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Chris Knight posted:yeah let's go for revenue, profit is for losers! once you have revenue profit is just a dial you can turn right?
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eschaton posted:once you have revenue profit is just a dial you can turn right? A good round of layoffs can easily turn revenue into profit.
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eschaton posted:once you have revenue profit is just a dial you can turn right? just crank the revenue dial until you IPO, then crank the profit dial for two quarters until you get included in the S&P 500 
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kliras posted:factorialboy 0 minutes ago thank god WOPR had a way to play itself
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dudus 1 hour ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to... I just signed up for this genAI summit but the lack of social buzz and the profile of the organizers give me a strange feeling. https://genaisummit.ai/#/ I'm afraid this is might be a fake conference created by AI. Am I crazy? I paid $500 for tickets. I almost signed up for the booth. I'll have to start emailing speakers for confirmation because it's not passing the smell test. reply
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context: kstrauser 1 day ago | parent | prev | next [–] Historically, that was also a big goal of GNU. It aimed to get rid of artificial limitations in core utilities. That was a big improvement over (made up example) sed having a finite and short maximum command length. reply post: deckard1 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] I can understand why people wanted that, and the benefit of doing that. With that said, I also see benefit in having limitations. There is a certain comfort in knowing what a tool can do and cannot do. A hammer cannot become a screwdriver. And that's fine because you can then decide to use a screwdriver. You're capable of selection. Take PostgreSQL. How many devs today know when it's the right solution? When should they use Redis instead? Or a queue solution? Cloud services add even more confusion. What are the limitations and weaknesses of AWS RDS? Or any AWS service? Ask your typical dev this today and they will give you a blank stare. It's really hard to even know what the right tool is today, when everything is abstracted away and put into fee tiers, ingress/egress charges, etc. etc. tl;dr: limitations and knowledge of those limitations are an important part of being able to select the right tool for the job reply
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I think I’ve interviewed that guy
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Apr 5, 2024 01:47
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"QuackDB supports up to 2GB tables" being easier to reason about than "QuackDB supports up to 2PB tables [but it gets really expensive and really show after a couple of gigs, according to word of mouth]" is a pretty drat lukewarm take though it shouldn't take one long to realise that only the latter gives you time to plan a migration more or less at your leisure
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Apr 5, 2024 02:49
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2 gb of data ought to be enough for anyone
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Subjunctive posted:I think I’ve interviewed that guy
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nonrandomstring 34 minutes ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Japanese American Bird Pins This is actually a very inspiring story that shines hope on the ability of humanity to totally separate, reconstruct itself and thrive. Unlike Nazi extermination camps the US American concentration camps were simply to "contain" the Japanese Americans, In response the inmates built a town and a culture. In most places if you put 18.000 people into a couple square miles you'd have a humanitarian disaster. Instead they grew crops, made clothes, planted gardens, opened schools, created jobs, hospitals, newspapers, mess halls, dry goods stores and police and fire departments. "They found ways to continue their careers as doctors, journalists, teachers or farmers. By the end of 1943, 85% of the vegetables eaten in the camps came from within them." Anyone who thinks we are hopelessly dependent on the corporate superstructure and hopelessly beholden to technology is simply proved wrong by this example from not too distant history.
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rufus_foreman 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [–] >> Car companies in 1910 would have been real bastions of free enterprise. By 1950 they had massive lobbyists and all the rest Car companies couldn't produce cars between February, 1942 and October, 1945, because the federal government ordered them to produce weapons instead. There was certainly at least one car company executive that resisted that, he got called a fascist. Free enterprise was completely suspended. 100%.
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ctrw 1 day ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] I have llm very patiently explain to me why I crashed prod when I used the wrong conversion factor between ms and mus and us. Thanks SI very cool that one of the more often used units needs unicode to be entered into code. Llm are absolutely helping with catching buts and code quality already. reply constantcrying 1 day ago | prev | next [–] This seems insane and totally unenforceable. Even when I wrote very single line of code myself, I use AI to ask it about questions regarding the programming language or the library that I use. Banning that is just handicapping yourself. I do like the sentiment. You absolutely do not want people to commit code they don't understand themselves, but the solution isn't to outright ban AI. The solution is to have trusted, knowledgeable developers who are aware of the limits of AI and use it appropriately. reply
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lemagedurage 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] ChatGPT3.5 already spots bugs, e.g. when I swap the order of conditions in fizzbuzz. An error that a human could make. We've been at the point where AI can help spot bugs for a while already. AI can be used poorly, AI can be used well. reply
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quote:The solution is to have trusted, knowledgeable developers who are aware of the limits of AI and use it appropriately. whether it should be called “AI” or “IntelliSense 3000 Pro” aside, especially given that with or without transformer tech we were headed towards ML models backing things like IntelliSense more broadly, this is correct IMO
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quote:You absolutely do not want people to commit code they don't understand themselves, but the solution isn't to outright ban AI. this is how we run our paid programming interviews these days, FWIW: please feel free to use copilot/ChatGPT/Claude, but expect to get “why” questions and be asked about tradeoffs and similar people are going to use tools like that (and Google before them, which we also permitted and encouraged) at work, so they might as well use them during the interview we have some work to do to tune the problem set and train interviewers on some new elements, but it’s working OK so far
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fritz posted:lemagedurage 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–] look, it's been a while since i've sat down and coded anything more complex than a quick script, but is it unreasonable of me that my first thought was "how do you gently caress up fizzbuzz and need an ai to catch it"? my brother in christ, it's fizzbuzz. even if you run the bad code, it's not going to kill a prod server unless you wrote some really, really bad fizzbuzz.
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also fizzbuzz is one of the most documented programming problems on the internet, so probably playing a bit to the strengths of a model built on scraping that same internet
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Neito posted:look, it's been a while since i've sat down and coded anything more complex than a quick script, but is it unreasonable of me that my first thought was "how do you gently caress up fizzbuzz and need an ai to catch it"?
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Subjunctive posted:also fizzbuzz is one of the most documented programming problems on the internet, so probably playing a bit to the strengths of a model built on scraping that same internet llm fixes typos in your term paper about shakespeare so it can clearly also write you a sonnet that will stand the test of time
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kitten smoothie posted:llm fixes typos in your term paper about shakespeare so it can clearly also write you a sonnet that will stand the test of time
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kliras posted:unoptimized ruby on rails code but you repeat yourself
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Neito posted:look, it's been a while since i've sat down and coded anything more complex than a quick script, but is it unreasonable of me that my first thought was "how do you gently caress up fizzbuzz and need an ai to catch it"? where do u work that you actually deploy fizzbuzz
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jizzbuzz
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fart simpson posted:where do u work that you actually deploy fizzbuzz We offer scalable fizzbuzz solutions for large enterprises.
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lobsterminator posted:We offer scalable fizzbuzz solutions for large enterprises. We can handle numbers all the way up to 500 million. contact our sales team for the baz extension
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this one was too easy to quote but what a loving shithole hn is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40050844
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Armitag3 posted:We can handle numbers all the way up to 500 million. contact our sales team for the baz extension some sales guy heard of qux and now I have to work overtime for the next month
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fart simpson posted:where do u work that you actually deploy fizzbuzz https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:I hate it when people get politics in my war i just want to jerk off to theoretical military weapons without all those yucky politics
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yareal 31 minutes ago | next [–] It turns out that money laundering is still money laundering even if you do it in a fancy, machine automatable way. It stuns me that people thought they had somehow beat the system by building technology like this. The government is going to be like, pretty ruthless in chasing it down. reply unboxingelf 10 minutes ago | parent | next [–] Have you ever considered there may be legitimate use cases for such technology? Like normal Americans maintaining financial privacy? Cash was a private, p2p currency before it was basically replaced with corporate, permissioned and surveilled credit. Bitcoin is pseudonymous p2p money but the ledger is public. Obfuscating bitcoin to prevent 3rd parties from seeing your balance is not money laundering. reply
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narrator: it was
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bonus pg wisdom https://bsky.app/profile/ryxcommar.bsky.social/post/3kr2b5e5yft2g
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TriangleEdge 2 days ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evi... I could be wrong, but my assumption is that tech companies with a lot of talent develop their own messaging apps for the execs and friends. Why would they risk using a popular platform? The data could be sent via whatever medium, doesn't need to be ethernet. I also assume this is how most illegal collusion is done as well, unless someone wants to give me other data points. reply
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most illegal collusion in the valley happens on WhatsApp, with iMessage and then Signal a distant second and third
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lol imagine supporting a dogshit homegrown chat client and the ceo calls you up at 4AM to make you add a complete suite of nazi runes to the emoji picker
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dave morin posted:It’s a custom-designed, one-of-a-kind bespoke app I had built for my assistant and I to communicate and collaborate through.
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the gently caress does "it doesn't need to be routed via ethernet" mean in this context.
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