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samrus commented on Our emotional pain became a product theguardian.com/us-news/n... · Posted by u/worik

samrus · 18 hours ago

The pendulum keeps swinging

Trauma isnt real -> whats wrong with these kids -> we need to be more sensitive to their suffering -> everyone has trauma -> why are corpos using trauma to shovel snakeoil and coddling down everyones throat -> trauma isnt real

samrus commented on Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads forbes.com/sites/michaelt... · Posted by u/rmason

andy99 · 2 days ago

Yes this has conservative psy-op written all over it /s

samrus · 18 hours ago

Maybe not this in particular. But the general idea is that this is reputation laundering. Yournot reading something up to forbes' (percieved historical) standards. Your reading something some rando paid to get on forbes

samrus commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

Spivak · 7 days ago

I will say that with enough group policy and sysinternals turning absolutely everything off, turning all of the settings to maximum performance lowest flashiness, no web results, killing Cortana with reckless abandon my Windows installation is actually what I would consider to be snappy. I was surprised.

It doesn't make it any better that Microsoft does this, but as a piece of practical advice, it seems like it can be done. There does still exist a core of Windows under all that garbage that is fast.

samrus · 7 days ago

All that tinkering is getting you dangerously close to daily driving linux. And the advantage there is that the maker isnt actively trying to get in your way

samrus commented on Catala – Law to Code catala-lang.org... · Posted by u/Grognak

sublinear · 9 days ago

> The aim is not to formalise or put into code all the law, because that would make no sense, but we are interested in the law that is already executed automatically, such as the calculation of social benefits, tax or unemployment.

Can anyone explain why it's believed this "would make no sense"?

samrus · 9 days ago

Basically, all human knowledge is an application of either math or philosophy, and law is philosophy, so cant be modeled by math

samrus commented on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit notebookcheck.net/Framewo... · Posted by u/woodrowbarlow

emmp · 10 days ago

No interest in this exactly, but I am interested in the idea that third parties are now targeting the Framework form factor explicitly to sell upgrades/replacements outside of the Framework marketplace.

samrus · 10 days ago

Exactly. This is exactly we get in return for compromising on quality and price with framework. Other tech is cheaper because of planned obsolescence or lock in. Im glad to pay more money to have this freedom

samrus commented on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/5-dec... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

deadbabe · 10 days ago

As usual, Cloudflare is the man in the arena.

samrus · 10 days ago

There are other men in the arena who arent tripping on their own feet

samrus commented on The Junior Hiring Crisis people-work.io/blog/junio... · Posted by u/mooreds

smiley1437 · 13 days ago

> mid-level -> senior-level transitions will leave a hole behind that can't be filled internally.

Tech companies are betting that in 5 years, AI should be good enough to replace mid-levels.

Rinse and repeat with seniors 5 years after that.

Hard to say if that bet will pay off, or what the endgame would be; just the CEO commanding an company of AIs?

samrus · 13 days ago

High risk bets like that cause bubbles. If that bet doesnt pay off then there will be a talent crisis that the american tech industry may not recover from

samrus commented on The Junior Hiring Crisis people-work.io/blog/junio... · Posted by u/mooreds

Ferret7446 · 13 days ago

This will naturally select for the people who are self driven learners. In a sense this is nothing new, just a continued progression of the raising of the bar of who is still able to contribute economic value to the market

samrus · 13 days ago

How will they learn without opportunity?

samrus commented on The Junior Hiring Crisis people-work.io/blog/junio... · Posted by u/mooreds

loeg · 13 days ago

Arguably, the cross-pollination of developers moving around is good for employers.

samrus · 13 days ago

Sure but there needs to be a balance with momentum. You cant keep losing institutional knowledge like that. I think we are heavily disbalanced towards too much churn

samrus commented on The Junior Hiring Crisis people-work.io/blog/junio... · Posted by u/mooreds

izacus · 13 days ago

The game theory here says that such a company will be outcompeted and killed by a company which doesn't spend money+time on retention and training but instead invests that money in poaching.

What you say only works if everyone is doing it. But if you're spending resources on juniors and raises, you can easily be outcompeted and outpoached by companies using that saved money to poach your best employees.

samrus · 13 days ago

Its the tragedy of the commons. These companies will think they are very smart for doing this, but theyll just foster a culture where there are no competent employees once the current seniors retire

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