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by throwawaysleep 8mo ago
What are you paying for tokens?
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by throwawaysleep 8mo ago
Things like SOC II effectively require merge control. That doesn't mean the organization really values it, but for compliance purposes, the approval process needs to be there and is applied by someone up on high.
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by throwawaysleep 8mo ago
That happens a lot, but rarely have I seen the reviewer get blamed. The guy who shipped it gets blamed.
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by throwawaysleep 8mo ago
> Then, I’d get a ping from his manager asking on why am I blocking the review. The suffering is self inflicted for this particular person. The organization doesn’t value code review.
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by throwawaysleep 8mo ago
> Then, I’d get a ping from his manager asking on why am I blocking the review. If you are in a culture like this, you may as well just ship slop. Management wants to break stuff, that is on them.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Even if you do track them, if 0.1% of customers are unhappy and contacting support, that's not worth any kind of thought when AI is such an open space at the moment.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
> to send their most frustrated customers through a chatbot But do those frustrated customers matter?
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Eh, I can see support simply not being worth any real effort, i.e. having nobody working on it full time. I worked for a unicorn tech company where they determined that anyone with under 50,000 ARR was too unsophisticated to be worth offeri
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Make a deal with big ag to cap food price growth in exchange for allowing ANYTHING they do to farmers. They can squeeze as hard and in as monopolistic a manner as they please on that end. Kill two birds with one stone. Farmers have a lot of
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Never worked for a place that locked down and one of my jobs is in healthcare tech. Enjoy being crippled and use the time to be mediocre and just collect checks.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Wouldn't the target customers of this overwhelmingly be people who chose not to continue their line? Would they care?
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
> Does YCombinator have any interest in this? https://x.com/garrytan
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Does he need to deliver? The past few years have demonstrated that you can just lie about the next big thing.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Is a cybersecurity problem still a disaster unless it steals your crypto? Security seems rather optional at the moment.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
All the more reason to nuke the key ASAP, no?
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Is there a way to meaningfully be wary of it? The value of skill changes over time. There was a point when being a dev required things like download size optimization and performance profiling. How many devs today even conceptually know of
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Wikipedia is waiting for news sources to confirm things.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Eh, even when journalism exists, it is generally just ignored by the public.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
As shown by DOGE, they merely care about the spend, whatever it does being a minor detail.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Even leaving out whether it is fair returns or not, you will notice no vision or political goal in this article other than fighting taxation. There is no concept of winning support other than whining that people are ungrateful.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
The sum of individual anecdotes drives the state budget. Proclaiming that everything is great only works politically if for at least a large block of people, they agree.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
SV is presently running Donald Trump. It ran DOGE. It is deeply embedded into politics at all levels.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
No, that would be the American people.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Plenty of tech was sold that way, from HTTPS to integration testing to blockchain.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
60% is far from vast and the party in power is all for it.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
> 60% of Americans oppose sending US troops into Venezuela to remove Maduro from power. Support is heavily concentrated among Republicans, with 58% in favor, compared to just 21% of independents and 14% of Democrats. But they do.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Americans have been all for this the last couple of rounds as well.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
> not supported by the vast majority of the country Votes suggest otherwise.
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Do any of those people regret those first three?
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by throwawaysleep 9mo ago
Depends, do you want to give an honest answer? Do you have a stake in your employer succeeding?

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