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Yes, I mean you've basically explained it without realizing it; "being a manager is about writing" and "being a software developer is about coding" are equally overly reductive sta…

Yes but also no I guess? Like would you say being a manager or in marketing is about writing, or that being in sales is about talking? Those are the main methods of accomplishing w…

> software jobs still hire based on how good your coding is primarily ehhh. In my experience, being able to code is a necessary but not sufficient skill for a software developer. T…

Stock/bond ratios are way too advanced for what's qualifying as good advice here: > AI consistently advised people to save during their working years, draw down savings in retireme…

AI financial advice is surprisingly good... for now . But given the historical trajectory of both the finance and advertising sectors I can't imagine it will, for long. AI response…

Sure, and you need to do the build vs buy math, but why not take the "If you can’t handle that comfortably in an afternoon, you probably shouldn’t be entrusted with customer data."…

> We’re not talking about maintaining your own k8s cluster here mind you, but a basic Postgres setup. If you can’t handle that comfortably in an afternoon, you probably shouldn’t b…

I might get flak for saying this but if you aren't a postgres expert already: just use RDS or a similar cloud DB. The amount of money you're saving by hosting and managing your own…

Good article overall, some comments: > Use foreign keys with cascading deletes for low-volume tables, particularly where database consistency and correctness are important. Careful…

> Kubernetes vs AWS? How is this even a direct comparison? Most companies I know of which use Kubernetes are using it on a cloud provider. Even if it's kubernetes on EC2 rather tha…

> Also, for some reason Optional[T] became deprecated, just as the ecosystem finally embraced types ~3 years ago. Optional[T] is now T | None. Means exactly the same thing but does…

> This is unprofessional and embarrassing for Zig. It is. It's also why Anthropic and Bun moved off Zig. Zig is effectively a one-man show, and that one man has been making increas…

You're framing this as a thing done by a greedy corporation in an evil manner, which maybe it is, but it's also just a sign of the times. For most of the 90s and 00s, your game eng…

No missing "k", really just 191 players. https://steamdb.info/app/3043580/

> - The make around 5 billion in revenue per quarter - The problem according to them is profit margin - around 150-160 million > So first of all, they are big! Secondly they are no…

I think this article is a good demonstration of how the nebulous concept of "taste" still dominates, despite AI taking over so much. IMO -- and apparently the opinion of others -- …

> Honest question : does it need to be said ? At the current time I'm writing this, all other top-level comments are engaging with the article as if it were sincere. So, yes.

I mean I agree with this as well, the people who yell and swear at LLMs are just as bad as the people who chit-chat with them like they're friends. It's all very unsettling because…

I'll go a step further and to say this it's genuinely unsettling someone type to a computer like this. I won't claim to be a psychologist, but with how many instances of "AI psycho…

... except this is on-prem with their own infrastructure, not cloud?

The loudness war in the strict "we must compress and slam everything as much as possible to make our stuff sound good on the radio" sense is over thanks to Spotify et al doing loud…

Now, yes, but in the 90s/00s the alternative to CDs was cassette tapes, which were both inferior audio quality and took up more space. CD players in cars were a very desirable feat…

"How do I acquire users" is the entire function of sales and marketing. A single HN comment explaining how to do sales and marketing, which is highly dependent on your product and …

I am glad you like some things. Some people like other things, such as LLMs, or hosted server infrastructure. Now explain to me why you are allowed to have the things you like whic…

That's exactly my point! Everything has negative externalities, and focusing on them is the way to seem "rational" even though you don't actually care about them. It's the same as …