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by cheema33 2y ago
Same for me. I am a couple of years younger. I have worked for mega corps. And they were soul-sucking places. Smaller companies pay less. But the work is a lot more fun. And everything I do makes a difference. It is very rewarding.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> You really can't use sarcasm around that topic. I have often wondered why that is. Why is the sarcasm bit turned off for most conservatives? Similarly their humor bit is quite off as well. There aren't many successful cons
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by cheema33 2y ago
I have seen LLMs do this. This is why I try to create a git repo, even if it is just local and then diff my changes. This allows me to catch LLM changing something that was completely unrelated to the task it was working on.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> What about the corner-case person who actually is legitimate and now has incredibly private information out there to make stealing their identity trivial? Elon usually has doesn't have any compunction about throwing innocent peopl
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by cheema33 2y ago
> That said, it's a pity to see this failure. Nikola did not really make anything. They bought trucks from Iveco in Europe and resold them here. They would sometimes customize a few things including putting their logo on the truck
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by cheema33 2y ago
> How do you even make an electric car that can't drive? The "pusher" truck was not supposed to be EV. It was supposed to be a Hydrogen truck. In reality it was neither.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Figured they were selling enough to keep going but guess not. They were buying their vehicles from Iveco in Europe. Putting their name on them and selling them at a loss here in the US. Making money by selling vehicles was never the
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by cheema33 2y ago
> but it's clear the engineers were building real things Nikola did not build their own vehicles. They bought their vehicles from Iveco in Europe and made small modifications including putting their names on them.
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by cheema33 2y ago
I needed to synchronize some tables between MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. In the future we will need to add ClickHouse database to the mix. When I last looked, the recommended way to do this was to use Debezium w/Kafka. So that is w
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Karpathy, Carmack, Andreesen, Jensen, Dawkins and others who know him IRL say the same. Most of these people know that there is a price to pay for bruising Elon's ego. We all know he is vindictive. Not unlike his new friend.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Has America already become an authoritarian state where this sort of thing really happens? The conservative Supreme court recently ruled that the president has essentially unlimited power. During his campaign, Trump did promise that h
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by cheema33 2y ago
Tariffs are a tax on the low and middle class. Upper income people will be fine with a 10-25% increase in cost of things they purchase. Regular income taxes are progressive. Tariffs are not. There is a reason why rich prefer tariffs over
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by cheema33 2y ago
Are you saying, if the supplier's cost goes up by 10-25% due , they should absorb it, and sell the product at the old price? Is that what you would do if you were building a product to sell?
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by cheema33 2y ago
Humans hallucinate as well. Benchmarks count.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Isn't it fucking crazy that the world's richest person is also moonlighting a public office with massive conflicts of interest and virtually zero oversight? Trump team has said that Musk will self-determine conflict of intere
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Remember how he exposed government meddling with twitter and everyone called it nothing burger. Please provide actual evidence of said government meddling with Twitter.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Prosecuting and convicting the current head of state comes to mind. Are you suggesting that the current head of state did not commit the crimes he was found guilty of by a jury?
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by cheema33 2y ago
> do people actually like eating marshmallows, if so why? Everybody around me likes them. I have no idea why. It could be cultural. I moved to the US when I was about 19. Tried my first marshmallow when I was maybe 25. Ick. Its mos
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by cheema33 2y ago
I used to do that. Use OneNote. And then I discovered that OneNote really sucks when it comes to 1. Syncing across devices. 2. Large documents I searched high and low and found Obsidian. Now the idea of using OneNote sends shivers down
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Musk has a track record of executing well at preposterous speed He has been promising Tesla full auto-pilot every year for about 9 years. Just around the corner he said. I even shelled out $10K for it on top of the price of my car, 6
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by cheema33 2y ago
> copilot plugin in vscode Copilot, back when I used it, completely ignored context outside of the file I was working in. Copilot, as of a few weeks ago, the absolute dumbest assistant of all the various options available. With cursor,
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by cheema33 2y ago
While Trump may not invade Canada, he has already said that he wants to annex it and make it the 51st state. He "Truth'ed" it yesterday. His words, not mine.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Donald Trump says Americans could feel 'pain' thanks to tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China This is a sacrifice Trump and Elon are willing to make.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> The upside is, maybe when grocery and gas prices double it will shake some people out of their MAGA trance. You are assuming that MAGA are capable of self reflection and admitting mistakes. I doubt that vast majority of them are capab
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by cheema33 2y ago
> EV tax credits under the previous administration applied to almost every EV that wasn't a Tesla. Your statement might give somebody the impression that somebody in the previous administration singled out Tesla. This is obviously
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by cheema33 2y ago
Generally speaking, the responsibility of proof falls on party making the claim. If I claim that you beat your wife, you are not expected to prove your innocence by showing that you don't do it. Proving a negative is difficult if not
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by cheema33 2y ago
I like deepseek a lot. But they are currently very glitchy. The API service goes up and down a lot. Maybe they'll sort that out soon.
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by cheema33 2y ago
It is strictly a conspiracy theory at this point.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Same. I am pretty relaxed about privacy. But browser extensions are usually a hard pass for me. I grudgingly installed 2. An ad blocker and 1Password. It would take a lot for me to install a third. I usually do not trust browser ext
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by cheema33 2y ago
We are in the same boat. An older application with lots of dependencies on MS SQL Server. We are slowly chipping away at it with our migration effort.

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