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Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:02AM (#50338753)
Two edged sword. That means the bots also have a library of exploits to try for the components used in your project.
Re:Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released on Sunday November 01, 2026 @10:49AM (#50326753)
I looked at workstation PCs this year and there is no competition. 3k will get you recent gen intel, 16 GB ram, no GPU, no wireless.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:32PM (#50321951)
People don’t know that the heyday of STEM governance was the Soviet Union.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:31PM (#50321947)
Liberalism is dead Switzerland is ground zero.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:59PM (#50312813)
This. It seems most developers have never even had the experience of iterating on a system they understand, making predictions, seeing the result, and having a clear sense of what they are trying to accomplish. There are so many tools and systems, wrangling them becomes an end in itself.
Why are you trying to convince me?
Sour grapes is when you assume that a privilege another person has must actually be bad. In this case the temptation is to say you could have been successful in big tech but you are too moral. (Other people must be making moral compromises).
> only highest volume sellers can remain.

Ridiculous simplification.

Well, remind me not to hire you for an executive media position.

This is also the default C behavior.
Nothing they could have done? That’s crazy.

Before video this happened to text. Look at for example how NYT has shored itself up vs the many failed news outlets. Premium brand.

Re:The Goose Programming Language on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:46AM (#50230213)
Have you read this document?
How does internet censorship 2016-2024 fit into your model?

It’s more simple than that. Industry tends to align with government because they have power and they want that power to be benefit them. If you’re a large company it would be stupid not to try to maintain that relationship.

I'm baffled. Do you not see the normative vs descriptive claim here?

The reality is that requiring benefits imposes a cost, and employers manage that cost by limiting who qualifies. So yes, this hurt many workers - and disproportionately impacted disadvantaged people who didn't make the full-time cliff.

Ignoring increntives is actually shaking your fist at the sky.

Re:Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:01PM (#50227871)
You're missing the point of the comment. It was not about affordability.
Sour grapes.

> sit through endless woke sexual harassment videos where you are taught that the white man is the source of all evil,

In big tech I had fewer trainings than any other org in my career, because they knew time was money.

It's always better to have more credentials, more prestige, and be more attractive. Does that stop the other 80% of hires? No.
This is a form of sour grapes.
I don't think this is true. Good implementation is secret sauce, and not re-producible for external observation alone. I'm even aware of software techniques which only exist within companies, despite much public effort to recreate them.

It may encourage more secrecy and backend style designs though.

Re:The Goose Programming Language on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:46PM (#50227792)
> and no undefined behavior

Where is the behavior specified?

I'm a pretty big AI skeptic, but can't get behind this comment.

It is changing the economy. It is changing how work is done. We are not going back, even if the emphasis in the workplace and role it performs matures.

which is in unintended but predictable side effect of requiring those benefits for full-time employees.
Modern technology makes distribution free, so then you need to compete on brand and quality.

Outsourcing seems extremely short-sighted in this environment. You're devaluing your brand, and giving expertise and training to another place that can make their own products.

I also wonder how much can be attributed to weakened intellectual property protection. Comments in this thread say they don't pay for anything because they can watch it all for free.

The headline is misleading. He hasn’t been commenting about the Goose language and his experience with it. And you are promoting.
Why are you pretending that John is endorsing your project?
He didn’t comment on goose. He talked about a concept and the goose guy said “that’s like my idea”. And John said “yeah sounds like it”.
All these names are silly. It's just marketing.
Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:40PM (#50203535)
Hire an empathetic engineer and don’t have the write code.
Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:39PM (#50203515)
Yep, LLMs work to the degree you don’t care shout the choices made. That’s why it’s great for demos and starter templates.

But for mature software eventually every single detail matters.

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:03AM (#50194769)
I don’t think work training turns you into someone who thinks logically about systems and about human psychology.
Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:56PM (#50189744)
Outside of big tech I’ve never met a UX designer who wasn’t just a graphic designer. Not a single one.

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