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by pydry 7mo ago
If you're looking for a cheap way to lay people off, you probably dont want to have to make large investments in real estate to do so. I think it was mostly about lack of trust and desire to regain a feeling of control over employees.
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by pydry 7mo ago
The deluge of amazon bugs ive been seeing recently makes me hesitant to follow in amazon's lead.
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by pydry 7mo ago
This assumes that tests are realistic, which for the most part they are not.
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by pydry 7mo ago
I always found it weird how most management would do almost anything other than ask their dev team "hey, is there any way to make you guys more productive?" Ive had metrics rammed down my throat, Ive had AI rammed down my throat
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by pydry 7mo ago
The level of censorship in Israel right now is off the charts: https://www.972mag.com/israel-media-censorship-iran-war/ I suspect the gambler probably would have won on the basis of what happened but lost on the basis
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by pydry 7mo ago
These countries are disguised vassals of the United States. They're nominally independent but in practice are run by a local oligarchy who generally do as they please within the confines of what the US allows. Theyre effectively all as
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by pydry 7mo ago
>If you are Europe, and you have democratic elections, you have an informational power asymmetry towards the states that have mass surveillance and control. You are (as we saw last year with the Romanian election that was swung to 60% in
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by pydry 7mo ago
jira is a perfect example of an abysmal product that was marketed well.
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by pydry 7mo ago
Im not sure you even can. It's turning into a market for lemons.
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by pydry 7mo ago
>people can tell the difference pretty quickly They really cant.
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by pydry 7mo ago
Coz theyre very reluctant to pay for tools and cant be bothered to lobby their boss for tool purchases for more than a couple of things. If there's an open source version thats half as good or they can hack together their own version w
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by pydry 7mo ago
I see about 50 posts a week which look like theyre raising an interesting point for discussion and about 3/4 of the way through it is a link to a blog or tool. That said, what form of marketing actually works and is honest? I cant thin
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by pydry 7mo ago
Do we know it increased the velocity and didnt just churn more slop? Even before AI the limiting factor on all of the teams I ever worked on was bad decisions, not how much time it took to write code. There seem to be more of those these da
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by pydry 7mo ago
More to the point the definition of responsibility is ambiguous and rarely shared. The SRP is a bit like the original agile principles: the intent in writing them down was good and they definitely alluded to something real and valuable
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by pydry 8mo ago
Until the UK military pledge allegiance to democracy rather than the king, the royal family is also a risk to democracy. Thailand is an object lesson in how monarchy is repeatedly used as a lever by military and business elites to overthrow
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by pydry 8mo ago
>AIs embedded with American cultural values, broadly, is probably better than having ones seeded with Xi Jinping thought. I'd really rather have a choice of both rather than be forced to accept "AI that downplays a 2 year old g
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by pydry 8mo ago
The fact that they did is likely why Trump fired one of his generals. Ive worked in organizations like that where EVERYBODY knew something was a bad idea but upper management wanted to do it anyway. At some point you get frozen out if you d
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by pydry 8mo ago
It's often way easier to capture value than to get compensated for creating it. It's definitely indicative of an unhealthy organization or society when this happens but generally I've still found this to be the norm. Indeed,
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by pydry 8mo ago
>You will get laid off but you won't if you create value From my experience this isnt in the slightest bit true. The professional managerial class not only sucks at identifying who creates value, they often feel threatened by thos
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by pydry 8mo ago
>They may not know that this dude was an anti-masker (with nuance) for example If you're going to ad hominem, at least give a citation. >As much as ad hominem attacks are not great approaches, the one scenario I feel it's ju
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by pydry 8mo ago
I have the same question about people who sell "get rich with real estate" seminars.
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by pydry 8mo ago
The "interesting situation" is that maintainers are unable to cheaply distinguish slop from good contributions so they will simply stop accepting outside contributions. This will cut off one of the genuine entry points to the indu
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by pydry 8mo ago
>Decommissioning costs" are essentially bad math. This is disingenuous. Bad math is focusing on the one part of nuclear power which is relatively cheap (fuel) and ignoring the rest where the majority of the cost is, which is what yo
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by pydry 8mo ago
Easier to stockpile uranium than oil or gas though.
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by pydry 8mo ago
Fuel storage and reprocessing isnt where vast majority of of the cost is for nuclear power, construction and decommissioning are. These are what makes it cost 5x solar or wind.
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by pydry 8mo ago
>I just can’t compete in speed and thoroughness I certainly know engineers for which this is true but unfortunately they were never particularly thorough or fast to begin with. I believe you can tell which way the wind is blowing by look
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by pydry 8mo ago
>But no one ever mentions the hundreds of times it quietly wrote code that is better than most engineers can write. Are you serious? I've been hearing this constantly. since mid 2025. The gaslighting over AI is really something else
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by pydry 8mo ago
Which story sends a more positive signal to shareholders? "We've frozen hiring because our growth potential is tapped out." "We've frozen hiring because AI can replace employees."
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by pydry 8mo ago
I had a friend who worked for a company that built AI call centres. I naively thought that customers would use it to do "password reset" type workflows and have an escape hatch for customers to talk to a human if the AI couldnt ha
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by pydry 8mo ago
Agile is a pretty badly defined beast at the best of times but even the most twisted interpretation doesnt mean that. It's mainly just a rejection of BDUF.

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