AlexB138

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by AlexB138 15d ago
LWN is one of the, if not the single, highest signal tech publications around. I hope they're able to maintain a stable subscription service. Being user funded, and avoiding having to maintain allegiance to advertisers, is likely part
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by AlexB138 16d ago
Perhaps we should link to the article: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content...
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by AlexB138 18d ago
You're absolutely correct that history helps you see that none of this is new. However, is it better to be the person who sees the waterfall their boat is inevitably going to go over, or the person completely ignorant of it until it ha
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by AlexB138 18d ago
I tend to agree. The quote "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society" embodies it well. I don't think cynicism is the correct approach though. It's possible to accept that circumstances
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by AlexB138 1mo ago
This is the fastest growing software company in history. They probably did more work in the last year than most companies do in their entire existence.
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by AlexB138 1mo ago
There's a famous Pascal quote, "I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." Communicating an idea concisely is difficult. Most people struggle to get ideas across at all, asking th
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by AlexB138 1mo ago
The article repeatedly mentions how production moved to Atlanta due to tax incentives. Even that is a race to the bottom, as Disney moved production of Marvel movies out of Atlanta last year to the UK where they got better tax incentives. E
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by AlexB138 2mo ago
There are several "Libellus de Miraculis" (Little Book of Miracles) of different saints from the 12th century!
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by AlexB138 2mo ago
I've hired probably 200+ people in my career and I totally share your opinion. It's just an unfortunate reality of how things currently work.
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by AlexB138 3mo ago
I would bet that they have inference setup for internal use on a separate system from the customer-facing production environment. The same way telemetry infrastructure needs to be run separate from normal production systems, so you aren&#x2
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by AlexB138 3mo ago
This is, of course, the entire goal of the social media control for "children". And you can safely bet that this will creep from social media to essentially all content. Governments have been looking for a means to destroy the ano
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by AlexB138 3mo ago
Isn't the Windows subsystem for Linux (the reference there) also a VM?
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
Yeah, the current reality of it isn't great at a lot of companies. I've been places where it was done well though. For instance, having a mandatory minimum number of days of vacation helps combat pressure to not take time off, and
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
Most companies use the term "discretionary PTO". That means that there is no set limit on PTO. The positive take on it is that this means employees can take time off within reason so long as they're getting their work done. T
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
The youngest baby boomers are in their early 60s. I doubt it will make a difference in tech, but traditional industries, or what is left of them, should see a lot of senior roles open up as baby boomers begin to retire. Then, as they begin
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
As I understand it, the fee doesn't apply in many situations and is fairly easy to work around. Apparently it was neutered immediately after being announced.
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
I had the same questions. Apparently discovery of the prior conviction is what lead to them being fired: > When the company discovered Sohaib Akhter’s felony conviction, it terminated both brothers’ employment during an online remote mee
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by AlexB138 4mo ago
There isn't too little demand. There is massive demand and many competing companies trying to capture that demand, so they are attempting to make better offers than their competition. Hence subsidy.
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
Their COO has talked about it extensively on X. A sibling comment in this thread posted a link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011075
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
> I think you need to broaden your focus here - I can't really remember any significant downtime before the Microsoft acquisition and the data supports my memories. This is the opposite of my recollection, actually. I distinctly rem
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
I think there's a very good chance you're right. Their reputation is obviously severely harmed, and high profile projects like Ghostty leaving may be a canary in the coalmine. Something creative like separating their free and paid
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
Github has published some incredible usage rate increase numbers, which they ascribe to the rise of agentic coding. At some point, they are going to have to change rate limits, cut free-tier usage, or find some other path to reducing load.
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
This may lead to some interesting gamesmanship. For instance, if I am applying to a company, and I know they use a certain applicant tracking system, and I know that ATS uses a certain model provider for its filter, I should then use that m
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
This is such an important point. So much of inflation is not $THING used to cost $X and now costs $Y, but that $THING is significantly lower quality than it used to be. Quality is famously difficult to quantify (Pirsig), so it is much easie
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
I have found basically no way to buy books online where they don't arrive damaged at this point. I've gone through multiple return/rebuy cycles with Amazon trying to get an undamaged copy and have just given up. I don't
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
Very curious to see what you do with it. I like the premise very much and will be checking back to see how it develops. Just as feedback, the reason I got the feeling that it was largely focused on "the bad" is that the "appr
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
Is there a review platform that focuses on brands, rather than on stores? For instance, if I look for Brooks Brothers reviews, I get reviews of individual stores, of their website, and a couple articles talking about the business. It seems
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by AlexB138 5mo ago
Funny baader-meinhof moment for me reading this. My wife recently bought me some Brooks Brothers polo shirts that essentially dissolved the first time they were washed. I had never seen a shirt that was such poor quality. We were both flabb
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by AlexB138 8mo ago
You're only looking at half of the equation here. Following your logic, if my time is worth $100/hr, I should be willing to pay $99/hr for a haircut. But reality is that a haircut isn't just worth some utility value base
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by AlexB138 9mo ago
Ah, that's a great idea. I've just been having the agent add a Progress section to the plan files and checking things off as we work.

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