ponector

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by ponector 5d ago
>> traditional manufacturing has a robust tradition of apprenticeship and training on the job. We also have such tradition. Senior software engineers are teaching juniors. Would tradition manufacturing employ an apprentice without kno
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by ponector 5d ago
Historically, base model for the US market had more features than base European trim. I guess the same applies for Japan. Also taxes are different, obviously.
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by ponector 6d ago
>> it's not Youtube influencer level cool and industry relies increasingly on older generations Usually it means the pay is crap, the schedule is bad and nobody is willing to invest into training. Why should young people select s
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by ponector 6d ago
And 1974 Corolla for $2500 was the same, I guess. GR Corolla is much better and faster than any supercars of 1970s. Compare price of it with original Countach!
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by ponector 6d ago
New Corola is advertised at $25k. Fair price considering how many features you get vs 1974 car.
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by ponector 8d ago
Imagine if in the best scenario Japan is going to stop borrowing. Reducing the population will drive debt ratio up. Good luck to the next generation, say thank you to your grandparents who borrowed from you.
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by ponector 8d ago
Has any country really tried? To have multiple kids you need bigger house, more stuff and more time. To have 2+ kids you either neglect them or should become stay at home parent. It's only for rich, for families who can comfortably liv
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by ponector 10d ago
How about supersonic flight?
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by ponector 18d ago
Pretty much anyone can volunteer and became an UAV drone operator in Ukraine. Get an experience you'll use in the WW3!
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by ponector 18d ago
Unfortunately for the users, testing has been pushed to them. You can deploy whatever slop you want - nobody cares. More lines of code!
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by ponector 18d ago
Most developers are not good at testing. That's why the role of test engineer exists. I've seen in multiple projects things like assertTrue(true). I'm sure the agent is better in testing than average enterprise developer.
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by ponector 19d ago
It was perfect when the only way to connect to the internet was a computer. Smartphones ruined it.
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by ponector 27d ago
>> post the 100 bugs I hit that week. But nobody cares. Posting bugs is mostly pointless, it's wasted time. Nowadays even for paid products quality is not a priority.
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by ponector 28d ago
People are hating it untill goes abroad to the countries where no such regulations exists. Like in Switzerland it's okay to charge double for the car insurance simply because you carry "unlucky" citizenship. Or EU law about m
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by ponector 1mo ago
If you are traveling and need to rent a car in the airport - sometimes it is not possible to do without credit card. Otherwise you don't need a credit card.
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by ponector 1mo ago
You can buy a new Toyota car or SUV in USA for $25k. You can buy a used Toyota for $17k.
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by ponector 1mo ago
I don't think sales be different. Not many people are ready to drop 100k+ and wait months/years for the delivery.
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by ponector 1mo ago
God bless America! Land of the free! Free to tip everyone you exchange money with.
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by ponector 1mo ago
You can get an additional phone with a screen, 5g radio, ram and everything for $150. An additional radio should not raise the price for another 300.
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by ponector 1mo ago
Coding is a solved problem. They simply don't care if the app is full of bugs. You are using it anyway, right?
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by ponector 1mo ago
Soviet space shuttle had autopilot based on the computer with 130kb of RAM.
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by ponector 1mo ago
Many android phones are under $300, not iPhones obviously.
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by ponector 2mo ago
>>I would much rather have someone on my team who ships less but whose work I can trust Me too, but it is not what happening across the industry. Instead they are pushing for more LLM usage as well as more features. And faster, faster
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by ponector 2mo ago
It's all about the process and the organization. No one is pushing for quality, everyone needs more features. >>a rapid decline in software quality It's hard to expect anything else if budget for QA teams is reallocated to c
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by ponector 2mo ago
The actual issue is not the "bad" engineers but the bad organization. While people are allowed to push and merge whatever crap is generated there is no point to do otherwise. Even if you do care about performance, "good"
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by ponector 2mo ago
>> Work at a soul sucking corporate for 17 years I'm pretty much sure it is not soul sucking if you are a CEO.
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by ponector 2mo ago
Iphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck. You can find many examples like this.
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by ponector 2mo ago
Doctrine means nothing. Russian doctrine says they should use nukes against Ukraine. But there is no point in uaing it, no advantage to gain. Russians will send you back 10x warheads. Are you going to use nukes knowing that?
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by ponector 2mo ago
At my $day_job we are forced to use a shared virtual machine for all work activities. The Windows instance has 64gb of RAM, 8 virtual cores of old EPYC CPU and no GPU acceleration. It is also shared between 6 users. They will not spend extr
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by ponector 2mo ago
Given there are enough USB-C ports - it is not an issue. For old headphones buy an adapter and next time buy cheap USB-c headphones.

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