habinero

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by habinero 9mo ago
Clearing out the digital asbestos is going to make a lot of consultants a lot of money.
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by habinero 9mo ago
I don't think that's really a conspiracy theory lol. As long as you're playing Money Chicken, why not toss some at some influencers to keep driving up the FOMO?
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by habinero 9mo ago
> I'm not saying we don't have bugs or bad things don't happen but I don't see why you think that externally purchased software is automatically better If you staff an entire team to build apps, update, maintain and d
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yeah, I was speaking imprecisely. I don't mean "efficiency" in the thermodynamics sense but in the "it is really slow" colloquial sense.
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by habinero 9mo ago
> You buy a SaaS product then you pay them to install, configure, customize it. Ok, hold up. That is not a SaaS app lol. That is an on-prem installation. Very very very very much not the same thing. The entire point of SaaS is you don&#
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by habinero 9mo ago
> At some point you have to be responsible for something ... otherwise you don't have a business. Uh, yeah? No kidding. That's why you focus on your core business. If your core business isn't "writing a new and be
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by habinero 9mo ago
1. No. The point of having engineers is to build product and make you money. They cannot make you money if you waste their time on building internal apps that do not make you money. There's no point in saving $20K on an SaaS app if you
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yeah, that's not what the person you were replying to is talking about. I was explaining the jargon. Complexity and LoC has nothing to do with "only coding for the happy path". Both complex and simple software can be written
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by habinero 9mo ago
I begin to understand why so many people click on seemingly obvious phishing emails.
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by habinero 9mo ago
"Our brains are governed by physics": true "This statistical model is governed by physics": true "This statistical model is like our brain": what? no You don't gotta believe in magic or souls or whatever t
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by habinero 9mo ago
"They only coded the happy path" is software engineer for "they coded it as if nothing would ever go wrong". It is definitely not good design to do that. There's an engineering trap/fallacy I like to call &quot
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by habinero 9mo ago
Yeah, I moved my team to Jira and sold it as "yes Jira is terrible but all the others are much worse". I also spent a solid two weeks in the admin panel chainsawing as much Jira bloat as I could. It's perfectly adequate now.
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by habinero 9mo ago
Startups have no users and no data to start with, and if they fuck up security, well, they just fail sooner than expected. Once you get past a certain size, you have very different sorts of problems. Any idiot can vibe code a facebook looka
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by habinero 9mo ago
There's a difference between someone breaking into your house to steal your valuables, and you getting robbed after leaving your valuables on your lawn with a sign saying "Look At My Valuables"
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by habinero 9mo ago
You can really tell which states actually fund their education programs by who understands this and who does not.
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by habinero 9mo ago
It's not as exciting as you think it is. "emissivity higher than 0.99 over a wide range of wavelengths" is basically code for "it's, like, super black" The limiting factor isn't the emissivity, it's t
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by habinero 9mo ago
No, they didn't. You can't "send away" thermal energy via radio waves. At the temperatures we're talking about, thermal energy is in the infrared. That's blackbody radiation.
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by habinero 9mo ago
Haha no. SpaceX survives entirely on money from the US government. It's always been that way.
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by habinero 9mo ago
Why? We have solar panels and fossil fuels at home.
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by habinero 9mo ago
No. There is no "one weird trick" when it comes to regulation. The company is based in the US, therefore you just go after that. Anyway, promising some fantasy and never delivering is definitely a typical Elon endeavor.
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by habinero 9mo ago
There's a lot of "haha it was always a joke" from people who definitely did not think it was a joke lol.
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"You can post anything to Moltbook"(twitter.com)
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by habinero 9mo ago
Of course they are lol. It's just a REST API, you can just use curl. It's trivial to do.
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by habinero 9mo ago
I don't get it, either. There's an entire class of people on here who just run around looking for anyone to lead them. I had a guy crash out after I told him that "so and so said Thing was good" was not sufficient to say
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by habinero 9mo ago
Why even learn how to read when you can just yell at the computers?
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by habinero 9mo ago
As for me, I'm looking forward to the Golden Age of Everyone Relearns Computer Security Is Important.
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by habinero 9mo ago
No, the other way around. It's the combination of two well known effects. Well, three if you're uncharitable. 1. Small studies are more likely to give anomalous results by chance. If I pick three people at random, it's not th
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by habinero 9mo ago
Elon bought Tesla, he didn't start it.
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by habinero 9mo ago
His entire wealth is basically paper anyways.
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by habinero 9mo ago
> The moon is very cold in surface shadows and below the surface. It is an enormous pre-chilled heat sink Technically true, but not really. "Radiative cooling" is heat loss through thermal radiation and it's really ineffec

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