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by pydry 1y ago
The lack of this would frighten me that it would be neglected.
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by pydry 1y ago
>it will enable us to do even greater things. It doesnt do this.
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by pydry 1y ago
>1. AI doesn't improve productivity and people just have cognitive biases. (logical, but I also don't think it's true from what I know...) It is from what Ive seen. It has the same visible effect on devs as a slot machine
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by pydry 1y ago
It also says it makes seniors stronger. That hasnt been my experience.
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by pydry 1y ago
There's also not much in it for the mentor other than the warm glow in the heart.
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by pydry 1y ago
There's also more devs who are only curious about fashionable topics (e.g. AI).
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by pydry 1y ago
>are you just going to be fixing this one incident while leaving the broken system as-is for everyone who didn't go viral? No answer means this.
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by pydry 1y ago
Exactly this. 2023Q1 was when the interest rate hike from the previous year really kicked in with full force. It was the first hiring market I ever saw in well over a decade where the employers were firmly in the drivers seat even for senio
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by pydry 1y ago
The UK Labour government is one government particularly in favor of tapping all communications "for the sake of the children". It turned out this week that they knowingly hired the "best friend" of famous pedophile as am
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by pydry 1y ago
Maybe make a point that doesnt involve making assumptions about reality based on a fictional tv show?
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by pydry 1y ago
They dont. Theyre equivalent to those on screen menus that have been around since ~2015. The point is that the automation of the customer service part of restaurants existed before and disappeared for ~60 years.
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by pydry 1y ago
>Combined arms done well is Op Desert Storm Desert storm was a war against an isolated 3rd world country with no military industry and military hardware from the 1970s. Were the Iraqis plugged into the supply chains of a global superpowe
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by pydry 1y ago
The Nork troops are not really a sign of anything more than Putin's desire to keep the official Russian military death count down. The US also prefers to use PMCs and proxy forces for its most deadly battles. Iran isnt helping, theyre
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by pydry 1y ago
It'd be larger if wealth inequality werent so staggeringly high. The first automated-server restaurants (Horn and hardart) appeared in the 1930s during the depression. They were popular because they were cheap. Far from being the wave
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by pydry 1y ago
Because while the fever dreams of capitalists do not always pan out you do always need a paycheck to make rent.
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by pydry 1y ago
>So much of what we write is absolutely low-skill and low-impact, but necessary and labor-intensive. Ive never found this to be true once in my career. I know a lot of devs who looked down on CRUD or whatever it was they were doing and
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by pydry 1y ago
>What? We've all seen the offensive capabilities of the Russian over the past three years and it's been very clear that they can't run combined arms properly Have we been watching the same war? Ukraine is getting absolutel
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by pydry 1y ago
>Body exchange means only that, not related to causality count Thats the most off the wall opinion Ive heard today. >If russians are continuing slow advance, where do you expect bodies to be found? Note that body exchanges were not th
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by pydry 1y ago
The French, Germans and Poles keep talking about doing just that - with "reassurance" forces or whatever the name for it is these days. If they deploy those forces they will be wiped out. There is no question of that. European lea
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by pydry 1y ago
Minimal assistance? We sent half of our inventories. European capitals are stripped bare of air defense missiles. >I think it was more hoping Russia would behave like a normal civilised country Theyre acting like the countries who are cu
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by pydry 1y ago
>Putin was saying he wouldn't invade right up until the day before This was seemingly in an attempt to provide a diplomatic off ramp where everybody could pretend that they didnt back down in the face of a naked threat of force. Ame
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by pydry 1y ago
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg752y13meo That case was 1212:27, or 44:1. >Reasonably neutral estimates have the military deaths since 2022 at about 80k Ukrainians, 250k Russians You might want to rea
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by pydry 1y ago
>AI changes the job to be a constant struggle with hard problems I find this hilarious. From what I've seen watching people do it, it changes the job from deep thought and figuring out a good design to pulling a lever on a slot mach
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by pydry 1y ago
I can believe that 80% of Russian casualties are drones, however that's more of an artefact of a dire shortage of artillery on the Ukrainian side. Drones are the one thing theyve got left. It makes sense theyd hype them up. It also mak
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by pydry 1y ago
Me too. I used to be a bit more open minded on this topic but im increasingly viewing any programmers who use AI for anything other than brainstorming and looking stuff up/explaining it as simply bad at what they do.
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by pydry 1y ago
>War is not only the 155mm shells. In this war it is most: >Artillery has been known as the “king of battle” for centuries, and this largely remains true today. In the Russia-Ukraine war, artillery fire accounts for about 80 percent o
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by pydry 1y ago
>It's not inevitable that North Korea is able to supply more shells It is if American military exceptionalism is treated as an article of faith, which it was, so here we are. Scaling up industrial production was never treated as a s
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by pydry 1y ago
>Why are you implying that Germany has decarbonized their grid? I neither said nor implied that the green transition is complete. Green transitions take decades. Germany is merely transitioning the fastest and doing it without the overpr
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by pydry 1y ago
>No one has/had political will to help Ukraine win All of the main neocon actors (e.g. lindsay graham) say this. The idea that western military resources are unlimited is a neocon article of faith. It's weird coz it is possib
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by pydry 1y ago
There's a fun game you can play with countries that build nuclear power plants: "guess the existential threat". In each case it's pretty obvious. Either they have nuclear weapons that share a supply chain and skills base

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