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Great post on why LLMs will have Management Consultants looking for their future. Average skill is highly profitable. One skilled senior and 20 juniors at an affordable rate is always most profitable.

Developers - Always do this as bonus paid by contingency of saved money and a signed off scope if it works out, especially if you’re d looking into it on your own time.

Specifically if you like you can get signatures from everyone on the hierarchy on how much money or time this will save, cost or make them.

Do it enough times and the right kind of CEp/President will tell you to stop bringing the business case to them for approval and just do them if they make sense and you have your backup.

You will enter a side door, bypassing most politics and c-levels (and maybe triggering some new), reserved for people who say let me see what’s possible instead of coming back with reasons why it can’t be done.

From there, paint a picture of what if you built a team of only doers, minus talkers across the organization.

:)

Tech should never report into Finance, the group that can’t even tame spreadsheets.

Yes, business owners pay.
https://www.githubstatus.com/history

Don't praise GitHub too much. They've averaged an issue every 2 days for the past 3 months.
Judging based on how difficult it was to transition to also making AMD mainboards, I doubt we would see this for YEARS.
> No, I pay YouTube to not show me YouTube ads. Separately, I also pay several content creators for their content without ads. I pay the person showing me ads to stop showing me ads.

When you use YouTube Premium, you are paying the creator for each view, and they still show you the ads, and you find it acceptable ?

> If that ad is a part of the movie as it was shown in theatres or on other streaming services, then no, I wouldn't be upset at Netflix.

Sounds like you agree to pay for Spotify Premium but still get interruptions in the music.
What happens to colored cars nowadays?

In case this isn't a rhetorical question, read up about research which tries to link (car) color choices to the state of the economy for instance. It's pretty interesting really.
Yep Intel just gives me free hardware LOL, yeah, no...

So anyway, the reason is whenever risc-v makes sense to switch to for cost and performance, I think I'll do it at that time. There is no reason I can see for me to think about it until then. Literally it's going to be exactly the same for me except maybe doing something like `apt install somepkg-risc-v` for some packages and I'm pretty sure that will be the only thing different for me.

Makes sense now or still confused?
I think threatening with layoffs if striking is also not illegal? But historically, with the Scandinavian union model, you’re in for a ride. E.g. with union-supported class actions from fired employees.
No that seems to be exactly the plan. Or rather, how some lobbyists they are talking to see fit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/30/biden-a...
I will never waste money on a Sandisk SSD again. My last one stopped working out of nowhere. Much happier with my Crucial X10.
Expecting a company to just bow to all demands from unions is unreasonable. Losing your job is a risk of striking. That should be known going in. If you aren't willing to lose your job by striking you shouldn't be striking.

Threats are negotiation. The union threatened to strike. The company let the union know what their response would be.
Yes, you are in a distinct but important group among software developers that would not be particularly well served by firm-specific union contracts. You should support these efforts because they certainly don't harm your prospects, and they pave the way for a hiring hall model.

Your situation is more like that of an established Hollywood actor or musician. And the collective bargaining model that makes sense for them - a hiring hall - would also make sense for your segment of the software sector (and startups). Many film/album productions are effectively run like startups, and it makes no sense to bargain a firm specific contract each time. Likewise with construction work, where the hiring hall model is widespread.
> Yes, this presents additional risk from non-state actors, but there's no fundamentally new risk here.

That doesn't seem right. Surely, making it easier for non-state actors to do things that state actors only fail to do because they agreed to treaties banning it, can only increase the risk that non-state actors may do those things?

Laser blinding weapons are banned by treaty, widespread access to lasers lead to scenes like this a decade ago during the Arab Spring: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-23182254
People are discussing different things here.

What you describe wanting, is what academic journals are. Subject matter experts discussing that subject matter with one another. Social media is not for you, and that's fine.

What other people are describing, is more like, an author writes a book you enjoy; so you read another book of theirs. There is enjoyment in their prose style and personal voice, and so they seek out more of the same.

And maybe the first book was a scifi or mystery novel, and the next book you find by that author is a non-fiction history of egypt, or a genetics textbook. You will likely still enjoy reading that book.

Sometimes that author can even be an expert on all such topics; Issac Asimov existed, after all. But when people are reading for entertainment, they'll be less picky.
The first 10 words of the article:

"Archaeologists have used declassified spy satellite imagery from the 1960s..."
Speaking from a Release Management point of view going from a monolith to microservices is often done for the wrong reasons.

The only valid reason for actual doing the change seems to be for scaling reasons due to performance bottlenecks. Everything else is just shifting complexity from software development to system maintenance.

Of course, developers will be happy that they have that huge "alignment with other teams" burden off their shoulders. But the clarity when and how a feature is implemented, properly tested across microservices and then activated and hypercared on production will be much harder to reach if the communication between the development teams is not mature enough (which is often the actual reason from breaking up the monolith).
On the one hand most of the points make sense and I find myself agreeing with them, on the other hand, while some have been close for certain things, nobody has been able to reliably predict the future.

Though it looks very likely, I wonder how much of this will come to pass in the next 10 years or so.
Right but I meant my point to be that the people on call don't have to be literally the same people developing the application code. In fact, they never have to communicate at all, because they can coordinate at arms-length with a well-defined software interface.

Edit: I missed the part where you say the Heroku customer has their own on-call team. IME this is not true. The whole reason to use a PaaS like this is to avoid having an Ops team. Sometimes orgs outgrow their PaaS and keep using it anyway, but this isn't necessary, only a historical artifact. These orgs would likely save more money and get a better result by going with normal IaaS or racking their own servers and, in fact, are probably actively switching to that model.
ARM is proprietary
Saying you don't like maths is like saying you don't like how the universe works. It's like... fine, but that's not really actionable.
This is accidentally a fantastic example of the issues with the original commenter's train of thought. Not everyone needs every single feature, but every single feature is needed individually by someone.
Pirate Bay websites disappear all the time due to network uptime or just evading copyright cops. Youtube just sits there however, churning out its trove of pirated content and have the gall to throw ads on it.
Sweden has no minimum wage even. Unions are absolutely necessary there - in fact like 90% of workers are unionized. The whole system relies on unions.
Totally agree about diversification. Reliance on a company pension fund is terrifying.

That said, the old pension model forced workers to make large contributions. The 401k model does not. (Unless your company has some amazing match deal… I’ve only ever seen shitty deals like 25% of up to 4% of salary, whereas more like a 30% savings rate is what’s really needed.)
What's really interesting is the zero mention of the fact that cockney isn't just an accent but a people with a distinct culture from a specific area. Those people and/or that culture have been seemingly displaced - there's no mention of the persistence of the cultural aspects in those cockney areas despite accent changes.

I'll have to go and watch some Dave Angel sketches to get my fill of the accent.
2 drones one for net and one for target?
>I would contest the notion that a lack of religiosity must magnify discontent with death

It’s the other way around. Lack of religiosity is the default state and with it you get the default discontent with death, but a religion with an afterlife could reduce discontent with death.
I wish they took performance more seriously. I migrated a bunch of my stuff off of a Pi 4 to an Intel N100 NUC because the Pi 4 just didn't cut it. I have a bunch of other use cases as well that have struggled with the Pi 4s and competing RK3588 based systems look compelling.

Point is, your use case doesn't match my use case. I hope they continue to make things more performant AND cost effective.
A good number of people also died from being in person during the height of COVID. IIRC line cooks had the highest mortality rate of any profession and deaths were more heavily concentrated in lower wage, in-person work.
If you put something into the public view, there's actually a legally accepted right to use that in limited circumstance without seeking a license from you. It's called fair use. It stems from the idea that all human culture requires taking something someone made and improving it, modifying it, referencing it, etc.

For example, I can take a picture of your comment and make a meme to criticize your position even though I technically have no license to the copyright you hold over the comment's text.
1. Except that a single process usually involves multiple services and the failure of one service often makes entire sequences impossible.
What are you going to do about a police work stoppage, call the police?
Exactly, just use well-factored services of any size and smack anyone saying "micro..." with a wet towel for they are just parroting some barely-profitable silicon valley money sinks.
React was a terrible idea for a static page in 2014-2015 and is an even worse idea for a static SSR page + hydration in 2023. React back in 2014 was devised to be a performant way to create SPAs. Of course it wouldn't be good to use it as if it was PHP. It is still a bad idea.
But what if the 100 page loads are just a sample of the population?
Don't forget to fix the dates: https://github.com/laurentlbm/google-photos-takeout-date-fix...
Or you could write an API like set(FOO | BAR) and get the same benefit for comparably basically no cost (+ now you get nice diffs in git).
'"What is racism?" could fill a book'

Agree, it is a complex topic but anyone that suggests that Martin Luthar King Jr. was racist because he claimed that "he would like to be judged not by the colour of my skin but the contents of my character" like Robin DiAngelo has (and Kendi falls into this category because he describes [and defines!!!] racism in the same way that DiAngelo does) is not worth the time in my humble opinion. There is a potentially unlimited number of books to read and we all have limited amount of time so some sort of filter is required. And anyone that thinks in a way that leads them to believe that Martin Luther King Jr. was racist is way off and not worth it.

The reason I'm saying this and why I referenced "post modernist" in my original quote is that these people (Kendi, DiAngelo) are defining racism in a way where the intent of the perpetrator of perceived racism is omitted and ignored. This is why I believe the Kendi definition in the video is no accident, he's trying to define it in way such that the intent of individual or group does not come into the equation. Whether you intend to be racist or not does not matter, you are racist by definition if you have the right (or wrong) colour skin.

Post modernism provides the theoretical underpinning of this claim as this school of though claims that objectivity does not exist, it is a phantom and a harmful one at that. There is merely a collection of different subjective experiences and beliefs and my subjective interpretation is as good as anyone elses. So if I interpret your action as racist then according to post modernist doctrine by definition it is racist, regardless of whether you intend to be or not.

Can't you see the problem here? Can't you see the potential problems that wide spread adoptation of such ideas on racism outlined above that are esposed by Kendi, DiAngelo and others would have on society and how it provides an awful basis for the successful collaboration of large and diverse number of people? Defining people by their race, what's more, trying to solve the problem of racism by focusing more on ones race making it the center of your being is in my opinion a political, social, moral and philosophical deadend. Go ahead and read the book but in my opinion it is a waste of time and possibly even worse than that.
Nobody needs that GPU. Alyssa Rosenzweig stopped working on the driver and got poached by Valve.

Also, real time encoding with VP8 (yes, that is the standard for WebRTC) barely works. It has barely enough CPU power to produce a working demo, but too little to actually do anything with it.
"Among Democrats, Black (38%) and Hispanic (39%) adults are more likely than White adults (32%) to say spending on police in their area should be increased. There is no significant difference across these racial and ethnic groups in the share of adults who say spending should be decreased" (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/26/growing-s...)
Moroccan Battle's Role in Birth of Dutch Capitalism and VOC
I think I've covered this in another comment just below the one you've replied to.
> "The Matrix", and in the middle of it there is an advertising for Oreos, though you paid for the ad-free experience

Interesting that you picked a movie series quite well known for it's product placement marketing-- I'm sure if Nabisco had been on board, the Oracle would happily have given Neo an Oreo instead of a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie.
OpenSUSE working on a new installer called Agama
> FB does not sell to data brokers

Source? It doesn't have to sell to them directly. They can get it from their API.

> Overall FB made about $3.22 per user

It's much higher than that in the EU and US[1].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
If it is dogmatic, then yes: but you have no knowledge of that and besides there are always people who believe there is too much process and there are people that there is too little. If you want to challenge the process you do that by talking about it not by breaking the process on purpose. That's an excellent way to get fired.

I don't know the context and I don't know the particular business the OP is talking about. What I do know is that if you feel that your management is cargo culting development methodology (which really does happen) you can either engage them constructively or you can leave for a better company. Going in with a confrontational mindset isn't going to be a good experience for anybody involved. Case in point: the OP is still upset enough that he feels it necessary to vent about this in an online forum.

Note that this is the same person who in another comment wrote:

"On the flip side I’m trying to convince my CTO to fire half our engineering team - a group of jokers he hired during the run-up who are now wildly overpaid and massively under-delivering. With all the tech talent out there I’m convinced we’d replace them all within a week."
>(As it is, the device still receives security updates, which I can't really grump at Apple for after almost six years - but only because they're better than the rest of the industry. It's still a poor situation).

I am continually astonished at folks who expect OS and/or security updates past a few years (this is not a slight against you, just an observation on my part)

A lot of folk like to gripe about "planned obsolescence" or similar because eventually their device is no longer supported

Yet the fact that manufacturers support equipment as long as they do is ... kind of astonishing

The higher the volume of production, the shorter you would expect a manufacturer to support it (a 747 is worlds different from a pickup truck which is worlds different from a phone or laptop)

The cost-benefit analysis of continuing to support/update a given device has to be taken into account ... and - for most phones (since that is what we are talking about in this thread) for most people, that means that between 3 and 4 years after release, it makes [nearly] no economic sense to keep supporting them

That Apple does for so long speaks volumes about their commitment to their customers (even though, of course, they would like you to get a new phone every year, I am sure)
Too cool. Suddenly, I want to play nethack.
I once talked AWS into a 5-digit refund for something that was our team's mistake.

It wasn't necessary though because we had a committed spend target to reach and we just had to figure out how to legitimately spend the money somewhere else. :(
TL;DR: The Battle of the Three Kings in Morocco set off a chain of geopolitical events that greatly influenced global trade. Portugal's young King Sebastian's death in this battle indirectly led to Spain's dominance over Portugal, prompting trade blockades against the Dutch and British. This challenge pushed the Dutch to innovate, leading to the rise of capitalism in the Netherlands and the establishment of the world's first stock-traded company, the Dutch East India Company.
I live a few minutes from the Nike HQ campus and neighboring office sprawl. You do see most parking lots filled up a few days a week. However, I’d estimate a third of Nike’s branded office buildings still show little or no activity.
We tend to only test what is being tested. So, most DB calls are mocked in our unit tests. For stored procs or other tests that need to be run on a DB, we use a test DB that is setup to mirror production.

I'd bet there are a 100 different answers to your question though. This is the way we handle it.
An intel N100 NUC is just a really good low power server platform and it will always be better for that than a pi.

The pi was never meant to be a server.
Instead of finding a new org I retired and am doing my own thing.

Figuring out what said own thing is is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated, but I'm enjoying it.
Show HN: Particle Fountain – Solution of a Rosetta Code Task in Easylang
The movement not only affected budgets but also affected morale. DAs would not press charges, so they didn’t bother with lesser crimes.

Yes, the police harass, sometimes I get harassed but that presence is what puts a lid on crime.

I’ll put up with some harassment in exchange for fewer criminals running free.

We can seek redress from the police, we cannot seek redress from criminals.

The reason we need police is the same reason we can’t have nice things: people can’t self govern in a harmonious way.
This number keeps growing because all of the other emissions are finally going down. I memorized it as five percent a decade ago.

It's a point source of carbon, which is the best case for capture. Some of the carbon could be made into plastic (particularly polyoxymethylene would be easy) although you might find that demand is saturated well before you have used up all of the capture.

Bigger problem is that due to the extreme temperatures required (the essential crystal structure, called alite, can only form above 1250 C) the facilities are large, expensive to construct and difficult to modify. Because the reaction produces a dust plume, they are often sited in less regulated jurisdictions, which compounds the problem. But capturing the carbon and capturing the dust likely require some common components.

This is arguably an opportunity for Latin America, which has historically had low local cement production due to tighter environmental regulations vs Asia. Its road and rail infrastructure lags as a result. (The durability of PC is also highly desirable in tropical environments!) But a proper implementation of clean cement is not yet well understood, and economic incentives for cleaner imports are merely theoretical at this point.
Definitely not me but man I remember headbanging to my friends keygen software from Razor1911
Xeyes, Xcalc, and the like are probably the closest we'll get to eternal GUI programs.
> Can you explain the salient distinction between a "technical" versus "architectural" solution? Candidly, I'm not convinced that there is one.

Not concisely in the general case, but in this case the difference is fairly straightforward - CI/CD doesn't affect the structure of your executing application at all, only the surrounding context. I don't want to spend the hours it would take to characterize architecture as distinct from implementation, but the vast number of textbooks on the topic all generally agree that there is one, though they draw the lines in slightly different places.

> I think what you're saying amounts to,

Very much no - my point is about the process of implementation. The services.. _do_ enforce boundaries, but the boundaries they enforce may not be good ones.

In order to successfully extract services from a monolith, you have to go through a process that includes finding and creating those domain boundaries for the domain being extracted. If it's your first time, you might be doing that implicitly and without realizing it's what you're doing, but under the hood it's the bulk of the mental effort.

The part where you actually _introduce a service_ can be anywhere from a tenth to half of the work (that fraction varies a lot by technical stack and depending on how coupled the domain in question is to the central behavioral tangle in the monolith), but by the time you've gotten the domain boundary created you've _already solved_ the original problem. Now you're facing a trade of "extract this well-factored domain out to a separate service application, to prevent its now-clear boundaries from being violated in the future". And I contend that that's a trade that should rarely be made.
Looks like ass to me.
Really man. I have almost two decades developing software and yet, I feel a lot more comfortable having all my code reviewed. If anything I get annoyed by junior developers in my team when they just rub-stamp my PRs because supposedly I am this super senior guy that can't err. Code Reviews are supposed to give you peace of mind, not being a hassle.

During all this time, I've seen plenty of "small changes" having completely unexpected consequences, and sometimes all it would take to avoid would someone else seeing it from another perspective.
Back in the day I worked at a company that if you came up with some long term cost saving measure, they gave you a bonus of 10% net savings for the first year.
Some companies have done this recently (J&J, iirc), but the article didn't mention any liabilities WD was trying to shed, and both these businesses are viable, so I'm not sure if this was just a knee-jerk corporate criticism or there's something to this.
I've been trying to get two Zero W 2s for almost two years now without getting ripped off by somebody on the second hand market. They are still nearly impossible to find for the advertised price. :(
>The hedgehog/fox classification isn't mine, it is Philip Tetlock's

I know it from Isaiah Berlin, but it looks like he took it from Archilochus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox