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by scarface_74 5mo ago
Nasdaq 100… https://www.morningstar.com/funds/spacex-ipo-how-index-funds... > Nasdaq was the first to consider a rule change that would grant mega IPOs like SpaceX early admission to its flagship Nasdaq-100 index. T
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
There is a difference between a SaaS offer where you are running your code and serving multiple customers on one server/set of servers and running random customer code like Vercel.
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
And the latest version of Firefox requires the version of Android released in 2017… is that really a win?
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
This is completely different. While for Uber and AirBnb as the person delivering the service I have to worry about a private citizen either doing harm to my property (more statistically likely) or my person (much less likely), if I am pulle
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
You would be equally as dumb to do that unless you are delivering from a commercial establishment. https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/unfortunately-i... https://www.freedommag.org/news/ub
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
I have no idea what you are talking about but I just checked the scarface_74 user on Reddit (he not I) last posted 8 years ago and mostly on the r/bitcoin thread. https://www.reddit.com/user/Scarface_74/ And
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
I review AI generated test of AI just like I reviewed tests of developers on a team I was leading. There is no “morality” when it comes to my job. Outside of my feeling morally obligated to give my employer the benefit of all my accumulated
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
And then as experience developer you would have to try one of the other tools in your toolbox. Why should someone tie a hand behind their back and not use an LLM out of some sense of nerd pride?
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
That would require the logged in user to do something stupid. That’s like saying what’s to prevent the authorized user from emailing his credentials to a random person.
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
And that same user is already trusted to have admin access to the entire organizational AWS credentials - I did say it was an internal management site. The lambda itself only has limited permissions to the backend. The user can’t do anythi
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by scarface_74 5mo ago
My responsibility is to make sure my code meets functional and non functional requirements. It’s to understand the *behavior*. My automated unit, integration, and load tests confirm that. Someone thought I was naive when I said my vibe co
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by scarface_74 10mo ago
Exactly this, I lead cloud consulting + app dev projects. Before I would have staffed my projects with at least me leading it and doing the project management + stakeholder meetings and some of the work and bringing a couple of others in t
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by scarface_74 11mo ago
He already does. He is cutting funding for blue state initiatives that were already allocated. Of course Congress should have the power of the purse. But the Republican Congress is spineless as is the Supreme Court. Before now, Republican
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by scarface_74 11mo ago
Oracle is not fine. They are borrowing money hoping to get paid back by money losing OpenAI propped up by VC funding. No business is going to run workloads on OCI outside of ones running Oracle. They a They are a way distance fourth in
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by scarface_74 11mo ago
You should listen to the latest episode of the Acquired podcast about Google. Google also has GCP and unlike OpenAI who is dependent on VC funding and Oracle who is borrowing money. Google throws off cash like crazy and self funds its inf
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by scarface_74 11mo ago
It’s still the 48th worse place for kids. https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/06/11/mississi...
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by scarface_74 11mo ago
These are the APIs that are part of Google Play Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play_Services
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by scarface_74 1y ago
We do? Have you been reading the news where the President is firing AGs who won’t go after his enemies and firing FBI agents who didn’t agree to perp walk his enemy? Not to mention he just pardoned 1500 domestic terrorists in January. Publi
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Surely you aren’t talking about Android as “open source”. To a first approximation no one wants a phone running only AOSP without Google’s proprietary parts.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I can’t see the case where we won’t need more data centers in the future even if AI is a bubble as more work load is generated and even if it is a bubble. There are real world use cases where you will need ML and inference even if you don’
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by scarface_74 1y ago
It came out soon after AOL acquired Tine Warner in 2001 that they artificially inflated income to prop their stock up for the merger to go through. No one was punished for it.
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Who gets hurt when the bubble pops? And who will the government need to bail out? Last time, a lot of the companies were public and the general public saw stock losses. This time the only companies that are publicly really exposed by the A
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I tried with ChatGPT, the Meta AI app, the Gemini app and Grok. ChatGPT freaked out, Gemini got it right (there isn’t one). Meta AI: Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: or doesn’t represent a seahorse specifically but is the one you’re loo
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I work for one reason - to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter. There is no higher calling. If I were 22 post 2010, instead of 1996, you damn well better be believe I would have been “grinding leetcode to
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I am 51. I love small companies. My second best experience was working as the second technical hire by a then new to the company CTO who was hired to bring technical leadership into the company. The two non technical brothers who were f
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by scarface_74 1y ago
And this is the reason that at one point, Google has 4 different messaging apps and presented 3 at one presentation. No one gets promoted by improving an existing service
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I have a different experience writing and using COM with C++. I remember ugliness around reference counting, dealing with the literally dozen of methods of defining a string and having to coerce them into BSTRs and having to deal with vari
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by scarface_74 1y ago
I have always wanted to deploy mutatation testing and experimented with it back in the .Net framework days with a package called NinjaTurtles. https://stryker-mutator.io/docs/
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Do we have any evidence of this that inference costs are less than the subscription price?
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by scarface_74 1y ago
Spotify goes back and forth from barely profitable to losing money every quarter. They have to give 70% of their revenue to the record labels and that doesn’t count operating expenses. As Jobs said about Dropbox, music streaming is a featu

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