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pheatherlite commented on Test   defense.gov/News/News-Sto... · Posted by u/ajdude
mjx0 · a year ago
Oh wow. I seriously considered working at comma (the company I believe George Hotz is referencing in that post) once. After reading "[Elon Musk] […] had all the same ideas as me", I feel like I dodged a bullet.
pheatherlite · a year ago
Yet these leaders sit on Twitter all day engaging in petty nonsense, but demand 12 hr days from workers. How productive are they during those 12 hrs?
pheatherlite commented on Test   defense.gov/News/News-Sto... · Posted by u/ajdude
Culonavirus · a year ago
https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382

"9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they just wrote and think about how some of these statements look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate times call for desperate measures... but if it's a "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative scumbag, plain and simple.

You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and affects vastly more workers given the size of his companies.

pheatherlite · a year ago
How do people with elderly parents, or young kids or other responsibilities outside of work deal with such awful schedules?
pheatherlite commented on Memos – An open source Rewinds / Recall   github.com/arkohut/memos... · Posted by u/arkohut
pheatherlite · a year ago
Great work, op. As others have said, encryption is vital to such a project. In fact if your ethos is privacy, it would be great marketing material to assure users that this is in fact resistant to basic infiltration. I think recall is a fantastic idea, even for professionals and corporate env. But the kind of sensitive information that is handled by employees cannot risk being leaked from such a tool.
pheatherlite commented on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO   danluu.com/ballmer/... · Posted by u/greggyb
godelski · a year ago
Everyone, chill

Regardless of how you feel about tipping culture we're not talking about the average person nor are we talking about the average *experience*. The dude is worth north of $100bn, and is making nearly $10k per minute![0]. Someone who cannot spend his wealth. Someone who'd have to spend tens of millions of dollars every single day just to stop his wealth from growing. Someone who makes money faster than he can throw hundred dollar bills handfuls at a time.

We're not talking about anything normal here because no one here *literally* makes thousands of dollars in the time it takes to wipe their ass. You can become poor, he would need an act of god to do so.

We can have a conversation about tipping and how much everyone hates it, but to ignore the fact that we're talking about someone with this kind of money is... ludicrous[1]. Throwing down a hundred bucks means literally nothing to the man. It is not even what a penny is worth to most of you. He's not you and framing the discussion this way is obtuse. Rage on tipping, I don't give a fuck and I'll probably join you. He's not "sticking it to the man" or "standing up for his values" he *is*" the man. He's playing an important role in creating this machine you're raging against. I just don't understand any of you

  [0] 1e11*0.05/365/24/60
        |   |    |   |  |_ minute
        |   |    |   |____ hour
        |   |    |________ day
        |   |_____________ Conservative 5% yearly return
        |_________________ At least 25bn less than he is worth...

  [1] FWIW, I hate tipping too. Fuck the till based tips with the ever increasing percentages. I frequently click 0. But fuck it man, I'm a grad student. Still, if I'm a regular somewhere and they are giving me special service, I'm gonna throw a few dollars into the tip jar. Tipping culture or not they're going out of their way for me and I should show gratitude in some way (you can also do by other means)

pheatherlite · a year ago
That's not the point, though. It's not how generous he is with his money. It's how he sees money, its purpose in his life. People who see wealth as a force multiplier don't gorm habits of being careless with it. Just like you see people who have no money live pay check to pay check, take on debt just to assume a class they don't exist in. Yet you used to see Bezos in a camry and Buffet in some equally run of the mill car. It's because these people place value on everything, a car to themis just depreciating numbers. They formed a habit of critically assessing the "why".

Back to the topic at hand: Tipping is a ridiculous notion that the wealthy can see through, while the rest of us are too brainwashed to objectively analyze

pheatherlite commented on StabilityAI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5   tomsguide.com/ai/stabilit... · Posted by u/s-gonzales
ilaksh · a year ago
This model seems to be largely uncensored, at least compared to previous releases. For example, it is surprisingly familiar with the physics of interactions between human skin and yogurt. According to a friend who was testing it on replicate.com. I would never prompt for something like that of course.
pheatherlite · a year ago
... go on..
pheatherlite commented on The optimised version of 7-Zip can't be built from source   pileofhacks.dev/post/the-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
pheatherlite · a year ago
Til 7z posts quarterly sources in archives. We'll that's a bit sketchy
pheatherlite commented on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor   gist.github.com/hackermon... · Posted by u/mmsc
pheatherlite · a year ago
And I thought I was once a clever 15 year old... this was brilliant. Sharp kid.

Though his pondering of 'why do companies use third party support systems instead of rolling their own' gave his age away :)

pheatherlite commented on MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program   marktyler.org/ced/... · Posted by u/Mr_Minderbinder
zie · a year ago
Seriously go read the link and answer your own question. It's literally there on the linked page.

I mean if the linked page didn't include the information, sure asking is fine.

pheatherlite · a year ago
See the comment below yours answered in fewer words and provided more information. Berating people to read something is just noise. Improve the SNR
pheatherlite commented on Elasticsearch is open source, again   elastic.co/blog/elasticse... · Posted by u/dakrone
lolinder · a year ago
I see a couple people on here claiming this, but no data to back it up. Elastic beats out OpenSearch by a wide margin on every metric I've thought to check (gh stars, gh stars rate of increase, number of commits, number of pull requests opened, number of pull requests merged, number of issues, stack overflow questions...). Not a single one shows OpenSearch ahead.

What metric are you using to come to the conclusion that OpenSearch is the more valuable brand?

pheatherlite · a year ago
For one, we don't have to pay for basic amenities like security and alerts. To heck with gouging the customer for basic feature sets. Aws have their faults, but enabling teams to get the whole elastic experience without the weird nickle and diming is a blessing. Good on Amazon and boo elastic.
pheatherlite commented on 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted   github.com/wasi-master/13... · Posted by u/darknavi
1vuio0pswjnm7 · a year ago
-4
pheatherlite · a year ago
When it comes to fruitful discussions that leaves one with satisfaction and contentment, this ain't it. This is the polar opposite. Cheers

u/pheatherlite

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