johnzabroski

Serious games question. What if these agent swarms pump and dump AI IPOs such that algorithmic trading signals interpret message board sentiments favorably to upside?

Nice article but it seems obvious to me the .NET team should throw away AzureDevOps as the queue wait time is the major bottleneck. Run bare metal build servers. Maybe there are justifications not to do this, but the article skips the elephant in the room.

"old man yells at clouds." :)

4.8 is basically never going away. its built into Windows thanks to Longhorn developers, many of whom left mid project to work at Google.

The Taylor Swift billboard 100 debut at 1 test.

Hmm. You find it hard to go back to languages without ADTs yet you use Java for your day job. Okay.

Windows supports eBPF. CrowdStrike was written before that supports existed, though.

I know quite a few developers who have a knack for following market trends and jumping on the rocket ship before it is about to launch.

It's actually not that hard if you think about what filter you would apply. The one hard part is finding recruiters who specialize in placing people at these companies, and, of course, passing the interview (or at least enough success that the interviewer doesn't tell the recruiter you are a poor quality candidate).

> It's kind of like the "r/cscareerquestions" effect.

I canceled my ACM subscription in my late 20s because I got tired of ACM basically doomposting about careers. Last night I was going through my Gmail folders and found a bunch of old ACM doomposts I never deleted from their CSCAREERS mailing list.

So, it's not just reddit that doomposts- Industry veterans are just as paranoid and can also serve as Chicken Little.

In my experience, the decision is driven by a VP who wants a bullet point on their year-end review, namely "notional cost savings achieved".

What do you do for a living?

This is not true. She does discuss how some countries and regions of the world use the Internet less, or not at all, and thus Transformer/BERT are training on the linguistic habits of the most affluent of the world.

Why is Mozilla Firefox written in Rust, then?

The last time I looked at browser benchmarks was in 2016 when Google released benchmarks to brag about its performance over Firefox and Edge. It appears Webkit has released JetStream2 to benchmark JavaScript, WebAssembly and web workers, among other things. But I can't find data showing Mozilla Firefox is ~20% slower than Chrome/Edge today.

Alan Kay's criticisms are much more damning.