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by sealeck 1y ago
Did you read my comment? > The problem is that the Mozilla leadership hasn't been great, which makes the high salary especially difficult to defend.
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by sealeck 1y ago
I think there is a small set of people who would do a good job running Mozilla. Of these people, a very large chunk would do this for $500k annually (this is still enough money for almost anyone to lead a very comfortable life). Being money
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by sealeck 1y ago
You may be happy running an economy on vibes, but it makes no sense for old people who have a house intended for them and kids close to their work to remain there when their kids have moved out and they've retired. The fact that you ca
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by sealeck 1y ago
A very informative comment.
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by sealeck 1y ago
> It's just behaving like a child. No it's not.
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by sealeck 1y ago
> But that illusion only works when there is zero oversight. Certainly when it comes to Wikipedia: there is oversight. I know people don't like the fact that Wikipedia spends money on things other than server racks, but spending mon
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by sealeck 1y ago
> Isn't the Linux ecosystem much more healthy and decentralized than Mozilla? Is it? IME Linux kernel development is a somewhat toxic place.
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by sealeck 1y ago
The issue with the salary is not that it costs the same as 30 developers – good leadership can make a difference worth >30 developers over the same timespan (especially in an organisation with 1000s of staff). The problem is that the Moz
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by sealeck 1y ago
In fact commenters on Less Wrong are often _more wrong_!
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by sealeck 1y ago
They can move somewhere cheaper? And then the high value land can be used more productively (e.g. higher density occupancy).
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by sealeck 1y ago
> AI is going to do most of the coding in a very short time. That's a fact. [citation needed] and this really depends what you are doing.
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by sealeck 1y ago
Testing
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by sealeck 1y ago
There's a difference between "letting" something happen and actively doing something – it shows very different intentions. The events of 2008 were also caused by a cascading system failure involving lots of different componen
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by sealeck 1y ago
> It's clearly not the case that you can just transliterate a program in language X to language Y and expect to get the same behavior, functionality, etc. in the end? You most definitely can; if you have Turing complete languages A
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by sealeck 1y ago
> With minor exceptions, moving from one language to another isn’t a matter of simple syntax, trivia, or swapping standard libraries. I think this is not true for most programming languages. Most of the ones we use today have converged a
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by sealeck 1y ago
https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/
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by sealeck 1y ago
But Cloudflare have removed CAPTCHAs
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by sealeck 1y ago
F# tooling is much, much better than OCaml's
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by sealeck 1y ago
Lots of cool stuff does seep out of Jane Street, though. See for example https://oxcaml.org/ as probably the most recent very public example
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by sealeck 1y ago
- Compliance - Thing should work reliably (and you want someone else to be responsible for fixing it if it doesn't) - Security - Most SaaS is sufficiently complex that an LLM cannot implement it
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by sealeck 1y ago
The employee. Especially if you have been seriously mistreated – what you need is a lawyer, not an opportunity to materially worsen your legal position.
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by sealeck 1y ago
Just don't buy it?
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by sealeck 1y ago
> far more important here than strongly worded letters by the aging bureaucracy that governs the EU Have you seen the bureaucracy currently running the US government? Makes the EU look pretty sane and well-rounded in comparison.
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by sealeck 1y ago
I mean do you think the Iranian government is more incentivised to build a nuclear weapon before or after??
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by sealeck 1y ago
I know that this kind of comment makes sense from the American perspective (based on past US actions in South America) but the EU is not actually responsible for massively destabilising the Middle East.
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by sealeck 1y ago
Lack of nuclear weapon.
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by sealeck 1y ago
You think migration of refugees will lead to... civil war in Europe? There's a lot of space in Europe – it could accomodate even all 90 million Iranian refugees and not collapse (let us hope Iranian civilians not made into refugees by
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by sealeck 1y ago
I really don't understand why you think this makes this a good idea. Saudi Arabia also decided to launch an extremely ill-fated and brutal invasion of Yemen, which worked out terribly for them and for the Yeminis. I don't think th
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by sealeck 1y ago
A "special military operation", perhaps?
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by sealeck 1y ago
> I meant that demographically, if your populace isn't as poor, battle hardened and religious (like Afghanistan) maybe going into a long ground war is less politically feasible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira

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