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by spamizbad 11d ago
No quantitative improvements in test scores, but it seems to make kids socialize more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-cellphone-b...
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by spamizbad 1mo ago
Oh I'd say its real. Years ago I worked as that senior who divvied up the work to a team of 4 mid-level engineers in that exact fashion (they were mostly Latin American contractors with limited english). We actually shipped some good s
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by spamizbad 1mo ago
I feel like PA-RISC actually landed with a handful of useful somewhat-complex instructions. It always struck me as the best architecture from that era, making the correct trade-off of avoided microcode but adopted stuff like completers and
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by spamizbad 2mo ago
One level above junk. Yikes.
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by spamizbad 2mo ago
Disagree: The era of "<Tech Giant> will eat your startup by throwing capital/devs at it" are over. Anthropic, OpenAI et al are under too much competitive pressure to chase every quixotic product idea.
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by spamizbad 2mo ago
This is more about the CHIPS act than the tariffs.
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by spamizbad 3mo ago
There's actually a housing shortage in the US so it's not like this is an architecture that is responsive to consumer or cultural preference and demand - local zoning laws do not even permit such freedom.
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by spamizbad 3mo ago
To an extent that's true, but while Zuck might be hands on but he doesn't typically micromanage his lieutenants. Alexandr was clearly in over his head, has never run anything resembling a high quality engineering org, and blew it
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by spamizbad 3mo ago
Lots of people blame Zuckerberg, but my own view aligns with the author in that much of this is falls on Alexandr Wang's shoulders (Scale AI's founder). It's perhaps somewhat ironic that the "MEI" guy (Merit, Excell
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by spamizbad 3mo ago
I would say the claim that AI is going to replace most white collar work a very snake-oily term. The technology behind it however is very compelling and interesting.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
I'm not sure if this was Flux, but one of those AI EDA tool companies had a somewhat absurd ad where the narrator stated the AI tool told them a capacitor was being used to block DC, and that's something they never learned while g
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Might be aimed at people who spec out the $5100 Macbook Pros with M5 Maxes and 128GB.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Texas is becoming a hub for educated professionals and Florida is a hub for non-college retirees
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Nobody dies if instagram collapses. Might even cause more people to live.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Oh we already had that with a RIF earlier in the year.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
I will also tell you, as someone who works at a company that's trying to remain profitable, that token spend has caught the eyes of finance and much like cloud spend they've already started applying pressure to control costs. This
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
You can’t lobby the Trump or “America First” crowd to not be themselves.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
> But rich engineers and lawyers play boutique guitars - almost everyone else, including most professional musicians, still play Fenders (or one of the other big mainstream brands). I'm familiar with this stereotype but two things:
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
You have it backwards. You’d benefit tremendously from fixed PTO that pays out because you’re taking fewer than 10 days a year. Its biggest benefactors are low-seniority employees who take 20-30 days annually.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Fender does this with their headstock design for replacement necks only. However they forbid license-holding manufacturers from both selling a complete guitar with a Fender headstock shape and even showing the guitar neck on a finished guit
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
If you're not guitar gear nerd, you might be unaware: Fender doesn't make the best version of its various guitar shapes (with one debatable exception)[1]. If you want an off-the-rack "S-Style" guitar (Stratocaster) there
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
The people who hold these views are overwhelmingly not members of the working class. They're retirees or Gen-Xers coming off their peak earning years.
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
I got some (bad?) news for you: Most Americans are either in complete denial over this or genuinely don't care. They don't think the wealth and lifestyles they enjoy have anything to do with the US' status as a global hegemon
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
What you're describing really isn't a new problem for organizations. Historically it's been a team of humans not using AI who gets over their skis and they have to have other more capable humans (also not using AI) to bail
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by spamizbad 4mo ago
Yeah my experience in engineering management: Very easy to be a "player coach" when the team was small, like when I had 4 direct reports. As soon as I had 9 (in an org with no TPM/product) my full time job was wearing 3 hats,
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by spamizbad 5mo ago
The statement is absurd because the skill curve for AI tooling is so small you can can mess around for a day or two and get "caught up" with the zeitgeist. And what you need to know to get started is actually far less these days t
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by spamizbad 5mo ago
How much of this is driven by passive income "entrepreneurs" trying to get their AI-generated tracks placed on playlists to gather streaming revenue? Normally an artist might release 10-15 tracks per year tops, but with AI you can
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by spamizbad 6mo ago
I think the ultra-wealthy are just operating under what they think they need to tell people in order to get the outcomes they want. You're only going to hear the truth - or something correct - if its to their benefit.
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by spamizbad 6mo ago
Sorry but this is on the United States. Israel's government has been wanting a show down with Iran for a while but we've typically functioned as the adult in the room to keep the piece - obviously that changed with Biden and now T
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by spamizbad 6mo ago
Banks have zero appetite for taking any operating responsibility for these firms and will work tirelessly to get them off their books ASAP.

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