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taocoyote··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Is it too cynical to think that "our people" means the shareholders?
taocoyote··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
4. MS plans on re-filling a large portion of those roles at a lower salary
taocoyote··on Docker Agent
A lot of the approaches to orchestration that I have seen feels like a company hiring more managers to make the dev team work faster.

Thank you for coding something that I intended to code but have been too lazy to do.

taocoyote··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Do we know that they can't detect what their bots are doing, or that they haven't taken proper precautions?
taocoyote··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
We need this for the Death Toasters from Opus 'n Bill: Brain Saver
taocoyote··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
It's frustrating when a product has a generic name that returns pages of unrelated search results. It's also frustrating when the name gives no real hint about what it does.
taocoyote··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
Looks interesting. Does it offer anything special that pi.dev or opencode does not?
taocoyote··on Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
Stack ranking
taocoyote··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Exactly how many North Korean scientists are working in the U.S. right now?
taocoyote··on A critical look at MCP
I don't understand the logistics of MCP interactions. Can anyone explain why they aren't stateless. Why does a connection need to be held open?
taocoyote··on Discworld Rules
The stories in Discworld books are character driven. LOTR is much more plot driven. I feel like this is an apples and oranges comparison.

It also feels a bit like the false dichotomy arguments from my teenage years, where you could like either Star Trek or Star Wars, but not both.

taocoyote··on Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
I think you mean HexiBase?
taocoyote··on YouTube Oddities
I have my childrens accounts under my main account. If they watch a lot of certain types of videos, that will show up as a suggestion under my main account. I'm positive its not because they are using my account, I watch videos with them.

I also have a second account for watching more technical videos and that leaks into my main account suggestions.

taocoyote··on I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)
In my personal experience, Excel.

JIRA is a tool, it doesn't do the work for you. If someone knows how to organize, plan and track a project really well, the tool used doesn't matter as much.

taocoyote··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
A lot of VCs don't do any due diligence.
taocoyote··on Confusing Git Terminology
Literally potty humor.
taocoyote··on AWS Icon Quiz
Of course, you will need to assign the appropriate IAM Role per icon type.
taocoyote··on Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand
Outside of Auckland you can do quite well on 150k.
taocoyote··on I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
Similar experience but I was in the military and I didn't have a choice to say no. I have 5 fillings. They wanted to schedule 2 more but I was due to be reassigned overseas. They tried to delay my reassignment over it. Eventually, they cleared my paperwork but made it clear I was to see the dentist at my new base as soon as possible.

My new dentist says there is nothing wrong with my teeth whatsoever.

taocoyote··on Upwork just stole $10k from me
Guilty with no way to prove innocence.
taocoyote··on One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers
I once knew a soldier that had reconfigured his tent heater to be out of the way by placing it against the side of his tent. The tent caught fire. He received and award for putting out the fire.

I have seen this pattern repeated a few times throughout my career. People are rewarded for putting out fires they created (metaphorically), but people who are diligent and don't create problems to solve are overlooked or seen as less than capable.

taocoyote··on Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop?
Possibly, but that would be 10 of thousands of dollars worth of GPUs.
taocoyote··on The End of Programming
When electronic calculators replaced slide rules it wasn't the end of math.
taocoyote··on Stable Diffusion 2.0 and the Importance of Negative Prompts for Good Results
When I first read about Latent Space, it struck me as quite similar to the L-Space as described in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
taocoyote··on Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
Firewall fives, I forgot about that, or maybe blocked it from my memory. It’s the same for enlisted.
taocoyote··on Who wrote this shit?
Find incomprehensible code. Get email from blame. Search for them on Linkedin. If they are working as a developer in some senior capacity, then the code is probably a learning opportunity for me. If they are working as a scrum master code is probably as bad as it looks.

I say this in jest, mostly...

taocoyote··on My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
This really should be it's own blog post. It has given me some interesting perspective.
taocoyote··on Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
I would argue that "working hard" and "working long hours" are not the same thing.
taocoyote··on With New Zealand citizenship, Peter Thiel can watch the world burn in peace
I am a US citizen who has immigrated to New Zealand and hold citizenship here. It is my understanding that I have to apply (and pay) to relinquish my US citizenship, which might be declined.
taocoyote··on How Game of War makes more than $1M a day
Interesting point. I am embarrassed to say that in the early 90's I would spend on average around 1000$ USD a month on arcade games.
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