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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> Europe starts building their own They have had decades to do this. They have not. Risk aversion and Regulation are the heart of the issue. Same things that have flattened the American housing market for the last 30 years.
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
Ahh the old days before Huy Fong lost the plot. My introduction to their Sriracha was in 1994, when the Puerto Rican cook at the Italian restaurant I worked at sent me to Stop and Shop for the "rooster". Till hosing their relation
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> In other words, how people that are not aware of existence of open-source projects (such as OpenTTD) are supposed to discover them if they're not searching for them on purpose (which is impossible given that they have no clue abou
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> If you didn't take the time to compose your words thoughtfully then you aren't owed the time to read them. Apply this argument to code, to art, to law, to medicine. It fails spectacularly. Blaming the tool for the failure of
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
I have been a consultant for well over a decade now: it's rare that I ever end up meeting clients in person. I have also seen just about every approach to "work from home". Without an office, entire layers of communication ge
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> Also, isn't this breaking the constitution? It bypasses needing a warrant respectively having a objective suspicion. Nope. Your personal information, when given to others, is now trash on the curb (in a literal sense, see: https:
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
I wonder if the difference here is age/experience or what you're working on/in. When I was 20, writing code was interesting, by the time I was 28 it became "solving the problem" and then moved on to "I only rea
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
VIM vs Emacs vs IDE vs..., Tabs vs Spaces, Procedural vs OOP vs Functional. We love a good holy war for sure. The nuance is lost, and the conversations we should be having never happen (requirements, hiring/skills, developer experience
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> we're already giving our agents a real cash budget that they use for tokens. I read this line and my (poor little) brain ran in a whole other direction for a moment. Because AI token management and "parental controls" ar
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> refinement of the data structures (and the APIs they expose / are associated with) I think rule 5 is often ignored by a lot of distributed services. Where you have to make several calls, each with their own http, db and "secu
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
Yelling... it stands for yelling... Mostly at the massive switch statements and 1000 line's of flow control logic that end up embedded someplace where they really dont belong in the worst cases.
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
The problem is most of the people we have spent the last 20 years hiring are bad at code review. Do you think the leet code, brain teaser show me how smart you are and how much you can memorize is optimized to hire the people who can read c
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> 5 days in the office was about soft layoffs Look at the last 3 years of the job market: No company has any issue with doing actual lay offs. The layoffs have been about reducing capital spend, and one wants to get rid of dead wood and
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> Engineering quality doesn't disappear when AI writes code. It migrates to specs, tests, constraints, and risk management. > Code review is being unbundled. Its four functions (mentorship, consistency, correctness, trust) each n
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> definite advantage for people who are already in the mindset of distinguishing and discriminating information and sources on merit This cuts both ways... > there's a whole shit ton of work people do that won't be meaningfu
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
This is worth a watch and fucking scathing. "Never get high on your own supply" is a lesson that our industry is going to learn the hard way.
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> What I need is an opinionated guide on minimum viable virtualization Get a nuc or a mini pc: i5-8500 or better (used, ebay https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... for a baseline of what's o
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by zer00eyz 7mo ago
> While you can run HA as a container. I think it's a mistake Just because you CAN run something in a container, does not mean you should. HAOS exists because it is a docker run time. It is a whole ecosystem, not just the home assis
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
I went to look at some of the authors other posts and found this: https://www.antifound.com/posts/advent-of-code-2022/ So much of our industry has spent the last two decades honing itself into a temple built aroun
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1205/ (is it worth the time matrix) LLM's change the calculus of the above chart dramatically.
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
Imagine not knowing that it was the actions of Henry Ford that increased pay, and pushed the 5 day work week before unions...
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> Unions the actual solution No, they are not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co . Changing the table stakes is what needs to happen: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrago
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> As we are seeing with Vibe code projects created by people with no exposure to proper Software Engineering. And I keep seeing products and projects banning AI: "My new house fell down because of the nail gun used, therefore I&#x27
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> The best team I've ever worked on had little social cushioning. It is HARD to build this sort of thing in the modern workplace. We dragged politics into the workplace, in a way thats more about social signaling. We moved to work f
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
"AI" (and calling it that is a stretch) is nothing more than a nail gun. If you gave an experienced house framer a hammer, hand saw and box of nails and a random person off the street a nail gun and powered saw who is going to pro
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> There is no way the US/Israel didn't calculate that: ... the straight would be closed It has always had this potential, as it has happened before: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> But within 20 years, 99% of the workforce in the military, the government, and the private sector will be AIs. I haven't seen this much hype and hopium since the dot com boom. The whole open AI -> Anthropic saga just reeks of t
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
>> requiring proof of citizenship Go and try to figure out how to do this from scratch. Imagine your house burned down and you need to start with "nothing". If your parents are still alive you can use them to bootstrap the p
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
> how do you review all the code? Code review is a skill, as is reading code. You're going to quickly learn to master it. > It's like 20k of line changes over 30-40 commits. You run it, in a debugger and step through every s
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by zer00eyz 8mo ago
https://thehustle.co/originals/the-failure-of-the-dominos-30... "Domino’s confirmed it knew of 20 people who died in crashes involving its drivers in 1988 (the National Safe Workplace Institute would later claim D

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