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901.
by tombert 7mo ago
DVD-RWs always seemed like complete magic to me. I had no idea how they worked, or why they worked. I made and wiped DVD-RWs as a teenager dozens of times, because my dad got annoyed that I kept using up all his DVD-R's, so I bought
902.
by tombert 7mo ago
They wanted to know my high school grades and ACT, and they also made me write a nine page essay about skills that have been impactful to me. Then they made me take some weird IQ test thing, and then they wanted me to take another one. I w
903.
by tombert 7mo ago
I haven't used BitBucket in awhile but I remember it being "not that bad". I agree with pretty much everything you said; I don't actually think that it's due to AI is my point. If their products are terrible and th
904.
by tombert 7mo ago
To add to the speculation, it's possible that the people refusing to use it are working slower. Even if the code that they write is objectively better by any metric you'd like, humans can't really pump out code as fast as Cl
905.
by tombert 7mo ago
There's always bugs that can be fixed, there's always optimizations that can be done, there's always a feature that someone wants to build but hasn't had budget to do. There's always improvements that can be done f
906.
by tombert 7mo ago
That's kind of what I was getting at. Laying thousands of people off often implies you hired thousands of more people than you actually needed, which makes investors feel like you're wasting their money. If you say "no they&
907.
by tombert 7mo ago
I don't know if it's "popular", but I use Clickup at work and I think it's generally fine. At least when I have used it it's less laggy and horrible than Jira.
908.
by tombert 7mo ago
Please don't tell me that Jira is about to get even worse... I don't understand the AI layoffs; there's always an infinite supply of new work that could be done. Instead of firing 1600 people, why not have all of them use
909.
by tombert 7mo ago
About 9 months ago I was working on building an Icecast server from scratch, with the gimmick being that between songs there would be AI-generated DJs that would give the normal corny banter you hear on the regular radio. I was initially u
910.
by tombert 7mo ago
Six years ago, I applied for a job that made me record ten five-minute videos answering their questions. It was a colossal pain in the ass, and I wasn't allowed to go back and retake. I'm not actually talking to a human, so my ra
911.
by tombert 7mo ago
I think I and most people had hoped that he would DIV instead.
912.
by tombert 7mo ago
Jim is an amazing guy. One of the rare people who are absolutely brilliant in their respective field, and are equally good at teaching the subject. He's also just a really kind, nice person who is delightful to chat with, though that
913.
by tombert 7mo ago
I actually had two PhD advisors [1]; Jim Woodcock and Simon Foster. Both of them are legitimately wonderful and intelligent humans that I can only use positive adjectives to describe, but the one I was referring to in this was Jim Woodcock
914.
by tombert 8mo ago
I find it amusing that Trump ran with the promise of "no new wars", and then immediately tries to change the Department of Defense to the Department of War. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by a hollow promise from Trump at t
915.
by tombert 8mo ago
I actually knew about that, but it says "advisor unknown". Regardless, he certainly knew Tony Hoare, and spoke extremely highly of him.
916.
by tombert 8mo ago
Damn. Tony Hoare was on my bucket list of people I wanted to meet before I or they die. My grad school advisor always talked of him extremely highly, and while I cannot seem to confirm it, I believe Hoare might have been his PhD advisor. It
917.
by tombert 8mo ago
If I happily let them waste their time reciting Beowulf on purpose under false pretenses then I would be a douchebag. Google knew that people would join based on a perception of stability. Did they hire 10,000 people knowing that they would
918.
by tombert 8mo ago
I played with Jello a bit. This might be fun for a family get-together. Bookmark'd.
919.
by tombert 8mo ago
A few things. I've been on/off working on a Forth compiler for the NES. It will be open source soon enough but I'm not happy with the code right now as it's extremely messy, repetitive, and buggy, but I think it's
920.
by tombert 8mo ago
I certainly hope they do something. I'm not opposed to AI automating away stuff no one liked doing, or even more utilitarian things in general, but robots posting on social media and discussion sites seems antithetical. I don't kn
921.
by tombert 8mo ago
It just feels a little victim-blamey. Google manipulated thousands of people, and they got screwed in the process. Should they have known that big corporations are evil? Maybe, but I'm not going to blame someone who was misled by dis
922.
by tombert 8mo ago
This doesn’t absolve Google at all. They aren’t morons, they know that people joined because of that perceived stability.
923.
by tombert 8mo ago
> Maybe it was the right decision at the time to lay them off? It probably was the right decision to lay everyone off. What was not the right decision, and this should have been obvious, was hiring 10+k more employees than you actua
924.
by tombert 8mo ago
When I was 21, I moved out of my parents house and moved from Orlando to Dallas for a girl I met on the internet. We were together for about six months and then she broke up with me. Additionally, like two weeks later I got fired from my jo
925.
by tombert 8mo ago
Yeah, that's the thing; if he's acknowledging that it was his decision to do this, then maybe he shouldn't be getting bonuses and maybe be fired? Why are the regular schmucks the ones being punished for his terrible decisions
926.
by tombert 8mo ago
Private in that they're not owned by the taxpayers or government. Amtrak would be an example of a "public" company in the sense that I believe that the poster was describing.
927.
by tombert 8mo ago
I don't think so; I know a lot of them are in charge of multiple companies, which sounds like they work a lot, but I think it signals just as much that CEO really isn't that hard of a job . Elon is the CEO of like four or five co
928.
by tombert 8mo ago
Kagi is pretty decent, though I think they proxy to Google's index for at least some of their results.
929.
by tombert 8mo ago
Not the person you're replying to, but something that has bothered me about him (and a lot of SV tech), is how they did rapid over-hiring in 2022, then a year later fire a bunch of people, while he claimed he took "full responsibi
930.
by tombert 8mo ago
Oh I don't know about that. I hate Altman, but I find Larry Ellison to be a special kind of evil, for example.

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