awakeasleep

That professor saying that the use of work he already produced amounts to "slave labor"... copyright infringement is substantially different than slavery.

The idea of getting a brain cleaning like this sounds so appealing to me

Let's not kid ourselves, llm's are already doing the incident response for this in many infrastructure teams

Also with people having fewer ties to the rest of humanity, there will probably be some weird effects on morality

What do you mean by "waste renewable energy"

What is your app and how did this affect it?

Even without out the free stuff, no one in this thread seems to have experience managing a self-hosted git environment in even a medium sized company.

It is also constant outages, and then it's your job to diagnose and fix it- and the technical work of that is the easiest part.

It's broken because a team figured out a new way to abuse the company's git infra to get around some process or limitation, and now you have to argue with their manager and then their director about why their team needs to stop using your VCS as a docker registry or whatever.

To your “happily collect taxes at full rate” comment, strongtowns.org’s whole message is that only the densest cities in the country bring in enough taxes to pay for the maintenance of streets, sewers etc.

“Full rate” is almost always subsidized through the windfall taxes on new growth and development, putting towns in a ponzi scheme like situation.

I don't have any insight into this situation, but I feel like the incentives to blame Russia for any problem must be tremendous.

It's a perfect 'get out of jail free' card for any sufficiently complicated screw up.

We're discussing this in the context of Microsoft and other organizations large enough to employ double digit percentages of all H1B visa immigrants to the USA.

The quirks of individual managers don't matter in this context.

This is not a management perspective.

Thats a world class 4 year old! Even the lettering... really great