bandcamp, but larger groups also release on Amazon.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Increasingly mobile networks are like this. There are all kinds of bandwidth issues, especially when customers are subject to metered pricing for data.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Under $100: A cooking scale ~$30. It turns every bowl into a measuring cup, so recipes become fairly universal and easier to memorize. Under $1000: Braun S9 Sport electric shaver ~$200. I can take it in the shower, streamlining my morning r
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
There is no data, or I wouldn't have to keep asking for evidence. Previously [0] [1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247369 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314527
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> One way that is very simple but not easy is to let the on call engineer not do feature work and only work on on-call issues I can vouch for this. Beyond just fixing bugs, they also are first to triage larger issues which led to higher
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Git Log has a `--since` and `--until` flags where you can specify dates. It also accepts relative times, like `yesterday` and `last week`. I've found it very handy before meetings.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
In the spirit of "build one to throw away,"[0] consider making a prototype you can show off to potential users and friends. Use it as a glorified presentation to validate your idea. I did that with my current project by treating t
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
We've vilified teachers, defunded schools, overproduced STEM graduates [0] [1], and the pay is often lousy. Yes, even in the programming profession! > Looking at the STEM labor market, Salzman and colleagues concluded that, for ever
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I think http://11foot8.com/ proves all the signage in the world won't matter.
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I am, once again [0], asking for evidence. Speaking of worker issues, while he was CEO of Google Schmidt oversaw the illegal collusion between other large tech companies, including Apple, to not poach their employees [1] while also sitting
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
No link to the study, so here it is. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-exp... Some immediate things that jump out at me: * Large rise/drop in those not wanting vs wanting kids
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
ISO is likely a driver behind this. From the article: > This is where things get wonky. Since many of these standards are put together by private organizations (companies, standards bodies, whatever), some of them could qualify for copyr
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
There's an elephant in the Argument: Why don't women adopt these elite ideals and leave their kids? We should at least have an explanation why either nothing significant changed in the last 100+ years (a stretch), or something els
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
As programmers I think its hard to understand why others buy what we would sometimes build. But you all deeply underestimate yourselves! I'm also guilty of this as well. It is expensive to a business to do all those steps, to say nothi
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Looking at some initial reporting, VISA appears affected but MasterCard is not. VISA: https://www.zdnet.com/article/crowdstrike-causes-windows-out... MasterCard: https://qz.com/crowdstrike-global-tech-o
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
I regularly switch back and forth between the two. I maintain a cross-compatible .vimrc to make those switches simple. I don't even alias, preferring to use either `vim` or `nvim` as appropriate. As a caveat, I generally don't tu
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
Technical skills come and go. Soft Skills and Project Management are universal and always (but not explicitly) in demand. No matter the technical stack or project domain, you will always be working as a team negotiating requirements, writin
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
> If you have free time (I don't know how old your kids are) you can use that to explore new areas of technology. To add further, once your kids are grown you will have time, savings, and a deeper experience to explore expertise. Ke
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by JamesLeonis 2y ago
This might be difficult to come by. It was only recently the zeitgeist shifted from Overpopulation to Underpopulation. As another commenter mentioned, Japan is an example of a possible future for many advanced economies. https://

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