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by francisofascii 8mo ago
> The good ones read more like the notes you'd give a new senior engineer on their first day. If the notes are meant for new developers, wouldn't those notes go into the actual readme.md file?
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by francisofascii 8mo ago
Not to mention all the land being gobbled up to build these data centers.
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) seems to backup what the article is saying. It isolate software firms from the IT industry. It is down about 10% last week, and 20% down the past six months. The IT sector as a whole didn&
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
It's interesting that one way to improve mitochondrial dysfunction is getting sunlight, the same way you get Vitamin D.
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
I would argue to do both in the winter, since sunlight has other benefits than just Vitamin D synthesis, like mitochondrial health and better circadian signaling for better sleep quality.
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
In regards to fairness, many times these cuts are based what group you are in, rather than performance. You wonder, hypothetically, would the L5s and above all agree to accepting a 20% pay cut in exchange for not having layoffs. It strang
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
> There were big swings in my resting heart rate whenever I got a new Apple Watch, suggesting the devices may not have been tracking the same way. First of all, wrist based HR measurements are not reliable. If you feed ChatGPT a ton of
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
Software engineers see the most dramatic change, and they haven't had to worry about job security for the last 25 years.
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
Sorry to hear your situation. As a full stack Dev, I miss the days of having a UX expert on the team. Now we are just expected to create something good enough. Also your question of will there be interfaces like today makes me more nervou
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
"it's all just numbers really. Just changing what you're adding up. And, to speak freely, the money here is considerably more attractive." - Peter Sullivan in the movie Margin Call
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
Don't disagree at all. But many devs are not working with a "high stakes production environment where bugs and crashes and unintended behaviours will make you lose money and reputation." There is the class of software where
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
Maybe? Although it sounds the study was able to differentiate between families where people were taking a GLP-1 vs families who were not.
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
> a handful of categories showed increases. Yogurt rose the most, followed by fresh fruit, nutrition bars and meat snacks. Interesting. Wonder what it is about yogurt and ozempic users. Probiotics?
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
>I made the wrong choice with software development. I wonder what the best decision would have been. What job is AI immune and has a stable 40 hour week, no overtime, with decent pay. Teacher? Nursing?
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by francisofascii 9mo ago
I honestly hope that is the case. That is the way it used to be. Non-tech companies used to have a few in-house devs to give them the in-house tools and customizations they needed. If developers are easier to hire, cheaper, and more product
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
It was Bob? Sure it wasn't Mallory? ;)
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
Back in the "golden age" of Web my development career, circa 2008, before "full-stack" and before SPAs, we were fortunate to have people that specialized in UX and CSS. They understood fonts, colors, spacing, browser qu
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
I also agreed with this vision. It was meant to be more like Wikipedia rather than Reddit.
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
I don’t think they say it has the same cause. They just say that the same income disparity exists in the various ethnic groups.
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
At this point I think it is no longer a binary yes/no but rather a nebulous percentage. For example, this codebase was 90% vibe coded, leaving 10% that was edited manually or reviewed.
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
Speaking as a senior dev, anecdotally juniors may indeed understand AI tools better, because they spend more hours a day coding and working with the tools, and they need the tools to understand the codebase or to be productive. Seniors hav
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
This also sounds like one of the core themes of Augustinian philosophy. The idea of the "restless heart" in that we are never satisfied with earthly wants and desires.
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
I know a guy who had a weird habit of using his mouth to clean his golf ball. He eventually got oral cancer.
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
ProShares UltraShort Technology (REW) You are betting against Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Has a .95% expense ratio. https://www.proshares.com/our-etfs/leveraged-and-inverse/rew
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
Isn't this old news? If you are a Vietnam vet who were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides, and you get Parkinson's, the VA assumes it was from Vietnam. My grandfather had Parkinson's a long time ago it was always sa
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
It should pay taxes because it extracts the knowledge of our collective civilization. In the same way land or natural resource extraction should be taxed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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by francisofascii 10mo ago
Great blog post. You typically think of people linking to your website as a good thing. This is a good counterexample.
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by francisofascii 11mo ago
The article metions Family Dollar and Dollar General. Dollar Tree is a different company.
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by francisofascii 11mo ago
I kinda hope so. When I started my career companies and orgs had in-house developers to make custom software for the org. The developers understood the business and were part of the culture. Then the labor market got tight, developers lef

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