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So your complaint is you wanted permanent residence in Germany but did not want to learn to speak German?

The water crunch only seems bad because everybody is trying to maintain the status quo and it's egregiously wasted on things we dont need to. 25% of the Colorado river is used to just grow alfalfa [0]. We over subsidize corn and soy so much we have to invent uses for it. We dont need corn ethanol in our fuel and we dont need to use the precious water in the West to grow alfalfa for Saudi Arabia [1]

[0] https://coloradosun.com/2024/04/04/research-colorado-river-w...

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-drought-stricken-ar...

The point of datacenters in space is about control not economics. They dont want the masses which they are trying to replace with AI and robots to have access to the datacenters running everything.

HN is astroturfed. Not just AI and also before AI took off. It's so easy and so valuable to astroturf HN

Oddly suspicious how this comment which was not one of the first comments which does not address the content at all but the tone skyrocketed to the top.

Anytime you see a lot of media claiming there is a shortage of some career it's a negative signal. The field will shortly be flooded

Cant recall ever being weighed as a passenger and in this day and age you have passengers who are 120 lbs and 300 lbs yet you get penalized if your suitcase is 1 lbs over the limit.

I think the goal is to replace workers who cost $10,000/mo with an AI agent that costs $8,000/mo

Nobody cares how much learning you did but how hard it was to get into the university you got your piece of paper from. Coding bootcamps eventually figured this out so they started to have selective admissions. Universities like Harvard have rampant grade inflation and you have to try to fail out of yet still have prestige due to selective admissions.

My cynical take why TUIs are back is because people operating in the terminal became a signal that you were competent and once people figured that out everybody started doing it. The reason people were operating in the terminal is lost of them but hey it makes you look like a 1337 hacker. It's the same thing with side projects of past decades. People who had side projects cared about the craft for more than a paycheck and tended to be more competent. Then every person just trying to land a job suddenly had "side projects". Gotta have those green squares on github.

I genuinely challenge someone spending $5-$10k a month to demonstrate how that turns into $50-$100k in value

At a lot of businesses $5-10k/mo of AI spend doesnt even translate into $5-10k/mo value. Churning out code was rarely the business value bottleneck. It was convenient for everybody else to blame developers not writing code fast enough for their failures. Now they have no excuse but I doubt will own up.

Grade inflation and schools passing kids who should fail to game metrics and keep collecting student loans is a problem. I wouldnt consider hiring anybody from my alma mater who didnt score a sandard deviation or higher on the tests.

They dont want to build the next git they want to build the next Github. It will have one of those licenses where you can use it but not offer a managed service like the Elastic License

This article is just describing Clojure. The SUPER principals are describing the native natural way of writing Clojure, no category theory needed.

I want access to the LLM xcode uses for swift auto completions

When Colorado passed the wage disclosure law and Digital Ocean decided not to hire in Colorado anymore despite being founded in Colorado is when I decided to never use them. I dont care if they eventually started hiring people in Colorado again.

Rust is cool but there is way too much dogma around its memory safety and static typing in general being a panacea. Most errors are not type errors. Two days after Cloudfare's little Rust hiccup that took the internet down for a day I saw people posting about Rust "if it compiles it runs".

When skiddies use other people's scripts to pop some outdated wordpress install they are absolutely are responsible for their actions. Same applies here.

My experience with flat structure is the most stubborn opinionated people end up making all the decisions because they dont budge and get to escape all responsibility for bad calls. Better to have a designated lead.

Excessive amounts of interviews is more likely they were not enthusiastic about him but didnt have anybody else better and were stringing him along until they found somebody else.

Way too much work having AI generate slop which gets dumped on a human reviewer to deal with. Maybe switch some of that effort into making better review tools.

If you have timeseries data TimescaleDB has this with continuous aggregates

HN is so prime to sockpuppet on because of its fairly low comment rate but high concentration of users who can make technology decisions at companies.

More evidence for my theory that the only reason Uber et al are able to exist is because they have an infinite supply of suckers signing up as drivers. Any McJob pays better now.

Unless we're now ranking scientific discoveries based on whether or not they get a post every weekend on HN.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed there is a weekly (or more) post on what Fourier transform is.

I tried getting into Scala several times and kept going back to Clojure. Unless you are into type system minigames Clojure has many of the things Scala advertises but without the dumptruck of Scala overhead and complexity. Another commenter briefly touched on this but it's a language made by academics for academics to play with language design. It was a little weird it blew up in industry for a while.

On linux mint I can get games to run but they run horribly. I wish I could figure out the issue because running most of my games on linux would be awesome

Anthropic doesnt have $50B to invest, even over multiple years, so who is really writing the checks?

There is way too much money being thrown at AI to not game/cheat the benchmarks

In the US Mercedes Sprinter vans are used exclusively by very affluent people so it doesnt dilute the brand there.