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Re:You Have to Feel It on Saturday August 30, 2025 @03:19PM (#45077242)
But I feel depressed every time I use Terraform. I see why it is useful, good etc. But I just enjoy it least of all the programming activities.

Pulumi isn't much better. I feel IaC done that way isn't the way we will settle on long term.

And also by the same logic, chemical reactions in general are impossible outside of life. E.g. a fire.
Re:OpenRouter is down on Thursday August 28, 2025 @07:21AM (#45050818)
DNS of AI
Or Balkans?
Managers of 15 shouldn't make lots of decisions. The team should come together and use decision processes to make good decisions. Manager makes sure individuals are growing and are able to contribute at that level.
They shpule make it 16 reports and 8 between them and ceo. Then they can use IP addresses for staff.
Kudos for getting that fat without mentioning AI
Small team management is dead. Long live small team management. Yes. You fire them then your senior engineers fill that gap. Its just not formally part of the process. The cost didnt disappear. Either borne by employees working longer hours or lost velocity.
Re:US Intel on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @08:07AM (#45038533)
My perception changed when the iPhone came out. But even before tbat alot of stuff was made on China and it cant all be crap!
Re:The Therac-25 Incident on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:22AM (#45037645)
I may have understood wrong but thought is possible to get into an unrecoverable stall?
Re:A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:20AM (#45037630)
Meanwhile, AI is being used in genocide to deliberately kill civilian kids.
Re:Malleable Software Will Eat the SaaS World on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @06:13AM (#45037581)
puppy training on a farm
Re:The Therac-25 Incident on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:36AM (#45037315)
Not a bug. A non airworthy plane they tried to patch up with software.
Re:The Therac-25 Incident on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:29AM (#45037256)
Given whole truth testimony?
Re:Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:40PM (#45034878)
You might use R and Ruby. Wouldn't be unheard of. Alias ftw.
Re:Teletext in North America on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:25AM (#45025054)
Bamboozle!
Squints, head moves back then slowly swivels to look at news channel with POTUS speaking....
Re:How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:04AM (#45024099)
Is the pragmatic solution to return 503 and have clients back off.

Or, if possible make latency a feature (embrace the queue!). For service to service internal stuff e.g. something like a request to hard delete something, this can always be a queue.

And obviously you can scale up as the queue backs up.

I do love the maths tho!

Re:How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:54AM (#45024028)
Thinks looks very interesting but is there a good textbook as this is a bit tricky to follow. There are gaps of expected knowledge here.
Re:Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @04:38AM (#45023895)
Likes Lisp Ruby and Typescript, interesting tastes (in a good way... nuanced)
$0 plus spinning out of one of the world's largest social networks and news propagators. But yeah... $0.
Re:Burner Phone 101 on Monday August 25, 2025 @11:02PM (#45021808)
True. Replace "crime" with "things that motivate the government to investigate you". They arent the same but overlap alot of course. In 2025 the non intersecting area got larger.
Re:Building the mouse Logitech won't make on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:10PM (#45019714)
Maybe someone is in the pocket of big mouse.

https://xkcd.com/2130/

A watch that just says PM correct some of the time.
I love the idea (also wondering when Google would build this)

But the situation where emails are backing upload as you drive to work and back to back meetings sounds like a mismanaged workplace.

The real impact (not a startup idea really) is fixing whatever makes the workplace like that. Usually everyone needs to be involved in everything and bad meeting management. Could be bad prioritisation and taking on too much work. Could be busywork.

If AI could solve those problems or help it might be good.

Well since we got off the Gold standard, we might need those big numbers.
Re:Burner Phone 101 on Monday August 25, 2025 @05:53AM (#45012121)
Basic police work gets you. They know the sim owner. Know its a backpacker. Find their last location. Interview who was there at the party. Etc.
Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:56AM (#45011761)
Zip bomb?
Re:Turning Claude Code into My Best Design Partner on Sunday August 24, 2025 @07:03AM (#45003215)
What if once the 100k dev jobs are gone the equivalent value in terms of AI is nowhere near that. Say it is 5k instead?

Due to oversupply. First you needed humans who can code. But now you need scalable compute.

Equivalent would be hiring those people to wave a flag infront of a car. They are replaced bt modern cars, but you dont get to receive the flag wavers wage as captured value for long if at all.

Because national security is too good and they want to make it worse?

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