I'll go against the grain slightly and say that usually Google ratings are quite reliable for me. At times I notice they're exaggerated and it usually coincides with someone coming to ask me to rate them at the end of the meal.
Readit NewsI've been thinking about this recently. The centrality of the stock market, while historically a great tool to allocate resources efficiently, might actually be a big weakness for the USA today. A capable adversary, like China, can kill entire strategic sectors in the US using the stock market. If they undercut the US companies and are willing to accept low returns on their investments, then the respective USA competition will be driven out of business by their investors, because there will be other sectors to invest in, with higher RoI. Do this at various points in strategic value chains, and over a decade or so it might kill entire verticals in strategic sectors, leaving the US economy vulnerable to any kinds of shocks.
Do you need the stock market to undercut industries though? I'm not sure it's necessary
qweiopqweiop commented on Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship kerrick.blog/articles/202... · Posted by u/Kerrick
What is your setup when pairing remotely? (Full disclosure I am building an OSS app for this purpose and just want to learn what is working for people)
Not OP, but Tuple is pretty great.
qweiopqweiop commented on Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2 evenrealities.com/smart-g... · Posted by u/gessha
It's similar to how people felt when Google Glass first showed up. Until there's some universally understood signal like a visible recording light (that can't be turned off), I think that unease is going to stick around
Even with a light, a just made a quick google search and the top reddit thread is about how easy it is to cover up with black nail paint.
qweiopqweiop commented on Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2 evenrealities.com/smart-g... · Posted by u/gessha
Am I the only one who feels hesitant to even interact with someone wearing smart glasses? I have no idea if they could be recording me.
I've been so happy to see Google wake up.
Many can point to a long history of killed products and soured opinions but you can't deny theyve been the great balancing force (often for good) in the industry.
- Gmail vs Outlook
- Drive vs Word
- Android vs iOS
- Worklife balance and high pay vs the low salary grind of before.
Theyve done heaps for the industry. Im glad to see signs of life. Particularly in their P/E which was unjustly low for awhile.
Forgot to mention absolutely milking every ounce of their users attention with Youtube, plus forcing Shorts!
qweiopqweiop commented on Where do the children play? unpublishablepapers.subst... · Posted by u/casca
There's a middle-ground between a big city and full countryside.
I lived my childhood in a place with about 4000 people in it. School, friends and everything else I needed was within walking, or at least biking distance. My parents didn't have to drive me everywhere. Obviously there weren't as many possible hobbies and events as in big cities, but mobility wasn't an issue.
Likewise. All my friends were within cycling distance and we had nature to play in. Personally I can't imagine growing up in a city like London.
qweiopqweiop commented on To AI or not to AI antropia.studio/blog/to-a... · Posted by u/serchinastico
Not asking for feedback is the killer for me. Even most junior developers will ask for more information if they don't have enough context/confidence to complete a task.
qweiopqweiop commented on Getting AI to work in complex codebases github.com/humanlayer/adv... · Posted by u/dhorthy
Maybe I am just misunderstanding. I probably am; seems like it happens more and more often these days
But.. I hate this. I hate the idea of learning to manage the machine's context to do work. This reads like a lecture in an MBA class about managing certain types of engineers, not like an engineering doc.
Never have I wanted to manage people. And never have I even considered my job would be to find the optimum path to the machine writing my code.
Maybe firmware is special (I write firmware)... I doubt it. We have a cursor subscription and are expected to use it on production codebases. Business leaders are pushing it HARD. To be a leader in my job, I don't need to know algorithms, design patterns, C, make, how to debug, how to work with memory mapped io, what wear leveling is, etc.. I need to know 'compaction' and 'context engineering'
I feel like a ship corker inspecting a riveted hull
Honestly - if it's such a good technique it should be built into the tool itself. I think just waiting for the tools to mature a bit will mean you can ignore a lot of the "just do xyz" crap.
It's not at senior engineer level until it asks relevant questions about lacking context instead of blindly trying to solve problems IMO.
What I’m trying to say is that this is someone who can really, really write - he’s deeply funny and self deprecating, but obviously also knows his shit, big-time. And that’s a massively powerful skill, maybe as much of a skill as being able to write Swift or make great interfaces or ship an app.
> “If you grew up with Tamagotchis, you already understand why this was tempting. Not the “cute pixel pet” part. The part where a device the size of a digestive biscuit turns into a low-resolution hostage negotiator.”
This is irritatingly good and it makes me want to buy his products and subscribe to his RSS feed. Great writing is powerful magic.