lazystar

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by lazystar 7mo ago
> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked the problem with this is long term
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by lazystar 7mo ago
> How's that not criminal Well, a) it's a hobby, and b) this is still a free country/free society.
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by lazystar 7mo ago
at the top there's Neil Pert, then a huge gap, then anyone else.
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by lazystar 8mo ago
i think theres a paradox here. intelligence needs a judge - if nothing verifies that the optimal outcome was chosen, it's too easy for the intelligence to fall into biased decisions
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by lazystar 8mo ago
its turtle bots all the way down
36.
by lazystar 8mo ago
silly AWS, google already went through this infinite loop of bot support. learn from their mistakes.
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by lazystar 8mo ago
> I doubt we will see most of these impacts for 10 to 20 years Have you been to Seattle lately?
38.
by lazystar 8mo ago
emacs + adhd. the squiggly lines and autocomplete stuff were more distracting than linter/compile errors. rock and a hard place, and ai solved it.
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by lazystar 8mo ago
emacs-nox for 8 years :-)
40.
by lazystar 8mo ago
i used to lose hours each day to typos, linting issues, bracket-instead-of-curly-bracket, 'was it the first parameter or the second parameter', looking up accumulator/anonymous function callback syntax AGAIN... idk what ya&#x
41.
by lazystar 8mo ago
I've been miserable over the last few weeks after coming to that same conclusion. Its so bad that i doubt the people that were pulling the strings can even tell whats going on anymore.
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by lazystar 8mo ago
> Granted one person can't know/do everything, watch me try, at least. > but large companies in particular seem allergic to granting you any visibility whatsoever. It's particularly annoying If the blind spot is directl
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by lazystar 8mo ago
reminds me of a funny anecdote from my first job in the tech industry. all of the team's VM's had VIM installed, but no emacs. when I asked a teammate if we could add emacs to the bsse image, he responded "It already has an
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by lazystar 8mo ago
so they kept you aroumd then, eh? sounds like someone in HR with half a brain actually looked at the cost per ticket. those type of escalation tickets are ~3x more costly to resolve than non escalations. sounds like the total $$ per day o
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by lazystar 8mo ago
i still don't understand 409 errors. saw one for the first time a few weeks ago
46.
by lazystar 8mo ago
still, probably better than a 450 error, at least
47.
by lazystar 9mo ago
> How much longer are we going to accept that these are mistakes? How much longer are shareholders** going to accept that these are mistakes?
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by lazystar 9mo ago
It's scary how much of this thread comes from people who can't imagine a use for keeping internal traffic internal. in ipv4, if my laptop tries to use a printer with a public ipv4 address, that raises alarms. in ipv6, if my lapt
49.
by lazystar 9mo ago
>> "I feel bad." >> "I am a failure." >> "Why can't I get anything done?" > These are bad bug reports - because they have no stack traces and no context heh, clever mind hack. kinda r
50.
by lazystar 9mo ago
This is your brain. This is your brain on ARM.
51.
by lazystar 9mo ago
> you do expose what used to be private addresses with IPv6 its been 10 years since i first rolled my eyes at ipv6 due to this problem. youre saying its still a problem, over a decade later? ugh. bring on ipv7 or ipv8.
52.
by lazystar 9mo ago
not a false flag this time. maduros is gone after 13 years.
53.
by lazystar 9mo ago
well, they definitely had an operation tonight to get maduros. maybe the pizza activity is more from the reporters and news crews tgat need to pull a late night shift?
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by lazystar 9mo ago
> I feel like a big part of the downfall was the huge lumbering corporate culture unable to cope with JIT supply lines and race to the bottom economies of consumer goods. i think its simpler than that. they got so big that they didnt pa
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by lazystar 9mo ago
i think the infamous "I'll call now" air conditioner commercial in the '90s was a canary/sign of the mismanagement that was occurring. This commercial played during every commercial break on cartoon network, nickel
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by lazystar 10mo ago
I'm not stating the code is shoddy - I agree the quality's fine. I'm referring to the IC engineer's role in pushing back against unrealistic demands/design decisions that are passed down by the PM's and c-suit
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by lazystar 10mo ago
Delving a bit deeper... I've been wondering if the problem's related to the rise in H1B workers and contractors. These programmers have an extra incentive to avoid pushing back on c-suite/skip level decisions - staying out o
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by lazystar 10mo ago
Have they implemented a cat-friendly update since the incident a few months ago?
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by lazystar 10mo ago
and for anyone with 4 hours to kill... here's as an incredible documentary covering the misaligned incentives and poor guest experience at the now-shuttered Disney Star Wars hotel. https://youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW
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by lazystar 10mo ago
> often better at presenting what was possible than how to do make it happen. that, i feel, is the chilling aspect to this situation. does the lack of new books explaining what's possible, imply that our society's opportunites

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