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This isn't something you need an AI to do for you though...

beardbanditon AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Out of every single reason given for why the bootcamp era was justified the only one I believe is that there was so much focus on it because bigger players wanted to flood the market with cheap supply and drive salaries downward.

This is not any different with offshoring before, and AI now.

beardbanditon GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

There is a human in the loop that either prompted the agent or approved the code. So it doesn't matter if the AI is accountable or not.

beardbanditon VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

Author is absolutely from Microsoft

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

https://github.com/cwebster-99

beardbanditon The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

You don't want to live in a society where an increasingly large percentage of the population have nothing to lose.

Regardless of whether it benefits our industry or socioeconomic status, it'd be incredibly shortsighted to just do all of that at the expense of the lower classes.

beardbanditon 4o Image Generation

The easy infographic generation scares me on the implications for society.

beardbanditon Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)

I can't describe how fast my eyes glazed over seeing all those numbers. The cow was very cute.

beardbanditon JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization

I can think of one valuable use-case: parsing through JSON responses for APIs with poor fields/response documentation -- especially if you have to parse through a ton of information.

Still way more readable than XML.

beardbanditon Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

Seriously. Its not like alternatively I can code for 8 straight hours. I treat meetings like breaks for the most part.

beardbanditon Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings

This is incredibly passive aggressive lol.

beardbanditon Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

I agree. Its a coin flip. We don't know what the long term effects of COVID are, we don't know what the long term effects of the vaccine are. I'd argue that we know more about what COULD happen with the vaccine long term and I'd rather place my bets on that. The alternative is hiding away for 20+ years and not getting vaccinated or contracting COVID, obviously not feasible.

beardbanditon Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source

What good does blame do if the only thing that can potentially change the course is public policy?

I find it a lot harder trying to convince everyone to change versus forcing everyone to change through policy and enforcement through government.

beardbanditon Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments

I think that's where the confusion lies. Are people suggesting someone to write their own auth from the ground up, or write auth in coordination with their stack's auth library of choice?

beardbanditon Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

I'd rather the money and fines flow to the US government, not random hacker groups.

beardbanditon Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

I've had my variable annual bonus converted into a permanent salary increase.

I will say I like this a lot more.

beardbanditon Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims

Man, people really hate Mongo.

We use it for a very specific use case and its been perfect for us when we need raw speed over everything. Data loss is tolerable.

beardbanditon Advent of Code 2019

Yeah. That sounds like work and me begging business side for better requirements.

beardbanditon Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone

You can use RDBMS for anything that requires complex relationships and map them to unique identifiers in the Mongo documents.

In most cases though, Mongo fits use cases, we never try to use it as a wholesale RDBMS replacement.

beardbanditon A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates

Its 50/50.

Either you crack it or you don't.

beardbanditon Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage

Now convince a place that isn't doing this to spend time and resources to put this into place.

'Ship fast and break things' is one of the best and worst cultures in the tech industry.

beardbanditon When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

Being 100% sedentary + eating less calories is pretty difficult.

For some reason unbeknownst to me, exercise makes eating less a lot easier.

beardbanditon When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?

"I can't help but groan at some of the "obvious" health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around."

On the flip side, the people that are told this are the ones that are annoyingly attempting to maintain their bad eating habits while just adding exercise, or adding fab foods, or anything really to delude themselves into thinking they can continue to eat the same way.

beardbanditon Desktop compositing latency is real

This is pretty much my setup. Higher quality TN panels don't have that much of a dropoff from median quality IPS panels.

beardbanditon Desktop compositing latency is real

I agree.

Which is why its hilarious whenever I ask around for recommendations, especially on Reddit, everyone tries to peg it as a non issue. As if your head never moves and you only have one monitor.

beardbanditon Dynamic Progamming: First Principles

When I took Algorithms II in college at a top 10 CS program, our entire class involved ZERO coding or programming of any sort.