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by pydry 4mo ago
you seem weirdly committed to defending the billionaire class. most people probably do have the capacity to be raging assholes but society doesn't indulge their every whim and prejudice or stroke their ego constantly. so they aren&#x27
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by pydry 4mo ago
I didn't. The point was that that amount of money turns most people into assholes. Many of them donate money but it doesnt make them any less of an asshole.
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by pydry 4mo ago
Ive also run into a few and they were without question some of the biggest assholes I ever met in my life. I don't think theyre special. Years of being surrounded by yes men and sycophants will probably do that to most people. One of t
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by pydry 4mo ago
>There's enormous amounts of work done every day in corporate America that amounts to "I need X, but X involves some data from legacy system Y and legacy system Z, and that's going to take me an hour to glue together becau
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by pydry 4mo ago
There are a number of integration test startups. None of them do a great job but they do exist.
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by pydry 4mo ago
slop
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by pydry 4mo ago
The bubble is weirdly being kept alive by the promise it can replace software developers, which is ironic because all it has really achieved is a deluge of slop. Social media has also gone utterly crazy. The last time I saw a gaslighting op
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by pydry 4mo ago
This is definitely helps make the case that it was a spiteful exec primarily concerned with their own fiefdom that got the guy canned. I did think when the guy released the tool that it seemed a bit out of character for google to be that re
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by pydry 4mo ago
As a customer who uses open source I care more about whether it works well than whether it's officially sanctioned but I can see how some of google management and its employees would take a diametrically opposite view to the i dotting
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by pydry 4mo ago
Struggling to see how google was harmed by this but yea it's true he didn't dot the i's and cross the ts. I actually thought when it was released that it was a pretty clever move by google in a sea of bad decisions but they&#
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by pydry 4mo ago
This seems pretty plausible. This tool probably did threaten some product line or other with cannibalisation.
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by pydry 4mo ago
the vetoes are pretty much the sole differentiator between the UN and the league of nations, which failed. in theory its better if you don't give veto power to great powers because they'll abuse it. in practice it's what keep
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by pydry 4mo ago
Ive been saying this for a while. Cryptocurrencies are an index tracker for the underground economy. They're not without value and theyre not all speculation but what value they do have is almost entirely about facilitating transaction
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by pydry 4mo ago
Every time I read in some blog about an unproven technique which is profitable for token sellers I'm reminded of those overpriced restaurants that became "instagram popular" because the cool kids got paid a bundle of money to
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by pydry 4mo ago
>Building nuclear doesn't stop you from building whatever else you want. It kind of does though, since it demands pretty lavish subsidies to be built at all and those subsidies would give WAY more bang for the buck if used on pumped
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by pydry 4mo ago
>Until AI comes for your mechanics job too, AI didn't "come" for software either. This is just a rerun of the 2000s outsourcing boom with a different kind of dirt cheap slop code. That one ended with execs patting themselv
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by pydry 4mo ago
I believe it's common knowledge that SF got popular for reasons that are entirely unrelated to its redevelopment of historic laundromats.
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by pydry 4mo ago
Sometimes it is genuinely easier to duplicate when that happens - e.g. if three teams maintain an enum with 4 values and there is no existing mechanism for sharing code between the projects.
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by pydry 4mo ago
it was actually seeing content from "the other side" this morning that made me think the rule holds across all content. the content in question was some "dev" whining about good AI was and how despondent it made them fee
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by pydry 4mo ago
Im starting to think that these days the easiest way to detect frontier model influencer content designed to push a stock boosting narrative and real content is the simple presence of one word: "slop". It matches my other experien
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by pydry 4mo ago
getting rid of the SF laundromat had no impact on the area's desirability. it simply increased the supply of apartments to live in the area. if your property's value remains unaffected by the supply of properties nearby you will b
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by pydry 4mo ago
nimbyism is a perfectly rational market behavior when land is untaxed - as it was with, say, prop 13. Why on earth would you want your local "historic" San francisco launderette to be turned into apartments? New supply will hurt t
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by pydry 4mo ago
Juniors slowed me down way way way before AI came along but theyre getting stiff competition these days from the AI slop I'm having to wade through.
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by pydry 4mo ago
There is plenty of nuance to go around generally still but on any topic where there are incredibly powerful or wealthy parties spending a fortune pushing a narrative it immediately stops being possible. Nuance simply gets overwhelmed by rep
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by pydry 4mo ago
Yea, you can create code slop much quicker these days. That much is true. Whether the demand will match the supply is still an open question. Did the apple app store need another 4,000 to do apps? I guess we'll see.
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by pydry 4mo ago
The difference is about slop tolerance not "process over product".
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by pydry 4mo ago
I like it when AI metaphors presume determinism.
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by pydry 4mo ago
Theyve hopped on the vibe coding bandwagon.
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by pydry 4mo ago
>They anticorrelate in some locations. In others, they don't. Here in Finland in the winter you get effectively zero sun. Virtually nowhere gets zero sun. Finland is also unusually blessed with tons and tons of hydropower potential
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by pydry 4mo ago
This is what the oil and nuclear industry propaganda says. The reality is that solar and wind anticorrelate more than you think, demand shifting (e.g. charging the car when it's sunny) is easier than you think, batteries and pumped sto

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