VibeSurgeon

The arch-gooner

Seems particularly high in levels of snake oil to be honest

Be that as it may, businesses will generally move towards things that cost less dollars on balance

I assume most of them will have no citizenship in a second country for them to be accepted in.

A pragmatic solution would be to deport them out to sea.

There’s likely a maintenance cost continuously being paid that Apple wants to get away from.

An infinite pool of money.

Video hosting is very costly, especially at scale

The idea, cruel as it may be, is that you keep hiring more people while chopping off the bottom, keeping the headcount at your desirable level.

Unregretted attrition is however one of the most potent poisons you can introduce into your company culture. Perhaps this is why Zuck opted against it this year - signs of cultural decay may have already set in.

I guess it might be organized by people with intense humiliation kinks

You might want to get that checked out.

RTOs are most often a “one free layoff”-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

Complete hands-off no-review no-technical experience vibe coding is obviously snake oil, yeah.

This is a pretty large problem when it comes to learning about LLM-based tooling: lots of noise, very little signal.

So far, there is serious cognitive step needed that LLM just can’t do to get productive. They can output code but they don’t understand what’s going on. They don’t grasp architecture. Large projects don’t fit on their token window.

There’s a remarkably effective solution for this, that helps both humans and models alike - write documentation.

It’s actually kind of funny how the LLM wave has sparked a renaissance of high-quality documentation. Who would have thought?

2 people, about €300 spent in grocery stores monthly, with the caveat that both of us get some level of food at work.

Queue the chubbyemu intro music

Must be ragebait, right?

I have a bidet as well, but I use a very small amount of paper to dry up - and verify that the bidet has done its job well.

I don’t think I would want to use it without any way of drying up.

26. I did a mix of driving with my parents and taking driving classes.

I didn’t hurry up to take it because it’s not mandatory to drive where I’ve lived so far, and where I live now it’s completely optional. These days I drive very rarely, most commonly when visiting family.

good benefits and perks.

Didn’t they literally just introduce free coffee at the office post-pandemic?

Not to say that I would willingly choose to work at Amazon, but I do know the reason. It’s documented here: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/amazon/salaries/software-engineer

Wind and solar just aren’t enough.

Wind + solar + storage is both enough and beating nuclear at this point, and by the time the next nuclear power plant actually manages to get online, the calculation will be even further in favour of that mix, on account of the absolutely plummeting cost of storage, which is following the same trend as solar used to, with costs reductions >98%. Not to mention the built-in resilience you get from having a more widely distributed instead of having a few nodes producing the lion’s share of your power.

I don’t have any ideological opposition to nuclear. If you manage to build it without massive subsidies and taking care of your waste, feel free to build them. That’s happening in exactly 0 places worldwide though.