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by pydry 5d ago
Just as some Chinese people want Ai Weiwei to rot in prison, some Russians wanted Navalny to rot in prison and some Americans wanted or still want Snowden and Assange to rot in prison.
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by pydry 5d ago
It wasn't odd at all the list of places he could flee to was very limited because of his job. It's more odd that some people don't give him the same benefit of the doubt they would a whistleblower from Russia or China.
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by pydry 5d ago
That's a conspiracy theory I haven't heard before which I'm pretty sure I'll never hear a shred of evidence for.
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by pydry 6d ago
high quality code means boiling down code to its bare essentials, not spewing boilerplate. that means deleting code where you can and crafting good abstractions while leaving functionality intact. if you find the ratio between typing and
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by pydry 6d ago
>And why wouldn’t writing software be a skill issue You've missed the point. Nobody doubts writing code well or badly is indeed a skill issue. The question is that "once you account for all of the things you need to do to make
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by pydry 8d ago
Judging by the depressing number of elderly selling tissues in food courts to get by I dont think the government ever really cared about eliminating service jobs. It's enough for them that those people have somewhere basic to live and
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by pydry 9d ago
"You're absolutely right!"
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by pydry 11d ago
because quality signals are much more misleading these days. can't trust reviews because theyre spammed with fakes. can't trust brands because private equity buy them out and enshittify.
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by pydry 11d ago
ive experimented with paying more for a few things and sometimes it's the cheap stuff which lasts forever. i have a pair of cheap Chinese earbuds that way outlasted all of the expensive ones I ever bought.
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by pydry 11d ago
Demand collateral
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by pydry 11d ago
no. treasuries establish the interest rate floor. data center bonds require a risk premium on top of that.
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by pydry 11d ago
iirc data center construction investments are largely bond funded so this will absolutely fuck them.
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by pydry 12d ago
yoloing your way to a first prototype and aggressively refactoring along the way does make a lot of people very uncomfortable but it still produces better architectures than BDUF or even a scaled down BDUF (LDUF?). it's really not ge
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by pydry 12d ago
100%. I find it's generally used as a waterfall practice - i.e. BDUF first with a design document, then implement instead of "implement following conservative assumptions, revisit and refactor aggressively". The latter being
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by pydry 14d ago
>That's not necessarily true. Technology gives more power to everyone. The rise of factories Did not give more power to everyone. At best you could say that it shifted power from landed gentry to industrialists. Even that switchov
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by pydry 14d ago
The process you're cheering on gives more power to the powers that be who are the problem. Theyre never going to use that power to provide basic income for everybody. You cannot wave a wand to make them do that. Theyre going to use t
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by pydry 15d ago
Nobody is. It's the AI slop which is supposed to replace this shit which barely worked with equally shit shit which doesnt work which people are romanticizing. Most of the human written code was slop, but the really fundamental and s
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by pydry 15d ago
>Copyright exists to encourage progress in the arts and sciences. Not to enrich artists or scientists. Is impoverishing them supposed to encourage progress in the arts and sciences? Whatever it started out as (and I have my doubts it was
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by pydry 16d ago
Product manager skills do not overlap much with dev skills. If I put some devs in front of a customer I'd be very much afraid of them doing what they ask rather than what they want, for instance, or overindexing on one particular custo
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by pydry 17d ago
It feels economically naive because theyre presuming LLMs are magical boxes that replace humans. I doubt 99% of what a nurse does would be meaningfully aided by an LLM and where it would help it'd probably be a crappy band aid around a
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by pydry 17d ago
that's one way to wilfully misrepresent what I said. the point of view was that they already aren't .
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by pydry 17d ago
already happening and it seems it is legal https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/citizens-are-tracki...
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by pydry 17d ago
we have literal "starving authors" - they pretty much all need second jobs to survive. for the authors themselves I don't see much difference between having no copyright at all and being thrown a few pennies on their work f
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by pydry 18d ago
i think product just uses these use cases as their example demos and then when they show it to marketing theyre like "OK I guess this is what it's for". (at least, this is what ive seen)
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by pydry 18d ago
I think most people miss the point of TDD. It is not just about edge cases. It ought to be: * A way of matching requirement use cases to tests. * to modulate the number of tests written not only to make sure you have enough coverage but
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by pydry 18d ago
I remember having a conversation with somebody from the BBC about a study they commissioned once to ask license payers about how the license fee was spent. the overwhelming response apparently was: * we don't have particular concerns a
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by pydry 18d ago
not all, but far too much of it. card/krueger is a good example of a study that tried to measure real cows in a smart way. the boss's wallet and plenty of economists who made their career off supporting it were very upset about th
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by pydry 19d ago
This paper created some neat theoretical mathematical models but I can't see anything that indicates that they have anything to do with reality. I thought they'd come up with a neat mechanism that looked at actual wages in real co
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by pydry 19d ago
they make mistakes on this level when writing code too it's just that some people can't tell when they do it and refuse to believe they do it.
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by pydry 19d ago
sure i can get all sorts of very poor quality tests by asking for them

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