tacostakohashi

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by tacostakohashi 9d ago
I guess that means that VMWare are very skilled in calculating exactly how much they can hike the price / squeeze. Same with oracle, and all the other vendors that play this game. It kind of makes sense, if you're using VMWare, yo
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by tacostakohashi 18d ago
Yep... back then, the internet was a way people would discuss and organize their real world interests and activities, like clubs and usergroups would organize their next meeting... and then meet, off the internet. Now, it's all just on
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by tacostakohashi 27d ago
It depends what kind of business... there are all sorts of weird and wonderful accounting / financial calendar inventions like the 4-4-5 calendar, fiscal years ending in June, bond day count conventions like 30/360, etc. I do take
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
Not 100% boss-specific, but... * regularly generating AI-slop code changes that nearly work, and then trying to hand over to someone else for "completion". this is often a pretty terrible experience, and more work than just having
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
If you get your own plane, you won't have a problem finding a terminal without TSA. Going through TSA is not a condition of using a government airport, it's just what happens if you use an airline. In any case, being "governm
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
AI can build anything... within the tiny slice of the economy/human experience that is data/software. It turns out there's a vast universe out there involving physical products, real estate, agriculture, plumbing, sanitation,
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
I don't suppose you've actually, you know, read the constitution? If so, I'd be fascinated to hear about which parts pertain to, or don't apply at airports that should? The main thing people seem to find difficult to com
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
If you have the tenacity to stick with it over a number of years, and have had an app with a few thousand users, you must be doing a few things right!
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
It's all very tedious. This happens a lot with pretty mundane staples like socks, underwear, bedding, towels, umbrellas, headphones, ... These are all "semi-durable" items that get a lot of wear and tear and inevitably need t
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
because every company also has an "AI transformation" budget / CxO / whatever. if anyone wants to buy or sell any products or services for any unrelated reasons, it's much easier if they tick some AI-enablement chec
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
I don't hold a lot of hope for TDD if the tests are AI-generated from the AI-generated code... which I see a lot.
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
Things like it have happened. The Unabomber was identified through his writing idiosyncrasies. Lots of criminals have been identified by reanalyzing old DNA samples using data and genealogical techniques that weren't possible at the ti
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
for future words, sure. but lots of people have an extensive volume of word they already published with the hope / expectation of remaining anonymous.
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by tacostakohashi 2mo ago
Right, one could make pretty much the same observations about how hiring / promotion decisions are made, how investment decisions are made, and probably any number of other things that people like to pretend are objective/scientif
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
I feel that things are pretty different. Although the example of interrupts and jumper settings being common knowledge is a bit of a stretch... it's still amazing to recall that MS-DOS was regarded as an end-user / consumer OS, an
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
The 767 2-3-2 layout is my favorite, with only 1 middle seat per row, yet still two aisles so you can use one while the other is blocked, or walk little loops if it's not.
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
What a charming little website!
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
imho if you're at a company, and they're having layoffs... it's generally better to be laid off, get some severance, and end up at some other company that is hiring / growing, rather than a "survivor" who now h
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
books
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
Yeah, when browsers have a "reader mode", it's pretty obvious the plot has been lost somewhere.
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by tacostakohashi 3mo ago
Pretty much. There is an enshittification cycle at work. The web used to be good, predominately text, and useful, 25 years ago. Then... slowly... we added javascript, then AJAX, CSS, flash, interstitials, popups, marketing, social media, al
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
I think codebases and optimizations are a lot like this. A lot of people seem to think the way to make things work better and faster is to add elaborate caching layers and layers and retries and GPUs and multi threading and... I find the op
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
I have a few strategies - which are all based on reciprocation. If the code is reasonable and diligently created, be it with AI or not, I will provide a diligent and timely review. If the code is totally unreadable AI slop that does not app
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
I also use this strategy of mutually assured AI slop, with a no-first-use policy. I'll happily respond to AI slop PRs with AI slop code reviews / comments.
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
This sounds totally ridiculous now, but at the time there was a lot of hype about Linux / open source, a sense/possibility that it could overcome microsoft/sun/ibm/hp etc, some big IPOs like VA Linux Systems. Keep i
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
Any thoughts on alternative free software (preferably debian packaged) editors/IDEs with completion, jumping to definitions/declarations, etc? I've used kdevelop a bit lately, it's ok.
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
I don't love that the AI suggestions seem to override completion of real/existing methods from the source code these days.
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
It seems to be strongly correlated with (and perhaps caused by) the iphone / smartphone / tablet boom of the 2010s. That's when lots of mass market things slowly shifted from being on "computers" or "the intern
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
Or, "help" by asking questions, or otherwise by sharing an AI review/analysis/suggestions, since they're into that kind of thing. Definitely cleaning up other people's AI mess for them for free is not a good us
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by tacostakohashi 4mo ago
"no no, it has full test coverage" at least at my BigCo, AI is being used for everything - writing slop, writing tests, code reviews, etc. it would make sense to use AI for writing code, but human code review. or, human code, bu

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