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As a BE engineer when that happened, I had just started to become proficient in it, coming from Angular. I threw in the towel and went back to my backend world of peace and happiness. So he's not alone, these deprecations are insane.

Didn't React deprecate itself entirely circa 2018?

Become a contractor. They don’t get promotions. Or any other benefit except pay. So become an expensive contractor.

Create multiple (shell) companies, hire humans, manufacture seemingly unrelated parts, (unknowingly) ready to assemble, buy them through other (shell) companies, funnel them into tenyks inc, a fully AI operated assembly company, that also does assemblies for other legit purposes. Build an army underground. Launch at tech conference. Start exterminating humans.

Let them work for a bit to get their brain juices flowing, then point out the issues in their code review. If they need more help encourage them to discuss with you personally. Never knowingly let bugs go into production.

One of those low risk statements that will eventually be true, even if it takes 100+ years.

Maddy did it for me. Pretty awesome.

I would say a Unix OS that can leverage existing Unix/linux tools like OSX, but more open than, and with real UX effort, native UI, not the gnome/kde, whatever stuff. Or at least something that has a Linux subsystem like windows does.

Migrate from what?

Because $TRUMP

I think the point here is not savings it’s the appearance of (or actual) corruption/capture. It might be cheaper now, because he’s aware of scrutiny, but will it be cheaper when this cools down? Also, isn’t the point of govt bidding that we end up with the cheapest anyway, so that he would win anyway? So why does he need a shortcut?

People will not know to ask about platelet count. She had to tell the AI what she was seeing, and then upload a picture to get a more precise diagnosis and recommendation. You can't upload a photo to google and get a similar result. You will get lots if similar photos maybe. And even if you could, the UX would be terrible. Combine that with having AI on your phone and being able to just take a picture, or talking live to it.

Anyway, this comment reads wildly similar to the dropbox comment.

It would not be security clearances, but some form of assurances for protecting PII. Think of it this way. If this system contained people’s credit cards numbers, the entire system would be required to be PCI certified, and that requires that processes and procedures be in place so that even employee access is extremely limited. Data shouldn’t even be plaintext at rest. No one really needs to see anyone’s credit card number. Anonymized data is just fine.

So some agency, authorized by the president or not, barging in asking for read/write access to card numbers should not be allowed, because the data aren’t the president’s to give.

Same should be valid for social security numbers. You can’t guarantee that 100% of DOGE’s employees are benign, or that they are have the best opsec, or that their devices are not exploitable (or exploited already). So you minimize this attack surface by minimizing access.

Because if anything happens, then you can be 100% certain that Musk/Trump will not voluntarily answer for it/make people whole. They will at best be taken to court where they will fight for years while the victims suffer the consequences in the present.

So you do everything you can to prevent this nebulous, blameless “we meant well, we couldn’t know this would happen, we’re sorry for all the pain, let’s move forward together” outcome.

Aren’t they about to be fired?

Well that's very embarrassing. Thanks for clearing that up. But now I'm even more curious/confused. Why now?

Was Shopify just running a team it didn't want until government changed? Doesn't sound very private sector to me. What other things do these companies do just to appease current administrations/cultural trends?

I live in such a country, where news of foreign handouts happen multiple times a year, $X hundred million for agriculture, $Y billion over Z years for education, etc. Then you see local consultants taking in millions to manage the funds, or construction companies taking millions to design and build school projects, and then you start seeing schools that take years to build, that realistically cost 1% of what was spent, and don't even have bathrooms. Of course you can check the "did build school" box, or "did plant some potatoes" box, but let's not pretend this is where the money went.

Foreign aid helps hide the holes in incompetent/corrupt governments, so the economy takes a bit longer to crash, people a bit longer to notice, and people get reelected, rinse and repeat.

In my country, near elections, inflation rates nosedive, everything becomes cheaper, but government does not have all the money to do that because we import almost everything and our currency is weak. They use foreign aid money for some of this. After elections, rates skyrocket. Are people really better off just because they ate for 3 months longer?

It’s definitely served as a support forum for other companies, like Stripe. Maybe only for YC companies?

Problem is, you can't trace the money from USAID to the actual starving people. Stays with the leaders.

Bill might not understand that: this might be the goal, those are not American lives after all. Also, Cutting diplomatic grease might be a good strategy to squeeze some nations. Instead of threatening to cut funding, cut it and get concessions for bringing it back.

Either way, not being American, and I agree USAID should not exist. It's a clutch for every country, keeping incompetent leaders/dictators in power.

I never really understood that Christian claim. It's like values are cherry picked, "we like strong, male dominated families, no abortion! ...uhh, that's it!"

I assume if social security is being paid and being spent, someone has the ability to manage a bank account, and that person then has a bank account, and the bank has collected enough kyc info to satisfy this correct? If not, at least there is a person on the other side that is mentally able to verify their identity.

Problem with this is, if or when they are proven wrong, it will be very privately, no one will ever hear about it. It will be lost in the noise of “we found lots of fraud”. And no one will be able to get as straight an answer as the accusation. So no actual consequences for difamation. If feel like this is an issue with all politicians. They accuse very loudly, admit wrongdoing very quietly or never.

I use k8s, wouldn't call it simple, but there are ways to minimize the complexity of your setup. Mostly, what devs see as complexity is k8s packages a lot of system fundamentals, like networking, storage, name resolution, distributed architectures, etc, and if you mainly spent your career in a single lane, k8s becomes impossible to grasp. Not saying those devs are wrong, not everyone needs to be a networking pro.

K8s is meant to be operated by some class of engineers, and used by another. Just like you have DBAs, sysadmins, etc, maybe your devops should have more system experience besides terraform.

Do we think Marc Andreessen feels a little bit embarrassed now after the whole debanking from the left drama?

US Air force deployed kubernetes on an F-35. All I can think of is the jet complaining how much faster it would be in a dogfight if it didn’t have to wait for those damn stuck finalizers.

Maybe send DOGE after them to end all sweetheart deals with the regulator?

I think the EO is for review, not retractions correct?

I think the problem with democrats is they’re indirect. They don’t ask for loyalty, but seriously retaliate against anything not loyal to their principles. For example, if you’re not for LGBTQ, or you’re for meritocracy as opposed to DEI, you’re racist or not human enough to hold certain positions. so you can’t blame person X for demanding loyalty, but the result is the same no?

I think this is a case where it’s becoming clear that some US laws were vague and there always needed to be some specification. I mean, what does checks and balances mean? How do you execute it? By sheer force of will apparently.