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bigtechennui··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
There’s no reason for (most) software to just be hosted in the US anymore.

We as an industry should use AI to enable a standard of software quality that was previously uneconomical.

bigtechennui··on Claude Fable 5
It’s offered broadly after, for more money. It’s subsidized as marketing
bigtechennui··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
Then the company would issue a desktop and a laptop, since they want engineers to be able to use computers in places other than their desk.
bigtechennui··on I Tested the AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered
Cool so, a bunch of data that shows:

1) elderly people 2) who regularly chat with an AI clone of their child 3) summaries of conversations

Definitely not a hugely attractive target for the worst kinds of scammers

bigtechennui··on Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one
Adding a field that AI can generate cheaply sounds like a way to INCREASE AI spam
bigtechennui··on FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan
One explanation is it gives Polymarket more rope to hang themselves with. Trading volume likely spiked in the lead up, and during, election night. Big numbers make for splashier headlines.

Another could be concern of doing anything visibly election related prior to the election, in case the winner didn’t like the action.

bigtechennui··on Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte
So there’s a cap on the maximum value (always doing it on time), and a cap on the minimum value (never doing it).

The above poster takes the position that the ratio between the maximum value, and minimum employable value is less than 10.

bigtechennui··on SwiftData
Thinking of CoreData as simply providing the persistence layer is incorrect. It also provides the schema. CoreData’s object graph management and persistence are separate - you can use CoreData without persistence, but you can’t use it without a schema.

The annotations are for defining the CoreData schema – i.e. the necessary piece – rather than relying on a schema definition file as one would prior to SwiftData.

There are additional syntactic niceties for SwiftUI binding, but the annotations are very much an ORM.