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by cudgy 4y ago
I assume that means there are not many iOS users in your area. Luckily Android is easier to provide backward compatibility with Androidx, and there are more users with older devices (maybe 2-3 yrs old) even in the North American market make
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by cudgy 4y ago
And the more content that is created by these LLMs, the more garbage the LLMs will consume while quality content creators are simultaneously disincentivized, leading to worse content from these LLMs. Terrible image, but an organism cannot s
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by cudgy 4y ago
The AI is aptly named as Bards are storytellers. Plus, they are barflies, so the stories come with an extra twist — or is it shaken.
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by cudgy 4y ago
“More crucially, a disproportionate amount of those labelled as fraudsters had an immigration background.” Why is that more crucial than another group being disproportionately labeled? Also, why is it so shocking that one group would be dis
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by cudgy 4y ago
Adoption of newer OS versions on iOS occurs much quicker than Android. There is less benefit from supporting more than 2 or 3 ios versions back. Also, it is arguable whether an app customer that would rather have a flip phone is valuable en
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by cudgy 4y ago
Sure, 90% of apps could be websites, but unfortunately 90% of websites are horrible Frankensteinish user experiences and 99% of websites require users to be online.
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by cudgy 4y ago
m not km I presume
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by cudgy 4y ago
Some of that goes to workers with vested options too plus 401k and pension investors as well. Also, we are not talking about low salaries with the FAANG companies; the rest of the industry gets paid much less and noone is crying a river for
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by cudgy 4y ago
Ok, but did the company have to pay that much to get that same value? I saved a company from losing a $5 million dollar sale when I was 6 months out of university, but should I have received $5 million for my value? Plenty of other people c
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by cudgy 4y ago
So, maybe Apple users should buy their music from Google Play store. Or, better yet, buy them from a third party (non-device platform) and play them on whatever platform they choose.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Outspending alone is not sufficient though. I prefer a “pull” model for hiring: hire gradually as more people are needed.
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by cudgy 4y ago
> Shareholders should revolt against those rich software developers? Of course they should. Hiring a few, strategic, expert developers at those rates might make sense. However, paying 200k+ for a newly graduated student with no experienc
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by cudgy 4y ago
Actually, hiring for a future that is based on economic predictions that are notoriously inaccurate due to many factors, including simple personal biases of the experts making the predictions is quite foolish if you think rationally about i
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by cudgy 4y ago
“CEO pay has skyrocketed over the years, but accountability of these top execs hasn't kept pace” When has that ever been the case — for any industry?
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by cudgy 4y ago
Chef Jean Pierre
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by cudgy 4y ago
Just because a job pays well, doesn’t mean it’s worth doing. Most FAANG jobs (now that the companies have become modern day behemoths like IBM) are boring cogs in a huge, multilayered, bureaucratic machine that is mostly built to take adva
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by cudgy 4y ago
Project managers are dealing with the high complexity stuff, while the developers are handling the low complexity stuff? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
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by cudgy 4y ago
This extends to many academic papers and other expository as well. Repeat the same thing multiple times with a slight twist and use of different terms. So much communication could be more succinctly stated, but the incentives of reader rete
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by cudgy 4y ago
Rates are higher relative to last 10 years or so, but historically they are not “super high”. https://www.valuepenguin.com/mortgages/historical-mortgage-r...
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by cudgy 4y ago
“On average, state and local governments collected $1,617 per capita in property taxes nationwide in FY 2017” https://taxfoundation.org/state-property-taxes-per-capita-20... California property taxes for $1620 per capita, w
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by cudgy 4y ago
OK. I assume you recognize the fallacy in your statement. As for the statement regarding low wages being the primary driver, you are ignoring the impact of protectionism. The Chinese do it now, and they did it through the whole process of o
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by cudgy 4y ago
In US, suicide rates increased 36% between 2000-2018 and declined 5% between 2018-2020. Overall, a huge increase and we still have covid years to add to the mix. https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html
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by cudgy 4y ago
Tech salaries trounced everyone else 20 years ago too. The $100k was not abnormal for grads in cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Raleigh-Durham 20 years ago when houses could be had $150k. Things aren’t that great these days in comparison.
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by cudgy 4y ago
> So I don’t think wanting to build new stuff from the ground up necessarily means a startup is best. This is true, but why the focus on building new things? Improving and utilizing existing code bases is where most of the value from a s
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by cudgy 4y ago
> New grad SWE positions are paying around 100-110k a year for around 20-30hrs/week of work This was true 20 years ago during dot com boom, so not much has improved. Select FAANG workers over the past decade living in San Fran are m
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by cudgy 4y ago
> Society has changed, and software engineering is viewed as the goto high paying job for people in my age demographic. This explains the influx of grifters and “MBA” types into the software industry along with the focus of software onto
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by cudgy 4y ago
Followed by “They’re too big to fail!”
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by cudgy 4y ago
“ Everything is poison? I grew up with acid rain (solved), a hole in the ozone layer (getting better), indoor public smoking (banned in the UK, doesn't seem to be here in Berlin), asbestos (banned), and leaded petrol (banned).” But now
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by cudgy 4y ago
There already is a direct conflict. Wake up and get your head out of the sand.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Maybe you are getting “grumpy old person” disease. We all get it at some point. I agree with many of your complaints about landlords though, but it has been going on for much longer than 5 years.

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