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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I have found it to really depend on the company. Large companies, there is a ton of time spent on architecture reviews, paperwork, design, hitting new library updates, etc. That work is on seniors, then mid levels do a lot of the actual cod
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
50% of amazon operating profit is from AWS. NVIDIA's GPUs aren't really that much better than AMD if it weren't for CUDA. Software company is a pretty good description for both.
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The margins on tech/cloud are just so astronomically higher than retail. Places like Walmart or Costco are fighting for <5% profit margins, IIRC its closer to 2%. Quick search says AWS has about a 35% profit margin and about 50-60%
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
The lack of shitty KPIs is the main thing. Hiring 10 full time devs to work on Matrix would probably be more effective than 500 full time devs on Slack/Teams with most of them stuck on weird Product Manager goals and renaming things to
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Funny that this and Opus 4.6 released within minutes of each other. Each showing similar score improvements. Each claiming to be revolutionary.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
This article has very little context. Here is the kind of comment he was receiving: https://www.threads.com/@thehawthornelibrary/post/DUE7PWnjIm... So the "backlash" is people on threads complaining that
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Your discrete mathematics class has programming and is taught by the CS department? I can't say I have seen that. My Discrete mathematics class was taught in the Math department, no programming, and we had a few CS theory courses in th
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I doubt that there is any risk at all. One is that this is probably a minor aspect of the business seeing these AIs. AIs that ive seen deployed so far for real work seem to best be done in side business offerings that you can tolerate a hig
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
> lack of time for parenting The average father in present day spends more time with their kids weekly than the average mother did in 1960. > helicopter parenting caused by breakdown of social trust This one is more likely I think. Ki
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I've worked in several companies and have never seen this. Maybe for a small scale startup or rapidly growing early stage company. I would be pretty shocked to see an old desktop acting as a server nowadays.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
There has been an inversion in cost. It used to be that Materials cost a lot, and labor cost very little. There wasn't cheap plastics. particle board or synthetic rubber, it was real rubber, real wood, real metal. So it was worth it to
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I would have to check the size, I think its like 50 cups, but its a commercial coffee maker targeted towards caterers and offices. So 50 cups isn't that unbelievable, its 5 normal coffee pots. But for a moka pot its pretty large.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Federalist society is supporting textualist interpretation of the law. If you want the law to be different, then change the constitution. Having overly expansive interpetations of the constitution to make the law what you want is being an a
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Lower courts have a lot more activist judges than SCOTUS. SCOTUS has fewer activist judges than they used to, and are now busy interpreting the law based on the constitution, not on what their own personal grievances are.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Caesar was assassinated because the Senate was jealous Caesar's wealth, power, prestige and love by the people. Also because he wanted to redistribute land, threatening their own power.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
If I am sitting in a review session and the Engineer presenting brings up their options and why they are choosing to bring in technology A over B, and I ask them what their reasoning is. Being unsatisfied by "There are a lot of Github
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many ho
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
But we are programmers. I think there is a difference between expect John Accountant who doesn't trust his computer to set up RSync and a server, and a Programmer who is already going to spend a good chunk of their day in a terminal wi
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Microsoft is still Microsoft.
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As opposed to 'sudo apt install vim'? or 'sudo dnf install vim'? Same for emacs. sublime you might need to add a package repository.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I don't really get how VSCode got so popular. You can use a language server perfectly easily with Vim, Emacs, Helix, Sublime, etc. You can customize basically everything in those editors, syntax, etc. You can just alias console command
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
I took a CS class in highschool the 2000s, this was about 2005 I think. The CS "teacher" had been teaching CS there for a decade I think. Which sure I think that I was lucky to have that class. But she was just a math teacher, if
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
Anyone that is a native European language speaker that hasn't tried to learn Chinese or some other tonal language, its really hard to understand how hard it is. The tones can really be very subtle, and your ear is not fine tuned to the
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
From a language learning standpoint that does make sense. Over-exageration while you are learning to help cement the idea, and then when you are speaking more naturally you will fall back into a regular kind of tone.
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by ecshafer 9mo ago
As someone that mostly plays relatively niche games, I love DLC. I went from getting a game, then an expansion if I am lucky to getting a game with constant development for 10 years. Ill happily pay $10-20 for my favorite niche sandbox ga
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> There are many companies making money off alcohol addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, food addiction, etc. Should we outlaw all these things? Yes
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They were right. We have largely had 200 years of socially and legally enforced morality being eroded with the conservatives saying "If you remove X then Y and Z will happen!". The liberals saying "Why do you care anyways?
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Targeting DirectX and Win32 has become targeting Linux with how good Wine/Proton have gotten. I am able to play brand new games with no Linux support absolutely perfectly through proton. These games run better than games that had linux
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Its pure fearmongering by the opposition. Before NPR became a total meme, they used to be overly crunchy granola and against all technological or industrial advancement. They are just getting back to their roots.
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In these small rust belt towns, even 40 jobs is a huge boost. You have the hands on sysadmin and network guys there, which yeah thats small. But you also have facilities, security, maintenance. When you combine this with the stimulus to the

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