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by linuxftw 2y ago
Highly misleading article and reporting. These were apparently hold overs from USDS, not DOGE hires. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/21-doge-staffers-resig...
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> There is a large enough contingent of Americans that will accept whatever garbage they say, however outrageous the lie or falsity. Pot, meet kettle.
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> interesting things planned in the meantime The article didn't mention anything interesting. Perhaps they would have if there was going to be actually interesting work? Perhaps Musk knows what's scheduled to take place and in
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According to the article, it's already slated for splashing down in the pacific in 2030. He's proposing to move the timeline up.
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Musk seems totally qualified to manage a team of programmers and a team of auditors based on his real-world experience managing companies that work in high tech and financial sectors. He seems infinitely more qualified than whatever politi
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> Musk and crew are like the absolute worst garbage programmer that ten minutes into looking at a codebase tell you that it's terrible code and needs to be thrown away, but don't worry they're going to build something supe
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I have a few memories prior to being able to talk, they are visual memories that I confirmed with an older sibling (7 years older). He couldn't believe I could remember those things. I also was thinking, perhaps all memories aren&#x27
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WeWork was a scam to enrich the founders of the company. They owned or had interests in many of the properties that WeWork leased from. I'm surprised no one was thrown in prison.
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Corporations exploiting cheap labor is a bipartisan issue in the US. There doesn't seem to be any knobs that can be turned to go after corporations for exploiting cheap but legal immigrant labor. What can any administration do? &quo
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I feel like finding bugs in golang is a non issue. The language is typed, so obvious problems are caught early in the editor. Unit tests mop up the rest (unit tests which are also written by copilot in my case). How I write unit tests: O
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While there was certainly a software bubble during the early internet, it still took obscene amounts of investments in brand new technologies in the late 90's. Entire datacenters full of hardware modems. In fact, 'datacenters&#x
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For it to be unsprung, you either need a solid axle or you're relying on a CV joint. Putting a CV joint in the mechanical path for braking at highway speeds will definitely kill people.
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> Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io. Seeing as how Trump was inaugurated on Jan 20th, it's hard to
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Most of what I do at work is not necessarily the same thing as the value that I add. I solve business problems with software. A very good portion of that is just boiler plate and lines of code that anyone can write. Someone has to wr
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by linuxftw 2y ago
The invention of the chainsaw didn't make the knowledge of how to fell a tree obsolete, but it sure made the process a whole lot faster. If you're writing software and not using LLMs, you're working at a fraction of the pace
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by linuxftw 2y ago
I have been using Fedora + Firefox for years. I sometimes get a captcha from Cloudflare, but not frequently. Works just fine. I have not tried less mainstream browsers, just FF and Chrome.
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I suspect Twitter and Bluesky are heading to the dustbin. If each one becomes an opposing echo chamber, there are more efficient ways of distributing that kind of dialogue and content.
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The reason Twitter was successful is they paid celebrities and corporations to join their network. That usage seems to have waned in favor of Instagram, but Twitter is still the #1 place for breaking news, especially in the sports world. I
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Airlines already shut down service to small and less profitable airports, nothing is preventing them from doing just that. Of course, other Airlines are free to step in and schedule flights there. The average cost per seat might go up, but
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It seems like there are shortages in every field according to the media. Shortage in tech workers, shortage in doctors and nurses, shortage of air traffic controllers. Shortages all around. Here's how to instantly cure shortages of A
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by linuxftw 2y ago
I disagree. This is the government deciding what the government will or won't take a position on. Censorship was having federal government employees scream and yell at facebook content moderation teams to remove social media posts.
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Will you trust the 'science' that is performed via the CDC under the Trump administration? Did you trust the 'science' performed under past administrations? Now, imagine someone holding the reverse position. Who's
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It has already caused me to not further investigate purchases. Similar to yelp, if I have to log in to see things, you're dead to me.
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Amazon is already forcing this pattern on mobile users not logged in. If you want to see the reviews, all you get is an AI summary, the star rating, maybe 1 or 2 reviews, then you have to log in to see more.
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Are you implying there are no differences between masculine and feminine? If there are differences and you value diversity, you should want masculine to be represented. Unless you mean masculine == bad, which would be a very bigoted take.
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Same reason parents send their kids to public schools: because the price is right. Since we're importing legions of indentured servants, wages aren't rising, and parents have to make tough decisions in order to pay for basic nece
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I disagree here. It sounds to me like the requirements are clear: Use some AI "agent" to perform this task. That means it should be trained on a particular dataset, and it should perform a particular function. This would be in
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Makefile syntax is also well understood by ChatGPT. If you want to know a suitable way for doing some task, ChatGPT can do it. It can also explain what another Makefile is doing. Here's an example of a (similar) prompt I used recentl
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I love it. If a user doesn't understand how web browsers work, they're deserving of this behavior by MS and Bing. Genius.
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Lots of audit and compliance tooling exists. What happens is they turn on a new datacenter, get 150k vulnerabilities, and then try to address them one by one. There's a lot of dead weight and incompetence in government IT.

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