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TremendousJudge commented on What is going on right now?   catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
aeon_ai · 5 days ago
AI is a change management problem.

Using it well requires a competent team, working together with trust and transparency, to build processes that are designed to effectively balance human guidance/expertise with what LLM's are good at. Small teams are doing very big things with it.

Most organizations, especially large organizations, are so far away from a healthy culture that AI is amplifying the impact of that toxicity.

Executives who interpret "Story Points" as "how much time is that going to take" are asking why everything isn't half a point now. They're so far removed from the process of building maintainable and effective software that they're simply looking for AI to serve as a simple pass through to the bottom line.

The recent study showing that 95% of AI pilots failed to deliver ROI is a case study in the ineffectiveness of modern management to actually do their jobs.

TremendousJudge · 4 days ago
> Executives who interpret "Story Points" as "how much time is that going to take"

aside, but I have yet to meet a single person (dev, qa, pm, exec) who doesn't do this.

TremendousJudge commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license   unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared
pjmlp · 5 days ago
Unfortunately this kind of stuff will eventually kill C# adoption in gaming.

With Unreal on one side, and Godot on the other, where while C# is supported, it is mostly for Unity refugees, there are very few other options left.

Yes there are MonoGame, FNA, Stride and so on, but they lack the same kind of mindshare across the industry.

TremendousJudge · 5 days ago
Why do you see C# adoption in gaming as desirable? Honest question. I think it's a good enough language, but why would it be a good fit specifically for building games?
TremendousJudge commented on How to grow almost anything   howtogrowalmostanything.n... · Posted by u/car
crystal_revenge · 23 days ago
Whenever I use Notion I can feel the PM working there being pushed to ship a new feature this quarter; you can almost hear the engineers asking “why are we building this?”

A few years back Notion was excellent modulo a few small UX things that could be improved.

Now those small things still haven’t been improved but there’s way more clutter worsening the UX notably over time.

TremendousJudge · 22 days ago
How many years back? I worked for a company that used Notion for its docs in 2019 and it was already slow and bloated then.
TremendousJudge commented on The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone   brandur.org/fragments/spe... · Posted by u/Metalnem
legitster · a month ago
Apples and Oranges. Booking.com is an aggregator.

Also, Booking.com is unbelievably exploitative and rife with dark patterns.

TremendousJudge · a month ago
> Also, Booking.com is unbelievably exploitative and rife with dark patterns.

So it seems that Europeans have no issue doing the same thing as American tech companies?

TremendousJudge commented on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions   assemblingamerica.substac... · Posted by u/namlem
esafak · a month ago
But the status quo is considered anomalous by most of the world, so I would not use it as a benchmark.
TremendousJudge · a month ago
Actually, "right wing government gets elected and gets a huge omnibus bill passed that the parliament didn't even read" has been a worldwide trend for some years now. Closest example that comes to mind is probably Argentina, which managed to pass its own controversial right-wing omnibus bill in June last year [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Bases_and_Starting_Poin...

TremendousJudge commented on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme   dublinlive.ie/news/world-... · Posted by u/miles
JadeNB · 2 months ago
Yeah, going back and telling 2000 me and 2012 me that the Cheneys and Mitt Romney would become the conscience of the Republican party would have been interesting.
TremendousJudge · 2 months ago
Who would you say was the conscience of the Republican party in 2012? What were they arguing for? Serious question, not American, follow their politics from afar.
TremendousJudge commented on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme   dublinlive.ie/news/world-... · Posted by u/miles
nostrademons · 2 months ago
Yeah, I see a whole lot of media parallels to Nazi Germany, but the two historical analogues that really pop to mind for me are the French Revolution and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. Both of which ended in slaughter - the Napoleonic Wars for the former and ethnic cleansing for the latter. People are crying dictatorship now, but I don't see that being the ending here; rather, I see it as being war and death on a massive scale.

The other thing to remember about the French Revolution was that nearly all the revolutionaries who came to power during it were dead by the end of it. The folks who are crying "We're in power now, suckas!" are being extremely stupid. Power doesn't last long at times like this.

The other thing that scares me is that the best place to be in all those historical times of crisis was an ocean away from the place where the crisis starts. But that doesn't work today; we have weapons with global reach that can level whole cities in 30 minutes. If the U.S. disintegrates nowhere on earth is safe.

TremendousJudge · 2 months ago
> If the U.S. disintegrates nowhere on earth is safe.

This is a very Hollywood action film way of seeing the world. In the case of an American civil war, it's unlikely that it will be fought using nuclear weapons, and in that case, it's unlikely that they would use any on say, Chile, or Australia.

Europeans are screwed though.

TremendousJudge commented on Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one   technical.ly/civic-news/w... · Posted by u/FlipperPA
JohnFen · 2 months ago
> Users still have to do command line stuff

Not really, unless they're doing something special. But if they're doing something special, they're not average users.

TremendousJudge · 2 months ago
> unless they're doing something special

In my experience with Linux desktop, this could be "have the touchpad work the same as it did on Windows", "plug in an extra monitor and have it behave somewhat normally", or "play this game". But yeah, I guess that as long as we only expect "average users" to only use a web browser to look at Youtube, it's fine.

TremendousJudge commented on Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable   androidcentral.com/phones... · Posted by u/Bluestein
hashworks · 2 months ago
Nothing stops you from using wired headphones with USB-C.
TremendousJudge · 2 months ago
I had to settle for a phone with no headphone jack. I thought it can't be that bad, I got a usbc adapter. It's a strictly worse experience:

- It disconnects easily

- It's much more uncomfortable to keep in the pocket with it plugged on, since it's longer

- I feel like I'm stressing the usbc port much more

- I can't charge and use headphones at the same time (unless I buy a different, bulkier, adapter)

- If I don't have the adapter on me, I can't plug my phone in some music system that doesn't have bt. This has bit me in the ass twice already in four months.

- The adapter already seems to be breaking down (I didn't get the cheapest one available) and sending weird inputs to the phone which pauses the music or causes the assistant to tell me the time

So yeah, nothing's stopping me, but my experience is worse now for the sole reason that Apple decided they wanted to sell Bluetooth headphones

TremendousJudge commented on Juneteenth in Photos   texashighways.com/travel-... · Posted by u/ohjeez
dragonwriter · 2 months ago
> Juneteenth marks the day 2.5 years later that the last known enslaved people were freed

Nope, just the last in the Confederate States; the last Union chattel slaves (e.g., in Delaware) were freed by operation of law a few months later with the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

(And that's not even discussing penal slavery allowed under the 13th Amendment.)

TremendousJudge · 2 months ago
>(And that's not even discussing penal slavery allowed under the 13th Amendment.)

To expand on this, knowingbetter did an in-depth video on this topic[0]. The salient bit is that penal slavery was ended in 1941-1942 by Roosevelt, so that the Japanese couldn't use it as war propaganda against the US.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kI2h3iotA

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KarmaCake day2680April 19, 2016View Original