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by ferrouswheel 4mo ago
We need a new unglamorous tech, massaging floating point quants by hand in a hex editor.
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by ferrouswheel 4mo ago
I just want enough money to retire and write interesting open source software, but doing that in my 20s made me poor, so since then I am trying to speed run retirement so I can go back to it. Sadly, while I find AI effective, I also find it
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by ferrouswheel 5mo ago
Finally some adults in the room.
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by ferrouswheel 6mo ago
The American tax payer has been bailing out Tesla and SpaceX for many years. Elon is the biggest welfare queen in history.
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by ferrouswheel 8mo ago
Well it's obvious this protest was paid for. Or the protestors pathetically hope the billionaires will notice them and invest in their startups.
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by ferrouswheel 9mo ago
It's interesting how many comments these days are like, "well of course". Back in the day hackernews had some fire and resistance. Too many tech workers decided to rollover for the government and that's why we are in thi
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by ferrouswheel 10mo ago
It was relevant due to Python Foundation having to reject what used to be regular government funding because they started adding ideological clauses to it.
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by ferrouswheel 10mo ago
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by ferrouswheel 10mo ago
Yikes that is definitely a sloppy ad. I have no problem with a reasonable request. But this is definitely enshittification territory. Sigh, we can have nothing good anymore.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Are you insane? I'm not sure you'd pass your own test. Haha
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Actually they were very well paid. Turns out if everyone knows you are the best in the company, the company doesn't want to lose you!
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
All part of the plan to force everyone to rent compute. Evil bastards.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
The best engineers I've had the pleasure of working with, are not anyone who would be recognised outside of the teams they've worked in. I aim to be like them, high performers that get respect from their peers, but unknown to inte
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Yeah, some people just don't understand agalmic economies and always have to reference physical goods.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
I would pay good money for win7 resurrection. I'm usually a cross OS/platform guy. Using each for what they are good at. But lately Win11 has just felt like it's not bringing anything to the table except pain. Especially with
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
I'm also building out a sub-internet... I have more media than I can ever watch, more ebooks/comics than I can read in 10 lifetimes, a copy of pre-2021 reddit, a copy of pre-2021 Wikipedia, etc etc. I also have a physical library
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Yes I feel the same way. Early 40s. Even TikTok is just slopaganda, AI videos to promote fascism. So it's not just text, it's all content online only unless it's come from someone you trust and know.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Guess you haven't downloaded any self-updating executables then? They are very annoying.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
But people get earworms and sing songs out loud that they don't own rights to.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
Indeed. However Visual Studio and Xcode are closed source and still popular in some circles. Most people will still be relying on open source libraries while using those platforms though.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
I bought a lifetime gold license to Mediamonkey 3, 15 years ago. I have since gotten Mediamonkey 4 and Mediamonkey 2024. Unfortunately I don't like the 2024 refresh, but I can use it if I want to. I would also be completely happy if th
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
This is one reason open source wins.
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by ferrouswheel 11mo ago
They exist, and then they become subscription only. That is literally what the post is about.
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
Yup, and the further out the expiry date for puts, the higher the price you pay. I looked into it and it's not that cheap - and feels like the market is already pricing in risk of a large correction. But you can still make a lot of mon
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
While I agree LLMs have forever changed the interviewing game, I also strongly disagree with deeming slop code as "perfect" and "optimal". There's a lot of shitty code made my LLMs, even today. So maybe we should le
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
Good time to purge these slop fascists from your digital life. When people show you who they are, believe them.
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
fortunately this is unenforceable, so just use MIT.
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
Finally some leadership that knows forcing AI slop on their workforce is destroying people's sanity. (I've worked in machine learning for 20 years, AI has its place but CEOs don't understand what that place is)
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by ferrouswheel 1y ago
Maybe talent in third world countries. I think it's mostly mid-tier people from first world countries. People with actually talent and intelligence realise how messed up the USA is (and has been for some time) and prefer things like he
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by ferrouswheel 2y ago
Ah but unlike the crazy USA, Germany has a legal maximum of 48 hours per week.

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