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by gedy 2y ago
There are people who define art that way, and there are those who define it as beautiful things. I'd personally own and display something beautiful made by algorithm than much post modern art, which is frequently visually unpleasant i
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by gedy 2y ago
Not sure what your issue is but it's pretty insulting to a lot of people.
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by gedy 2y ago
If you ever have a chance, talk to Vietnamese immigrants that you work with, and hear their stories of escape. Nearly everyone I've spoken to has a book or movie-worthy tale to tell. Many went through tough times after the war was ove
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by gedy 2y ago
> Suno on the other hand to me has basically been a complete joke. The training data is just not wide enough to do anything interesting and new. Hard disagree, Suno is terrific, but likely depends on what you define as "new".
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by gedy 2y ago
Yeah, I mean using this tech for a fleet of self driving, point-to-point taxis as public transit makes sense to me. A bus on the usual fixed routes? Not really.
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by gedy 2y ago
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by gedy 2y ago
Unfortunately I think it depends on the number and position of Indian folks. Small numbers where you deal with people individually, I've not seen issues and it's nice to work with Indian devs. In larger numbers or when in charge o
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by gedy 2y ago
I actually did this for a former company that had a Bootstrap-based app - the designers started bugging that "we need to use Tailwind", and I couldn't figure out why they cared what tech we used. In talking with them, realize
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by gedy 2y ago
I greatly agree with you, but should mention that there is DaisyUI which is a Tailwind plugin that adds these for you. It seems inspired by Bootstrap and others: https://daisyui.com/
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by gedy 2y ago
Able to live on one salary comfortably?
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by gedy 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but I'd suspect the prime target would be "anchor babies", e.g. children born to parents here illegally.
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by gedy 2y ago
I suspect much of the reaction is that it seems a little pretentious, like a faux optimization along the lines of "Oh I'm soooo busy, no time for caps", etc.
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by gedy 2y ago
I just don't read long form in this silly style. Skipped.
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by gedy 2y ago
Informally, Asian cultures lean on family a lot more for generational support than Anglo cultures, but when you have less/no children it's pretty harsh.
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by gedy 2y ago
You are correct imho, but bear in mind there is a large minority of people who believe in people as "blank slates" that are only formed and influenced by environment. I think it's Quixotic to fix people that way but many wou
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by gedy 2y ago
Thanks for sharing the opinion, as many folks I know and here fantasize for public transportation like London instead of driving. (I'm with you after dealing with San Francisco transit, I actually prefer driving and having my own space
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by gedy 2y ago
People in Chicago? https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/03/chicago-homicides-...
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by gedy 2y ago
Heaven forbid your picture has a woman in it somewhere though, Adobe's AI will refuse to fill half the time.. I've taken to censoring out blocks of image with black squares of it has any body parts showing (still clothed), fill,
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by gedy 2y ago
> He immediately started undermining her. He gave her advice that she followed, and then he criticized her for following his advice. He was extremely helpful to women employees from the client, but a complete dick to her. There were many
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by gedy 2y ago
I hear stories like this, but now after 25 years in the industry, no place I've worked at would have ever tolerated this, nor have I seen or heard this happen from colleagues. Granted I've worked mostly in California, but still s
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by gedy 2y ago
There are similar geometric elements, but it's clearly not a copy. I support artists but very loathe to copyright "style" and other such slippery slopes.
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by gedy 2y ago
Sure, but it's either true or it's not. If they fall for the hype, the company will pay the price for it eventually. (And it's not true - if you could "replace engineers with AI" we engineers would have already don
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by gedy 2y ago
Honestly I just stopped interviewing at leetcode places and those that expect you to "prepare" for their interview, especially those that are dumb no-name SaaS companies. It's less about me being stubborn as it is those place
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by gedy 2y ago
I can't comment on Dell specifically, but as someone who WFH and remote friendly companies, the vast majority of people not working from the office are people who moved for more affordable housing (mostly purchasing, not for renting).
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by gedy 2y ago
> But the majority of immigrants to Canada are well-off, educated – so unlikely to get involved in social problems like crime or terrorism, and they tend to integrate well with mainstream society. This seems to be very out of sync with t
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by gedy 2y ago
> Westerners often laugh at Japanese companies privileging seniority over demonstrated ability Unions in west have traditionally been built around seniority as well.
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by gedy 2y ago
> Then you decided to throw it away?! Why are you bothering to ask them in the first place? Usually this was a mismatch of mgmt or expectations. Hiring old school DBAs and letting them think they "own the data", while plopping
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by gedy 2y ago
I suppose you could tune the experience for whatever people want, downvotes, etc. "I'd like to have an argument, please."
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by gedy 2y ago
> ORMs enable people who have no idea how RDBMS works to use them, which rarely ends well. In some cases, but the more frequent issue I saw back in the day was the DBA making some really complex schema tuned for what they wanted, then an
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by gedy 2y ago
> I want legacy EU/US automakers to pull their heads out of their a* and compete Honestly, what can they do? Labor is very expensive here, and would be loads of pushback for a fully automated assembly line. Plus safety, taxes, and

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