chronid

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by chronid 28d ago
> But it still remains that AI can very much be effectively used either to write first drafts OR refine your own first drafts. There is a world of difference between this and copy-pasting LLM output into slack and email. You can write th
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by chronid 2mo ago
This is my personal experience: I've seen multiple emails from management about handling AI properly - it hasn't improved the situation. Those people don't hear and my org still sort-of says to people to use as much AI as pos
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by chronid 7mo ago
> Developers are - on average - terrible at this. If they weren't, TPMs, Product Managers, CTOs, none of them would need to exist. This is not really true, in fact products become worse the farther away from the problem a developer
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by chronid 8mo ago
I work for a very big US company. My team (10 people) has something like 4 PMs and every task is essentially priority 0. They're coming up with a new way to split tasks that seems inspired to a gatcha to prioritize between priority 0 t
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by chronid 8mo ago
I don't think the dependency from Whatsapp (it's arguable other apps are "better" or not and on which axis) is critical. WA has alternatives (up to "no app at all" thanks to RCS). The real issue with US tech do
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by chronid 8mo ago
Not bizarre at all. Many EU countries mobile users have "prepaid" SIMs. Whatsapp came at the perfect moment - mobile operators were starting to offer decently priced data plans but were also still very stingy with SMS (which was a
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by chronid 1y ago
And i want to use hibernation, as I don't mind putting my disk encryption passphrase once a day as the price of not risking having my laptop with a completely drained battery on Monday morning due to 1% battery drain/h of s2idle i
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by chronid 1y ago
I worked in finance on the other side of the pond - developers wanted to constantly bring in and use new services but also didn't want any of the responsibility or the work needed to make compliance happy (or even in that particular co
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by chronid 1y ago
They should be funded by the companies using them. Do you believe any of the fortune top100 would be greatly impacted by funding libxml2? They probably all rely on it, one way or the other. The foundation of the internet is something that g
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by chronid 1y ago
Exactly how openssl was (is?) when heartbleed happened. It's nothing new sadly, there are memes about the "unknown oss passion project" holding up the entire stack all over the internet.
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by chronid 1y ago
Isn't this intuitively true? Building a nuclear power plant incurs in a massive set up stage with a lot of unknowns unknowns and requiring impressive material engineering and QC. Solar is much more "incremental", you can almo
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by chronid 1y ago
Suddenly? That's the level of quality that is standard in all software projects I've ever seen since I've started working in IT. Enshittification is all around us and is unstoppable. Because we have deadlines to hit and goals
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by chronid 1y ago
I have plenty of hard disagreements on the "user experience improvements" in Linux. "Adding a skin" is not easy and making the experience somewhat coherent is extremely hard (GNOME is sort of successful at an extreme cos
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by chronid 1y ago
The last rewrite I've seen completed (which was justified to a point as the previous system had some massive issues) took 3 years and burned down practically an entire org (multiple people left, some were managed out including two lead
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by chronid 1y ago
This is what home automation was supposed to be. You shouldn't be looking at it, it should just help you silently and reduce the amount of things you have to care about. Turning lights off, closing shutters when it goes dark, handling
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by chronid 1y ago
As a non-blind user, the title expresses my feelings too. And I feel like it's getting worse over time, not better. From little things to kernel lockdown breaking hibernate on a fully encrypted system just because you should be happy t
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by chronid 1y ago
In my country you pay for school lunches as a local tax (and assistance is available for low income families). Children are always fed. Parents are the ones with the debts and the garnished salaries.
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by chronid 1y ago
In one of the movies it's actually explained the machines originally created an utopia for humanity, but it was bad for "engagement" and "retention" and they had to pivot on the nineties simulator - which was better
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by chronid 1y ago
IIRC eBPF and DTrace are (no longer) solving a similar problem, eBPF has become far bigger than just tracing, it's now a way to have user space code "driving" kernel decisions. I'm not sure they can be compared this way
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by chronid 1y ago
> Every minute you spend doing on-call work is time that you can't spend on the things you've actually been assigned to do. In my experience at least if you're oncall during a sprint you would have less work assigned to yo
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by chronid 1y ago
I guess what you are saying is the problem is the company culture - from a technical operations point of view at least - sucks. An no one wants or can put the effort into fixing it. I see normally in oncall threads people complaining about
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by chronid 2y ago
The fact boot codes displays are getting pushed to always more expensive motherboards - and there is no standard way to get them otherwise - drives me crazy.
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by chronid 2y ago
You can somewhat reliably evaluate what works and what does not, what brings you forward and what is slack you can cut. It takes time (6-12 months at least) of very engaged work of a very engaged team - which you can bring with you. You can
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by chronid 2y ago
> But it's not the case that EU nations and Canada sent their soldiers to die in Iraq They did, not all of them but many did. On Canada I may be wrong, sure. I believe even Ukraine has KIAs in Iraq. > France in particular sided w
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by chronid 2y ago
There was effectively uniform foreign policy between the US and its allies for the last thirty years, even under the first Trump presidency, and this included at least a certain degree of interventionism (first Iraq war, Yugoslavia...) whic
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by chronid 2y ago
The NATO treaty doesn't imply in his wording any obligation for a military reaction to an invasion of a member of NATO. There's no penalty to just respond with a strongly worded letter, but there's an expectation an ally w
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by chronid 2y ago
> All wallets could become worthless in a weekend if a government makes the wrong stride in quantum research.. No need for the wrong stride in quantum research. A government can make it illegal and seize the exchanges and watch actual va
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by chronid 2y ago
When coding, you trust the CPU to do correct math. The kernel to properly allocate memory. The network stack to send packets and pass you only the ones with valid checksum. Much of our world operates on trust (and eventually verify), same a
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by chronid 2y ago
We will never know, but I wonder if it could be a power/signaling or VRM issue - the CPU non getting hot doesn't mean something else on the board has gone out of spec and into catastrophic failure. Motherboard issues around power&
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by chronid 2y ago
In my last job we ran centralized clusters for all teams. They got X namespaces for their applications, and we made sure they could connect to the databases (handled by another team, though there were discussion of moving them onto dedicate

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