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I remember while at Amazon, during the "everyone needs to be using AI in every way" push, one of my teammates was proud to present that he had figured out how to split the audio on…

> Why is everything sanded down to "good or bad"? Amazon's Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews was one of the very first forays into ML that the company had. They just keep wanti…

or a simpler version: "A stitch in time saves nine...but I charge by the stitch"

Please read the book "Bullshit Jobs" Most SWEs are a mix of Duct tapers and Box tickers, and their managers are Taskmasters.

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent" "...you said on an iPhone. Heh. Gotcha."

Police aren't "protected persons" > civilians who find themselves in the midst of an international armed conflict or military occupation and are in the hands of a foreign power

Everyone gets the first amendment

This just shows that even in the most obvious cases, if a cop wants to fuck up your life it might only take SIX YEARS to get back to normalcy.

This is awesome. Perfectly solving a problem, showing off tech, and adorable.

> I proceeded to do the work. > I did the work. > I worked.

Unix philosophy strikes again

HTML tools are a good name. I called them something like "a local html file" One problem I solved with this was a packer needed to scan a few (10-40) ids into his barcode scanner. …

FYI, looks like keyvalues.com didn't pay their bill > This service has been suspended.

> That's a little more than 10% productivity, so not anywhere close to 10x. No Silver Bullet still alive and well in 2026

You didn't read far enough: > Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022, a Guardian review found. Fami…

> what's the difference? Did you read the article? Charging what's actually on the price tag is the first thing that's the difference.

> Dollar General said it was “committed to providing customers with accurate prices on items purchased in our stores, and we are disappointed any time we fail to deliver on this co…

Yes, absolutely

Given the absurd amount startups I see lately that have the words "healthcare" and "AI", I'm actually incredibly concerned that in just a couple of months we're going to have an mu…

> If Bun breaks, Claude Code breaks. Anthropic has direct incentive to keep Bun excellent. and when this bubble pops down goes bun

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Backend: Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Spring, GraphQL, REST APIs, Kafka, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB Frontend…

yeah, he was an absolute clown. just laugh at clowns and move on

Thank you for the response!

I have a dumb and probably easily-googled question, but I trust the average knowledge here: What's the best Video Card / Brand / Model for running games on Linux? I'm considering u…