zanellato19 (u/zanellato19)

zanellato19 commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ozmodiar · a day ago

I'm open to the idea that companies need much larger barriers to functioning internationally. Not just because of their ability to pump money overseas, but also because they are often used to blatantly further the security goals of their parent countries (looking at you two USA and China, but everyone able to, seems to do it).

Maybe the current system would've worked if it was built on many more small companies. These monolithic corporations funneling power upward are the death of civilization, and leadership are clearly high on their own farts. Or just want to be on top in a new feudal age.

zanellato19 · 19 hours ago

This also makes labor laws much less effective because the companies move countries to avoid them.

zanellato19 commented on How good engineers write bad code at big companies seangoedecke.com/bad-code... · Posted by u/gfysfm

Herring · 16 days ago

> this is a deliberate choice to make labor less powerful...

To be fair, though, I don't trust modern labor either if they can't figure out how to NOT vote for a rapist pedophile real-estate billionaire. Twice. Including a pandemic and a coup.

What a mess we find ourselves in.

zanellato19 · 16 days ago

I think labor is worried about a bunch of practical things that the Democrats didn't know how to communicate and Trump did.

Did he mislead them? Yes but honestly, so did a lot of Democrats.

All that to say, yes, but Capital has a lot more resources available to mess with people's head.

zanellato19 commented on Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again notesfrombelow.org/articl... · Posted by u/iSpiderman

labcomputer · 22 days ago

> And why is this a good thing?

Ok, well, I personally really like driving a car with zero tailpipe emissions, and the cleaner air that comes from it (Tesla).

I think it’s awesome having a little rectangle in my pocket that sends text messages from anywhere on earth and summons an encyclopedia (Apple, Google, Starlink, Intel).

I enjoy talking to (and seeing) my friends and family while they are thousands of miles away (Cisco, Apple, and many others).

I think it is fantastic that we continue to find new labor-saving methods of farming so that fewer people need toil in the fields (the current batch of ag-drone and ag-AI startups).

This is like asking “well, why do we need that science mumbo jumbo anyhow?”

zanellato19 · 17 days ago

Claiming that all of these would not exist without VC is hard to believe.

zanellato19 commented on How good engineers write bad code at big companies seangoedecke.com/bad-code... · Posted by u/gfysfm

Herring · 18 days ago

> Big companies know that treating engineers as fungible and moving them around destroys their ability to develop long-term expertise in a single codebase. That’s a deliberate tradeoff. They’re giving up some amount of expertise and software quality in order to gain the ability to rapidly deploy skilled engineers onto whatever the problem-of-the-month is.

And also to "keep the balance of power tilted away from engineers and towards tech company leadership." The author touched on that and forgot about it. You don't want key projects depending on a group of engineers that might get hit by a bus or unionize or demonstrate against Israel or something. Network effects and moats and the occasional lobbying/collusion mean the quality of your product is less important.

zanellato19 · 17 days ago

Yeah, this is a deliberate choice to make labor less powerful. Capital is willing to be less efficient for that. He does touch upon this by saying that Capital wants every worker to be replaceable.

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zanellato19 · 19 days ago

I feel like this is basically what the Rails world does. Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool.

It does rely on redis, but it's basically the same idea.

zanellato19 commented on APT Rust requirement raises questions lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nofunsir · 21 days ago

Not nonsense. Don't be reductive.

zanellato19 · 21 days ago

I think you are being reductive on your original comment. The idea of cycling planning and implementation is nothing new, and quite used on the other disciplines. Saying that agile is the problem is misguided and pointing to other engineering disciplines for "they do it better" is usually a sign that you don't talk to those engineers.

Of course we can plan things better, but implementation does inform planning and vice versa and denying that is denying reality.

zanellato19 commented on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse platformer.news/roblox-ce... · Posted by u/FiddlerClamp

tjungblut · 21 days ago

I'll probably get DV to oblivion for this, but I have to constantly wonder where those parents come from that need to forbid their children to roam freely on the internet.

Didn't they grow up in an age unrestricted web either? By now we must have two generations of unhinged children grown up with unsafe World of Warcraft, MSN, Whatsapp and ICQ. Oh and the p0rn... I mean, seriously, do you guys have nothing else to do than to moderate your kids Minecraft servers?

zanellato19 · 21 days ago

I find it weird that you are not DV since the stuff you list here has caused a lot of issues for a lot of people _and_ things have gotten much much worse. The internet is so much more prevalent than it was 15 years ago. The danger is much higher.

The idea of having nothing to do is absurd, child safety is and should be a parent primary concern. Roblox is basically gambling, it puts kids as targets for predators and makes them addicted to several things.

Reading a comment on a news story like this is very very frustrating.

zanellato19 commented on APT Rust requirement raises questions lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nofunsir · 21 days ago

Unit tests does not make Software Engineering. That's simply part of the development phase, which should be the smallest phase out of all the phases involved in REAL Software Engineering, which is rarely even done these days, outside of DO-178 (et al) monotony. The entire private-to-public industry has even polluted upper management in defense software engineering into accepting SCRUM as somehow more desirable than the ability to effectively plan your requirements and execute without deviation. Yes it's possible, and yes it's even plausible. SWE laziness turns Engineers into developers. Running some auto-documentation script or a generic non-official block diagram is not the same as a Civil PE creating blueprints for a house, let alone a mile long bridge or skyscraper.

zanellato19 · 21 days ago

Nonsense. I know and talk to multiple Engineers all the time and they all envy our position of continuing to fix issues in the project.

Mechanical engineers having to work around other component failures all the time because their lead time is gigantic and no matter how much planning they do, failures still pop-up.

The idea that Software Engineering has more bugs is absurd. Electronic engineers, mechanical, electric, all face similar issues to what we face and normally don't have the capacity to deploy fixes as fast as we do because of real world constraints.

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smsm42 · a month ago

The right way to respond to this reality would be to stop UK government from being insane by electing a more sane government. Stopping using iphones is going to help only for a short term - once encryption is de-legalized, they will come for everybody who they deem worth coming for, sooner or later. If it'll require introducing licenses to run encryption software and mandating key escrow, they'd do that. Yes, you still would be able to sneak in encrypting software on USB drive hidden in your... let's say, pocket. But the mere fact of using it would make you a criminal then. That's the natural progression of where it is going, unfortunately.

zanellato19 · a month ago

That isn't a reasonable response because governments can't be changed in a whim and aren't controlled by a single person, two good things.

zanellato19 commented on Solarpunk is happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com... · Posted by u/JoiDegn

ryandrake · a month ago

If you have ever lost power for just 12 hours in an entire year, you're already down to only two 9's: 99.863%

I've never lived anywhere where the power didn't go down for at least a few (cumulative) days a year.

zanellato19 · a month ago

I lost power for 10h in my city recently and it was a big fucking deal. The last 5 years that's the first time that happened. I would say I have less than a hour of downtime per year in the other years

PS I don't live in the US.