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by woeirua 4y ago
I highly doubt that they would ever just sunset GCP entirely. That would be committing suicide. No company would ever trust them ever again for anything even remotely important. However, they will absolutely shutdown some of the other value
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by woeirua 4y ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Tesla the electric car company is doing great. Tesla the FSD tech unicorn, is going to end in tears. I will not be surprised at all when some of the engineers on the AI team go to jail
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by woeirua 4y ago
How many people really only use these platforms as deployment targets?
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by woeirua 4y ago
I'd be very nervous about being a GCP customer right now. Cloud services is hemorrhaging cash. How long before Google pulls the rug out from underneath a bunch of the services on GCP that aren't making money?
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by woeirua 4y ago
We're talking about two different classes of workers here. The article specifically discusses call center workers.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Why? Because they would prefer to keep running on the neverending promotion treadmill? I think a LOT of engineers would rather stay engineers if they could keep getting reasonable raises. The problem is that almost all companies make it im
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by woeirua 4y ago
When people say they want career progression, and opportunities, what they mostly mean is they want more money. Unfortunately, most companies have fallen into the trap where if someone has a title of X they can only make up to Y, regardless
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by woeirua 4y ago
There is this moronic obsession with "scaling" in this industry, and it just blows my mind. You can have a wildly successful and profitable company while serving just a few hundred customers that requires nothing more than a basic
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by woeirua 4y ago
Zuck is absolutely going to call back all the remote engineers that he hired over the past two years to the office, and just like with Tesla, those who refuse will be involuntarily separated. Work from home, _is_ going to die at the megacor
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by woeirua 4y ago
The Amazon series Upgrade does a really great job mocking the idea that a virtual world would be better than the real world.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Who are they targeting with the metaverse? Surely not gen Z, since they don’t use FB products anymore. Millennials? Too busy with kids/work to bother. Boomers? No way in hell that they buy dedicated hardware to wander around as an appa
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yeah… FBs experience with Portal would prove otherwise.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Sounds like a dystopian hellscape if you ask me.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I actually pay for Copilot, because it is useful , but during the hype phase you had people claiming that it could replace programmers entirely. That is patently not true.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I am, after the fiasco that was Github Copilot. It seemed like every post was filled with people dooming over how Copilot was going to make developers obsolete. Then I used Copilot, and I can't see how anyone could possibly think that
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by woeirua 4y ago
Meanwhile someone has already built a photoshop plugin for Stable Diffusion that you can use today to do basically the _exact_ same thing: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
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by woeirua 4y ago
TDD is great for some types of code, where the code is mostly self-contained with few external dependencies and the expected inputs and outputs are well defined and known ahead of time. TDD is miserable for code that is dependent on data or
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by woeirua 4y ago
This article just reinforces that management thinks that data scientists spend most of their time building models. In reality, data scientists spend the majority of their time munging and wrangling disparate data types (that are typically
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by woeirua 4y ago
This is the major problem with the way data science is managed in most organizations. You typically have business analysts or other management types queuing up work that they _think_ could go somewhere, but they have typically not done the
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by woeirua 4y ago
Nuclear war. It has fallen out of favor to talk about this as a serious possibility, but the world is in many ways closer to nuclear armageddon right now than it has been at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis. People seem to have gott
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by woeirua 4y ago
I think you'll change your tune on this when too many firms fail at once and this becomes a systemic issue.
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by woeirua 4y ago
And there are still days (like during Texas' winter power fiasco) where neither the sun, nor the wind are strong enough to generate sufficient power from renewables alone. How people still believe that you can get by without any base
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by woeirua 4y ago
This kind of systemic risk did not exist in the crypto space in 2017. USDC didn't even exist yet, and USDT was a small player. The exchanges have always been the major risk factor for crypto (see: Mt. Gox and the other exchanges that h
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by woeirua 4y ago
I guess Sergey and Larry weren't "smart" then because they never went through a leetcode interview.
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by woeirua 4y ago
I think the entire point of mentioning SBNY is that they are acting like a traditional bank in lending out their deposits. The question is what kind of loans did they make, and how liquid are they? If they're not very liquid then USDC
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yep, when the run on the so-called stablecoins happens it will take down the exchanges more-or-less all at once (since they all have large holdings of USDC and USDT and use USDC/USDT to swap between one another). The exchanges will fre
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by woeirua 4y ago
Stop defending whiteboard interviews. We know [1] that they are inherently biased against certain groups and have a very large false negative rate. It amazes me how many people will defend the current interviewing process and then openly ad
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by woeirua 4y ago
Yep. A good old 19th century bank run, happening at the speed of light around the world simultaneously. It truly will be breathtaking how fast the entire crypto ecosystem will implode. I fully expect that when the dust settles multiple ban
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by woeirua 4y ago
Decentralization is not a goal of the modern financial system. Indeed for many reasons, decentralization is not desirable, as crypto-bros are about to find out when Tether blows up and takes out 3/4 of the market.
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by woeirua 4y ago
Maybe a machine will finally be able to finish Winds of Winter.

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