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by gopher_space 4mo ago
This is software development, not sales. We rely on our tooling. If I’m using a calculator to verify my math, I don’t want to use a second calculator to verify the first one.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
One of the large (and enjoyable IMHO) challenges in this line of work is developing a de facto understanding of your process and the context it's in service to, and that's only possible if you're actually on your industry e
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
> I trust governments much less that a conglomerate of competing corporations. There’s no essential difference between the two from my perspective. Why are these my only choices?
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
Unprepared for a world that’s replaced French peasantry with strapping an Xbox to your face.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
There aren't any display images in science. Manipulating images for presentation is an automated process unless you're ripping someone off. The changes would be uniform across whole sets. The problem with trying to pass off a f
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
I don't think we've found any topic or situation that doesn't fall under the Commerce Clause.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
I have a large extended family and we're fairly tight-knit. Lots of family gatherings each year. When questions like this pop up we can just ask the "kids" what they think (kind of a neat idea). Here's the top three r
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
A man can dream.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
It's more about sidestepping the waves of market manipulation.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
If I'm using my old laptop with a slow CPU I get to see Win 11 draw an older GUI I recognize and then cover it with whatever they're doing now.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
There's the "how much of my company exists in a black box controlled by some asshole" angle as well, but in my mind the biggest issue is that current models are already capable of saturating a dev in like four hours.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
Once I noticed that models will treat lack of superuser access as an obstacle I moved all of the agent crap to its own machine. Watching some mid-tier offering chain together tools like its a gorilla escaping the zoo and I'm just no
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
One interesting metric would be the shrinking percentage of your credit report landlords use to make decisions.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
I'd rather discuss actual problems people had with specific titles. Hypothetical edge cases always turn into corner cases during cross-examination. If we think about people who bought a game closing on day one we need to think about
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
> What on earth do you do with that many devs on a project like Messenger? The technical and organizational framework they operate under is so complex and full of jank that developer velocity slows to a crawl whenever a new feature comes
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
From my perspective the main difference between "crunch time" and sadism is the existence of a retrospective you don't need to pay to view.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
> I think its ridiculous that people can buy games and the games just stop working and its ok because of some legalese that literally no one reads. It's entertainment. It's ok for entertainment to end, especially when it'
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
You can demonstrate the severity of the situation at family gatherings by asking the kid's table how many beheadings they've seen.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
The crux of the issue for a parent is that social media orgs do not require and should not receive access to my children, and there simply aren't any arguments from their position that address my concerns. And there won't be, beca
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
As an aside, the term 'human bottleneck' resonated with me because I've been trying to describe situations that look like bottlenecks but are actually just "the process everything else is working towards". I think u
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
There's a "people won't get tired of our good cop/bad cop bullshit because there's money to be made" attitude in the US that doesn't even reflect our own point of view. They're retooling because it do
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
Sharp fast-movers poached the extracted software business' last remaining reliable clients and clueful devs while you typed that post. It is now worth its weight in Herman Millers.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
Just an aside: > Sure, some surface level smalltalk is normal and expected: [...] Common ground helps conversations flow. `smalltalk` is a misleading term for an interesting form of protocol negotiation.
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
The minefield is enormous but there are only like five or six mines in it and they're all really well marked. It's something adults navigate every day. I don't actually care about personal details, I'm just looking for
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by gopher_space 4mo ago
I'm staying away from certain forms of conditioning because I don't want Roy Batty showing up on my doorstep.
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by gopher_space 5mo ago
Less "rent seeking", more "your business model only makes sense without investors attached."
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by gopher_space 5mo ago
A key thing to understand about unions is that they're a lot of effort to set up and manage, and the time spent on it is in addition to your normal work hours. They don't just spring up out of nowhere. If you're looking at a
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by gopher_space 5mo ago
All of this work has been done before in different contexts. Memory management with bigger blocks and weaker definitions that change whenever some grad student gets a bright idea.
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by gopher_space 5mo ago
Everything I can batch overnight locally is free.
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by gopher_space 5mo ago
I've been taking the opposite approach by playing around with different hardware bottlenecks, and the models I can run on base-level (e.g. 1050 ti, i5-7th) machines are all useful for specific tasks if I deconstruct a process far enoug

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