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Google is sadly known for doing cool proof-of-concept stuff with no regard for profitability, and then axing it when the hype is over.

How does it work given the 500-year half-life of the DNA?

Well, the elephant in the room is that an app these days is a packaged version of a website with one twist: notifications. Unless you explicitly disable it via settings, it will tr…

They are not paid 6 figures to add fields to JSONs. They are paid 6 figures to brainrot into obsolescence instead of going out there and creating a competing product. The last part…

Well, if you are annoyed by a particular maintenance task related to your business, find a way to automate it! In this case, you could create examples for your API in common progra…

It's not you, it's the industry. For every non-trivial task there is a long line of people within the company willing to do it for some visibility. But in order to get promoted to …

Got 2 of those. Same behavior, otherwise both work just fine.

I had that problem as well (8TB Seagate). It would write some data, then get completely stuck to the point where Windows would report an I/O error. So I wrote a small tool that wri…

They still have valid use cases like backups or unedited video footage. It's just kinda lame that the manufacturers don't market them as "slow backup devices" clearly listing all l…

TLDR: building projects with Clang is now about 4% faster due to optimizations in the way it internally handles assembly.

Why does this comment read like it's written by AI?

Not the developer, but chances are, they are either using a fine-tuned ChatGPT, or cloud-hosting something in the likes of Llama. So they are getting quite a bill each month from o…

TL is lining you up for PIP/termination. The other guy on the team is likely his buddy. Come review time, you will be shown as an IC that struggles to deliver, and the other guy wi…

Exactly. And then the board votes on who gets extra shares to compensate for the dilution, and the CTO is suddenly not on the list. Because the CEO spent months playing political c…

By my logic, to make bank from a startup, you need to be a master negotiator constantly watching your back, parsing poker faces in meetings, reading fine print in agreements, and t…

The article misses the obvious. You don't become a technical co-founder to make bank with the equity or salary. You'll get diluted, replaced and kicked out the moment traction star…

With sufficient data points, you can do A/B and see that all affected systems run a specific version of Linux distro, and eventually track it down to a particular package.

Not necessarily. A frustrated developer posts about it, it catches attention of someone who knows how to use Ghidra et al, and it gets dug out quite fast. Except, with closed-sourc…

Freedom of speech works as a mechanism to maintain decentralized power. If there are multiple sources of power interested in preserving their own shares of power, they end up agree…

Because a whole generation doesn't care about their financial well-being, affording kids, retirement, or any kind of future plans. They are happy, as long as they have a petty emot…

Wyze cameras can actually be used very securely, as long as you bother to jump through some hoops. First of all, google "Wyze RTSP firmware". It's the official firmware from the ve…

Nah, the purpose of propaganda is to control which subset of infinitely complex reality will get remembered. Make enough people associate Orwell's works with the dark pages of his …

Learned what? When it's zero interest rates, funding from desperate investors would dwarf any possible profits you could make, and the bigger headcount makes raising money easier. …