valbaca

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by valbaca 13d ago
> do they care if you come in and steal all their shit because you pickpocketed them? no way. They most decidedly DO care if you do this.
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by valbaca 21d ago
It's easy to think things are "apolitical" when resting on the laurels of the results of political struggles and revolutions that brought us to where we are. The idea that you should be able to create and own your intellectua
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by valbaca 1mo ago
I remember while at Amazon, during the "everyone needs to be using AI in every way" push, one of my teammates was proud to present that he had figured out how to split the audio on his mac to record the meeting (because our meetin
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by valbaca 3mo ago
> Why is everything sanded down to "good or bad"? Amazon's Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews was one of the very first forays into ML that the company had. They just keep wanting to re-use it everywhere.
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by valbaca 3mo ago
or a simpler version: "A stitch in time saves nine...but I charge by the stitch"
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by valbaca 3mo ago
Please read the book "Bullshit Jobs" Most SWEs are a mix of Duct tapers and Box tickers, and their managers are Taskmasters.
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by valbaca 4mo ago
"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent" "...you said on an iPhone. Heh. Gotcha."
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by valbaca 4mo ago
Police aren't "protected persons" > civilians who find themselves in the midst of an international armed conflict or military occupation and are in the hands of a foreign power
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by valbaca 6mo ago
Everyone gets the first amendment
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by valbaca 8mo ago
This just shows that even in the most obvious cases, if a cop wants to fuck up your life it might only take SIX YEARS to get back to normalcy.
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by valbaca 9mo ago
This is awesome. Perfectly solving a problem, showing off tech, and adorable.
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by valbaca 9mo ago
> I proceeded to do the work. > I did the work. > I worked.
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by valbaca 9mo ago
Unix philosophy strikes again
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by valbaca 9mo ago
HTML tools are a good name. I called them something like "a local html file" One problem I solved with this was a packer needed to scan a few (10-40) ids into his barcode scanner. It was not enough where pulling up their bulk-id-u
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by valbaca 9mo ago
FYI, looks like keyvalues.com didn't pay their bill > This service has been suspended.
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by valbaca 9mo ago
> That's a little more than 10% productivity, so not anywhere close to 10x. No Silver Bullet still alive and well in 2026
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by valbaca 9mo ago
You didn't read far enough: > Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022, a Guardian review found. Family Dollar stores have failed more than 2,100 price i
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by valbaca 9mo ago
> what's the difference? Did you read the article? Charging what's actually on the price tag is the first thing that's the difference.
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by valbaca 9mo ago
> Dollar General said it was “committed to providing customers with accurate prices on items purchased in our stores, and we are disappointed any time we fail to deliver on this commitment”. In one court case in Ohio, Dollar General’s la
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by valbaca 10mo ago
Yes, absolutely
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by valbaca 10mo ago
Given the absurd amount startups I see lately that have the words "healthcare" and "AI", I'm actually incredibly concerned that in just a couple of months we're going to have an multiple, enormous HIPAA-data di
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by valbaca 10mo ago
> If Bun breaks, Claude Code breaks. Anthropic has direct incentive to keep Bun excellent. and when this bubble pops down goes bun
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by valbaca 10mo ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Backend: Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Spring, GraphQL, REST APIs, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Next.js AI&#
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by valbaca 10mo ago
yeah, he was an absolute clown. just laugh at clowns and move on
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by valbaca 11mo ago
Thank you for the response!
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by valbaca 11mo ago
I have a dumb and probably easily-googled question, but I trust the average knowledge here: What's the best Video Card / Brand / Model for running games on Linux? I'm considering upgrading my old gaming PC and would rath
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by valbaca 11mo ago
Amazon writing “culture”
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by valbaca 11mo ago
you should really educate yourself on lactose intolerance, or really how you view medical conditions in general. being a "bitch" or not has nothing to do with whether your body produces certain enzymes. > Just one or two nights
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by valbaca 11mo ago
> ask if dairy is ok > "we're in that part of town." Given that lactose intolerance impacts non-caucasians much more, this reeks of racism Lactose intolerance Prevalence by Race: African Americans: 75-95% Asian American
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by valbaca 11mo ago
> It never made sense to me how such a ruthless and inhumane culture is sustainable in the long run. It doesn't need to be sustainable in the long run: just needs to get to the next quarter and there continues to be enough desperate

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