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- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 3 months ago:
Not yet able to replace talent
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Stimulus checks caused one of the best stock booms of this decade then immediately we had inflation. I don’t think stimulus checks are a well understood phenomenon
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 4 months ago:
Well at least they have downvotes 😂
- Comment on PayPal to Cut Around2,500 Jobs as Rivals Snag MarketShare 4 months ago:
Affirm is a big one. Bloomberg spent the past few weeks talking with the Affirm CEO.
- Comment on Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure 6 months ago:
They should have cut off her meal plan instead!
Sorry… going to hell for that joke.
- Comment on I Designed a 3D Printable Balisong Knife 6 months ago:
Interesting. I saw the Qidi X-Plus 3 advertises 600mm/s vs Bambu P1S 500mm/s. And the P1S doesn’t offer a heated chamber. Have you noticed a difference in quality from the heated chamber?
I haven’t yet been convinced of the bambu cool-aid mainly because of closed software. Klipper support is a big value prop. Who knows how long bambu will support OS versions and what happens if they start charging for cloud. It’s a young company, so not a lot of confidence yet.
- Comment on I Designed a 3D Printable Balisong Knife 6 months ago:
Looks like a sweet printer. I was thinking of buying a Bambu for the holidays, but this looks like a better deal.
- Comment on I Designed a 3D Printable Balisong Knife 6 months ago:
What 3D printer do you have? The print looks good.
- Comment on Oh, how terrifying. How can you stand it day after day? -Q 6 months ago:
Isn’t OpenAI also naming their next model Q as well (Q*)? Or is this the same model and OpenAI is licensing to Amazon?
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 7 months ago:
I’d call the genre cowboy bebop, but wouldn’t want to insult the show
- Comment on Software Engineer vs Software Developer 7 months ago:
Sounds like you are a real pleasant person to work with
- Comment on Software Engineer vs Software Developer 7 months ago:
I appreciate your opinion. I know that the qualification I made is a controversial one as everyone wants to be an ‘engineer’, but I’m still confident it holds. Applying physics is not purely at the atomic level. In web development, one of the physical challenges can be bandwidth, however, while most people claim to concerned about bandwidth, in reality they don’t do anything about it. Minifying code is cool, but that’s not doing any engineering by itself. Calculating the throughput your datacenter can dish out for your 1million users as you write a function that optimizes load vs lag of streaming video, that’s engineering.
Thinking about user interaction and experience is more psychological than it is physical in most cases. Designing the user experience of a medical device or cockpit switch are both not automatically qualified for engineering: unless, you are designing the medical device to overcome spasm that someone with Parkinson’s has, or, the cockpit switch is made of a blended plastic mix to reduce the weight requirement on a plane but hold up from wear. I’m not saying one is worse, but we need to make the distinction between designers, scientists and engineers.
I understand that everyone wants to be an engineer, whether for pride or just to feel more important (hell I want the engineer title too). Unfortunately, the tech industry (with arguably one of the most conflated egos) liberally tossed around software engineering to every role to attract talent and I don’t see that changing. It’s a profession, so whatever you are being paid to do, will determine if you are an engineer.
- Comment on Software Engineer vs Software Developer 7 months ago:
I typically tell people that engineering is applying physics. If you aren’t directly interacting with the physical world, you are most likely a developer.
Working on an app, no matter how complex (or unessarily convoluted) generally makes you a developer. If you aren’t thinking about impact of clock cycles, actuation/hardware interfaces or sensing, there is a high chance that the work you do has little to no risk or a chance of failure that is governed by the physical world. As said in other comments, engineers design and sign off on things. There is an implication that there is an unknown constraint, unlike a fully observable software environment.
- Comment on Sam Altman ‘was working on new venture’ before sacking from OpenAI 7 months ago:
Curious why the down votes? I think it’s fair to say this news has been pretty remarkable and has even made it on the news stations. I think a lot of people are probably learning his name right now and makes him seem ‘valuable’ if the board asks him to come back.
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 7 months ago:
Just took a look at Framework, it’s a cool concept. I wish the company was older just to see how it forms it’s sea legs. As a mass market item, I can’t imagine the general populace upgrading their own laptop over time, though maybe I’m just old. I didn’t see any computers made from Valve, but I had not thought of them as a hardware company.
But yeah I agree, companies will form their optimization function for profits not people (by design) so people should never put their faith in them. This M1 Air is my first Mac, but I do have to say it is really nice. Excited to see what other companies do to combat it.
- Comment on Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars 7 months ago:
I’d curious if the astronaut was fined for space debris 🤣
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 7 months ago:
My friend, my goal is not to make you upset, just giving my thoughts. Your metaphors don’t exactly make sense in this context, and some of your responses are telescopic focusing on one thing when other companies do equal, nothing or worse. If you could name a company that is exceeding your expectations, I’d love to hear it as I would support them as well.
Regardless, I hope that you have a great day.
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 7 months ago:
I don’t work for Apple, so I don’t really know, but I have worked at many electronics companies. A few points:
- Companies lock down or will open source IP (software/firmware/hardware) to meet a particular business strategy. In the mass product market, litigation is common for patent infringement so careful control is taken on each technology. I’m not sure I believe in opensourcing everything. Companies need to stay competitive. Behind a company is ten of thousands of employees that are being paid a livelihood (not just all developers making $250k+/yr, plenty other people in operations, quality, distribution, marketing etc)
- Apple’s strategy is to build a vertically integrated tech stack internally that is aligned with their vision. This is their brand and the people who like the company vision will buy it. You don’t have to like all their choices, but they have done the math and have figured out the proper moving average between pissing off consumers and providing value to know where they stand. They like doing things the Apple way, ensure the company can continue to make money and innovate
- You don’t have to buy the product. Just because you think the price is absurd doesn’t mean others can’t afford it. Personally, in the work I’m doing, my cheaper MacBook Air is having more value to me than my Linux computer I spent 3x more. The OP is designed for a specific type of user, it’s not meant for everyone. For work, I don’t need my computer to be opensource, I need it to work, so I can get my job done. For personal geekiness, I love the opensource nature of linux and have contributed to many projects, however, a company like Apple is definitely needed to make landmark improvements in technology. There is a reason why you go out to an Italian restaurant and get a $26 pasta dish when you can make it at home for $4.
- In your thought process, hardware is hardware. But there is also a mission that is attached with it. Apple leads in terms of mitigation of environmental impact which I think is pretty cool. It offers buybacks for most (all ?) products. I don’t know how much they actually recycle per part or if things are just getting shipped off to Zambia and being sold as refurbished. If I’m paying a little more to benefit a company that aligns with my values than so be it. They aren’t going to sell a product for a loss (unless strategically). There are too many retirement funds in Apple for it to be losing money
- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 7 months ago:
Not sure why this user is getting down voted. They made valid points. I have been using Linux as a personal computer since the I was old enough to type, however, my job uses M1 macs. I can definitely say MacOS in terms of UX is a pain (especially without making some third party updates), but I cannot talk shit about the hardware performance.
I initially grimaced when I received a 16GB RAM computer from IT, however, the battery life along with the compute power has not failed me. I run 3D CAD, write software, and design simulation models and have been honestly amazed compared to my 128GB RAM + Nvidia GPU Linux computer.
Everyone talks about Mac fanboys, but I think the anti-Mac fanboys are just as bad. Seem to automatically hate Apple stuff without even using it. If you take a look at what is going on (outside of Apple) with supercomputing and high speed serial links, you would understand why Apple is doing what it is.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 8 months ago:
When he leaves California, he will leave his salary too (and possibly his industry too)
- Comment on I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window 8 months ago:
I haven’t done any research on pi-hole (I use firewalla) but is a raspberry Pi even powerful enough to support a small home network?
- Comment on [HN] Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? 8 months ago:
I’d say a pretty safe definition of engineering is applied physics. No, most software engineer are just programmers, particularly ones working in web framework or apps. Software engineers that apply software to manipulate/interact with physical phenomenon, those people are engineers: such as control loop engineers/roboticists, embedded swe, flight instrument/telemetry engineer. I’m not trying to gatekeep the word, but too many people think that they are engineers because what they are doing is hard. Statistics is hard, Chemistry is hard but see a fine distinction between economist, quantitative trader and data scientist or chemist, pharmacist and chemical engineer. Software is hard, but it’s eeriely the only profession where everyone is so hung up on being called an engineer.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
While I agree, Linus isn’t getting younger and as we are seeing, long time lead maintainers are starting to step down. It would be a shame if Linux kernel and subsequently it’s OS’s, turns into what happened to Android. We see it happening time and time again (e.g. Reddit, Twitter), when there is the possibility for more revenue, these companies will kill anything that was developed 'for the people ’
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Big tech chipping in is how we get Amazon spyware/Microsoft apps built into OS. I agree with respectable salary for developers. I think if Linux org ran the same campaign as Wikipedia it would gather a lot more donations. The whole world runs on some form of the Linux kernel.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Mastodon has went through a similar bump, but more recently has had some larger figures begin usage (local government broadcasts, b-level ‘thought-leaders’/‘influencers’, etc). In order to get to the next level, lemmy needs to show it can survive test of time and is worth the effort to establish an online profile. For example, reddit has corporate organizations creating and maintaining subreddits which act as an avenue for community engagement. Having active community engagement leads to advertisement, which can be a double edged sword, but useful if pursuing ‘growth’ metrics. I’m not sure what the lemmy devs (or it’s users) have planned for this.