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by vjvjvjvjghv 5d ago
" less innovation" "Innovation" as in marketing expenses and stock buybacks?
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by vjvjvjvjghv 5d ago
I am good with getting rid of B). A) can probably only be fixed with regulation. Why would hospitals and insurance otherwise make prices transparent? The current state serves them really well.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 5d ago
The only thing the frontier labs are interested in is their trillion dollar IPOs.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 5d ago
There is no problem in software development processes that can't be solved with an additional layer of process.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 8d ago
The word “never” is a dangerous word. In my lifetime I have seen it many times where something was supposed to “never” happen only to see it happen a few years later.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 9d ago
"The Chicago school hadn't yet convinced everyone that fiduciary responsibility to shareholders was the prime concern of the C-suite and the board either. Those were economists, not MBAs." Agreed. I think "MBA" is o
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by vjvjvjvjghv 10d ago
Us techies have taken the fun out of a lot of professions with the tools we are developing and selling. I guess it was only a matter of time until we killed the fun in our profession.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 10d ago
It's the MBA mindset. I think about it in simplified way that in the past a lot of businesses weren't run mainly for profit. So a plumber focused on plumbing first and set prices to have enough profit to live. Once the MBA/PE
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by vjvjvjvjghv 11d ago
"but this information was already readily available to bad actors e.g. via Lexis Nexis." My ex had access to Lexis Nexis and I was always shocked how much information about people they have.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 11d ago
Investors benefit from company gains despite not having encouraged or mandated some decisions that enabled the gains. So it makes sense that they also get exposure to the downside.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 11d ago
When I see stuff like this, I am really starting to be concerned. How long will it take until AI runs something security critical autonomously? The temptation to save costs by doing this will be too much in the long run.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 11d ago
They have the same psychology the leaders of communist states had. It's a constant litany of self-congratulation and tone-deafness that has no connection to reality.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
It used to be there but a few releases ago the option disappeared.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
I used to work in medical devices where it's all about documentation and even there nobody took the time or had time allocated by management to work on documentation. And most people aren't good at writing so the documents were te
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
The real question is "How to keep a software design document up-to-date". I have never seen this done in an efficient way. The first version is ok and over time it deviates more and more from reality. So far my best experience has
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
I am glad that I just retired. I find AI super fascinating but navigating a SW development career in the next few years looks like a daunting task.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
Seems Apple's first attempt AI failing two years ago is turning into a blessing. Now they can buy AI as a commodity from the cheapest supplier. Well played.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 12d ago
It's the same with the tariffs. My company has a huge "globalization" effort that expands offices and manufacturing facilities in countries with cheap labor and no/low tariffs. Instead of everything centering around the
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by vjvjvjvjghv 14d ago
I am not gleeful at all about nuclear proliferation. Quite the opposite. It looks to me like the world order that has kept the western hemisphere peaceful and prosperous over the last 70 years is falling apart. And if AI and robotics take o
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by vjvjvjvjghv 15d ago
What's with that name?
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by vjvjvjvjghv 15d ago
I think they are more motivated than ever and other countries will follow. North Korea shows that Trump will kiss the ass of countries that have nuclear weapons, no matter how bad they are. And he will kick around countries that don’t have
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by vjvjvjvjghv 15d ago
How can other countries deal with Iran while Trump is in power and unilaterally cancels treaties and attacks countries without consulting others? It’s simply impossible.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 15d ago
That’s fast! It usually takes me decades, if ever, to figure out this stuff. One of the downsides being slightly autistic and taking everything too literal
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by vjvjvjvjghv 15d ago
"You know, if enough tech workers at Microsoft felt strongly about these ethical issues, they could influence Microsoft's decisions internally which is probably the most effective position to be in to do so." The workers can&
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by vjvjvjvjghv 16d ago
The question is whether SV will do better than the prime contractors or just become another one.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 16d ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, maybe they will be more efficient than the usual defense contractors whose main goal is to charge as many hours as possible. Similar to SpaceX who have accelerated innovation while also low
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by vjvjvjvjghv 16d ago
Agreed. The swipe stuff has a horrible implementation.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 16d ago
There are lots of insane people though. They fall for the “cheaper than a cup of coffee”’trick repeatedly
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by vjvjvjvjghv 16d ago
None of the utilities for my house take credit card without surcharge.
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by vjvjvjvjghv 18d ago
One thing that drives me nuts for example is the indicator for remaining disk space. I have this icon on my desktop that says "Macintosh HD | 995 GB, 273 GB free". This used to work great until a few years ago. Copy 1 GB onto the

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