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Comment · 1 year ago
A concentration camp for people of a certain race. Blocked by judiciary but proceeded anyway. Nope need more evidence.

It is not prison if there is no due process.

Comment · 1 year ago
Probably April or May 2025. I'm bullish still. But then I'm not all US stocks anyway.
Comment · 1 year ago
Cheap stocks people. Got my eye on some that below a certain price it would be a no brainer to buy. Global trade is rerouting around the bottleneck.

Didn't think there would be an opportunity so soon after March 2020.

Got my eye on a tech stock that has dropped about 40% already but was undervalued before IMO.

Comment · 1 year ago
We are not at the stage where AI can replace graduates. No where near. I worked with an intern recently and it was a pleasure. The quality was excellent. An AI couldn't do what they did. In particular it cannot be accountable or really learn anything. Beyond adding more instructions but that is not tacit knowledge. That is like giving a run book to an idiot who doesn't have experience and may or may not understand it.

Stop talking about coding and talk about what humans do.

Otherwise chatgpt could replace any politician because it can recognize and say words. Wording is dead what now!

Comment · 1 year ago
A side project is creative while work is reductive (not necessarily a bad thing!)

Side project is graffiti art on your shed wall, day job is 3 coats gloss white on the ceilings. That needs to be finished by Friday.

I have some side project ideas but need the time! Mainly these would be contributing to OSS databases to get (any!) knowledge of systems proprogramming. Node.js or Go preferred due to familiarity.

Comment · 1 year ago
I lost the thread a bit. Are we talking about Doge? Yes that is a abysmal. No defence for that.

But in general people need to learn some stuff on the job. E.g. hire an 18 year old hacker and by 20 they are leading projects, debugging code, preparing for SOC compliance etc. Is possible.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oh nice. A culture where asking questions is punished. If this was a problem don't fire people. Train them. Make sure everyone does required training. If they refuse then you may have a case for PIP.

Otherwise it is just landmine driven performance

Rant not at comment! But the situation of the comment. Hope it worked out for you!

Comment · 1 year ago
Crypto or AI?
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd forgive a few of those. Unicode is Unicode. The for loop capture behaviour makes sense to me. Missing semis should also be in your linter. Sparse arrays is the sort of feature you'd read up on if you use and not rely on intuition. It makes sense that if you loop over a sparse thing the looping is sparse too.
Comment · 1 year ago
They'd get training presumably. I wasn't qualified for my current job. Luckily they have training! And people to help.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hire a burglar to give home security advice.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think with AI my productivity had increased 1% at most. If I measure time saved per week.
Comment · 1 year ago
And then someone would pay their drug supplier 60M for a monkey NFT
Comment · 1 year ago
At $2/m SRE is powered by love only.

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