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by asa400 8mo ago
It's a cult. Really. This is a stock devoid of any connection to reality, fundamentals, products, anything. All that matters is that Musk is on the nameplate. Do not bet against the ability of people in a cult to remain irrational in t
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by asa400 8mo ago
If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.
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by asa400 8mo ago
It's extremely human behavior. We all do it to some degree or another. The incentives work like this: - If all your peers are doing it and you do it and it doesn't work, it's not your fault, because all your peers were
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by asa400 8mo ago
> I've never seen any tech theme pushed top down so hard in 20+ years working. > The common theme is C-suite thinks it will save money and their competitors already figured out out, so they are FOMOing at the mouth about catching
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by asa400 8mo ago
That these facets of use exist at all are indicative of immature product design. These are leaked implementation details that the labs are forcing us to know because these are weak, early products and they’re still exploring the design spac
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by asa400 8mo ago
The process of delivering useful, working software for nontrivial problems cannot be reduced to simply emitting machine instructions as text.
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by asa400 8mo ago
If all you (not you specifically, more of a royal “you” or “we”) are is a collection of skills centered around putting code into an editor and opening pull requests as fast as possible, then sure, you might be cooked. But if your job depend
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by asa400 8mo ago
This story is more common than any of us would like to admit, myself included. I can say this with some confidence because as a junior developer, I was often that person, and I didn’t really understand the collective lessons contained withi
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by asa400 8mo ago
> Sometimes you can explain things and not be heard until you demonstrate them. 1000%. In my experience this isn't even a "sometimes". It's the opposite. Explaining/arguing in the abstract why a significant direc
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by asa400 8mo ago
Why not put these AI/PV installations somewhere out in the ocean instead? A tiny fraction of the energy required to ship them there, you can actually physically get there to fix them, can use seawater for cooling, can use existing Star
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by asa400 9mo ago
> It seems counterintuitive, but this helped Tesla which is why Musk championed it. Basically when that tax credit came out, a bunch of Tesla owners had their cars underwater - loans were more than new cars were selling for and depreciat
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by asa400 9mo ago
How high of throughput were you working with? I've used Oban at a few places that had what pretty decent throughput and it was OK. Not disagreeing with your approach at all, just trying to get an idea of what kinds of workloads you wer
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by asa400 9mo ago
> I’ve been part of some projects where someone external to the team went on a crusade to shut our work down because they disagreed with it. When we pushed through, shipped it, and it worked well they lost a lot of credibility. I went th
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by asa400 9mo ago
> I work in manufacturing and spend a lot of time talking to the people on the factory floor. Before the pandemic, I used to work doing software for a manufacturing startup and _loved_ that part of it. I loved hacking something up for th
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by asa400 9mo ago
First, all of what you say is true. I'm going to try to add a little context as someone who is here on the ground, in the city in question. There is the imminent threat of mass death, and no one here is under any illusions about it. Ev
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by asa400 9mo ago
This makes no sense. If they were better and cost less I would use them for even more work. I'd run more tests, more kinds of tests, more builds, etc. This is classic Jevons paradox territory.
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by asa400 9mo ago
> Making GitHub actions runners more reliable, stable and economical would hurt Microsoft. Can you explain this one a bit? I know some folks who would absolutely increase their spend if Actions runners were better. As it stands I've
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by asa400 9mo ago
This is one of the consequences of outsourcing this (and other capabilities) to the private sector. Many governments simply don’t have the skill and political will to invest in these kinds of capabilities, which puts them at the mercy of pr
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by asa400 9mo ago
Do you have a specific use case you're curious about? It's the most widely deployed database software of all time. https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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by asa400 9mo ago
Also just a note: BEGIN CONCURRENT is not in mainline SQLite releases. You need to build your own from a branch. Not a huge deal but just something to note.
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by asa400 9mo ago
Additionally, they have built-in distribution and integration for their products. I don’t know how folks don’t see that as a massive advantage. It’s like Microsoft and Internet Explorer in the 90s but on a much larger scale both in the brea
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by asa400 9mo ago
> Allegedly every dollar you spent on an engineer is potentially worth 10x(?) what it was a couple years ago. Meaning your profit per engineer could soar, but tech companies decided they don't want more profit? Exactly, so many of t
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by asa400 9mo ago
> the unexpected overperformance of GDP isn’t directly attributed AI but it is very much in the “how did that happen?” conversation. We spent an amount of money on data centers that was so large that it managed to overcome a self-imposed
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by asa400 9mo ago
> I was reading about terminal text editors (em, en, vi, vim, neovim, etc.), and it's interesting how some of the software that "lasts" is more like Theseus' Ship. All the original components replaced over time, but t
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by asa400 9mo ago
This is good! There are a number of these, so it seems like it's definitely somthing people want. The most popular of which I think is gron[0]. My own is jstream[1]. One tiny point of friendly feedback: you may want to consider adding
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by asa400 9mo ago
Germany would have something to say about that.
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by asa400 9mo ago
> Man, it's easy to be fast when you're wrong. But of course it is fast because Rust not because it just skips the hard parts of dependency constraint solving and hopes people don't notice. What's underhanded about th
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by asa400 9mo ago
> Did they ever learn to compete then? The only thing that protected them then was that Japan was a US “ally” and could be “persuaded” to go along with protectionism. China has no such need. Oh, indeed. I was attempting to be generous, b
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by asa400 9mo ago
It's like the 1970s all over again with how the US Big 3 makers are facing an existential threat held at bay only by protectionism. They're going to have to learn to compete yet again.
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by asa400 10mo ago
> That said, if the Java community wanted to port reasonable tooling to their platform, I'm sure Claude could do a reasonable job of getting a decent chunk of BubbleTea and friends bootstrapped. There's a poster upthread who se

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