Traubenfuchs

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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
There will always be some nerds left with brains so big they only scratch their itch if they are advancing performance critical v8 code in pure assembler. But the bar will rise for that to be something you get money for…
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
There is no guarantee that there will be a boom again. Some jobs disappear. Maybe we'll really only need a handful of elite engineers who continue advancing the foundational tools we use (kernels, databases, hyperscale low level cloud
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
It was my favorite VCS ever at my first workplace where we deployed .war to prod tomcat from eclipse with one click. No tests, no PRs, no tickets. Customer would call me and I could get a change out to them within 5 minutes. Most (and only!
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
In homeoffice I always work in the nude and the cold metal of my macbook pro hurts my thighs…
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Correction: Their PERCEIVED output, not their output. Output can usually not be objectively measured in IT. Storypoints? Overestimate wildly. Stories done? Split stories like atoms! Impact of work done? Present your button color change stor
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
> We must, at some point surely, reach an inflection where even everyday people are sick of this shit and start smashing their phones right? Never underestimate the ignorance of the average person… I am talking about those people who con
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
> Lawyers bill by the hour. It is not in their interest to speed up what they do, because they only have so many clients. Just like in IT, in law billed hours by one person have little correlation to hours spent working by that person (o
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
They'd need to bring out a perfected version with technology that does not exist at an impossibly low price point to bring it back to life.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
We just didn‘t have enough billionaires back then. Today the Thiels and Musks and Bezos will be able to afford this.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
I remember when watson was touted as soon to be replacement for doctors more than 10 years ago… https://www.henricodolfing.ch/en/case-study-20-the-4-billion...
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Can you please expand on that? How many times and minutes a day? Full power? Got a link?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Why did this happen so suddenly? Why were tech savy investors unable to figure this out when the datacenter craze had already started? How to explain this lag between quickly rising demand for all datacenter components besides memory?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Better get used to it, the art of writing without AI assistance is dead. You will occasionally find some of it like a truffle in the woods, but that was it. And even if the next generation will attempt stringing a few sentences together by
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Not possible once big parts of the company start not knowing other big parts of the company and the company also has a board of directors that must increase shareholder value at all costs.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
There are now more highly competent devs ready to work for cheap available now than ever before and all of them are boosted with state of the art coding agents… It‘s the golden age for software engineer employers.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
> Long story short, I was able to get his resources restored. All I did was manage to poke the right bear and the support team did the rest of the work (and they were amazing). No they utterly failed and needed a special non fungible emp
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Gluten free pasta is the same kind of oxymoron as lactose free cow milk. Might look the same at first glance but absolutely fails at replicating the most important property: taste. And here we have scientists proving it‘s worse in other asp
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
You can‘t get AD109, but unless you live in a shithole country you can order some ambroxol today. https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jpbs/papers/Vol8-issue6/B0... I once wrote a summary here: https:/&#x2
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
…and 0.1% of users click the button that annoys 99% of users, so it‘s a BIG SUCCESS.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
...and ultra high velocity single human person agent swarm vibe coded replacements for existing software and SaaS should come out en masse. Where are they?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
I believe the same thing but keep repeating the question: Then what are all the datacenters for?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Gradle (instead of maven) or jj (instead of git) considered harmful. Fix your overengineering and stick with the basics. If you end up at a point where you are fighting with maven and git and need to reach for more tools, you already failed
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
PRs are all about power dynamics and (un)spoken deals… If you rubberstamp some people‘s PRs all the time, you can then get them to greenlight your unpleasant PRs via pm instantly. The other way round, retaliation: I once added some serious
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
May I ask what kind of work you do at what sounds like a dream job to me?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
> If they wanted real answers, they'd go to bike events. They‘d meet a bunch of 1) people actively being assholes and/or 2) people with a lack of basic empathy.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Stop chasing, start attracting: Hold on, take a brake, focus on yourself. Grow! There might never be the perfect moment, but there can be many wrong moments. Maybe we should teach Gorillas about psychotherapy or mental coaching?
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Many different techniques for different types of stroke: We can block certain arteries mechanically by inserting a tool, inject photosensitive agent then cause a targeted clot with a laser, inject clotting agent, choke, inject blood vessel
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
This is high treason.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
Open source tools that target and patch specific versions of local claude code… I can‘t imagine Anthropic wants us to do this, otherwise they‘d expose it, right? I wonder if they‘ll ban users or just move things to the server.
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by Traubenfuchs 5mo ago
https://archive.md/WpFnG

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