ponector

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by ponector 8d ago
Pretty much anyone can volunteer and became an UAV drone operator in Ukraine. Get an experience you'll use in the WW3!
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by ponector 8d ago
Unfortunately for the users, testing has been pushed to them. You can deploy whatever slop you want - nobody cares. More lines of code!
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by ponector 8d ago
Most developers are not good at testing. That's why the role of test engineer exists. I've seen in multiple projects things like assertTrue(true). I'm sure the agent is better in testing than average enterprise developer.
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by ponector 9d ago
It was perfect when the only way to connect to the internet was a computer. Smartphones ruined it.
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by ponector 17d ago
>> post the 100 bugs I hit that week. But nobody cares. Posting bugs is mostly pointless, it's wasted time. Nowadays even for paid products quality is not a priority.
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by ponector 18d ago
People are hating it untill goes abroad to the countries where no such regulations exists. Like in Switzerland it's okay to charge double for the car insurance simply because you carry "unlucky" citizenship. Or EU law about m
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by ponector 21d ago
If you are traveling and need to rent a car in the airport - sometimes it is not possible to do without credit card. Otherwise you don't need a credit card.
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by ponector 22d ago
You can buy a new Toyota car or SUV in USA for $25k. You can buy a used Toyota for $17k.
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by ponector 22d ago
I don't think sales be different. Not many people are ready to drop 100k+ and wait months/years for the delivery.
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by ponector 22d ago
God bless America! Land of the free! Free to tip everyone you exchange money with.
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by ponector 24d ago
You can get an additional phone with a screen, 5g radio, ram and everything for $150. An additional radio should not raise the price for another 300.
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by ponector 25d ago
Coding is a solved problem. They simply don't care if the app is full of bugs. You are using it anyway, right?
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by ponector 27d ago
Soviet space shuttle had autopilot based on the computer with 130kb of RAM.
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by ponector 27d ago
Many android phones are under $300, not iPhones obviously.
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by ponector 1mo ago
>>I would much rather have someone on my team who ships less but whose work I can trust Me too, but it is not what happening across the industry. Instead they are pushing for more LLM usage as well as more features. And faster, faster
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by ponector 1mo ago
It's all about the process and the organization. No one is pushing for quality, everyone needs more features. >>a rapid decline in software quality It's hard to expect anything else if budget for QA teams is reallocated to c
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by ponector 1mo ago
The actual issue is not the "bad" engineers but the bad organization. While people are allowed to push and merge whatever crap is generated there is no point to do otherwise. Even if you do care about performance, "good"
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by ponector 1mo ago
>> Work at a soul sucking corporate for 17 years I'm pretty much sure it is not soul sucking if you are a CEO.
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by ponector 1mo ago
Iphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck. You can find many examples like this.
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by ponector 1mo ago
Doctrine means nothing. Russian doctrine says they should use nukes against Ukraine. But there is no point in uaing it, no advantage to gain. Russians will send you back 10x warheads. Are you going to use nukes knowing that?
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by ponector 1mo ago
At my $day_job we are forced to use a shared virtual machine for all work activities. The Windows instance has 64gb of RAM, 8 virtual cores of old EPYC CPU and no GPU acceleration. It is also shared between 6 users. They will not spend extr
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by ponector 1mo ago
Given there are enough USB-C ports - it is not an issue. For old headphones buy an adapter and next time buy cheap USB-c headphones.
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by ponector 1mo ago
>> nukes are not an argument for anything but main land defense from invasions But it is not an argument even for that. Imagine Russian tanks are crossing the border towards your capital. Will your government use nukes is such case?
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by ponector 1mo ago
RAM may be expensive for a person, but still is quite cheap for the company.
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by ponector 1mo ago
It's not a concern untill the phone is bloated because of damaged battery. Also it can catch fire!
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by ponector 1mo ago
It does not explain why your food is travelling 3k miles. For sure you can buy food grown within 500 miles, not delivered from other hemisphere.
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by ponector 1mo ago
>> There's something seriously wrong in Redmond. Is it? People are buying this crap, why should MS spend more money to increase quality? They will receive the same quarterly revenue but with lower profits. Shareholders will not b
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by ponector 2mo ago
Because it's a premium product, not a luxury.
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by ponector 2mo ago
My Samsung phone is made in Vietnam.
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by ponector 2mo ago
And trillionaires are directly shipped from Mars!

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