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by keeda 1y ago
In other news (unrelated, I'm sure): "DOJ aims to break up Google’s ad business as antitrust case resumes" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-back-in-court...
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by keeda 1y ago
According to the Stanford video the only cases (statistically speaking) where that happened was high-complexity tasks for legacy / low popularity languages, no? I would imagine that is a small minority of projects. Indeed, the video c
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by keeda 1y ago
> a search is complete bullshit because it puts the onus on the other person to discredit the gargantuan amount of data you've flooded them with. Alternatively, a search is a way to show that basing your opinions on limited perso
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by keeda 1y ago
1. The flaw in this premise is that the process is bad. Aside from the countless anecdotal reports about how AI and agents are improving productivity, there are actual studies showing 25 - 55% boosts. Yes, RCTs at larger size than the METR
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by keeda 1y ago
Tech interviewing has been dysfunctional for a long time, but yes it is much worse now because the tech job market is terrible. However I have previously commented (along with citations where possible) about how this job market is deliberat
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by keeda 1y ago
I could not read the full article so I don't have all the details about the report, but the scope pretty limited. There are equally numerous reports about e.g. BigTech H1B salaries being much higher than typical. So that raises the que
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by keeda 1y ago
Crossposting from elsewhere: Looking at it solely from a perspective of competition between labor glosses over the fact that insufficient labor is also bad because it keeps companies from growing and hiring more people. So sure, while the f
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by keeda 1y ago
Looking at it solely from a perspective of competition between labor glosses over the fact that insufficient labor is also bad for the economy because it keeps companies from growing and hiring more people. So sure, while the fewer jobs tha
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by keeda 1y ago
A lot of the discussion is about foreign workers competing with native ones and dragging salaries and employment down. This is a simplistic view, because it overlooks the fact that an insufficient labor supply keeps companies from growing f
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by keeda 1y ago
When my friend drove me to pick up my new Model 3, we made sure to find and test the alternative release mechanisms. The worst part is that the company and the car itself warns against using that in non-emergencies because it can damage the
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by keeda 1y ago
One of the most astonishing things about LLMs is that they actually seem to have achieved general common-sense reasoning to a signficant extent. Example from the thread about somebody ordering 18000 waters at a drive-through: https:/&
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by keeda 1y ago
Interestingly, the authors do at least acknowledge the alternative hypotheses that we wonder about (including this thread) in studies like this: > Some observers have also linked AI to recent labor market trends: since late 2022, unempl
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by keeda 1y ago
This hits home... literally. My high school kid had Python last year, and this year they started him on Java, and his very first reaction on coming back from school was, "WHY THE HECK DO I HAVE TO WRITE ALL THIS STUFF JUST TO PRINT HE
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by keeda 1y ago
I actually would like to see a study about this . I am starting to think that the stereotype of lethargic potheads chilling on a couch comes mostly from portrayals in movies. Anecdotally, I encounter many people casually using cannabis whi
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by keeda 1y ago
I never used SmallTalk but from what I heard about it, I feel like Java/C# etc were a deliberate push towards that kind of environment via IDEs. I am not sure why SmallTalk didn't catch on, but it may have something to do with res
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by keeda 1y ago
Hmm, I think all languages, regardless of verbosity, could be better with IntelliSense. I mean, if the IDE can reliably predict what you intend to type based on the context, regardless of the complexity of the application involved, why not
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by keeda 1y ago
> pre-idea individuals Holy crap, I thought that term existed purely in the realm of satire skits: https://www.tiktok.com/@techroastshow/video/7341240131015445...
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by keeda 1y ago
The MIT study as released also does not really provide any support for the 95% failure rate claim. Until we have more details, we really don't know where that number came from: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update&
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by keeda 1y ago
I was a big user of IntelliSense and more heavily, IntelliJ, for most of my career. It truly seemed like magic back then. I recall telling a colleague who preferred Emacs that it felt like having an editor that could read your mind, and wou
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by keeda 1y ago
> "Making predictions about the world" is a reductive and childish way to describe intelligence in humans. It also happens to be a leading theory in neuroscience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45058056
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by keeda 1y ago
Good point. I think a couple things are possible here: 1. They can't outright tell employees "we just realized you were getting a better deal than we bargained for, so now we are re-negotiating." Kind of like they couldn&#x27
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by keeda 1y ago
There have been some studies on this, turns out employees will give up quite a bit: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/charting-remot... https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/tech-workers-take-muc
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by keeda 1y ago
In addition to the other comments (yes, very much a powerplay) it is also likely that employers simply realized remote work is a huge perk they had not accounted for, and RTO is simply a means of renegotiating: https://www.tiktok
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by keeda 1y ago
> Overstaffed big-tech fired a few thousand allegedly idle employees and (not surprisingly) saw no impacts on output. The part that's always glossed over in this narrative is that the remaining workers were forced to pick up the s
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by keeda 1y ago
I strongly believe LIDAR is the way to go and that Elon's vision-only move was extremely "short-sighted" (heheh). There are many reasons but that drives it home for me multiple times a week is that my Tesla's wipers will
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by keeda 1y ago
Simply pointing to large absolute numbers does not address the fact that all this was brought up during the trial, and it was shown that even Microsoft -- the largest, richest company in the world, with all that data and multiple billions o
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by keeda 1y ago
At this point we are just re-litigating all the things that came out in the trial. Yes, traffic comes with ad revenue, but it also comes with user interaction data which helps it improve its results and maintain its monopoly. Without this d
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by keeda 1y ago
Also offshoring, which ramped up after COVID, probably because companies realized remote work can work at scale. > 25% musk (getting rid of 80% of twitter showing every CEO that at least half the staff is sleeping) That was just a sign
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by keeda 1y ago
My point is they did choose to compete, and still are. Bing is literally the only real competitor to Google Search. Your point seems to be they didn't spend enough money to be competitive. My point is, it simply did not make business s
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by keeda 1y ago
Yes, Visual Studio 6 was a mind-expanding experience. Nothing else came close until I tried IntelliJ a decade later, and even that is still missing a ton of advanced features. Microsoft gets a lot of hate for being anti-open source, but the

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