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by tacostakohashi 5mo ago
Or, "help" by asking questions, or otherwise by sharing an AI review/analysis/suggestions, since they're into that kind of thing. Definitely cleaning up other people's AI mess for them for free is not a good us
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by tacostakohashi 5mo ago
"no no, it has full test coverage" at least at my BigCo, AI is being used for everything - writing slop, writing tests, code reviews, etc. it would make sense to use AI for writing code, but human code review. or, human code, bu
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by tacostakohashi 5mo ago
Language design based on what people want to achieve: that's basically what php, perl, python, visual basic... many others are/were. It works pretty well! Then... what people want to achieve changes, maybe they want to write a web
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by tacostakohashi 5mo ago
I think for #2 and #3, you need to appreciate that it's not actually about swifts, it's about getting some free press attention for a politician. A few token swift bricks at sometime in the future, at someone else's expense
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by tacostakohashi 5mo ago
This line of reasoning, always strikes me as rather idiotic. It's often heard from the progressive side of politics, in this general form, as if having everyone equally affected by bad things is a useful policy aspiration: "<th
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Going along with the McDonald's metaphor, sure, there is a (big) place in the market for low-cost, high-volume slop. There's also room in the market for Michelin star chefs and restaurants, and a whole spectrum inbetween, these op
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Having a decent linkedin profile, and getting regular contacts by recruiters on linkedin is the way. Those recruiters tend to be internal recruiters working directly for the company, which I find less pushy/annoying to deal with, and t
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Yep, it's always amusing when people try to replace a slow, messy, legacy app with a new implementation that is... much worse than the old one. I think basically, yes, it's just a poor tech culture, and that's how they like i
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
A lot of what you talk about is just the bread and butter of software at BigCo, especially at a senior level. Unrealistic expectations, undocumented code, some firefighting, etc. are all just par for the course, and you need to have ways of
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
I think there will be a renewed interest in offline, analog life, and simple things like noticeboards with flyers at the supermarket to find services and people, in-person events, in-person job applications and interviews, and single-use de
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
From his perspective, though, he's just responding to how society chooses to allocate capital. It's not his fault that society apparently values crappy websites more than hospitals, and if he didn't do it, someone else would
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
I think all programming languages are "safe (unless one uses unsafe code)", no?
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
There's more to being an employee than just being able to "complete every aspect of my job remotely". If the company just wanted to have some job done, be it on site, or especially remotely, they'd use a vendor or contra
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Looks like great progess has been made on the big tech project to uninvent files.
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Find some detailed job ads, and work backwards from there to see what skills are in demand. What exactly do you mean by "infrastructure" or "systems"? At my organization, that basically means stuff like grafana, open tel
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Another example of a machine that does the hard things for you that springs to mind is... a computer.
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
This is true, although different companies manage their vendor exposure with varying levels of effectiveness. Often, it's ideal to use several / all of the vendors for each thing, and play them off against each other. e.g., have s
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
So, what's new? I guess it used to be Paypal, then Google, and now it's Anthropic are randomly banning their customers. For a multi-billion dollar megacorp, dealing/fixing things for individual customers is in the too-hard ba
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
Yep - that's why I always choose my time constants to be during years when I will be retired, or possibly dead. If you're going to kick the can down the road, why not kick it pretty far?
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
If they can make 3 bucks per hundred of sales, and do that more than once per year... then that beats a bond that pays only 3 percent per year...
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
I think that's essentially the entire point, considering that most of the economically viable grocery stores already exist.
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
The progressive community is not about progress, it's about being progressive.
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by tacostakohashi 6mo ago
This is a big win for the progressive community. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/datacenters-... Nice to see some success for their ideas.
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
Don't worry, just today the mayor has announced a plan to fix it: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/04/mayor-mamdani...
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
There's something a bit weird having these digital photos and crisp digital audio and video of the astronauts, and seeing pictures of mission control with flat screens after having grown up on grainy analogue video, crackly audio with
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
One constant source of amazement for me is people not using ssh keys / using passwords with ssh. Especially at a BigCo, where there are different environments, with different passwords, and password expiry/rotation/complexity
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
For the most part, "career matrixes", "development plans", and the like are just generic internal marketing to placate people and create the illusion that managers / the company care about their career development,
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
1) pretty much daily, if not more. i mostly used telix for DOS, although I tried other things from time to time. 2) sometimes there would be ads in magazines, once on any given BBS, there would usually be text files available for download w
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
KeepassXC
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by tacostakohashi 7mo ago
Probably less, actually. Most of what passes for "software" these days is basically some niche hardcoded workflow that falls to pieces if you try to do anything even the slightest bit different.

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