billy99k

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by billy99k 9mo ago
If you stay in the industry long enough, they will become your boss, and not hire you because you don't know anything about vibe coding.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
One of my clients is an AI startup in the security industry. Their business model is to use AI agents to perform the initial assessment and then cut the security contractors hours by 50% to complete the job. I don't think AI will compl
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Like most hacktivists, he is selfish asshole that cares more about self gratification than the consequencesbof their actions.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Getting emotional about it won't work. Companies only see results. If replacing your job with AI works, your job will be replaced.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
It's because they don't want illegal immigrants deported at all. The ice hate is just an excuse. Sanctuary city support a few years ago is more evidence if this.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
"reporter early on Wednesday in what the newspaper called a “highly unusual and aggressive” move by law enforcement, and press freedom groups condemned as a “tremendous intrusion” " See: james o'keefe
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by billy99k 9mo ago
If celebrities can hawk rug pull crypto coins, I seriously doubt there will be any legal ramifications for him.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
This wasn't when he got dropped. He got dropped in 2016 when he said he supported Trump. In an interview on CNN shortly after this, he talks about how all of his corporate gigs dried up and newspapers tried to cancel him. He also later
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by billy99k 9mo ago
A company I just left hired all of their development teams from Eastern Europe. Their rate was a fraction of teams in the US and communication was great. Perfecting remote work during covid showed companies how easy it is to hire cheaper de
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Even if the person didn't intend on running the officer over, it's reasonable to assume that the officer felt their life was in danger. The person in question was also already committing a crime by continuing to block federal gove
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by billy99k 9mo ago
"Now, to be clear, those workers haven’t been laid off because their jobs are now being done by AI" This isn't necessarily true. Sure, AI won't replace a developer. However, companies will reduce headcount by hiring a de
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by billy99k 9mo ago
There has to be a reason: grueling work or long hours.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
I've almost always been promoted by doing this. If not, I'm able to use the paid training to get another higher paying job at a different company.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
"People no longer feel obliged to pretend there’s something shameful about wanting to be thinner." Or the notion that being morbidly obese is healthy.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
More and more software engineers are denying this reality.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Better than Meth or Coke I guess.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Good luck. I've tried to completely replace Windows with Linux over the last two decades or so, and it's still lacks polish. I really don't enjoy having half-written GUIs for different apps and having to compile my own fixes
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by billy99k 9mo ago
Stop and frisk reduced crime rates. It should be brought back.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
I had the same issue after college. I joined a meetup group and made lots of friends over the course of a few years. It's been over a decade now, and I'm still friends with many of them.
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by billy99k 9mo ago
When anyone asks for a 'simplified' tax code, it's going to mean little or no deductions for mostly everyone. Is this really what you want? I also really don't know know how much easier you want them. If you have one W2
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by billy99k 9mo ago
I recently traveled to Florida. There are toll roads everywhere. Luckily, I got the unlimited daily toll package when I rented my car.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
This is what many evil people do.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
Like gun control.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
He basically got the other side to admit that European healthcare, which has always been used as an argument as 'better' than US care, is actually not as good. He can intentionally start supporting things he hates at this point, a
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by billy99k 10mo ago
"I only date liberal men.” Politics is not her only concern. She is also looking for someone ambitious, with a stable career, who is Jewish and, perhaps most important, shares her desire to start a family." Well, good luck finding
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by billy99k 10mo ago
Well, if you listen to any radio station, you also hear the same songs on rotation. It's not much different. I feel like music stopped being unique after 2010 or so.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
"My daughter followed the playbook everyone here recommends. MIT. Programming olympiads. Strong internships. No shortcuts." I never had any of this and I managed to find work in tech in 2000, 2008, and even now (during the worst d
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by billy99k 10mo ago
I use Deepseek for security research and it will give me exact steps. All other US-based AI models will not give me any exact steps and outright tell me it won't proceed further. China is already operating with less constraints.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
This reminds me of the 'hacker' definition that comes up from time-to-time. Like the term hacker, that ship has already sailed. WASM is WebAssembly.
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by billy99k 10mo ago
The 'resistance' was not releasing them during the last administration.

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