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badloginagain commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal

walterbell · 9 months ago

> ends this particular change

Temporarily, for 5 years.

badloginagain · 9 months ago

If remember correctly, this was put in by Trump first round, set to activate when Biden was in office.

Now Trump second round fixes it, but expires in next (presumably) Democrat administration.

badloginagain commented on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1... · Posted by u/bko

A_D_E_P_T · 10 months ago

> The problem is that factories take years to build

Nobody's even building them right now. CAPEX and industrial investment have declined in recent months. (!!) They may even drop further. So it seems that if the aim is to revitalize America's industrial base, the present strategy isn't working, but is having an opposite effect.

badloginagain · 10 months ago

Which is funny because US industrial investment was on a tear pre-tariff as companies near/on-shored at historic rates. Not only were tariff's not needed, they've effectively shut down their intended goal.

badloginagain commented on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions feldera.com/blog/the-pain... · Posted by u/qianli_cs

hi_hi · a year ago

I came to the exact same conclusion accidentally in my first role as a Tech Lead a few years back.

It was a large enterprise CMS project. The client had previously told everyone they couldn't automate deployments due to the hosted platform security, so deployments of code and configs were all done manually by a specific support engineer following a complex multistep run sheet. That was going about as well as you'd expect.

I first solved my own headaches by creating a bunch of bash scripts to package and deploy to my local server. Then I shared that with the squads to solve their headaches. Once the bugs were ironed out, the scripts were updated to deploy from local to the dev instance. Jenkins was then brought in an quickly setup to use the same bash scripts, so now we had full CI/CD working to dev and test. Then the platform support guy got bored manually following the run sheet approach and started using our (now mature) scripts to automate deployments to stage and prod.

By the time the client found out I'd completely ignored their direction they were over the moon because we had repeatable and error free automated deployments from local all the way up to prod. I was quite proud of that piece of gorilla consulting :-)

badloginagain · a year ago

I hate the fact that CI peaked with Jenkins. I hate Jenkins, I hate Groovy, but for every company I've worked for there's been a 6-year-uptime Jenkins instance casually holding up the entire company.

There's probably a lesson in there.

badloginagain commented on StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation github.com/cumulo-autumn/... · Posted by u/Flux159

badloginagain · 2 years ago

Yo I just heard about MidJourney this year.

And this appears to be a local runtime stable diffusion streaming library?

Bruh.