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by mjr00 2mo ago
Yes but also no I guess? Like would you say being a manager or in marketing is about writing, or that being in sales is about talking? Those are the main methods of accomplishing what those roles are meant to do, but it's not like they
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by mjr00 2mo ago
> software jobs still hire based on how good your coding is primarily ehhh. In my experience, being able to code is a necessary but not sufficient skill for a software developer. The only exceptions I've seen is having some extr
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by mjr00 2mo ago
Stock/bond ratios are way too advanced for what's qualifying as good advice here: > AI consistently advised people to save during their working years, draw down savings in retirement, invest heavily in diversified stock funds,
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by mjr00 2mo ago
AI financial advice is surprisingly good... for now . But given the historical trajectory of both the finance and advertising sectors I can't imagine it will, for long. AI responses without ads are unoptimized space! It only takes Dra
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by mjr00 2mo ago
Sure, and you need to do the build vs buy math, but why not take the "If you can’t handle that comfortably in an afternoon, you probably shouldn’t be entrusted with customer data." logic further and say 1. Don't use a third-p
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by mjr00 2mo ago
> We’re not talking about maintaining your own k8s cluster here mind you, but a basic Postgres setup. If you can’t handle that comfortably in an afternoon, you probably shouldn’t be entrusted with customer data. Intelligence is being abl
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by mjr00 2mo ago
I might get flak for saying this but if you aren't a postgres expert already: just use RDS or a similar cloud DB. The amount of money you're saving by hosting and managing your own postgres instance is absolute peanuts compared to
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by mjr00 2mo ago
Good article overall, some comments: > Use foreign keys with cascading deletes for low-volume tables, particularly where database consistency and correctness are important. Careful at higher volume. This might be just me, but I hate ca
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by mjr00 2mo ago
> Kubernetes vs AWS? How is this even a direct comparison? Most companies I know of which use Kubernetes are using it on a cloud provider. Even if it's kubernetes on EC2 rather than hosted e.g. EKS, those companies are also happy to
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by mjr00 3mo ago
> Also, for some reason Optional[T] became deprecated, just as the ecosystem finally embraced types ~3 years ago. Optional[T] is now T | None. Means exactly the same thing but doesn't require an import. Support for the older syntax
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by mjr00 3mo ago
> This is unprofessional and embarrassing for Zig. It is. It's also why Anthropic and Bun moved off Zig. Zig is effectively a one-man show, and that one man has been making increasingly erratic decisions. It's his project so it
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by mjr00 3mo ago
You're framing this as a thing done by a greedy corporation in an evil manner, which maybe it is, but it's also just a sign of the times. For most of the 90s and 00s, your game engine, specifically idTech in this case, was a compe
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by mjr00 3mo ago
No missing "k", really just 191 players. https://steamdb.info/app/3043580/
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by mjr00 3mo ago
> - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million > So first of all, they are big! Secondly they are not at a loss. They just have a "thin, non-growing
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by mjr00 3mo ago
I think this article is a good demonstration of how the nebulous concept of "taste" still dominates, despite AI taking over so much. IMO -- and apparently the opinion of others -- adding an AI-generated picture every single parag
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by mjr00 3mo ago
> Honest question : does it need to be said ? At the current time I'm writing this, all other top-level comments are engaging with the article as if it were sincere. So, yes.
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by mjr00 3mo ago
I mean I agree with this as well, the people who yell and swear at LLMs are just as bad as the people who chit-chat with them like they're friends. It's all very unsettling because it's prepatory for psychological manipulatio
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by mjr00 3mo ago
I'll go a step further and to say this it's genuinely unsettling someone type to a computer like this. I won't claim to be a psychologist, but with how many instances of "AI psychosis" have been reported (and I&#x27
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by mjr00 3mo ago
... except this is on-prem with their own infrastructure, not cloud?
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by mjr00 4mo ago
The loudness war in the strict "we must compress and slam everything as much as possible to make our stuff sound good on the radio" sense is over thanks to Spotify et al doing loudness normalization, but there's still an open
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by mjr00 4mo ago
Now, yes, but in the 90s/00s the alternative to CDs was cassette tapes, which were both inferior audio quality and took up more space. CD players in cars were a very desirable feature back then. At my peak in the mid-00s I remember c
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by mjr00 4mo ago
"How do I acquire users" is the entire function of sales and marketing. A single HN comment explaining how to do sales and marketing, which is highly dependent on your product and market (and much more difficult than technical p
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by mjr00 4mo ago
I am glad you like some things. Some people like other things, such as LLMs, or hosted server infrastructure. Now explain to me why you are allowed to have the things you like which use a lot of water, while other people are not allowed to
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by mjr00 4mo ago
That's exactly my point! Everything has negative externalities, and focusing on them is the way to seem "rational" even though you don't actually care about them. It's the same as how people will protest high densit
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by mjr00 4mo ago
It takes 870 gallons of water to produce 1 gallon of wine -- if people were genuinely protesting water waste it would be a good idea to start there. Almonds too.
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by mjr00 4mo ago
> Then there's the fact that many of those datacenter are being built over what would otherwise be usable farmland. I'm sure many will say "it's not that much land", but then tech billionaires would like to build
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by mjr00 4mo ago
I love Linux and think it's better than ever to have Linux as your daily driver, especially thanks to the work of Valve with Proton, but I'm gonna be real and say "the year of the Linux Desktop is a personal journey" is
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by mjr00 4mo ago
Right, the confusion is that the quote-unquote "subsidized" monthly pricing is often used by Anthropic/OpenAI skeptics as proof that inference is unprofitable, i.e. the API would have cost $2000 but you only paid $200 for a s
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by mjr00 4mo ago
Yep, member since May 21 2005 here, still scrobbling with Spotify. Don't think I've ever used any of the radio features on the site, really; even back in the 00s all I used were the WinAmp/Foobar plug-ins.
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by mjr00 4mo ago
> It seems like the fair solution to this problem is to open source server code if you are going to cease support for an online game. That way the community has the opportunity to run their own servers if they want to. It's nice in

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