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I'm not getting paid by the hour, so hell no. If I was paid hourly, hell no.

AI Tribbles. What could go wrong?

Project has been around longer than typical AI initiated ones: https://github.com/yorukot/superfile/graphs/code-frequency

I have experience two of these AI "interviews". The absolute dumbest interviews of my career, with the exception of a recruiter sending me to a C++ config manager role when I was a…

Real jail time for corporate officers. Currently there is no downside for sociopathic behavior. Employment contracts guarantee they earn if the stock does well. If not they get a g…

The layoffs will continue until morale improves.

You should not. Jobs are ephemeral, as companies consider employees to be replaceable / expendable cogs in the machine. Keeping expectations equal makes sure all parties benefit. C…

Drivel. This clickbait reads like a long and twisted version of the old boomer adage "Just walk in there with a firm handshake and ask for a job". Yes the job market has changed, j…

https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/sql/dialect/friendly_sql

This is really nice. I have tried, but not quite configured tig to do exactly what this does.

Companies do not have moralities. They have revenue targets. Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it. Th…

Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic. Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.

Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations. The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with an…

His investment in time is guaranteed to pay off for him, and the investment in time of the people who work for him is guaranteed to pay off for him. The rest of us have no guarante…

My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" …

Share some examples?

What would people here _not_ use DeepSeek for? Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savin…

The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itse…

> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week? This is what brought me to Python (1.5) Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied t…

> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch? Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.

> I can create more videos as soon as your limit resets. Check your usage in Settings. I have not used Gemini in a month.

It is more than one fiscal quarter away. May as well be a lifetime.