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by fooker 5mo ago
Competent CEOs get paid more when you are facing actual competition, because otherwise your competition will hire your CEO.
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by fooker 5mo ago
What's your proposal for changing this? Government regulation?
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by fooker 5mo ago
No, it's pretty easy to cause irreversible damage. This is a fairly well known advantage of git over literally everything else. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7376915/recover-lost-fil...
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by fooker 5mo ago
Not just mistakes though, the power of git is being able to undo anything you do with git. If you’re claiming to have never needed any kind of undo functionality, you probably don’t even need a version control system :)
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by fooker 5mo ago
The dangerous parts of git exist to make it trivial to undo mistakes. You don’t have to use those for your regular workflows. With any other system, your only option is usually checking out a fresh copy from a server or backup.
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by fooker 5mo ago
Yes, that’s how language works. But feel free to petition literally all countries to remove words like defense or security from the names of their militaries.
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by fooker 5mo ago
Patent trolling
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by fooker 5mo ago
Great, that is not an uncommon stance. Respectable in my opinion. Now, cutting friends and family off over something this just means you do not want to tolerate people with differing views and opinions on this. It's more about the side
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by fooker 5mo ago
Nothing that sexy, just thirty odd years of software engineering data from humans. Commits, design reviews, whitepapers, code reviews, test suites. And pretty concerning : chat logs and even keystrokes from employees nowadays. The way we tr
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by fooker 5mo ago
This is literally how training humans have worked for thousands of years. We train humans to do things untrained humans can not do.
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by fooker 5mo ago
That's the beauty of it, it doesn't matter who the boogeyman is and who the victim is. Would you tell Palestinians to stop working on 'killy stuff' for moral/ethical reasons?
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by fooker 5mo ago
> Maybe in the future but certainly no evidence of this anytime soon Here's some anecdotal evidence from me - I cleaned up multiple GPT 4.x era vibecoded projects recently with the latest claude model and integrated one of those int
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by fooker 5mo ago
Very often, no.
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by fooker 5mo ago
Interesting worldview!
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by fooker 5mo ago
This might not pan out to be the glorious victory of human craft as you’re imagining it to be. Here’s a slightly different future - these AI rescue consultants are bots too, just trained for this purpose. Plausible? I have already experienc
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by fooker 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, would you do this to family members accepting a job you don’t approve of too, or just friends?
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by fooker 5mo ago
This would be hilarious if a bunch of companies did not already do exactly this with exec travel. And academics do this all the time when travel has to be funded from grants. One reason it works out like that for travel funding is that it’s
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by fooker 5mo ago
A used Maserati is just 15k and you can’t afford the mortgage on a Tahoe vacation home on a 700k salary, so I’d say your made up stereotypes are a bit off in both directions :) For future reference, here’s all that’s needed to exhaust a 700
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by fooker 5mo ago
It seems surprising that people would expect a VPN to be comparable to Tor. It does seem ridiculous once you spell it out like that, and then you have to realize that it’s plausible to de-anonymize even Tor users by controlling exit nodes.
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by fooker 5mo ago
The usual bet is that you double your salary by tolerating a toxic work environment for a few years. If you are not in the Bay Area, the absolute numbers might seem unbelievable but here you go - I have seen mid-senior engineers (4-5 years
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by fooker 5mo ago
I give it six months to a year. All the current fabs are trying to balance current production with building next gen scaled up facilities. Can’t have both.
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by fooker 5mo ago
It’s 8GB because they want to sell you a 16GB model for the same price when the dram crisis is over. That way the marketing can be: double the memory for the same price. Apple has done this again and again, the more time people are spending
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by fooker 5mo ago
Microsoft is trying this with copilot, but they are calling everything copilot so YMMV.
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by fooker 5mo ago
Who thought wiggling the cursor to invoke AI is a good idea? People do this when the system is stuck or something is not working for some reason, and this will just add extra burden when that happens. It's such a bad idea that I can se
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by fooker 5mo ago
> The general public are weary of AI. Have you interacted with the 'general public' in the last year or so? Every non-technical person I know uses AI for 'fact checking' now, as well as 'doing the math' befo
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by fooker 5mo ago
> non-deterministic answers It doesn't make sense to get hung up on this aspect of LLMs. We prefer non deterministic so far because it tends to work slightly better even if it is completely possible to ask for a temperature=0 determ
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by fooker 5mo ago
I think paying significantly more was a very localized thing that happened for AI researchers who were familiar with the alchemy that made GPT4 suddenly work much better than anything else seen before.
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by fooker 5mo ago
All this sounds great in theory, but Mac does not have a particularly stable ABI and it's fairly common for closed source software from 5+ years ago to just not run.
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by fooker 5mo ago
If by software engineering, one means typing code character by character into a text editor, sure it's going to be difficult to find someone to pay you for it. If you mean creating software, well we are creating more software than ever
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by fooker 5mo ago
> widest wider sure, but widest?

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