flmontpetit

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by flmontpetit 20d ago
Nvidia doesn't exactly have Oracle's reputation when it comes to acquiring companies, but given its overall hostility towards competition and open source I can't blame people for being anxious about the news. The most importa
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
My current position has implemented a toolchain that essentially makes debugging either impossible or extremely unwieldy for any backend projects and nobody seems to think it's a problem.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
It's hard to see the benefit in letting every hardware manufacturer attempt to carve out their own little artificial interconnect monopoly and flood the market with redundant, wasteful solutions.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I think Microsoft will let Windows slowly die over the years. I am certain that at the strategy level, they have already accepted that their time as a device platform vendor will not last. Windows will be on life support for a while, as MS
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I am frankly wondering if this man believed in any of the things he was saying, or if he was being purely cynical. The proposition in this article is extremely simple. Adobe Flash would have compromised the end-user experience on iOS device
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Fascinating to me how Windows and Linux have cross-pollinated each other through things like WSL and Proton. Platform convergence might become a thing within our lifetimes.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
The inexorable process of using security as a pretext to enshittify your platform carries on. I don't believe there is a meaningful difference between Google and Apple anymore.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I used to work for a .NET shop that randomly wrote some automation scripts in bash. The expertise to maintain them long term (and frankly, write them half-decently to begin with) simply wasn't there. Never understood why they didn&#x27
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I don't believe we will live to see the day where these models can replace a competent production team. At best they'll be what LLMs are to creative writing, which has so far only conclusively replaced low effort blogspam and frau
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
It's already difficult enough to make a successful book adaptation, even WITH authorial intent. Can't imagine that hours of patchwork AI-generated video, with all its artifacting and consistency errors, will fare any better than &
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
By all means. Just not on one of the most popular software development frameworks in the world. Maybe that can wait until after the concept is proven.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
From a quick search, Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for 5 years as a baseline, and Ubuntu Pro goes up to 12 years. RHEL releases are supported for 10 years. I'm guessing it's similar with SUSE and other "business" dis
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
And that's only because of deposit insurance and heavy regulations on fractional banking. There is no reason to trust any bank implicitly. As a matter fact that have proven not to be deserving of it as recently as 2008.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Baffles me how this industry is basically speedrunning through the troubled history of regular finance, and every piece of legislation and every institution has to be rebuilt from scratch even though the mechanisms and the problems are almo
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Fair, and owning certainly puts you in charge of your own quality of life. My dishwasher has been broken for three months and I'm still having to fight to get it fixed. When I own my own place starting from next July I'm just goin
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Everybody does. Some however only object when the violence is extralegal.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
In other words, the rest of of us should just wait until some foreign powers dissolve our oppressors for us?
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
The core proposition of syndicalism is that the workplace should be democratized. Democracy is far from perfect, and if often fails, but we believe in it nonetheless because everything else is worse.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
The real homogeneity is class, thus the need for developing class consciousness in all workers.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
It's crazy how we've abstracted financial serfdom out of the status of being a property owner. Contrasted with renting it surely seems like independence, but whether the bank squeezes extra value out of you directly or through the
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Social media cracking down on leftist ideology is something that needs to be studied. They are very slick about it, and will usually find some way to make it appear legit (eg: deliberately interpreting obvious sarcasm as literally as possib
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Can you employ a doctor even if you don't make more than a doctor? I would hope so.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Self-advocacy for tech industry professionals largely manifests itself in the form of job hopping.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
It seems like an obvious thing on the surface, but I've already noticed that when asked questions on LLM usage (eg building RAG pipelines and whatnot), ChatGPT will exclusively refer you to OpenAI products.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Right, it's just semantics then. I forgot how much HN can argue for no reason. In any case, I'm happy to grant you your wish.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
For a minute there I was imagining Python as the actual instruction set and my brain was segfaulting. Very cool project still
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I don't find knitting fun, which is why I don't do it. Even if in theory I like the idea of creating custom clothing on the cheap, and whatnot. Maybe that's what programming is to you.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
Frog in boiling water moment. Most of us have had enough experience with the platform before, during and after this period to know that it's not going back to what it was.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
A community that only admits academics is pointless, and a community that only admits American academics is completely absurd.
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by flmontpetit 1y ago
I guess the thing that really changed is our tolerance for bad actors. As far as I'm concerned even a 99% signal-to-noise ratio is unacceptable if the 1% represents a contingent of determinedly obnoxious and hateful people, and 4chan w

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