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Comment · 15 days ago
> Given the Controller pattern, why isn't there support for "Cloud Native" architectures?

you're supposed to write your own.

> Why are the storage and networking implementations "out of tree" (CNI / CSI)?

> Given the above question, why is there explicit support for Cloud providers?

the in-tree stuff came first, and they have been extracting it in pieces for years now.

Comment · 21 days ago
came here looking for someone to point this out. the flip from "it's more fun to be competent" to "just let the machine do it for you" has told me everything I ever need to know about DHH. The man has no principles.
Comment · 2 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

you would do well to note that this page links directly to an entire wikipedia entry for 'US War Crimes': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

Comment · 2 months ago
I would if I had that kind of money!
Comment · 2 months ago
TIL a really good r/unixporn post is worth $8M
Comment · 2 months ago
maybe I'm missing something, I'll admit I haven't made it through the whole smug article, but critiquing knowledge work, especially IT work, just a few years after that field yielded it's...what, fourth?... major contribution to society in the last say 40 years is pretty funny imho.

I'm counting:

1. the pc (80's) 2. the web (90's-early 2000's) 3. the cloud (early 2010s) 4. the computers that speak natural langage (early 2020s)

a big chunk of gdp in the most prosperus nation on earth is dedicated to knowledge work but sure, it's abstract so I guess it doesn't feel as useful.

Comment · 3 months ago
I think there's some nuance here that a lot of these convos dont make plain - are we talking about just using 'ai' in the military broadly, or are we specifically talking about fully autonomous weapons systems?

In the former case, I would agree with you completely, I havent heard any arguments beyond 'I dont like working on military stuff'. But if we're talking fully autonomous weapons, that's a different story. And further muddying the waters is the fact that the former is obviously a step along the path to the latter.

Comment · 5 months ago
> at a fraction of the cost of human workers.

herein lies the rub

Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
> It used to be that a well-written document was a proof-of-work that the author thought things through (or at least spent some time thinking about it).

I think you hit the nail on the head here. The problem isn't so much that people can do bad work faster than ever now, its that we can no longer rely on the same heuristics for quickly assessing a given piece of work. I dont have a great answer. But I do still think it has something to do with trust and how we build relationships with each other.

Comment · 10 months ago
This is a trust issue. If someone I trust hands me a big pr, I focus on the important details. If someone i dont trust hands me a big pr, i just reject it and ask them to break the problem down further. I dont waste my time on this kind of thing, regardless of whether it was hand written or generated.
Comment · 10 months ago
Nowhere in here does it indicate that the generated plan was wrong or broken. I dont care if you use ai to write. I care if you write well. If the author trusted the other person, then it shouldn't matter. If the author didn't trust the other person, then they'd have to validate their output anyway. Granted the tech allows people I dont trust to generate a lot more bs, a lot faster. But i just reject and move on with my life in that case. I am no ai booster but a lot people are expressing distaste for tools when they should be expressing distaste for fools.
Comment · 10 months ago
I guess this is more broad than like code triage and sites like that? Hard to tell cause I dont want to sign up to see what's in it.
Comment · 10 months ago
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

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