sandwitches

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by sandwitches 2y ago
This particular brand of Hackernewsian condescension is unreal. I'd be amazed if it weren't so depressing. Please don't belittle someone's very real grievances like this, thank you.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Because AI bullshit is ruining everything we've ever loved?
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Here's a good rule of thumb: any time you try to undo a billion years of evolution, there will probably be unintended side effects. Go to bed.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Shhh, you said the quiet part out loud!
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by sandwitches 2y ago
If you're kidding, it's not funny. If you're serious, that's a joke.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Google "filibuster" and "US Senate", and then maybe you'll understand why your statement is in bad faith.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
You don't find it a little unfair that doing something the government makes you do is so Byzantine and fraught with error that there is an entire cottage industry around doing it? When the only reason it's so awful is because of p
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Will they cover the fee for the accountant to fix their own mistake?
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by sandwitches 2y ago
It's almost like it's intentional.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
I shouldn't have to explain why this isn't a viable long-term solution, right?
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by sandwitches 2y ago
I see several massive I-beams in your argument that are buckling due to a lack of support. Mind shoring them up with sources, boss?
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by sandwitches 2y ago
It's a common destructive strategy: don't outlaw the thing, outlaw or defund the thing's infrastructure. Can't outlaw abortion? Outlaw abortion pills. Can't outlaw education? Defund public school. Congress won'
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Are you really gatekeeping a silly nonsense site?
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Fortunately, people have already designed an operating system for you. You can either use it, or embed six more half-assed versions into a web browser and then ship that instead. Up to you.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
So if you can't trust your developers to manage dependencies, and you can't trust them to write dependencies... why have you hired them at all? Seriously, what do they actually do? Hire people who can program, it isn't hard.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Some of us already have learned that lesson. Imagine how it feels to have to watch the same people touch the same hot stove over and over again. And people wonder why programmers quit and go into farming...
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by sandwitches 2y ago
This is the end-stage of having third-party packaging systems without maintainers. This happens vanishingly infrequently for things like apt repositories, because the people maintaining packages are not necessarily the people writing them,
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by sandwitches 2y ago
No, that's an insane workload. Your employer doesn't even deserve 40 hours, let alone 70. Jesus, people, live your lives instead of toiling for the rich people who will take from you until you keel over.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
That's still allowed! :)
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Cool, I can download 20 MB of JavaScript instead of 40. Everyone uses minification, and "web apps" still spin up my laptop fans. Maybe we've lost the plot.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
The solution is to not use Kubernetes.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
I have bad news about most SaaS products.
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by sandwitches 2y ago
Please don't cheapen professional expertise in this way. The product is bad, yes, but why? Because the programming is bad, and the programmers are negligent.