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by busterarm 4mo ago
Also Tencent, GE, Smithfield Foods, Legendary Pictures, DJI, AMC Theaters…
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Did ShackTac for a while. I agree but also in so many ways it's not immersive at all. Like all the years the physics were just busted and tanks would flip over and explode because the engine couldn't handle the terrain geometry.
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by busterarm 4mo ago
The team is still there. BISim was sold to BAE Systems now and they go by OneArc (onearc.com).
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by busterarm 4mo ago
That's a gross misunderstanding of corporate life. _A_ manager boosted it on twitter. It's not an announcement in the sense that companies announce things. You're also assuming that one team knows what the other is doing. T
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Did you not know what you were getting into? Most folks I know in Seattle have pretty commonly talked about wotc being an absolutely abysmal company to work for going all the way back to the early 00s. The only reason to be there was for t
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Nobody playing commander ever made a stink about peoples alters at the table People are trying to rationalize their behavior based on their hurt feelings
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by busterarm 4mo ago
The average duration that anyone is actively playing a TCG is something like 2 years. There’s also way more players than ever. Most of the new players never engage in online community around their game. So you may not hear a lot of excite
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Not only that but not clearing with your management that you're not working on something that is actually being worked on as a product. Definitely they put some manager and/or team in a very uncomfortable position releasing this.
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by busterarm 4mo ago
> With enough of a token budget you can now wrap loops around an LLM and have it try things until the program appears to work. Ask it to do a code review and then submit the PR without having understood what it was doing. There are a lot
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by busterarm 4mo ago
And that's over 30 years since the company was founded and a full decade after the US Gov sued Microsoft on antitrust grounds going into the process with every intent on breaking up the company... Also saying they were the first is lau
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by busterarm 4mo ago
I'm in a similar boat and only somewhat agree. The gist of my post was that this exists but maybe just use Kubernetes anyway. I don't entirely agree with your statement about zero-downtime instance replacement though. We built o
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by busterarm 4mo ago
I had a friend who worked for Instagram post-acquisition left and came back to a team in Facebook. They had always sung the praises of Instagram's culture but said they didn't recognize the company that they came back to. Literal
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Nomad, Consul and Vault all running on VMs that you manage with Terraform. The problem is that when you run this long enough you want K8s features anyway.
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by busterarm 4mo ago
https://archive.is/XR9Vq
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Personally I find LLMs absolutely terrible at writing Terraform and full of hallucinations. But also Terraform is my bread and butter and our use/workflow is fairly advanced. And we're multi-cloud + baremetal. That wasn't
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by busterarm 4mo ago
I've definitely found what you're describing at bigger companies, but I also previously had experience writing software at smaller non-technology companies. Legal marketing specifically. Weirdly, my work had more impact, respect
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by busterarm 4mo ago
Not just isolating them from customers but also from engineering-adjacent work that isn't code. I've been at a place that is basically microservices slop (several dozen services per engineer). They're all poorly maintained a
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by busterarm 4mo ago
I'm closing out 3 decades+ around the "IT nerds" and if anything they spend _more_ time socializing than "normies". The difference is typically that their socializing tends to specialize around fandoms/activit
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by busterarm 4mo ago
once it hit streaming services the webrip was on it within hours.
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by busterarm 4mo ago
It's not super hard. You just have to listen to when people are asking for things, try to help and read an org chart. 90% of the engineers I've worked with in bigger companies wouldn't know how to find someone in the company
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by busterarm 4mo ago
We ended our intern program and so did a ton of other companies. IMO one of the worst decisions we've ever made because 80% of the time the interns we take on and then hire are absolute superstars. And even before we ended it we had a
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I worked at a top 5 hedge fund in the early 2000s. They had a large team of E&Y auditors onsite at all times that I worked somewhat closely with. Some things stuck out at me: - They were all in their early 20s. - They were all incredib
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by busterarm 5mo ago
I think you're underestimating how much we simply don't know about how to live that primitively. Maybe you could do it in small groups of people. Maybe up to a dozen. Most experiments at this fail hilariously early by the way.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
It's insurance. The same way you don't want to go too far with germline editing. There are genetic variations that you might need to save your species some day. The cost of that is people suffer. We may need a close connection
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by busterarm 5mo ago
It can be a religion in its beliefs and a cult in its practices and that's exactly what's going on -- especially since it's Utah that we're talking about... I have very close Mormon and ex-Mormon friends and have dealt w
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by busterarm 5mo ago
Welcome to the Mormon Mafia.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
They were actually getting a 35% share. This is pure greed.
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by busterarm 5mo ago
In recent years many large businesses have moved out of Seattle entirely. Some just outside of the city limits to Bellevue and some out of the state completely. Also I'm someone who did move from NY to Miami during COVID along with ma
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by busterarm 5mo ago
It's not the "people with money" leaving. There's equal evidence of people with money staying and people with money leaving. It's people who use their money to generate more value and employ lots of people that are
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by busterarm 5mo ago
> The idea that middle management should spend enormous amounts of time building relationships because other middle managers got vibes that one day it might be useful is insane. I think the article represents the worst of big, slow tech

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