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by rr808 7mo ago
Wasn't Windows 95 just a copy of Windows NT, which was the real product.
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by rr808 7mo ago
Can we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.
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by rr808 7mo ago
BTW the study was from September 2024 to 2025, so its the very earliest of adopters.
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by rr808 7mo ago
Incidentally I saw the Wes McKinney podcast who said that Go was the perfect language now because of the fast compile-run cycle with strong types and built in multi thread safety was perfect for Coding Agents. Gave me a whole new interest.
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by rr808 8mo ago
I'm now in my 50s. I tried management but prefer working as an IC. I think I'm good but I know most companies would never hire me. One thing I do now is try to look after all the youngest grads and new joiners. Its so cutthroat no
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by rr808 8mo ago
Somewhere its in my list of things to try one day. Maybe an ai agent can help make this happen.
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by rr808 8mo ago
As someone who interviews students for internships and grad programs I mostly agree, however I think you should listen to the best, hardest working students to hear if they're getting picked OK. I suspect the students with the best job
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by rr808 8mo ago
Right? I was hoping webassembly would bring back some proper gui tools like this to avoid the whole JS/DOM but no luck so far.
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by rr808 8mo ago
Do you mean a few cents plus $5 shipping? I think they still exist but often results are ranked by total cost now which is clearer.
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by rr808 8mo ago
It starts at admissions where learning is not a rewarded activity. You should be making impact in the community, doing some performative task that isn't useful for anything except making you different to your class mates who naively re
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by rr808 8mo ago
Did he connect to your wifi? That would give the exact property to go to instead of via gps.
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by rr808 8mo ago
I never understood this. Is this why the cubicles are always full in the office? WTF I go in there take a dump and leave while the people on each side are just silent the whole time. I can think of much better places to think.
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by rr808 8mo ago
I worked on an app that sent an internal email with stack trace whenever an unhandled exception occurred. Worked great until the day when there was an OOM in a tight loop on a box in Asia that sent a few hundred emails per second and satura
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by rr808 8mo ago
Agreed. Combine with job rewards for "impact" over anything else and move fast break things its hardly a surprise.
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by rr808 8mo ago
Depends what you mean by Microsoft. Azure is its biggest division. OpenAI stake is its most important. I think xbox/gaming has more revenue than Windows now. Even LinkedIn is a huge part of the company.
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by rr808 8mo ago
Japanese and Chinese are very different buckets. What is the long term reliability of Chinese cars? Nobody knows.
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by rr808 8mo ago
That is ugly AF and there is no way I'd buy that over a Porsche. Zeekr 001 is prettier outside but inside still is terrible. https://www.datocms-assets.com/143770/1728613060-rectangle-4...
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by rr808 8mo ago
> china makes cars better than most luxury brands More like China makes cheaper cars which is enough for most people.
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by rr808 8mo ago
Its interesting that TV is regulated. You can't put certain content on there and I'm sure the governments can ultimately control things. Now todays eyeballs are controlled by Meta and TikTok and I dont really trust them at all - t
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by rr808 8mo ago
> their centralised options become redundant This is not the problem. The problem is that everyone moves to solar for most of the year not using or paying for the infrastructure, then in cold winter nights everyone expects the grid to be
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by rr808 8mo ago
Just did a funding round. In a sign of the times clickhouse used to be an interesting DB product, but is now a "database software that companies can use as they develop AI agents " <i>Database technology startup ClickHouse I
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by rr808 9mo ago
Get started a corporate surplus mini pc on ebay. They super cheap - search for micro pc - if you get a recent CPU from Dell or Lenovo should be under $200, you can install Fedora or other Linux distribution. Ask Claude for everything else.
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by rr808 9mo ago
nice. I wish I could buy an address instead of renting from aws...
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by rr808 9mo ago
Yeah you're right, I was a pretty geeky teenager myself. Its a tough winner takes all world, maybe working your ass off in HS is a good strategy that I messed up.
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by rr808 9mo ago
I've been a Windows user since 3.0 came out. Windows the last 5 years has been annoying the ** out of me, even more than normal. I'll see what 12 looks like, but looks like I'll be Linux user in the future.
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by rr808 9mo ago
My kids go to a stem focused magnet school. I realize different cultures value different things but its depressing to me how many kids are pushed to dedicate their whole childhood to get into top Universities. We'd go to the beach and
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by rr808 9mo ago
What happened to Devin? 2024 it was a leading contender now it isn't even included in the big list of coding agents.
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by rr808 9mo ago
The biggest threat to American software engineers is outsourcing, AI is just a distraction. I am an immigrant, I work at a prestigious financial corporation in NYC. Pretty much 95% of the staff were born and did undergraduate degree in othe
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by rr808 9mo ago
dotnet was always really good for this. There were a bunch of third party tools that have done this since the 90s like toolsack. I think Java can run uncompiled text scripts now too
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by rr808 9mo ago
Works for me on firefox and chrome - all the content is on obsidian.md, maybe blocked for you? https://publish-01.obsidian.md/access/2e00105552e45031d995a8...

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