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catmanjan··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
By that logic killing all humans now would be better than letting future generations die
catmanjan··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Hilarious irony here, given that these qualified and legally hired people built the most morally reprehensible weapon in history
catmanjan··on Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
>far more impact and reach.

Absurd, AI has had zero impact in the everyday life of most of the population of Earth, in fact the biggest impact has been upon the wallets of speculators

catmanjan··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
This has nothing to do with technology it is a purely financial and political exercise...
catmanjan··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Given every other iteration has basically just been the same thing but bigger, why should we think this?
catmanjan··on The era of open voice assistants
Ah I admit I haven't looked into it for several years, good to see they added the feature - I might have to grab one
catmanjan··on The era of open voice assistants
All I want is a voice assistant that I can call "computer" like Star Trek, I don't want to have to say a brand name thankyou!
catmanjan··on BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost
Until mechanics are willing to replace individual cells in a battery pack there is the looming risk of a very high cost repair...
catmanjan··on .NET Smart Components
Is it just me, or is using GPT overkill to deliver these features?
catmanjan··on It's time to put REST to rest
Having used “REST” for 10 years or so I can confidently say I’ve never used REST
catmanjan··on ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users
Those things are going to the cloud for completely unrelated reasons
catmanjan··on .NET Blazor
Why stop there? Programmers are the ones most familiar with the software, they should be selling it. If they don’t have time they can hire more programmers, HR is easy… also they can automate the salary and procurement systems.
catmanjan··on 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)
Good luck painting houses and mowing lawns in Coober Pedy haha
catmanjan··on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
Aren’t index funds just based on the profits of exploitative companies?
catmanjan··on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans
Is it really possible for an individual to “build wealth” without exploiting the working class
catmanjan··on You're doing two-factor authentication wrong
The problem is these platforms double as identity providers so your twitter hacked can give access to other websites - it’s crazy that this was ever a thing
catmanjan··on Imaginary problems are the root of bad software
Bad engineering but potentially good business if it’s all billed to the customer…
catmanjan··on A profit-price spiral in Germany
They meant jobs important to society, bakers would probably be near the top of that list
catmanjan··on Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
Exactly! What most people seem to mean by tech is was it founded in the 90s and does their home page use react
catmanjan··on SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
We still aren’t fully utilising horizontal farming which is significantly cheaper
catmanjan··on Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
What is a tech company? Is ford a tech company? Is Goldman Sacha a tech company?
catmanjan··on March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened
Not everyone has the privilege of working for free
catmanjan··on Growing crops under solar panels
I’m actually experimenting with building one of those- the problem is the forces involved compared to the irrigator which is basically just suspending water pipes over the ground
catmanjan··on The words you choose within an app are an essential part of its user experience
I find the familiarity that modern software assumes unnerving. Everything has a time and place, I wouldn’t want a Got It button while filling out an official form.
catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Yeah maybe it’s a cultural thing because having to justify your value as employee is pretty normal where I work, across all industries
catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
I genuinely wouldn’t care, we already have code review and I know I am a productive worker

Quiet quitters are probably shitting themselves

catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Have you written more than a few pages of code in the past 30 days?
catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Can someone from Twitter do this and let us know how it goes
catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
In what way is it degrading to show your work?
catmanjan··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Imagine if you printed off your code and ended up with only a few pages of paper you’d fee pretty silly and may quit from embarrassment

Just a thought nothing to back up this claim

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