shimman

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811.
by shimman 6mo ago
"Some bets didn't work so let's destroy lives and cause needless suicides. It wasn't my fault, I was only following orders." - Random Meta VP of Customer Misery.
812.
by shimman 6mo ago
Someone once described Derek Thomas as a dumber Malcom Gladwell and it felt so perfect.
813.
by shimman 6mo ago
Wait, you're telling me that I shouldn't have to work a $200k job in order to get 4 weeks of PTO?
814.
by shimman 6mo ago
Or let's not jump straight to the racist vibes and maybe think about how American agriculture is highly monopolized, uncompetitive, and operate deeply like a cartel. American agricultural/food practices is a legit reason why food
815.
by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah but the point is that Derek Thompson commonly rejects political materialism in favor of supporting the capitalist class and attacking unions (see his comments at Centristfest 2025). Hard to not see him as an enemy of change and in-favo
816.
by shimman 6mo ago
Very easy to do when you stand to make tens of millions when your employer IPOs. Let's not maybe give too much praise and employ some critical thinking here.
817.
by shimman 6mo ago
codeberg.org is a thing, and it's perfectly suited for open source projects. Many neovim plugins and home lab tech I use are hosted on codeberg with no issues. If you just want to github as social media, you will never be happy.
818.
by shimman 6mo ago
I don't know because you're asking me something that is impossible for a human that only lives to ~80 years. Try asking better questions if you want better responses.
819.
by shimman 6mo ago
Call me old fashion but I prefer tools like Dokploy that make deployment across different VPS extremely easy. Dokploy allows me to utilize my home media server, using local instances of forgejo to deploy code, to great effect. k8s appears t
820.
by shimman 6mo ago
It is. We need to stop holding up these mortal men as saviors, especially those that have no qualms working with tyrants across the globe. The only reason Apple cares about a11y is due to being legally compelled to by the ADA. Maybe uphold
821.
by shimman 6mo ago
Modern corporations aren't profitable because of sound business decisions, they're profitable because of corporate welfare + federal subsidies. Not shocked to hear such numbers. I worked at an insurance company that had very simil
822.
by shimman 6mo ago
Reads as total slop, don't waste your time.
823.
by shimman 6mo ago
Oh course it's a high bar! Why should anyone care about this work outside of the time of their release? It's modern culture but it ain't gonna be passed down anytime soon.
824.
by shimman 6mo ago
My workflow is to just use LLMs for small context work. Anything that involves multiple files it truly doesn't do better than what I'd expect from a competent dev. It's bitten me several times at work, and I rather not waste
825.
by shimman 6mo ago
He's a popular writer, but hardly good. No one is going to be reading his books in 50 years, let alone 200.
826.
by shimman 6mo ago
Or look at corporations + elites constantly attacking children for the last 40 years (pushing school vouchers, school choices, attacking teacher unions, politicizing school boards). Who do you think suffers when elites attack public educati
827.
by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah when you redefine the term to be "active shooter" I guess, something tells me that the American public still doesn't want to die in a mass shooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootin
828.
by shimman 6mo ago
Do you understand you are very likely in the top 15% of the country in income earners, how do you expect people making less than $80k (of which there are plenty of programmers that make this amount)? Do you understand that your extreme mass
829.
by shimman 6mo ago
Oh come on, these are some of the highest income earning employed workers on the planet and they have constantly shown they are A-okay with working on systems that enable mass misery, have no qualms against profiting off a genocide, are mor
830.
by shimman 6mo ago
Why would anyone ever do this? You run the risk of losing your job. I've yet to work at a single corporation where they truly cared about documentation, best practices, mentoring, rigorous testing; everyone always rewards the wrong inc
831.
by shimman 6mo ago
Something tells me there are extreme limits on what foreign-owned manufacturing companies are allowed to do, just like the US. It's yet to be seen if Chinese companies will be as civilization destroying as US companies, but the bar is
832.
by shimman 6mo ago
Agreed and I can't wait until they regulate this stuff out of existence. It's absolutely hostile software technique that is deeply anti-human.
833.
by shimman 6mo ago
China is smart and recognizes known threats as threats. In the US we give them quasi government positions where they inflicted massive damage causing millions of senseless deaths.
834.
by shimman 6mo ago
I prefer the devil and the 80s myself.
835.
by shimman 6mo ago
I'm sure those work as well as the "don't collect my data" checkboxes too.
836.
by shimman 6mo ago
Oh is that the excuse why the billionaire couldn't afford to pay out pennies?
837.
by shimman 6mo ago
Don't expect any solidarity to come from such people, they literally sold out humanity for slightly higher salaries. They made their beds, least they can do is feel bad.
838.
by shimman 6mo ago
Yeah, the dude vibe coding the site also likely vibe coded the book. Instant pass. Also looking up this person's coding history (mostly cheat sheets and road maps), zero confidence that anything is worthy of note in the book.
839.
by shimman 6mo ago
You don't think collecting this type of intimate information about your employees as a major violation of the social contract?
840.
by shimman 6mo ago
Go visit something called "the rustbelt" (not a term of endearment) and get back to me. One thing you can always count on about HN are extremely out of touched tech workers that ignore poverty in their country that they helped pro

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