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by braza 1y ago
I’ve worked there, maybe my 2 cents: at the end of the day I have mouths to feed and honestly I used to be idealistic regarding employer moral compass and so on, but coming from the bottom in socio-economic terms I will exercise my right to
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by braza 1y ago
I think the initiative comes from some good principles, but I do not buy it because it not about fostering a dynamic European market and creating conditions for small and medium-sized companies to be able to raise and compete, but it soun
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by braza 1y ago
> The problem is not that incontrovertible proof cannot be provided real time. Yielding evidence from complex, esoteric systems is always difficult and time-consuming. Most of the heated discussions that I saw in low performing teams was
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by braza 1y ago
> Whereas a programmer who's either straight out of school or fresh off their first internship or short-stint job is essentially all potential. So you draw their line on the basis of just a few early dots, but the line can be steep.
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by braza 2y ago
As a former military person now working with tech, it's a bummer to see that the "neo" defense industry outside Ukraine (for obvious reasons) is trying to play the "Silicon Valley recruitment tale" without understan
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by braza 2y ago
The author gains a great insight into the social consequences of discussing politics with friends, but I think it might be part of something larger, a sort of intellectual signaling of meta-contrarianism. At least in the countries where I l
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by braza 2y ago
> I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme than it's ever been before. In my case, definitely yes. Not related to the analog/digital only, but I c
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by braza 2y ago
Not the OP, but this was a theme in the European Parliament in 2022 [1][2] and it was the object of a document that Greenpeace made [3] showing how pervasive the Russian lobby was over climate policies. I personally do not believe that Russ
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by braza 2y ago
Maybe I wouldn't use the umbrella term "tech journalist who hates tech" because I can see where comes from the need for public scrutiny that every big industry faces when becoming influential (e.g., tobacco, food, alcoholic b
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by braza 2y ago
Maybe I come from a different perspective. In my case, the technology industry was a gigantic enabler for societal mobility, social ascention, education, and a way to connect to my community, where technology is important for their economic
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by braza 2y ago
The change of tone in Tech Crunch over the last 5 years was something that I feel personally sad about. I was a long-time reader, and being in a peripheral place where we looked up to the American companies, TC sounded very optimistic with
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by braza 2y ago
Maybe this one relates more with the Americans because Ozempic became a trend there: Why are most people jumping on this drug? At least for me, besides all the cliches and stereotypes about the USA people, there's huge access to nutrit
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by braza 2y ago
That's the most interesting thing because if those folks managed to get a parachute for their 1x pref investors with this abysmal final price, what does it mean for the several companies at the same situation? It's a pity that we
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by braza 2y ago
From the presentation > The more code, more bugs. I came from a place where we developed ERP software with the entire business logic in SQL Stored Procedures with some minimal UI, and working with ML nowadays, the number of bugs are more
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by braza 2y ago
> team of teenage Maybe it's a question of wording, but I would agree if the word were "inexperienced" instead of teenage (in reality, they are young adults). I have no horse in this DOGE race and all the discussions, but
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by braza 2y ago
I work with ML and I am bullish with AI in general; said that, I would pay between 5 to 10 USD a feature or toggle called “No AI” for several services. For myself I noticed 2 bad effects in my daily usage: - Search: impossible to reach any
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by braza 2y ago
I know where the argument comes from, but at an extreme watching football with 22 folks running behind a ball in a slow game where 97% of the time nothing happens in terms of scoring, and in terms of tactics, today sounds like a handball ga
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by braza 2y ago
> The tv rights and advertising sell for billions. In person ticket sales in the 100's of millions. I acknowledge that this economic output is relevant, but the real issue for me is how this is distributed downstream. I do not think
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by braza 2y ago
I knew 2 former UFC fighters (circa 2010/2016) that got USD 20K in average for their fights. The issue is that this does not cover 100% of the whole preparation that they need to be in the octagon. For instance, from little things sinc
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by braza 2y ago
Being a former athlete (100/200 meters), the issue is that the top-tier sports (e.g., football, volleyball, basketball, etc.) capture the majority of money/value, and if you are from javelin throwing, fencing, or racewalking, unle
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by braza 2y ago
> The problem is not that people don't care about quality, it's that they are not competent to judge it and marketing does the rest. I disagree with this. Just a small background: I was around in some of the cultures that value
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by braza 2y ago
As a Brazilian I admire how some Americans here in the thread can say great things and passages about their presidents, regardless of the mistakes made and political party. Democracies are never perfect but I strongly believe that having so
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by braza 2y ago
> Thanks to LLMs, I am now able to build iOS apps with Swift Build iOS apps is one of the few areas where I have excitement in software engineering, and one of my biggest regrets was to get into ML/backend instead of app development
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by braza 2y ago
> Those YouTubers might not be producing erudition, but as long as they have watched a ton of content and decided what the good stuff is, and as long as their tastes seem to align to mine, then their opinion is still very useful. In most
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by braza 2y ago
> Fundamentally I think we want experts, not critics. I think both have their spaces, but honestly, I would like to have more critics. With the advent of podcasts and YouTube channels, we have an unprecedented level of access to experts.
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by braza 2y ago
A marginally related point but I do not know if others faced the following situation: I worked in a place with a CI pipeline room ~25 minutes with the unit/integration tests (3000+) taking 18 minutes. When something happens in producti
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by braza 2y ago
> Too many fractured packaging solutions, not a single one well designed. And they all conflict. 100% this. Last 4 years, one of the most frustrating parts of SWE that I need to deal with on a daily basis is packaging data science &
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by braza 2y ago
100% that. > Large media companies have swooped in and gobbled up pretty much every major newspaper, local tv news, and local radio news. I think the main issue is related to the funding of those projects. As a non-American but former re
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by braza 2y ago
Transcribing is almost at the end of the journalistic process. The hard part is getting the facts (correctly), checking and cross-checking, calling sources, trying to get back channels, in many cases have boots on the ground, and then summa
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by braza 2y ago
> How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy? I noticed that most of the journalism that I care about ~drifted~ from the writing to non-structured media

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