ZenoArrow

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by ZenoArrow 4mo ago
> HN always have had a sizable anti-tech crowd (I don't want to say luddite because it's borderline pejorative). It's frequently said that technology is ethically neutral, and whether it's used for good or bad ends de
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by ZenoArrow 4mo ago
> An ABI for the people who cared about that random driver might localise the maintenance burden. Yes, but one key reason that a stable ABI isn't provided for drivers is to help encourage companies that ship drivers to make their dr
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
> I've noticed the anti-AI sentiment is starting to die down. I've noticed the opposite. Seems that it depends on where you're looking and what you're looking for.
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
> Imo it's fine to glorify the 65+ hour grind a founder takes on. While you're right that it's easier to try to justify this level of work for founders, the reality is that this level of work is not sustainable by anybody,
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
It is extremely predatory. Perhaps if you're a company founder you can try to glamourise this level of personal sacrifice, but for standard employees it's clearly an unhealthy level of work, and would have been seen so by most nor
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
It's been an issue in the game industry for decades, and yes, crunch is predatory. It's exploiting the passion people have for making games to make them commit to burnout-inducing working conditions. Some game companies have taken
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
I mostly agree with you, even though I think "2%" is an understatement. England is a very culturally diverse place, anyone that thinks that there's a great sense of social uniformity hasn't understood it that well.
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
> Of course there will be a noticeable increase in gesticulation in an angry southern Italian person compared to a mild-mannered Englishman droning about philosophy. > Perhaps the difference lies not in the amount of gesturing, but in
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by ZenoArrow 5mo ago
I remember Planet Source Code. I used the snippets when I was trying to build a Pong game in VB6 when I was in my teens, it was a good resource for inspiration.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Second hand equipment being cheaper than brand new equipment isn't much of a surprise.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Ah okay, thanks!
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Is it? Based on what I've seen online the company name was derived from a CIA project from the 1970s that the founders worked on, but it doesn't seem to be based on an acronym. There was an earlier unrelated project from the 1950s
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> I've used pfsense, OpenWRT, Barracuda, Verizon's OEM router (Actiontec) and they all represent the same functionality wildly differently. Worth noting that pfSense (and OPNsense) are not Linux-based, they're based on BSD
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Was that $110B in cash? I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on something else (paid for using deals for stock).
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
That's not true. I'm sure you're referring to outsourcing manufacturing to other countries, but that's not enough to decouple from environmental load. For example, growth in tourism is not decoupled from environmental lo
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> An engineer can delegate -- period. Yes and no. Engineering does involve delegation but what defines an engineer is is what work they do, not what work they pass onto others. If it helps you understand this, consider the role of an eng
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> I can confirm the code is good The less coding you do, the less good you will be at making those decisions on code quality. Coding skills atrophy when not used.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> reduce the impact on nature Less bad is not the same as good. For example, electricity from solar panels is less bad than electricity from fossil fuels but there's considerable disruption to the natural world to produce them, not
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
The "unchecked" in unchecked economic growth just refers to the fact that no one is applying the brakes to this growth, i.e. it's being allowed to continue uninterrupted. This is only a problem when you understand the downsid
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Not really. If economic activity with a material basis increases faster than the reproduction rate decreases, you'll still see an overall increase in resource extraction.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> It would be good to know which members of the EU are currently experiencing unchecked economic growth. All of them. You can see recent stats (from 2025) on GDP growth here, all the handful of countries with negative growth are outside
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> You aren’t exposing those services to the internet. You aren’t knowingly exposing those services to the internet. FTFY. Furthermore, internal services can still be abused to get data that shouldn't be shared. For example, imagine
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
I hope the companies you worked for had someone else taking care of security, as what you've described is a ransomware writer's wet dream.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> A new micro-service in two days is easy with an IDE and autocomplete. Is your username accurate, are you currently retired? I hope you know there's a big difference between something that is functional and something that is produc
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
> PMs now expect that you can create a Java micro service that does basic REST/CRUD from a database and get it into production in a total of two days. Have you heard of malicious compliance? Give the PMs what they ask for, then show
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
Haha! Your analogy doesn't work on multiple levels. Firstly, if you're outsourcing your work to AI you're not the engineer anymore. A civil engineer is different from a manager of a civil engineering project. Just like I woul
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
It's not hard to pick holes in this approach by showing the code being generated is flawed. Also, code quality is different from code velocity, better to write 10 lines that more accurately describes functionality than 50.
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
If I wanted to become a project manager I would have become one. AI has just exposed that many "engineers" are "temporarily embarrassed project managers", which is fine in the sense that it makes it clearer who actually
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by ZenoArrow 7mo ago
You do know you don't have to use AI, right? I don't use it for coding (or much at all outside of coding). I'm free to code just like I did before, and so are you.
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by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
RAM and storage price increases due to the AI bubble have certainly made the cost of entry more expensive, but once you have the hardware, running models locally does make financial sense, especially if you have access to home solar power t

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