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by davidw 2mo ago
Are you saying that precise thing changed 10 years ago and hasn't always kind of been with us? I am talking about the weak market for software engineers right now and what caused it.
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by davidw 2mo ago
What is the total monthly spend, approximately, on all this; if you don't mind saying, of course?
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by davidw 2mo ago
> outsourcing, an over-reliance on degrees, LLMs, a lack of "apprenticeship" mentoring, Which of those things changed (along with higher interest rates) in the past few years though? All the other variables did not change. They
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by davidw 2mo ago
It also ignores the effects of having a critical tool in the software pipeline controlled by a large corporation. That is an absolute sea change from the years when you could (and some of us did) run most of our software development on open
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by davidw 2mo ago
That's not actually true; people have been complaining about this for decades, and it's never been the zero-sum game that they claim it is. I mean, I wrote this 12 years ago in response to similar discussions on this same site, an
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by davidw 2mo ago
People have been fretting about 'foreigners' taking their jobs for decades and it never really happened. This is all about LLM's. I mean, think about it; just a few short years ago there was a very strong market for software
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by davidw 2mo ago
Blue Sky has 'enough' for me. I don't care if it's the biggest platform. It's got local elected officials, it's got bike racing content and people, it's got software people, and by using it I'm not su
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by davidw 2mo ago
Meta feels more like your traditional 'greedy corporation' that's fairly amoral and as a consequence ends up doing some bad things in pursuit of more profits. The other one feels pretty explicitly evil at this point.
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by davidw 2mo ago
Yeah, corruption hurts all of us. There's also a lesson in there for the "this sucks, they're all corrupt" type nihilists. It turns out that it was possible to be a lot more corrupt, and that things could indeed become
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by davidw 2mo ago
I don't think Taco Bell are the villains of this story. They got right on tracing the problem down and were open about it, from what I understand. Taylor Farms... not so much.
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by davidw 2mo ago
> who these models reward/empower The easy, straightforward answer is "the people who own the models". Who else benefits feels like a more complex question and we'll have to see...
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by davidw 2mo ago
Except no one died because Twitter malfunctions here and there.
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by davidw 2mo ago
It's a bit ironic to talk about key parts of the toolchain being open source while making black-box, closed source LLM's, controlled by external companies an integral part of all of it.
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by davidw 2mo ago
That's what 'FuriouslyAdrift' is saying. Those are the people he/she does not want in the neighborhood.
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by davidw 2mo ago
Most NIMBYism isn't about sprawl - at least in the US. It's about stopping the types of housing that use land more efficiently from being built within cities, and therefore actually reduce the demand to grow outwards.
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by davidw 2mo ago
If you are building outwards, 'sprawl', the environmental concerns have some validity, I think. But most of the NIMBYism I see is people opposing, say, an apartment building right in the middle of town. That's actual a big wi
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by davidw 2mo ago
Meanwhile, someone elsewhere in this thread is talking explicitly about 'white flight'. For the record I think it's both racism and classism.
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by davidw 2mo ago
I explained two kinds of change, one that is more visible, where housing is built to accommodate people moving in, and a second kind where supply does not meet demand so the people change. Boulder, CO is an example of #2 - they put a bunc
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by davidw 2mo ago
This is not actually a thing that happens because 'someone built an apartment building'.
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by davidw 2mo ago
You bought a property, not the entire neighborhood or city. Those do not belong to you. Cities change and adapt over time.
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by davidw 2mo ago
"Destroy" - see, that's the kind of rhetoric we hear when it turns out they're building like a small apartment building or something. Change happens one way or another. If a place has 10 homes and 100 people want to live
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by davidw 2mo ago
It's pretty frustrating to see the downvotes for someone who has actually been to housing hearings, something I doubt most people on this site have taken the time to do. This statement is accurate, too.
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by davidw 2mo ago
I think their concerns about automobiles are actually genuine if overblown. People freak out about car stuff. I do see 'concern trolling' as well. For instance I live in a place that doesn't see a lot of rain, so people will
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by davidw 2mo ago
My experience is mostly with the car-oriented city I live in; I can't speak as much to what it might look like elsewhere.
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by davidw 2mo ago
I'm skeptical. People seem to complain most of all because 1) they view the function of a city as moving and storing automobiles and anything that might hypothetically get in the way of that is bad ("we should only build these hom
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by davidw 2mo ago
I just took down part of our trampoline this morning, and it gave me the sads, because our kids have used the heck out of it over the years. When they were smaller they'd ask me to 'bounce' them, and they'd scream happy
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by davidw 2mo ago
Oh that's good news. I wrote in to support HB4080 here in Oregon, but it didn't go anywhere during this year's short session, so will hopefully come back around for the session next year. It seems like the site ought to provi
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by davidw 2mo ago
How does this work legally? I thought balcony solar was only legal in Utah in the US?
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by davidw 2mo ago
They seem to have tried and given up in the US as well outside of an online presence. It's a pity, as they make 'ok' gear at good prices. It's perfect for if you're getting into a sport, or know you're going to
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by davidw 2mo ago
Breaking things is also a lot easier than building complex things.

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