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Yeah, this is 100% the case - while not a FAANG I worked at a moderately large tech company in the UK and it was astonishing how slow everything moved, but people were always getting promoted. I eventually left because every project took about 10x the effort it should have.

The stock price went down 20% during the time I was there, and I could see why - it took months to ship a tiny button.

I work with a lot of ex-FAANG now and they haven't had much of a chance to do impactful things. I've heard a lot of "I was responsible for the reporting function on this dashboard that's 10 clicks deep on Google Play"

I do think Layoffs, while obviously very sad for those involved, were needed.

One of the "huh, didn't expect that to work" moment was getting GLM 5 to make me a user space driver for the Nintendo Switch Pro 2 Controller on Ubuntu.

When you plug it in, the device is recognised, but press any button and it attempts to start the pairing process. Then using evtest nothing is coming through.

That^ was pretty much my prompt too, and 10 minutes later I have a working driver with systemd unit so it works through restarts. Amazing stuff!

We have all the AI tools you could bare to mention, but we still don't have anyone but programmers shipping things.

Why aren't the designers and PMs shipping things if these tools are so good?

If you listen closely to UK cabinet ministers you can intuit that they are being horse whispered into handing over vast sums of taxpayer money to firms for AI who are promising solutions to the productivity gap (chasm?) that the UK is plagued by.

I can say with certainty lots of money will be spent, and the gap will not be filled. I would bet my life on it.

> there's no dictionary in there

Someone has clearly never gone rooting around the model files for a pytorch model before.

Copilot brand is tarnished, so time to bung everything under MAI?

If I buy the SpaceX stock it's 100% certain to go down. If I don't buy it it will rocket to the moon.

Is there some sort of way I can positively monetise this?

Thank you

Can anyone answer question - whats the minimum viable GPU to follow along with this course at home?

I have a 5080 16GB, are they really needing more than that in this course?

Why doesn't stuff like this happen to me, i'd have so much fun with a guy like this >:)

Nice trick for folks that has saved me a lot of time and aggro - Just don't ever use anything by Google that isn't Search(but seemingly that won't be for long), YouTube or...maybe Gmail (but be careful).

The company is ran and managed by lunatics, and you don't want anything made by a lunatic running inside your computer.

Cool - thank you for answering

What is Google3?

Hetzner. You won't get much better support, and you will have to deal with EU legislative nonsense, but it won't be hard to do that if you are actually small.

Why do I say Hetzner?

It's very budget friendly and has a very small list of services so its much harder to screw yourself into a situation where its hard to leave.

AWS / GCP / Azure aren't for individuals or small businesses. They won't tell you this anywhere, and they won't stop you from signing up - but they simply do not care one iota about users with anything less than $100k billing per month.

They treat big account owners like kings, they fly them out to Formula 1 events, they get 3 day workshops in swanky retreats, because a few k spent on this equals maybe millions of dollars.

If they respond to a small business quicker they don't get anything from it. They collect a bill that if it went missing they wouldn't notice.

I am not saying this is right - but people running small businesses on these platforms are operating under false pretenses.

I feel like there is a problem with security research where the incentive is to find scary headlines, and things that have very little impact get trotted out as world shattering revelations. This seems like one of those times - feels like an "assume a perfectly spherical cow" moment - if you are at the point where you have access to attempt to read this, the kingdom is already lost?

We are in the 'we need to IPO so screw our customers' phase of the cycle

I am part of a discord group with about 1000+ devs. I polled them in Jan to see if they had dropped cursor for claude code.

80% of those responded (250ish in the group had). Bit of selection bias there from the question - but my impression was Cursor is very much dying to competition from the labs.

You can get a Kobo Reader and disable internet access to it so it never connects to a server. You can then plug it in to your computer and it shows up as a mass storage device. Then just drop PDFs, ePubs in.

I never liked Calibre, it's weirdly shoddy software, slow as a dog, and the worst UX i've ever seen in a popular app - so I needed something I could just drop my files into.

I still don't have a single answer in this thread as to how even using this new tool even helps do things I can easily do with git?

> "Sometimes you just need to land changes all together".

Smell. What is that won't land? A UI change needed to go with a Database migration? That just tells me you don't flag your changes which you _should_ be doing. If you have code in your hot path that can break because of a DB or API change and you _don't_ flag that you have made your releases much more dangerous. Fix that before installing a new cli tool

If you can't do a database migration, you have put non optional new fields in somewhere, which doesn't accurately model your data domain - because it didn't exist before, it is tautologically optional.

> "How do I update a bunch of small PRs"

Smell. You should be merging small, flagged commits to main and rebase other branches. The workflow described is the same as feature branches - you start a branch, then branch from that, then branch from that - you shouldn't do that. That is not a git problem in the same way throwing every file on your desktop isn't an OS problem - you are just making a mess.

I have never got a good answer to "can't you just make smaller PRs". This is convoluted tooling (needs its own CLI) for something you could achieve with just learning how git works.

I imagine you could fix this by running a speaker diarization classifier periodically?

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/what-is-speaker-diarization-...

> Why is it that some people feel entitled to take this kind of tone as soon as AI is used?

BECAUSE ITS WRONG! THE DATA IS WRONG!

This is AI slop.

First command I looked at:

  /stickers:
  
  Displays earned achievement stickers for milestones like first commit, 100 tool calls, or marathon sessions. Stickers are stored in the user profile and rendered as ASCII art in the terminal.

That is not what it does at all - it takes you to a stickermule website.

What is the motivation for someone to put out junk like this?

That's true.

The Harold Ableson GIF of him scratching out the word Science, then the word Computer comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA?si=J3MfWkZlWG1B7TiY&t=30

I think Azure exploded and knocked a bunch of things offline

> Apple really stumbled into making the perfect hardware for home inference machines

Apple are winning a small battle for a market that they aren’t very good in. If you compare the performance of a 3090 and above vs any Apple hardware you would be insane to go with the Apple hardware.

When I hear someone say this it’s akin to hearing someone say Macs are good for gaming. It’s such a whiplash from what I know to be reality.

Or another jarring statement - Sam Altman saying Mario has an amazing story in that interview with Elon Musk. Mario has basically the minimum possible story to get you to move the analogue sticks. Few games have less story than Mario. Yet Sam called it amazing.

It’s a statement from someone who just doesn’t even understand the first thing about what they are talking about.

Sorry for the mini rant. I just keep hearing this apple thing over and over and it’s nonsense.

See you again next week!

It's like watching someone wake up with a very bad hangover.

I am doing my part - I managed to get 6 people in my family and friend group off Windows onto Debian last year.

All positive feedback so far :).

Sure it's only a small victory - but a meaningful one to me.

This is all just theatre to justify a ban right?