thephyber

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by thephyber 1mo ago
So, you just replied to the title and didn't read the piece, eh?
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by thephyber 1mo ago
This has nothing to do with the article. She's just arguing that most of the purposes of code reviews should be done before the typing part of coding instead of after. Identifying the best design before investing in typing / token
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by thephyber 1mo ago
What's a weird argument? Did you read this article? She's arguing that most code reviews aren't necessary. Some can be automated if they are deterministically predictable (eg. formatting, lint, standardization changes). Other
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Estonia's Digital Residency card has done this for nearly 2 decades. S Korea has had government issued digital IDs for all online transactions, although it was originally implemented as an Internet Explorer 5.5 plug-in (eww). I haven&#
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Ah yes, a facetious jab at legitimate criticisms of Voter ID laws. It's worth pointing out that the point of contact for state IDs is the DMV, which is the butt of every government inefficiency complaint. If, instead, it was done at US
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by thephyber 1mo ago
> Like if a culture is bad, is it likely a CEO is going to be looking for random blog posts for constructive criticism? The CEO (or at least the founder) created and cultivated the culture of the company thus far. If the culture is bad,
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by thephyber 1mo ago
What is the current unemployment rate of Computer Science new grads?
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by thephyber 1mo ago
> Luddites like yourself Ignorance. I'm not a Luddite. I use LLMs and see their relative value. I'm trying to get idiots who think "all gas, no breaks" is a reasonable strategy to recognize there are consequences to i
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Given enough AI, all bug fixes have extremely deep carbon footprint.
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Do you normally get paid to fix bugs in open source repos?
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by thephyber 1mo ago
This is the wrong mentality. The fuzzer found the bug before any humans did, so there is a mismatch of developers who could find this bug and those who did (without an LLM-coded fuzzer). The value of the fuzzer continues long after it fou
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by thephyber 1mo ago
And 91% of all statistics on social media are fabricated out of thin air. If that were truly a problem, why wouldn't a human-only social media platform take off like wildfire?
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Ignorance. Ignorance of the facts on the ground and the politics of the moment. Do you honestly believe that the ledger for automation has zero items in the "liabilities" column? Do you think that 100% of people whose job is displ
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Is this comment... satire?
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by thephyber 1mo ago
Your parent is referring to a nostalgia for the Silicon Valley hacker ethos from the 1980s.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
I know you're being facetious, but his entire immigration policy is to deport a large part of the construction labor pool, so he was never had a chance to make housing more affordable.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
The US world reserve currency status only happens by norm. When RU invaded UA the US cut off RU from most of their access to USD / US-allied banking. At that point, CN and the BRICS countries started working on a decentralized version
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There's a non-zero chance that actually following through on Bessent's statements about support for the largest sovereign buyer of US bonds would push us towards insolvency. You are just stating an opinion that we would stop short
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by thephyber 2mo ago
The news about Chinese bond attractiveness today: https://x.com/macropaperr/status/2089255200918007854?s=46 Obviously we don't measure it in "how many traders", but what the effect their trading has
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by thephyber 2mo ago
The financial markets only bought US treasuries under those conditions because they were the least bad option during risky moments. There's no law of physics which says that will always be the same. Trumpanomics is trying to weaken the
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Yes, and... The US sold Euros to do the propping of Japanese bonds without telling the EU. Not only did we spend a lot to save our biggest sovereign buyer, but we undermined our relationship with another. And we didn't buy the Japanese
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Slippery Slope is the assertion that A therefore B therefore C therefore D. It is frequently a fallacy because D isn't predetermined by A when humans are involved. If you believe in free will, each of B, C, D are independent decisions.
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There is no financial incentive for most companies to maintain extremely old URLs. There is no large visible cost known to the project manager at a company who chooses to migrate to a different CMS. A common solution is to create placeholde
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There's a fine line between what you described and toxic positivity. It's important not to ruminate on bad thoughts (when your proposal is a good replacement behavior), but it's also important not to bottle up natural human e
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by thephyber 2mo ago
> if the success of the show 'Silicon Valley' indicates anything That show was created by the creator of Office Space. They were both fictional and satire. Just because it was popular and there were some nuggets of truth in the
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Wait. Apples and oranges. People who haven't even been interviewed let alone hired getting a company brand is one thing. But coworkers (and likely friends) getting a company tattoo after getting hired seems completely plausible, especi
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by thephyber 2mo ago
No, bad logic. This was a local professional tattoo artist from San Francisco doing a pop up shop at their company party, not some prisoner with a sewing needle. Professional Tattoo artists know how to minimize risks. They aren't takin
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Cringe? Yes, to you and I. But it's kinda accurate. It is a pseudo-bank using crypto/ stablecoins to bring banking to Latin America. And it's 10 years late to the crypto game. It likely will be a cold dark road with a high ch
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by thephyber 2mo ago
There's hundreds of thousands of programmers out of work from recent layoffs. Getting a small tattoo to stand out in a crowd doesn't necessarily signal bad judgement. It's more likely to be a calculated sacrifice due to despe
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by thephyber 2mo ago
Group think. Monkey see, monkey do. It's actually remarkably difficult to be the only one to dissent unless you grew up in a culture where dissent is encouraged. The people who work at a company all were filtered from the hiring proces

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