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by spamizbad 7mo ago
You don't need a crystal ball to understand a conservative supreme court would require the government to refund what amounts to an illegal tax on American businesses. If you stick your hand into a fire you don't need to speculate
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by spamizbad 8mo ago
Also: They've figured out they can "force" AI adoption top-down at many workplaces. They don't need to convince you or even your boss - they just need the C-suite to mandate it.
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by spamizbad 8mo ago
I'll say: You made the right call striking while the iron is hot. My employer did one of those "Didn't need to but did it anyway" rounds and it was critical for a successful exit that came years later.
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
> AI's / LLM's have already been trained on best practices for most domains. I've been at this long enough to see that today's best practices are tomorrow's anti-patterns. We have not, in fact, perfected the
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
Given ICE's unpopularity this is like trying a find a very specific piece of hay in a hay stack.
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
You're counting the entire US military budget as "NATO spending" which is not a useful way to look at things. We only contribute roughly $800M to NATO's shared budget (about 16%)[1] [1] https://www.reuters.com&
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
> There's no chance US will default on its debts Until Trump says he's going to, then his boosters will declare its a genius maneuver and actually its Joe Biden's fault (Joe made him do it!)
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
ICE was going door-to-door asking people for information about their Asian (Hmong) neighbors.
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
Jerome Powell is not a Democrat.
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by spamizbad 9mo ago
It's also for very stupid reasons: The fed dropping rates to the degree that would satisfy Donald Trump would greatly accelerate inflation which in turn would further upset voters, who would in turn blame Donald Trump (just like they d
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by spamizbad 10mo ago
If my choice is jail or relocate and find a new job and home in a city with passable public transit (even if its just the bus) I know which one I'd pick.
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by spamizbad 10mo ago
Yeah I feel like the United States could dramatically improve its road safety if it kept maybe 1-3% of its drivers off the road permanently.
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by spamizbad 10mo ago
They still do this. The difference is, in my experience, is that parents are totally cool with their kids cheating. I've overheard parents openly mention it at line-up at school. Hate to say "back in my day" but even as a mil
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by spamizbad 10mo ago
The good news is Emmanuel, although a media gadfly, isn't well liked by Democratic voters so he won't make it out of a Democratic primary.
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by spamizbad 10mo ago
Well that's capital's problem. Don't make it mine!
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by spamizbad 11mo ago
> To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job, I don't understand why people seem so impatient about AI adoption. AI
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by spamizbad 11mo ago
What’s funny is as I get older this feeling of relief turns more like a feeling of dread. The nice thing about problems that you cause is that you have considerable autonomy to fix them. Cloudflare goes down you’re sitting and waiting for a
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by spamizbad 11mo ago
It's pretty simple: People will tolerate surveillance technology if it promises to promote order and justice. People imagine them being instrumental in convicting murders, rapists, etc. ICE raids have been shown to be (I'm being g
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Can't say I agree with this article at all. This has not been my experience. I don't quite know how to articulate this well, but there's something that I'd call a "complexity cliff" in the software business: if
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by spamizbad 1y ago
While I agree minorities are going to feel the brunt of climate change I’m not sure in modern political contexts the motivation is racial. There’s deep, growing resentment towards the entire so-called “Professional Managerial Class” - thing
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by spamizbad 1y ago
I am skeptical that you can get anywhere near 12 hours of productivity out of an engineer. Even in my 20s, I was mentally fatigued after 8 hours of (mostly) work with a few breaks sprinkled in. Once that fatigue sets in your productivity cr
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by spamizbad 1y ago
I guess nature is “finding a way” after all…
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Not a particularly relevant question if we're eschewing DEI and just letting the chips fall as they may / operating in a meritocracy.
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by spamizbad 1y ago
You actually have it backwards with colleges: women apply, and meet the necessary academic standards, at a much higher rate than men. To prevent their ratios from getting completely out of whack it’s actually easier to get accepted as a man
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by spamizbad 1y ago
> How many financially self-sustaining musicians should there be? That depends, how much do you value culture (and, my extension: cultural power)? If it's a take-it-or-leave-it kind of thing, then whatever the market will bear.
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Does this mean if you’re under them in the org chart you are a troop?
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by spamizbad 1y ago
I don’t know what period your referencing but software quality wasn’t exactly amazing back in the day. It did mandate a higher degree of validation before release due to the distribution nature (physical media as opposed to a download) but
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by spamizbad 1y ago
That hasn't been the case in like 20 years. Engineering salaries are around 40K USD, although they can even stretch into the six figures for major companies with deep pockets wanting to attract elite talent. The band is pretty wide and
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by spamizbad 1y ago
> All the people employed by the government and blue collar workers? All the entrepreneurs, gig workers, black market workers, etc? I can tell you for many of those professions their customers are the same white collar workers. The blue
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by spamizbad 1y ago
Yeah, my spiciest take is that Jr. Dev salaries really started getting silly during the 2nd half of the 2010s. It was ultimately supply (too little) and demand (too much) pushing them upward, but it was a huge signal we were in a bubble.

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