deanCommie

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by deanCommie 5d ago
Even before AI we used to say if you write code that you only barely understand, then it will be to complicated to debug. (and/or maintain) Mochizuki was still one human and it required legions of other humans to unpack and untangle to
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by deanCommie 2mo ago
Look, I get where you're coming from, I do. In the last decade, we've seen rampant abuses and exploitation of open source projects and of maintainers. So much individual good will and generous efforts wasted because of corporate m
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by deanCommie 3mo ago
Putting aside that I don't agree with Bram (I've been using all the Claude versions he refers to and haven't experienced this), I do think it's interesting that there is no universally perceived golden sweet spot between
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by deanCommie 3mo ago
like with most things, these things are both overrated and underrated. are there performative jobs|tasks|employees|cultures? yes. are most of the things that engineers think are performative and useless actually so? nope. some examples: * m
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by deanCommie 4mo ago
They're not vulnerable to this. But first, in the phrase that you quoted, you do understand that in human society "trying to harm" someone is still a malicious act. If I push a coworker at an office window, and it shatters an
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by deanCommie 4mo ago
You're not wrong, but it's also so sad. FAANG used to be the _dream_. Change the world. Work on groundbreaking tech. Solve harder problems than anywhere else. Get Paid incredibly well. Then I guess a generation focused exclusively
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by deanCommie 4mo ago
When I was making 200k, 120k of that was cash. When I was making 800k, 200k of that was cash. Like I didn't discount that it gave me the ability to buy a house. But day to day, week to week, it's the same doordash and the same res
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by deanCommie 4mo ago
My sentence: > other than the ability to buy a house or something, and feel safe with a retirement nest egg Your sentence: > 800k is the ability to buy a house and support a family on a single income So we agree. The thing you missed
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by deanCommie 4mo ago
Every big tech company's embrace of AI is making all of their employees miserable. Whereas if you're half-competent and at a startup, the AI is an incredible opportunity to try to leap ahead while the prices are subsidized (by the
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by deanCommie 5mo ago
The Three Mile Island accident is also dramatically exaggerated in the public conscience with its severity and risk factor - solely because of the default fear of Nuclear. Oil, Gas, Coal, and random chemical plants have had much more signif
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by deanCommie 5mo ago
This is the first fundamental flaw of the article > Bob's weekly updates to his supervisor were indistinguishable from Alice's. The questions were similar. The progress was similar. The trajectory, from the outside, was identic
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by deanCommie 6mo ago
ok but i manually used arrow keys to set it to by clicking right 25 times, and that didn't work, so i gave up.
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by deanCommie 7mo ago
Are we watching the same clip? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This is from the pilot and I watched it based on high recommendations, and I couldn't keep going because the character you're describing as so convincing and
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by deanCommie 7mo ago
i'm curious, how do you think other large companies operate with regards to reporting progress/status/results up the management chain? At least at companies where the upper management is aware enough of the details to make go
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by deanCommie 8mo ago
We need to get past the point of binary perspective. The question isn't whether any one of us is innocent or guilty. The question is of what. The word "rape" makes people visualize the most extreme scenarios of strangers in t
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by deanCommie 8mo ago
Speaking of Zero Dark Thirty, it has WAY more problems than that - https://www.tiktok.com/@trademoviespodcast/video/75653617056...
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by deanCommie 9mo ago
Somewhere, John Carmack, in his new conservative era, is seething.
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
I mean I pay for Youtube Premium because I use Youtube Music instead of Spotify. I get a very unopinionated but effective music player that has all the music I need, and it doesn't try very hard to "upsell" itself to me unlik
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
I think there's an even simpler point that people who make fun of athletes for blowing their paychecks instead of saving them miss: * These are elite athletes at the top of their pyramid, which means they have an absolutely bonikers el
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
Changing defaults doesn't have to mean changing existing configurations. It can be the new default for newly created VPCs after a certain date, or for newly created accounts after a certain date. And if there are any interoperability
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
What's missing from this history though is that when WhatsApp went from an Electron app to a native windows app it got decisively worse.
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
I agree with you, but "better" is subjective, and this change was ON PURPOSE because most consumers would disagree with us. It's why they all have "motion smoothing" turned on all their TV's too. Yes, it's
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by deanCommie 10mo ago
Doesn't the fact that they made it super-green in Matrix 4 proves that it should never have been blue? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0YBqhMtcg
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by deanCommie 11mo ago
Wouldn't the lawyers be based in Israel - under some Israel-based shell/subsidiary of Google/Amazon, that owns the data centers, and complies with local law?
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by deanCommie 11mo ago
YES, but let's also not ignore that the market is cold right now and the tech industry isn't really growing like crazy like it did during ZIRP. So yeah in a hot economy anything you launch grows crazy. Then you do the thought lead
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by deanCommie 11mo ago
I don't think OP thinks his skills are useless per se now, but that the way to apply those skills now feels less fun and enjoyable. Which makes perfect sense - even putting aside the dopamine benefits of getting into a coding flow stat
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by deanCommie 11mo ago
Even if there was somehow a way to do a "national divorce" without a bloody civil war (no chance), who gets to keep the kids? (nukes) I worry that as bad as things are, at least the blue state resistance (pathetic as it is) provid
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by deanCommie 1y ago
You said it. Such mixed feelings. The reality is there was a sweet spot - when the industry got less toxic and started attracting visible minorities, and you started getting some diversity of thought AND passion. Then the money got too good
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by deanCommie 1y ago
And that was always known to have been a counter-productive protest. There's nothing ironic about this. They were told. They didn't care. It was unambiguously clear that no matter how bad you felt Obama/Biden/Harris were
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by deanCommie 1y ago
My "older" pixel (9 XL) is also now slower as a result. It literally takes a half a second to tap "speaker" during the dialer after the update, which it didn't before. Disappointing.

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