kelnos

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by kelnos 5mo ago
It's pretty shitty to accuse someone of vibe-coding without having any idea what their LLM-assisted development process is. Let's do better, please.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> game crunch at the end when the vision has materialized is good and makes the product better At the expense of the mental health of everyone involved. It's a video game, not a life-saving new medicine. Not worth it.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> And those lucky few union members used their power to extract an unfair amount of money from the company. Why is it an unfair amount, though? Who gets to decide what compensation is fair and what isn't?
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I don't think that blanket statement is false if you interpret "workers" as "workers as a whole" (as I did when I first read it). Certainly an individual worker can quit and (try to) find a better-paying/bette
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by kelnos 5mo ago
At least in this case non-exempt employees are getting compensated for their extra hours. That seems more fair; the company gets what it needs, but has to pay for it. Reclassifying people as exempt in order to eliminate OT pay is a garbage
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I mean, that's what collective bargaining is for, no? Get the hourly rate and overtime terms to a level that the employees are happy with.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
The downstream stakeholders (ad networks, retailers, etc.) need to be more flexible and tolerant of these events. If they had to deal with them regularly, they already would be. There's no law of nature that says things have to work
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> How do you end crunch? You (as an employer) accept one of two things: either 1) scope is reduced when you get closer to the deadline and find that you are behind, or 2) deadlines will have to be moved. It's not like other indust
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Complex in the way you're using it (a sea of technologies that looks daunting) doesn't automatically mean "hard". I've worked in big tech on distributed systems, with most of the things in your list, and worked on
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by kelnos 5mo ago
It's annoying how short-term people think sometimes. With the Framework 12, sure, you're paying $750 up-front, but if you actually buy into the repairability/upgradeability angle (and if you don't, you maybe shouldn&#x27
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Consider that maybe you've just gotten lucky? Laptop components do break. I haven't had Mac laptops in a bunch of years, but just off the top of my head I've had a keyboard key break (MacBook Air), and a mainboard die (MacB
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Yeah, it's a little disingenuous to make an argument like that. This isn't overreach; it seems like it's completely allowed by the law written when Congress delegated spending decisions around these kinds of grants to the ex
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> This is far scarier than any single rule about research grants, and I'm not sure why nobody's talking about this. Not sure what you mean. Lots of people have been talking about it since he was appointed to the role. I&#x2
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I mean, if that's what the law allows, then sure, that would be a valid thing for the next president to do. It would be bad for the country to do so, but plenty of things that are bad for the country are legal for the government to do
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I don't think any of that is relevant to the argument. The fact of the matter is that Congress controls spending of taxpayer dollars, and at times has delegated some of the details of that to the executive branch. There's no law
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> You've restated your flawed assertions, you continue to reassign the roles, and you're conflating Congress with political appointees. That's at best a misunderstanding of the GP's argument, at worst a bad-faith re
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by kelnos 5mo ago
If you think the executive branch doesn't now have some de facto power of the purse, you haven't been paying attention for the last 16 months.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> and have the might of the U.S. military brass behind him Would he, though? I know the top US military brass have gone through some changes during this administration, but if the military sees a lawful impeachment and lawful convicti
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I think you're wrong. I don't know that for a fact, of course, but I'm not that pessimistic. I don't think Democrats will win the Senate this fall (though there's a chance they will, and I'd be happy to be wro
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Perhaps if we'd had "unelected bureaucrats" in the 1800s, we would have done even better? Hard to say, really. We had all these "unelected bureaucrats" post-WWII, and we did quite well in the following decades. S
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by kelnos 5mo ago
It means research projects will also be optimized for political ideology. That's not good.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Given the age of the account, trolling (perhaps even of the bot variety) more likely. Flagged & dead now.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
No, your quote is a much too strong version of what anyone in this subthread is trying to say. The issue isn't that there isn't any evidence that a society based around human labor is possible. I expect it is! The issue is that o
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by kelnos 5mo ago
When you talk about the "work is for suckers" class, I think you're talking about (at most) 15% of the population. So sure, people like this exist, but not enough to matter when it comes to the overall argument. I am actuall
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Humans are socialized to want purpose and meaning in life. Modern humans are socialized to put a lot of that meaning into their employment. Many humans have a lot of trouble with unemployment and even retirement, because they feel a lack
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I don't think that's how "evidence" works. I can imagine a lot of things in a lot of domains, but that doesn't make it real. I absolutely can imagine a society organized around some other source(s) of happiness,
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by kelnos 5mo ago
> Whether or not that happens depends entirely on the people who control both economic and political power. Then we're doomed. The kinds of people who seek and amass that power are not the kinds of people who will treat the teemi
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by kelnos 5mo ago
And if AI blows away all white collar labor, those former white color workers will be unable to afford much blue collar labor, which will hurt the blue collar labor market too.
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by kelnos 5mo ago
Well it depends on the style of societal breakdown. In the zombie apocalypse shows, the human population is less than halved, and the sorts of daily things we take for granted (electricity, clean water, gasoline, etc.) become hard to come
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by kelnos 5mo ago
I read the section over again, and could almost convince myself that it's not about jobs-as-life-purpose. I was thinking that it could be suggesting that people get depressed and die when they lose their jobs because of financial fe

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