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by motorest 1y ago
> I don't feel we are getting results that are thousands of times better today. You are getting results that are way better than thousands of times. You just aren't aware where they are showing up. To give you a glimpse, the sa
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by motorest 1y ago
> Incidents like this repeatedly happening reveal that’s mostly a myth. They aren’t much smarter, their standards are somewhat wishful thinking, their accomplishments are mostly rooted in the problems they needed to solve just like any o
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Chatty I/O antipattern (2022)(learn.microsoft.com)
4 points by motorest 1y ago|1 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> what tools did you use? Nothing fancy. Visual Studio Code + Copilot, agent mode, a couple prompt files, and that's it.
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) but most of what they pay you for is dealing with internal (arguably mostly social) stuff. Not really. They pay you to deliver something, but you also need to coordinate and interact with people. That involves coordinating and sy
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by motorest 1y ago
> I used to think the same way. But life taught me that responsibility is a fairy tale only for the bottom 90% — a story told to keep them obedient, hardworking, and self-blaming. I think you're missing the big picture. You're
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by motorest 1y ago
> gatekeeping on distribution is unbelievable. getting something to financially work requires marketing and "white passs from gatekeepers" expenditures which eat away any margins you may have That is one way of putting it. Anot
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by motorest 1y ago
> I think you'll have a lot more independent software devs. I think that's good, corporations were surprisingly bad at developing software. Will you, though? I mean, working on software for a living means having someone paying
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) at this point, should tell us that we are really quite dumb and simply not good very good at either using or evaluating the technology (yet?). I don't know about that. I think it's mainly because nowadays LLMs can outpu
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by motorest 1y ago
Not OP, but a couple of days ago I managed to vibecode my way through a small app that pulled data from a few services and did a few validation checks. By itself its not very impressive, but my input was literally "this is how the resp
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by motorest 1y ago
> Trump would not have won if Dems had not escalated illegal immigration 2020-24. Do you actually have any source to support your claim? I mean, MAGA nuts have been swearing for over a decade that there was a torrent of illegal immigrant
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by motorest 1y ago
> To me, it's every day more apparent that democracies are transitioning into mediocracies. Everything is performative, real results do not matter. I think the whole point of these stupid stunts is to mobilize the base and distract
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> They blamed them for pre-existing social problems. Is immigration a new hot topic in the US? I mean, a few years ago the US government started wasting money building a wall on the US-Mexico border whose only purpose was propaganda and
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by motorest 1y ago
> What's astonishing is using what is essentially an entertainer for high level strategy. I think this makes it even scarier. This means the goal is clearly not establishing sound policy, but to output propaganda that is designed t
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by motorest 1y ago
> If illegal immigration is such a problem, why not fine businesses 5x salary for using the labor, for as long as it was used? The Nazis leveraged hatred towards minorities as a wedge to force their totalitarian control over Germany&#x27
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by motorest 1y ago
> It’s interesting ICE raided the outside of a Home Depot. Like, of all the immigrants, the immigrants that stand outside of Home Depot do the hardest physical labor. There’s no heart to what’s going on. From an outsider's view, eve
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by motorest 1y ago
> Newsome wont do enough to protect federal buildings. He doesn't care. Is that so? What did he had to say about it? As I understand it, the LA governor is adamant in how illegally mobilizing both the national guard and the armed fo
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by motorest 1y ago
> However, enforcement of immigration laws has been one of the biggest parts of his election platform, if not the central part(build the wall, etc). If you pay attention, you will notice that immigration policies have nothing to do with
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by motorest 1y ago
> The reason why non-violent protest works is not because it prevents escalation, but because when escalation does inevitably happen, the masses will think the escalation was unwarranted and be sympathetic to the protestors. The problem
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> Are we supposed to let protesters smash our federal buildings and endanger federal workers? Doesn't LA have a police department? What did the LA governor had to say about it?
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> (...) but those who believed at the time that vaccine mandates were draconian government overreach literally believed they were freedom fighters just as much (...) This is simply not true. At face value that's the literal claims t
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by motorest 1y ago
> The original CDC statement was something like "masks have not been shown to be effective for the general population". It's preferable that we have the timeline in mind. https://www.latimes.com/science&#x2
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by motorest 1y ago
> When Americans were “resisting authority” by not wearing masks and keeping their businesses opened despite lockdown orders did you feel the same pride in anti-authority behavior then? From an outsider's perspective, it's hard
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by motorest 1y ago
> A lot of open source software literally come with "it's what it is" clause in the license, meaning that the maintainer has ZERO responsibility towards you, the user. There's a loophole in that scenario, which is cre
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by motorest 1y ago
> Lest we all forget, the messaging coming out the the White House at the beginning was "masks are ineffective" If I recall correctly, at the onset of the covid pandemic the general guidance was to not rush to buy masks with th
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by motorest 1y ago
> Yes, that's what the article is about. Not really. Hand-waving over hypothetical unit costs means nothing. In fact, I wonder if that's why the article lists no specifics on the cost structure of the spot instance based approa
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by motorest 1y ago
> The article is about – saving 30% by switching from Spot to 70% more expensive VMs. It's the opposite of what you're talking about here. I don't think those values hold any meaning, specially after no concrete details ar
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by motorest 1y ago
> Hybrid is such weak format, why would anybody bother, I don't understand. For some, it's not like they have a choice.
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For reference, Firefox 128 was released less than a year ago. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel... It seems like bad form to arbitrarily ditch a stable browser released so soon
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by motorest 1y ago
I guess this epiphany meant the company did some progress on how to deploy and run their Kubernetes clusters, but the blog post reads like "we were messing our deployment strategy really badly and causing us a whole lot of problems for

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