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"over 50% of the country i live in are irredeemably terrible people" is obviously hyperbole -- if it were true, the onus would be on you to start taking action against those terrib…

> But if the person in front of you has done or advocated for things that cause harm or is themself a horrible person then I disagree. the current conflict in the middle east shows…

it's not really a questionable decision though. in the absence of morals, which is what we have in a capitalist society, the way to maximize the success of a corporation is to remo…

> Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people. corporations exist to make money, or maximize shareholder returns, depending on how you …

morale is also adversely affected by people having obvious underperformers on their team that they have to work around, so pick your poison

bad hire doesn't necessarily mean bad/stupid/incompetent person, it just means bad hire. might not be a fit for the role, might not be a fit for the company. for example, i freely …

> Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people? if you only messed up 5% of your hires you'd be a goddamn genius and ev…

last quote is the key point and tracks with the other Vibe Shift press releases Mark has been on about. i read this as, there was a fear that laying off underperformers without ver…

very true. love him or hate him, Trudeau deserves credit for surviving not just sexual assault allegations, but also the infamous blackface/brownface pictures[0], all during the he…

> a desire to not centralize the Internet > If I didn't already self-host email this really says all that needs to be said about your perspective. you have an engineer and OSS advo…

i heard the same shit when people were talking about outsourcing to India after the dotcom bubble burst. programmer salaries would cap out at $60k because of international competit…

430 million people currently work in textiles[0]; how big was the industry before mechanical looms? [0] https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/global-apparel-indu...

yes, this. the backlog of software that needs to be built is fucking enormous . you know what i'd do if AI made it so i could replace 10 devs with 8? use the 2 newly-freed up devel…

it means it took Frieren 1000 years to fully understand Rust's borrow checker.

> Explaining code, reviewing code, writing code, writing test, writing tech docs. people using GPT to write tech docs at real software companies get fired, full stop lol. good comp…

> bust most engineers are writing code most of the time. the physical act of writing code is different than the process of developing software. 80%+ of the time working on a featur…

this is the correct answer i can only assume software developers afraid of LLMs taking their jobs have not been doing this for long. being a software developer is about writing cod…

you're confusing "speaking English" with "knowing the English alphabet." these things are orthogonal. 95%+ of people in those countries know the english alphabet. i just threw down…

it's certainly hard to localize everything but billions of people use ios/android in India, China, SEA, MENA, etc... i think it's fair to say that at the end user level, computers …

> A good chunk of the world does not speak english or latin character based languages. nearly everyone in a first world country knows the English alphabet though. a vast majority o…