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by pc86 5mo ago
Fair criticism mate. I'll only say that if your backups aren't in a completely separate system you don't really have backups.
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by pc86 5mo ago
You should always be able to either undo what you did or rebuild to identical infrastructure and nearly-identical data.
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by pc86 5mo ago
It seems closer to "roll two or three successive 1s on a D100 and have your LLM hooked directly into your production systems and have your LLM user have DELETE permissions" and probably 1 or 2 other things I'm forgetting.
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by pc86 5mo ago
There really shouldn't be any "serious and unfixable way" to break things, especially in a modern company that uses technology in any meaningful way. The fact it's even possible to get into an unrecoverable state is the
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by pc86 5mo ago
> Why does any of this imply they should become a regulated utility? Because the majority of the HN crowd defaults to "a massive government bureaucracy would do this better" unless it's even tangentially related to their
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by pc86 5mo ago
And the percentage of airports with "timeslots on the runway" is still going to be 0.
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by pc86 5mo ago
99.99% of airports do not have "timeslots on the runway." Most airports in the US have no tower whatsoever.
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by pc86 5mo ago
It is certainly possible that you are brilliant and your co-workers and the industry writ large are all morons. That you were right all along, and chickens roosting and all that, though it seems at least equally as likely that this is not t
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by pc86 5mo ago
It's also not tautological that React apps have bad error handling. You can do proper error handling and retry logic in React, and I can't for the life of me understand why GitHub engineers making several hundred thousand a year i
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by pc86 5mo ago
When is the "get better" step? I've only ever seen two things happen mid- or post-enshittification: 1. The company builds a moat and just remains shit. 2. New entrants either displace the company entirely (most like
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by pc86 5mo ago
This is surprising to me, I would have bet money that all the people who actively engage in this type of language/framework war discourse were all drawing Social Security by now.
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by pc86 5mo ago
Even taking the least generous interpretation of what LLMs do and saying they're just "copy/pasting others' code" it's still not stealing because the original still exists and presumably still makes money. The
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by pc86 6mo ago
> No matter what you follow if FB thinks you are a man it's going to feed you those foreign near-porn shorts. Definitely not, FB knows I'm a man and I don't have anything remotely pornographic in my feed with any regularit
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by pc86 6mo ago
It's obviously a typo (or an excellently delivered joke) but I did get a chuckle out of the idea of someone going out of their way to ask color blind friends for feedback just to do the opposite out of spite for some reason.
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by pc86 6mo ago
A cousin of mine found out in his late 20's that he is red-green color blind.
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by pc86 6mo ago
> What I mean is that people are selected for leadership based not off of their leadership ability, but rather their political ability and ambition. Leadership is political - you have to get people to want to follow you. So it makes se
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by pc86 6mo ago
If you have an existing financial relationship with someone it is by definition not a "cold message." People who think they should never, ever be contacted by a company they are paying to use a service of are in the extreme mino
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by pc86 6mo ago
You can "optimize a successful user journey" by making the software easy to use, making it load so fast people are surprised by it, and talking to your customers. Telemetry doesn't help you do any of that, but it does help yo
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by pc86 6mo ago
> Do you think that the social climbers who approved these obviously crappy projects learned anything? Just the framing of this question makes it seem like you simply don't like people in management / decision-makers, and you w
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by pc86 6mo ago
For modern day web developers there are very, very, very few things that fall into the "if you do this you should probably be escorted out of the building on the first offense" category, but "reusing a variable because it&#x2
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by pc86 6mo ago
This isn't a counterpoint, it's just additional (and barely relevant) information.
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by pc86 6mo ago
This says "Editorial" at the top but has no authorship information. Who wrote this?
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by pc86 6mo ago
Is "design innovation" a thing we really need? I'm not trying to be flippant, but every time I've come across an "innovative" design the only thing it's done is made me spend time learning whatever bespoke
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by pc86 6mo ago
Why? At the risk of straining the example, "everything is yellow" is only a problem if there's a better color for a particular problem. Maybe it's true that yellow is just the best, and should be used in 99% of circumsta
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by pc86 6mo ago
> There is also no pride. Respectfully disagree. You should feel pride when you deliver the easiest-to-use system that the hospital lawyer has ever used. When you get them in and out of the system quickly because it's intuitive and
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by pc86 6mo ago
Maybe it is (I'm not so sure but I'm open to the argument), but even if true, it's a completely separate thing from someone buying a home and renting it out.
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by pc86 6mo ago
If you think buying a house and renting it out "manipulates economic conditions" you need to prove it because that's a claim, especially with regard to "manipulate."
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by pc86 6mo ago
I wish Amway was bigger so more people would be exposed to it and be similarly inoculated.
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by pc86 6mo ago
> Electricity I don't know how you could deliver ads through Even if you could, electricity is a utility with laws against disconnecting it in certain circumstances, even for nonpayment, and the internet isn't. So unless someon
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by pc86 6mo ago
> California subsidizes the majority of states for example. California doesn't pay taxes though, people in California do. Not trying to be pedantic but this is a common framing that is, at its core, completely incorrect. States don&

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