jknoepfler

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by jknoepfler 5d ago
Hard disagree about "more intelligent". They are playing a financial game using a combination of leverage and reptilian ruthlessness to EBITDA hack. They buy one (or more) companies, often with only the slimmest understanding of w
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by jknoepfler 21d ago
They have suffered from abuse because of unregulated police. They have not suffered because of police simpliciter. Police perform an important function. Unregulated, unchecked, untrained, militarized police taught that they are immune from
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by jknoepfler 21d ago
Why would it require explanation? It was stupid beyond belief to begin with. It would be like rescinding a policy profiling soldiers using phrenology or waving some scientology wand over them or something. The fact that people think there&#
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by jknoepfler 23d ago
Or maybe people like to stare at the clouds while herding sheep. This is just bro-science half-baked evolutionary psychology bullshit. Personally I enjoy listening to the birds with a book in my hands.
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by jknoepfler 28d ago
The solution is very clearly neither deregulation nor defunding regulatory agencies.
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by jknoepfler 29d ago
I sign in to video calls using my browser every day. Saying video/audio requires an app beggars belief. Privacy is the opposite of what you get with an app. Privacy? Really? Local storage is available to browsers. Office 365 literally
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by jknoepfler 29d ago
Did domain names stop functioning all of the sudden? Going to somedipshitsbar.com/menu is about as complicated as entering a wifi password at a coffee shop.
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
I guess this will be a good test of the open source model DuckDB has opted into. As I understand it, DuckDB is MIT-licensed and governance is provided by a separate, non-profit DuckDB foundation. This was done explicitly to prevent BSL-ific
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Particularly in early mathematics and language acquisition (but also in most learning domains) you need both rote learning and exploratory learning. Fundamental concepts + exercises to build muscle memory are foundational to enabling studen
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Nothing has made me want a downvote option for HN posts more than the endless AI advertisement slop that has flooded the site.
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
It's a familiar story. If you copy/paste Wikipedia and turn it in, you learn nothing. If you skim Wikipedia, hit up the references, the consult other sources, then synthesize your own thought, you probably get farther faster than
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
This is known as the "Paradox of Automation." It's a real problem for many industries. The OG paper on this is called "The Ironies of Automation" (Bainbridge, 1983). It's a clunky but fascinating read. I give
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Workers without 5-10 hours of unpaid commute time in their week are happier. Gee whiz. That's time to run errands, learn a skill, exercise, sleep, read, do nothing... it's almost as though our time is valuable and we don't li
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Which I worried was so obvious it wasn't worth remarking... but here we are.
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
I'm sure you know this but RSUs are such a fraction of a percent of real world compensation that they might as well round to zero.
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
That's the plain truth, and I think it's unfortunate that we need to use sympathetic examples as a bridge. I guess I've accepted the premise that the privileged gestalt is profoundly distorted and that "charismatic macro
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Honestly this isn't the right conversation to be having at all. In the United States, ~40% of the homeless are employed. A deeply non-trivial percent either are kids or have kids. Everyone should volunteer at a support center for homel
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by jknoepfler 1mo ago
Yeah, if you offload work to someone else and provide direction, it's called management. You know who I wouldn't trust to maintain and operate production software systems? Me, the person managing multiple teams. I wouldn't kn
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
Somehow the American AI industry managed to create a product I trust less than existing commercial offerings. Kudos, that is actually pretty impressive. Considering the stakes, one might also call it foolish. But I'm sure they'v
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
<rant> y'know, I am sincerely trying, in good faith, to let my teams guide me in how best to intentionally leverage GenAI. I'm trying to use it in good faith myself. I really do reserve the right to be wrong about it. It&#x2
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
I hire contractors for a large enterprise in the US. The going rate is typically $85-$100/hr for a senior dev, depending on specialization. Lead-level maybe $120 for the right skill set.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
No thank you. I had ICE flood the streets where I live with poorly trained thugs with assault rifles recruited from the ranks of neonazis illegally assaulting, detaining and abusing citizens of my country because they had brown skin. They s
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
<rant> I manage several teams of developers who use them every day professionally and use them for personal projects privately. Just last week, at the prompting of said devs, we had a working agreement conversation about curtailing th
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
No, their internal PRs have the same problem, but they are pushing an AI narrative from the c-suite and can hide the reality of their private code bases. The "limited ROI on AI investment" articles will continue to percolate slowl
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
Let's just pause for a second and steep in the irony of "we're all in on AI, except where there are visible consequences." The same problems that bedevil AI-written PRs here bedevil AI-written PRs at my place of work. I&
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
were you able to block Elon?
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
They would have to ban Elon from his own platform. I wonder why that didn't fly. Anyone who worked for that absolute pustule of a human will have to go somewhere else to earn respect, sorry.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
I'm 100% confident it's real but I have no expertise on the subject. Checkmate, Atheists.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
As engineers we know that you can't catch everything. You build resilient systems by learning from your failures and investing/iterating in better practices over time. If you want to find out how to sabotage your company really qu
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
What in the hell is that supposed to mean? 7 members of the security team of a mega corporation cooperated in a sustained, coordinated, criminal campaign to intimidate journalists critical of eBay. The journalists, well within their rights,

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