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by re-thc 2y ago
> If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours. This ass
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by re-thc 2y ago
> But to the best of my knowledge it is not just US tariffs on the PRC that is driving the migration of manufacturing for Japanese companies away from the PRC over the last decade or so Cost has increased as China itself domestically has
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Foxconn is doing exactly that They did too in Wisconsin in 2017. /s Let’s see when it actually happens.
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by re-thc 2y ago
Same applies for social media, software, services, etc right? They’d build their software in their own countries instead? I’m not sure the US would be winning after crashing all the tech companies…
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by re-thc 2y ago
The point is you can’t just shift and replicate so easily. Same applies whether it’s farms or even clouds. You downplay and make it sound easy. It’s all great in theory and to talk about it. Imagine if everyone moved assembly to the US. The
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Don’t have massive production in China if you want to sell in the US. How does this help? Everyone has already tried shifting to Vietnam, India, etc only to be hit by tariffs anyway.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Wouldn’t it make sense then to spin up a separate final assembly within the US? Like it can just be done? > Or do their sales not warrant that kind of investment? It's not so simple. That's the equivalent of other countrie
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by re-thc 2y ago
> believes [current] LLMs will be largely obsolete within five years Well yes in that ChatGPT 4 (current) will be replaced by ChatGPT 5 (future) etc...
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I can't shake the feeling that I am not building anything novel and someone with basic software engineering background can replicate the idea with the help of AI. Why are you so fussed about what tool is being used? The product sh
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I live in a developing country where there’s no shortage of software developers who build systems for both personal and governmental use. However, many of these systems have serious gaps when it comes to security. i.e. is there actuall
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by re-thc 2y ago
> So the only conclusion I can draw is that this wasn’t about the what, it was about the who. Board members "retired" once Lip-Bu Tan arrived as CEO i.e. the board also changed.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> to balance the trade deficit? Let's talk about the all the software exports that got "converted" into a "service" i.e. SaaS / PaaS / IaaS 1st. Not to mention previously we'd have CD / DVD &#
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by re-thc 2y ago
> What's funny is the tariffs announced a couple day sago explicitly excluded semi conductors and pharmaceuticals. They're "excluded" because they're coming later. It was announced they'd be specific 1s in t
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by re-thc 2y ago
Not so, as these "chips" don't ship raw. Most of it gets packaged elsewhere etc.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> thinking you can get away with anything because you are special Might have been the case some many years ago. Not anymore with many nations not all that far behind.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Not to mention 29% tariffs on Norfolk Island. Who hasn’t exported anything to the U.S. in years. Should have set that to 99% then eh?
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by re-thc 2y ago
> They just slapped 44% on us (higher than on China). Not true, China's is on top of its existing tariffs.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> The counter-counter argument is, maybe a real strategy is being worked upon, and this blunt hammer is just a leverage tool. I hope it's not the department of government something...
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Addendum: to wit, whole companies, like SquareSpace and Wix, exist because web dev is a pain and WYSWIG editors help a lot But these companies DO care (or at least that's the point) and don't "just want to do a simple th
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by re-thc 2y ago
> again, this person is saying "I just want the content centered". You can't just want. It always backfires. It's called being ignorant. There are always consequences. I just want to cross the road without caring too.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I don't much care about the intricacies of using auto-margin, flexbox, css grid, align-content, etc. You do / did care, e.g. browser support.
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Either something is possible or it is not. If you don't know, that just means you're lacking knowledge It's not always you as in yourself but you as in your company or your team. You yourself might know it is possible bu
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by re-thc 2y ago
> "Clarifying one's prompts" may be effective in some cases but it's probably not what others seek It's not even that. Can the LLM run away, stop the conversation or even say no? It's as much as your boss &q
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Sure, a vacuum cleaner is the same. > I don't believe this one bit. But keep on trucking. You sure? Isn't that contradictory? It can't be the same if you don't believe it...
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Out of the last 100 years how many inventions have been made that could make any human awe like llms do right now? Lots e.g. vacuum cleaners. > But at no point in history could you talk to your phone You could always "talk&quot
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Imagine how much of the world runs Imagine? It's real... E.g. just recently there was news [0] of the New Zealand's health department (of $16B) is managed by a single Excel. [0]: https://www.theregister.com/20
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle. Is that really hype? I mean there companies or person(s) hyping it up, but there is also Waymo and Pingshan (Baidu) for example actually rolling it out. It's a lot le
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by re-thc 2y ago
> I took the lack of interest as a signal that my specific take on the solution wasn’t compelling enough, at least in the way I was presenting it. Some individual tools in your list already have summaries themselves (as emails). Usually
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by re-thc 2y ago
> But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website. Depends how you define "small". I know of a country's largest and probably close to monop
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by re-thc 2y ago
> Also, the money in software development will all be flowing to no-code companies soon. There is no reason to develop a CRUD backend, or a Wizard front end in react. This is already a thing, without AI. A large part of the world is powe

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