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by pan69 4mo ago
I wouldn't work at Google either. If you can't trust the people you have hired to hire people then you shouldn't have hired them.
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by pan69 4mo ago
> just a formality and a friendly chat That was not the case in this scenario. I was told I would be offered the role if I came out favorable with the CEO (did he like me or not? did I jump when the said "jump"?). To me this me
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by pan69 4mo ago
I had something similar years ago. I applied for a job at a company, size around 150 people. Did two rounds of interviews which were great. They wanted me to offer the role. However, as a third round, I was going to do a meet and greet with
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by pan69 5mo ago
Author writes book using search engine. Author writes book using word processor. Author writes book using typewriter. Author writes book using ...
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by pan69 5mo ago
There recently was a change to VSCode where commits are being co-authored even if AI wasn't used. Not saying that AI wasn't used in this case, but it could be ambigious. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/co
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by pan69 5mo ago
> ...comes out of rear ends Instead we know it literally comes out of the ground and the market doesn't plummet.
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by pan69 5mo ago
I learned to do this about 2 years ago (pre LLM). I have been developing software for ~30 years and somehow doing something like this was a major mental obstacle, mostly created by the perception of "the dragon book", as in this t
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by pan69 5mo ago
A similar thing happens with npmjs downloads. Some people actually judge the quality of a npm package by how many automated build pipelines are pulling a certain package daily.
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by pan69 5mo ago
> but why not append the date And use uuid v5 to hash it :)
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by pan69 5mo ago
I remember watching the weekly x-files episode. My and my colleagues would discuss it the next day at work with great enthusiasm. In those days you had time to absorb tv shows like this, something that doesn't really seem to exist anym
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by pan69 5mo ago
> I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of for-sale software. We're seeing the end of "simple" for-sale software. Like OPs CRUD app, a UI front-end on-top of a database, of which there are a gazillion examples so
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by pan69 6mo ago
Elections for executive leadership doesn't sound all that crazy to me. With 30+ years in the business I have witnessed my fair share of executive whackos that wouldn't have passed a basic sniff test if they had convince workers th
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by pan69 6mo ago
This is actually important to understand. What are the dependencies of your dependencies? I.e. if your goal is to be sovereign than knowing how far the turtles go, and who the turtles are, is quite important.
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by pan69 6mo ago
As depressing as it sounds, this seems to pretty much sum up the objective of the 2nd Trump admin.
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by pan69 6mo ago
I remember playing this on my families Olivetti M24. It was very difficult. Maybe because the game was speed sensitive and the M24 was an 8086 running 8Mhz. Good times nonetheless.
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by pan69 6mo ago
But once you unmute, there is no way back...
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by pan69 6mo ago
> Video unavailable > The uploader has not made this video available in your country I'd love to watch this but unfortunately. My country being AU.
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by pan69 7mo ago
> A 19k lines-of-code Pull Request was opened in January, 2026. Such a PR should be rejected simply because of the shear size of it, regardless of AI use. Seriously, who submits a 19k line PR? Just make many small ones.
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by pan69 7mo ago
Unfortunately you're flawed to think that rational and evidence based thinking plays a role in the final decision making.
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by pan69 7mo ago
I did the same in 2023. I got the Asus Q470: https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/cs... I added a Intel Core i7 10700K (with a nice low-profile Noctua cooler/fan) with 32GB of memory and
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by pan69 7mo ago
If I am not mistaken, another part of the equation is that it physically takes years to build a single missile (hence the cost).
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by pan69 7mo ago
What? You don't just prompt your kitchen?
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by pan69 7mo ago
It's easier to defer principled decision making to the future while you can rake in the cash in the meantime.
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by pan69 7mo ago
Isn't charity just a business model these days? The first time I came across was about 10 or so years ago where, I think it was a 60 minutes did a report on Movember, how they have some scheme/scam where the guys who started/
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by pan69 7mo ago
> Yakult (ヤクルト, Yakuruto) is a Japanese sweetened probiotic milk beverage fermented with the bacteria strain Lacticaseibacillus casei Shirota. It is sold by Yakult Honsha based in Tokyo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by pan69 7mo ago
> By law, each household in the UK - with some exceptions - has to pay if they: > watch or record programmes as they're being shown live on any TV channel > The rules apply to any device on which a programme is viewed, includi
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by pan69 7mo ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-betrayed-us-fleeing-... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/09/trump-syria-...
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by pan69 7mo ago
Now do one for ffmpeg :)
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by pan69 7mo ago
I have been thinking about this and I think it might work well for established code bases that already exhibit specific patterns that are used over and over again. E.g. a CRUD app with a OpenAPI spec, a controller layer, a service layer, a
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by pan69 7mo ago
I'd consider myself a very experienced (~30 years), but mediocre dev, and this AI thing has completely transformed my capabilities as a software developer. People compare AI to a "smart junior" or something like it. To me, it

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