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> As a department you can't hire programmers at £100k/year, because that pushes them way, way higher than civil service bands allow
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It's great when you're a wealthy noble and have time to do luxury things. For almost all of history, higher education has been a luxury good for the rich, including the Greek city states. There have been a few exceptions, most not
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The GitHub terms of service has always granted GitHub additional rights. If you put up code with a license incompatible with those rights, then you are the responsible party for the violation, again as per GitHub's terms of service. Th
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That's why it is dangerous to some- it is an enabler, and will feed things that should not be fed. Social media is like this too. They can both be bad.
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It's easy to win the fastest growing award when it has been doing so poorly before. Youth unemployment is at a near twenty year low of 24%, down from recent years around 30%. As for politics hurting tourism, there's some formal po
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These programs exist, but they are underutilized to a significant degree. From a partner who used to work in one, people: - didn't trust the program and wouldn't sign up - didn't actually want to quit using so they avoided it
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I don't think any of the churches wanting to do the Tridentine Mass in Latin exclusively, they just wanted to offer it occasionally (the ones I recall anyway). Going to Mass isn't something you just do for yourself. You do it to g
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If people pay for something, they feel entitled to take advantage of it. I've literally seen people fail to clean up after themselves and explain it as "that's what janitors are paid for". Requiring a clean-up deposit up
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I'm somewhat surprised it's still up, given the rather firm refusal by Francis to allow the Latin mass at churches that wanted it in the States.
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Everything but the AI bit are on my list of manager qualities too, but the best managers I've had weren't active programmers, and one had zero coding background. Knowing what you don't know and knowing how to get qualified in
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Most of us laugh at the high taxes and prices in California, not realizing that their prices are reasonable, perhaps even cheap compared to overseas.
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I've strongly disliked every team where this was the case. The people in those positions ended up being neither good managers nor good engineers. YMMV, I suppose, but this combined with the AI nonsense just makes the dislike even harde
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Eh, last year I was paying the equivalent of £0.38 per liter over here in the States ($2 a gallon gas, $3.30 or so for diesel). "Insanely cheap" for the UK to feels really strange for those of us way over here who tend to forget h
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This has been tried before for public use and failed for all of the obvious reasons. It should get adoption from companies big enough to run their own fleets (such as the mining company mentioned) but it won't be a suitable method for
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It's not uncommon to get hundreds or thousands of applications per opening for web tech, if the position is advertised on LinkedIn or a similar job board. They'd need to use some automation, even if it is just picking ten at rando
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To be honest, I don't think I've seen anyone mention Vercel here or on Reddit in any way that could be construed as positive in quite awhile. Most of that is tends to be over pricing or Next.js, when there's probably loads of
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As a general principle, I agree with you that large companies and teams benefit from common runtimes (i.e. libraries and frameworks). I don't buy the notion of things breaking down over time, though. For "first-party" code th
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Abilene is nothing like a metro area of 3 million people. $20/hour is a bit low, but union journeymen were making $33/hour in San Antonio, so I don't know that $20 is too extreme.
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Because that's how they work? They aren't knowledge machines, they are random generators.
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I'm assuming the running of the model is consuming the tokens, and the client coordinating and orchestrating the calls to the model to perform the review is happening in an action runner, thus using action minutes.
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I bought hops-flavored sparkling water from a grocery store's beer cooler on a lark and, despite my attempt to explain the logic to the poor cashier, we both bent to the whims of the computer system and scanned my ID to complete the pu
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Depends on where you live. My dad is almost 80, grew up in a very rural area, and when he was 16 they'd just gotten indoor plumbing. Up until he was 14, his school was a one-room school house with no heating other than a wood stove. If
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It's because the bike lanes are great PR but bad for votes, at least in the short term. City leaders love the greenwashing effect, but in the short term the percentage of people actually biking everywhere is very low, so it doesn'
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That's insanely cheap compared to what we can get around here. Most installs I've heard of from people in the US are in the $20-50,000 range, depending on the size of their home and number of wells needed.
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There's a pretty significant upfront cost in getting them drilled, and many homes need the vertical drilling if they don't have sufficient yard space for a horizontal system. It gets harder if you have your own septic drain field
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Of course. The government has bought and paid for your health. It is only by the gracious largess that we have been allowed sugar at all.
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There's very few, if any, alternatives to roaming internet access. AI tools... do what you already do, sometimes faster, sometimes worse, usually both depending on the task. There's a massive gap of necessity between them.
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They would have moved to their own stack regardless. They've got the people and resources for it, and they've witnessed the fallout of globalization and experienced dependency on semi-hostile political powers enough to know that i
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"AI assistance" isn't really an honest representation of the claim of what happened is, though.
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To be charitable, they merely pointed out what the article said, even if it is obviously, objectively false.

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