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by ath3nd 1y ago
That's part of the rug pull. They want to onboard as many people on their stuff and make them as dependent on it as possible, so the switching costs are more. It's the classic scam. Look at what Meta are doing now that they reache
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I find it hard to care for the marginal improvements in a glorifiedutocomplete that guzzles a shit ton of water and electricity (all stuff that can be used for more useful stuff than generating a picture of a cat with human hands or some la
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> As long as interfaces are well defined, comprehensive tests are written, memory is safely handled and time complexity is analyzable, who cares what the rest of the code looks like. Software engineers and anyone who'd get hired to
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I find it super funny that the average Joe will condemn an "illegal" worker for undercutting another, but never ask themselves the question who employed that "illegal" worker. How come the blame is not solely on the busi
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> working class salaries would go up even faster than the inflatino it would cause. Good, working class salaries need to be high! We can't function as a society without all the people who dispose of our garbage, maintain our plumbi
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Meta also created some goggles to pursue VR and something called the Metaverse. How is that going?
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> It might give you a feel of control and proper engineering Maybe a super salty take, but I personally haven't ever thought anything involving an LLM as "proper engineering". "Flailing around", yes. "Trial
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Move her on Signal
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Infinite growth in nature is called cancer.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> A lot of software engineers can get to $5M-$10M range in like 10-30 $5-$10M for 30 years, but only if you save every penny in between? Wow, that's very impressive and totally life-changing! Reminds me of the story how millennials
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by ath3nd 1y ago
My point is: when was the last time when K-means clustering or the Bayesian theorem got a cult, spawned a 10000 fake currencies and were touted as a panacea for all societal problems? The hype behind blockchain, which is just a distributed
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> We have great insurance and big piles of savings, there's nothing in common with people who can barely afford their deductible and lose their job for missing too much work. Bullshit. https://edition.cnn.com/2024&#x
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by ath3nd 1y ago
These 350 largest publicly owned US firms employ a major portion of the US population. Just the top 10 companies by revenue employ 6% of the US work-eligible population. Imagine the total 350 companies! So, while 350 seems to be a small num
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> The objective level of reproduction of labor force is about $2 per day. Cheaper for warm climates, slightly more expensive for cold ones. I also like making random numbers up. Here are other numbers. 420. 1337. 1911. > So by that lo
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> A CEO is nowadays paid 339 the salary of their average worker" you say? If we are nitpicking, that's obviously false; only a tiny, tiny fraction of CEOs are paid that well. We are nitpicking, and you are wrong: https:/&
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by ath3nd 1y ago
A teacher out of union is still as much working class as is a teacher in a union. We software engineers are working class because we have to work for our money. Do you own businesses, land, investments, and other forms of capital that gener
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Should I be worried about the shareholders? While we are it, how about also removing the few environmental regulations and worker protection laws we still have, just so the poor poor shareholders can buy another yacht? /s "Stonks
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Gains from productivity will accrue to those with the most bargaining power. That's true. And employers have been consistently the one with more bargaining power, and that's why our wages haven't kept up with the product
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by ath3nd 1y ago
As a member of society, a lot of things in your life should be about society. And none of those things is shareholder value. In fact, most people would have a version of this pyramid in order of importance: 1. Personal mental and physical w
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> I don't think that way of defining the working class is very sound Oh, really? Is that why both "white-collar worker" and "blue-collar worker" contain the word "worker"? Working class is everyone who
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I'd argue we'll be better at our jobs if we took pride in our craft and were treated with dignity and respect rather than like replaceable cogs in a machine that have to compete with one another to stay "competitive".
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by ath3nd 1y ago
There is much more equivalency between a dissent crushing nation like Iran, and the tactics big-corp have been utilizing to crush dissenting opinions. You can definitely go in jail for going against big oil: For example, environmental lawye
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by ath3nd 1y ago
- No risk of cancer from smoking: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3490543/ - Global warming isn't real, and if it is, definitely not caused by fossil fuels: https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> But know you have to keep doing this forever. Or to work for yourself or in an environment where you get the gains, not the employer Or, you know, being a member of society, you can find other members of society who feel like you, and
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Is the wealth of the average software developer ($122 000/y) in the US closer to the wealth of: A) a coal miner with $60 000/y salary B) Elon Musk: $381 000 000 000 Sources: - https://www.indeed.com/career/so
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by ath3nd 1y ago
The place known for: - High degree of warehouse injuries ( https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/business/economy/amazon-w... ) - Making its delivery drivers piss in bottles ( https://www.forbe
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> How are UK citizens voting for deteriorating services? - Voting Tory, you get cutting of public health services (e.g NHS) and and Brexit. - Voting Reform, you get the same plus a healthy dose of xenophobia and nationalism (it's th
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Is it though? Where are blockchains widely used nowadays, pray tell?
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It's hard to see the positives considering current cryptocurrencies are 99% rug-n-pull ponzi schemes with the longevity of a mayfly, and the ones sticking around like bitcoin, eth, etc, are just a long-run-con with a value volatility r
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I don't know if it's jusst me, but a company with 8000 devs having 1000 PRs per day doesn't look impressive at all? That means...a dev is producing a PR less often than a once a week on average? That's not only underwhel

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