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The worst is the “Team/Tech Lead” role, which is nothing more than a cost cutting role. Forget what it’s supposed to be, in practice at most places, it’s a senior dev, mixed with software architect, team management, and project management duties.
Every time I’ve seen it, you’re expected to do a full week of coding each week, have meetings that should be done by a full time manager (1 on 1s, performance reviews, higher level manager/director meetings, project manager meetings) on top of your team meetings, doing software architecture research and decisions, even dev ops depending on just how deep they’re trying to cut costs.
You end up just being a dev who takes on the work of PMs and directors so that the company can get by with fewer PMs and directors. They can have a PM handling 5-6 projects, doing little more than gathering status reports and passing them up the chain, while the team/tech lead becomes the actual PM.
Oh and it’s usually like a 10-15% pay increase for like 25-30% more work and stress.
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The issue with climate change is that it’s really all about power and money.
Whether or not it’s happening, whether or not humans are causing it, not causing it, or just speeding it up, how quickly a given scenario will occur, whether it will occur anyhow just further in the future and many other questions. They all get lumped together as “climate change denial”.
When a supposedly scientific endeavor, with so many unanswered questions, decides it already has all the answers it needs to force everyone to do things which haven’t been demonstrated to be necessary, and nobody is allowed to question it, oh, and it just so happens to require expanding government power and tossing trillions of dollars to organizations which have close ties to governments… yeah, that’s not science.
It may incorporate aspects of science, but it’s not science.
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@dash4800 End of 2019 to today, median US home prices are up about 51%
Anyone saying 30% is lying or hasn’t looked at the numbers and is making wild guesses.
And that’s not including increases mortgage costs, maintenance, insurance, PMI.
Most people aren’t buying homes in cash and even if they did, maintenance costs are way up.
Toss in borrowing for your home like most people do and the increased costs of the home plus mortgage interest on a 30 year assuming you paid 4% in 2019 and 7.5% now, means you’re paying about 161% more for the same home.
Not including maintenance increase, higher real estate agent fees, higher closing costs, higher home insurance, higher taxes, higher PMI.
Just ball parking but with those added in you’re probably getting around 190% more for the same house in just a 4.5 year span.
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How exactly did their wealth come at the expense of younger generations? Everyone claims this but nobody can explain in detail much less prove this is the case.
Most of their wealth is the result of owning homes and being around decades longer which obviously means you’ll have more since you’ve worked, saved, and invested longer.
Most Boomers started their careers when wages went stagnant and inflation was high, in the 70s, not a whole lot different from now.
It doesn’t make sense to say that Boomers ran everything as things declined because the people who actually ran things were maybe a few thousand people, not a generation of tens of millions.
Ok, well maybe blame them because while they didn’t all run things, they did vote for people who did? Also makes no sense as younger generations vote for officials and policies which are just more extreme versions of what Boomers were voting for. The things that have lead to stagnant wages and increased inflation and national debt (mainly rampant immigration and social welfare programs).
While the Boomers did their part in making things worse, this idea that they did it all and Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Alpha are all hapless victims who never did anything wrong, is just a lame scapegoating attempt.
And that mentality will just make things worse as you can’t fix what you’re doing wrong if you pretend you’re doing nothing wrong.
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@outtheredude Capitalism isn’t the problem, capitalism is simply economic autonomy at the individual level.
Like any social or economic system, rules have to exist which maintain a level playing field, and they have to be fairly enforced.
When corruption is allowed to fester, it breaks those rules, chooses to not enforce them, or replaces them with corrupt rules which break the system for the benefit of the few.
But this happens in any economic system. There is no system which magically prevents human nature.
The only way to avoid corruption is with constant vigilance, which means doing whatever it takes if it comes to that, even if it causes you short term loss, and an unwavering set of shared values.
The West is falling apart because it has been socially diluted, its value system eroded and fragmented, and because people would rather watch things crumble if it means another day of convenience, rather than step up and do what needs to be done.
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Tech lead is a cost cutting role, period. Ultimately I’ve never seen it produce a net gain. It saves money on paper, but in practice, you compromise the quality of the development they do to try and reduce the number of project managers and/or directors.
The development side of the job is constantly hampered by admin tasks, admin related meetings, emails, IMs, calls.
It sounds like it would just be a developer who handles code reviews, software architecture, ensuring things are documented, settling disputes over technical matters, development related mentoring.
But every time, it ends up just being a part time senior dev who does some of that stuff I mentioned, and then does a bunch of things the project managers should do, and a bunch of things department managers or directors should do.
Things like scheduling PTO, performance reviews, sitting in on endless status meetings with department heads, creating documentation and presentations that really should be done by PMs.
It’s like how the medical industry made up “Nurse Practitioners” to save on paying actual doctors.
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Yah, mmhm, yah, ok, mmhm, yes, ok, yah, mmhm, yah, ok
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All these dimwitted sycophants excited for their own enslavement.
These tools won’t be used to make life better for billions of humans, it will be used to further entrench the ultra wealthy and eliminate the need for those billions of humans.
And those people who find themselves without work, living off some meager government welfare, surrounded by a crime ridden hellscape of other welfare slaves and the criminal organizations that prey on them, they won’t be applauding yet another computing advancement which adds to their misery.
Without a demand for human labor and intelligence, individuals have no value to the ultra rich, to the corrupt governments.
They become liabilities to be contained and controlled.
It’s already happening, this isn’t some overreaction to some hypothetical. We can see what happens when the mass of unemployed and chronically on welfare grows.
If you think there is benevolence behind the greed which drives these super rich, these massive corporations, the governments of the world, where is it now?
It doesn’t exist. What balances this greed is a dependence on the masses of the working class. That’s the only thing that keeps the vast majority from being turned into cattle, and here you’re witnessing the end of that dependence.
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@rickycool6083 It makes perfect sense. Western countries set up shop where there is cheap labor, corrupt governments, and little care for polluting the environment.
The only reason they’re bothering to set up manufacturing in India is because China has become too politically unstable and expensive.
Eventually India will get too expensive and they’ll move somewhere cheaper.
This time they’re not putting so much in one country like they did with China.
They’re splitting it across Mexico, India, Vietnam. For clothing they’re moving more manufacturing to Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.
That growth in India is fueled by foreign investment. Same exact thing happened with China.
Now China is in a downward spiral as the West moves out. Brazil had a similar moment in its past. Where are they now?
India won’t fix any major problems in just 10 years. It will get stuck in the middle income trap just like China, Brazil, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and countless other countries that saw big growth due to foreign investment but never managed to get beyond it.
India is far too corrupt, dysfunctional, and overpopulated to transform itself.
The best it can do is what China did and it can’t even do that because it doesn’t have the centralized political power that China has.
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We’ve already strung together various specialized models and “AGI”, whatever that even means beyond a buzzword, didn’t happen.
ANNs really do not work like BNNs, even one of the two guys who coined the term “neural network” regretted that name for the inapt comparison it draws to how the human mind actually works, which is far from a solved problem. ANNs are a highly crude attempt at emulating vaguely similar training and output capabilities. They aren’t simulating BNNs, we don’t even have system close to having the capacity to do that, even to our limited understanding of how they actually work.
Just like you can’t strap together a bunch of steam engines and get a warp drive, a bunch of LLMs working together don’t magically become human level intelligence.
You need a fundamentally different architecture and leading researchers agree on this, LLMs have a use, but are near their limit. You can squeeze more accuracy and capabilities out of them but this is just adding more blades to a Swiss Army knife. More specialized but ultimately just a bigger dumb tool without awareness, without an internal world model and the ability to make accurate predictions from it, without the ability to learn in real time, and so on.
We haven’t seen anything emerge from the growing complexity of these models that goes in that direction, despite the BS marketing hype of Sam Altman and some lunatic Google dev who made nonsense claims amd got suspended for it.
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This is outdated. The alcohol in red wine has been shown to be far worse than any benefits of any other compounds in it, not just for the brain but the rest of your body, and that’s before you factor in the fact that it’s rare to find wine without sulfites, which are awful for your heart.
Saturated fats are not bad for brain development or anything else, in moderation. Excess saturated fats isn’t good, but replacing all saturated fats with unsaturated fats is worse as unsaturated fats easily degrade into inflammatory compounds like aldehydes. Unsaturated fats can be good but only if not exposed to light or heat. And any unsaturated fats from seeds are bad, even olive oil isn’t good for you, it’s just one of the least bad seed oils, along with avocado oil. But again, they have to be kept away from light and heat or they easily decompose into unhealthy compounds.
Also, good sleep is the most important thing, so saying caffeine is good for neurological development is wrong. Any short term benefits of caffeine are outweighed by the disruption to sleep it causes.
And no, having caffeine early in the day won’t solve it, caffeine has a half life of 8 hours, longer in certain people. It doesn’t take much caffeine to disrupt quality sleep and it takes about 5 half lives to be rid of a compound. So one cup of coffee can take 32 hours or more to be totally out of your system.
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Their fat paychecks and pensions? Most of them don’t make much, maybe $100k to $130k which in the DC area is nothing, and their pensions aren’t much either, they’re basically forced to max out contributions to their pension which pays out a lot less than the same money would put into an S&P 500 ETF, before they can contribute to their 457b. Usually 1% is forced on them and they have to pay another 3-4% of their pay to that underperforming pension before they can get decent retirement options, then the 457b contribution matching is low-mid compared to the private sector.
Oh and most of these orgs never give out bonuses, no merit based raises unless you change roles, and often don’t even have basic 2-3% yearly cost of living raises. They can often go several years before getting a 1.5-2% raise, so they’re literally being paid less every year for the same work no matter how well they do.
Gov work has no perks outside of job security. If you slash the ranks haphazardly no force back to office, anyone good will just go work somewhere else, the only people who will stick around will be people who aren’t good so can’t go anywhere else, or are close to retirement.
You’ll save some money short term but end up with worse performance in the long run.
Same thing happened when they defunded the police.
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Inequality is such an idiotic term, what we’re actually talking about here is wealth disparity, specifically between the middle class and top 1%.
There’s never been wealth equality and never will be, so why use this term which has just become a propaganda talking point for the far left who use it to try and convince people that their version of inequality is somehow equality.
Wealth disparity, middle-top wealth gap, pick a term but one that actually makes sense.
You can’t talk about solutions if you can’t even be honest about the nature of the problem.
The problem isn’t that everyone doesn’t have equal wealth, that’s just a socialist/managerialist bludgeon.
The issue is rampant corruption has allowed the rich to hijack every aspect of government and turn it into a siphon for taking everything the middle class has under the lie of taxes, social welfare and humanitarian programs, fighting climate change, justifying endless wars, and whatever else they come up with.
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@ Sorry, misunderstood what you were getting at.
I don’t know which of these brands 100% use US sourced materials. It’s possible it varies by the shoe line.
At the end of the day there’s not much to shoes, and most of these brands are higher quality brands using materials that can easily be made in the US.
These aren’t Nike and Adidas or even overpriced fashion brands like Gucci and Golden Goose using cheap plastic, low quality PU coated leather and cardboard midsoles.
There’s other brands out there too that are US made. West Coast Shoe Company, Oak Street Bootmakers, Helm Boots, Quoddy, Parkhurst, Vicgory Sportsware.
There’s more out there, especially for boots (work, hunting, western), but a fair number of casual, sports, and dress shoes.
A ton of imported shoes are made outside of China and more factories are leaving China all the time.
Vietnam has lots of factories that make shoes for all the big lifestyle brands. Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok.
I used to know a guy who managed two factories in Vietnam that made millions of shoes for Nike alone.
Even Chinese companies have been moving factories to Vietnam because it’s cheaper, like Hisense and TCL.
China’s days are numbered
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There’s no such thing as “fair pay”. There’s only a fairly operated market or a corruptly operated market. The market determines the value of labor.
Rigging the market dynamic through forced min wages or by allowing a monopoly, price fixing between companies, or any other corruption, just results in less competition, fewer jobs, and more expensive goods and services.
“Fair pay” is completely subjective. If you feel you’re not paid fairly, find a new job.
If you can’t find a new job, learn the skills you need for one, move to where jobs exist for your skills.
You’re not entitled to earn whatever amount you want, for whatever work you feel like doing, in any location you decided to live in.
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Netflix wastes billions making garbage filler content. They’re addicted to making shows because they’re cheaper to make and hook people for multiple seasons, but this only works if the shows are good and don’t get canceled after two seasons, both of which are thinks Netflix can’t seem to figure out,
Netflix also jumped on the bandwagon of forcing political propaganda and agendas into content where 70% of people don’t want it and 20% aren’t going to care if it’s not there, pandering to a small margin of the market at the expense of the majority,
When they do make movies they tend to be a waste of money, throwing way too much money at big name directors or actors which means there’s nothing left for good writing, cinematography, action choreography, quality CGI, and so on. They think they can sell a turd if they push a big peanut name into it.
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@OneStepBeyondu National socialism is not Marxism, its not even a single ideology. The term national socialism has been adopted by various socialist groups with differing takes on socialism.
Even the national socialist parties of Italy and Germany had various differences in foreign policy, how much they prioritized race in their propaganda, how they implemented their versions of socialism, and to what degree they were authoritarian vs totalitarian.
National socialists were almost always at odds with Marxists, despite some national socialist leaders, like Mussolini, being a die hard Marxist in his early years.
There are many variations of socialism, in practice they always end up using nationalism to bolster their propaganda and manipulate people. That doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with nationalism itself, which is just prioritizing the interests and people of a nation above those outside the country.
Any country that doesn’t implement nationalism to a modest degree has no social cohesion and will eventually be conquered or break apart from internal conflict.
But taken to the extreme or used as a tool of a dictator, it becomes dangerous. Any sociopolitical extreme leads to a bad end.
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Gotta love Neil’s appeal to ignorance fallacy here. Suggesting we can criticize demonstrably bad outcomes because we can’t prove that an infinite number of hypothetical other measures to handle things wouldn’t have been better.
Neil isn’t a scientist, he’s a token, a talking head who just happened to get a degree in a field of science which has nothing to do with 99% of what he now talks about.
He even gets things wrong about physics which is just embarrassing but even if he knew everything about physics, it doesn’t mean he knows anything about medicine, virology, biology, sociology, economics, all things he wastes most of his time bloviating about now.
He seems to only have “headline understanding” of these things.
But the ego from his PhD makes him think he’s somehow an expert in things he hasn’t demonstrated he knows anything about beyond media talking points or having opinions.
He’s also clearly firmly on the narcissism spectrum. He loves the sound of his own voice, talks over everyone at every opportunity, dodges or misrepresents points that hurt his position, and is an insatiable attention seeker.
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This is so overhyped. Nobody thought only the “big players” could make competent models.
Everyone knew that the software would advance and hardware would get cheaper and more capable.
Also, these benchmarks being used are poor ways to compare models. Models can easily be optimized for them and you can’t conclude that because it can solve a specific problem that means it can solve all other similar problems because these models don’t actually reason or understand the mechanics behind how to reason for specific problems.
Another major issue here is, it’s from China. If you believe financial claims from any CCP company, I’ve got land in Florida to sell you.
There’s no way to know how much they actually spent on training this model. They have every incentive to lie a nobody is going to hold them accountable.
They didn’t release the training set and it’s probably because that would show how they cut corners.
Cost is also highly related to geography. Of course it’s cheaper to hire a bunch of college students in China than a bunch of experienced ML researchers in the Bay Area, that doesn’t mean those savings are inherent to the technology.
Same goes with not having to factor in the cost of hardware since the company already paid for it for their financial analysis.
So what exactly did they count in their $5.5m total? Electricity and the salaries of some Chinese grads? Who knows the exact breakdown and if it’s even accurate but cost is not a benchmark here.
As for the cost of operating their service, same thing. They could be heavily subsidizing it for marketing purposes, the gov is probably subsidizing it, for sure you don’t have the data security infrastructure around it like you do with OpenAI, Google, Azure, that stuff costs money.
Then there’s all the corners they cut in their training process which might work for benchmark purposes but could also have big consequences in performance not well covered by benchmarks.
It’s one thing to remove unnecessary drags on performance and another to remove necessary steps because you hope the consequences won’t be seen.
Overall it’s a step but in what direction and how big is too clouded by unknowns, the origin of the models and the fact that it’s not really better than the competition unless you factor in the low cost, which can’t be substantiated, means all this hype is unwarranted.
AI bros and content creators are shameless and will act like anything and everything is the most amazing thing ever.
You don’t do that unless you’re selling a load of BS.
The whole industry is starting to feel like crypto. A ton of BS and grifts wrapped around a small kernel of legitimacy.
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The US isn’t protecting its telecom infrastructure from the Chinese for competitive reasons, it’s bedside the Chinese have been proven to be installing back doors into telecom hardware.
So you comparing that to Canada doing it for economic protectionist reasons makes no sense.
Also, the US has lost a lot of jobs to Canada, especially higher paying programming jobs, and the US unemployment rate, which is a poor reflection of actual unemployment, means nothing here.
The unemployment rate doesn’t accurately show how many are unemployed, it doesn’t factor in the income levels of jobs, and it doesn’t factor in that nearly all the new jobs added since the end of Covid have gone to economic migrants, many of whom are illegal.
So the US isn’t in good shape when it comes to unemployment.
You also don’t factor in that being able to export jobs to cheaper places only adds to the already high decline of US wages compared to inflation.
The US could produce oil more inexpensively if the government wasn’t so hostile against oil production, meaning it doesn’t really need Canada for cheaper oil, it just needs to stop holding back on oil production.
As for US banks operating in Canada. You say Trump is wrong that they can’t, then immediately say that they can’t and instead have to set up Canadian subsidiaries which are all but disconnected from their US parent company in terms of operation.
This means they operate as Canadian banks.
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It’s not so much a hoax but a scam. These machines can be built, they have some uses, but raising investment as a publicly traded stock this early in, with a tech that has decades of hurdles to overcome would be like if a bunch of fusion power companies hit the stock market 50 years ago, or, today really.
They know they will never have a profitable business off anything they can raise with these IPOs. They’d each need an IPO every 5-6 years worth of invest,net for the next 20+ years just to iron out most of the issues, to say nothing of making a practical, high powered, affordable unit that can be produced at the scale needed to even maybe break even on all that R&D.
But they’re going public anyhow, and all those stocks have crashed and will be penny stocks until they’re bankrupt they might sell any decent IP to a bigger company willing to keep the research going for 20-30 years, maybe.
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Saying this mimics biological neural networks is just nonsense.
First off, we don’t even understand how biological NNs work beyond the surface level.
There’s over 3000 types of cells in the brain and we don’t understand how almost all of them fully work much less how they all work together.
It was only recently that we learned the brain has a lymphatic system.
Only more recently we learned the glial cells, previously thought to have nothing to do with cognitive function, is actually very important to it.
All systems like this do is speed up digital NNs, their processing and maybe their training.
Digital NNs are so primitive compared to biological ones that the man who coined the term neural network layered regretted it as it implied so much hype and misunderstanding.
Digital NNs are nothing more than a bunch of simple functions which take an input value, do very simple math to it against some fixed internal constants set during training, then output the value to the next layer of functions.
Essentially, they’re just a way of encoding an algorithm which can handle a lot of variability in the input quality.
You could get the same effect by hand coding out countless logic branches if you wanted to. These are called expert systems.
So, yeah, how our neurons and synapses and the supporting cells operate are far, far more complex not only in terms of processing information but in the fact they can dynamically change in response to thousands of chemical compounds, not to mention physically changing their structure.
Even if you used something like a FPGA processor to dynamically change the functional pathways of the processor, this is a very crude approximation of what biological NNs and you still wouldn’t know how to emulate their function because we don’t know how they function.
And don’t even get stared on how nonsense it is to claim a brain has the equivalent to X FLOPS.
That just shows a complete misunderstanding of the topic. You can’t make a comparison to transistors when you don’t even know what the brain is actually processing at any given time.
Simply taking an average of neurons and how often they fire or number of neurons and synapses and claiming that represents a workload capability which translates to transistors is comical.
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@TheLayeredKing Even in North America, even with those without higher education, it’s been common since the start of colonization to identify by your job. After all, the Americas were colonized by Europeans who were doing the same before that.
Basing your identity around considering yourself part of a group which is defined by so,e immutable physical characteristics has nothing to do with economics. It’s a sociopolitical trend pushed by the reframing of economic Marxism as social Marxism and has roots in the work of the founders of the Frankfurt School and some of their earlier compatriots in pre WWII Europe.
People didn’t do this during the Great Depression, or the earlier Great Depression, or during the collapse of the Weimar Republic, or Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, all of which were economic downturns that make the current situation in the US look like nothing. I could give more examples, from, the economic horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, to Leninism, Stalinism, The Khmer Rouge. Why didn’t people adopt racial, gender, and ethnic group identity politics in any of these cases of economic hardship if that’s just a natural thing to do when the economy is bad?
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This is what companies should be hiring on unless it’s a short term hire for a specific project and there’s no time to get good at the given tech stack.
But companies just don’t understand this. Managers don’t, HR obviously doesn’t. They act as if they’re always hiring people for 1-2 years, will never be changing their tech stack.
They don’t value a high capacity for rapid learning with a sold base of critical thinking, soft skills, common design pattern knowledge, all things which are critical to building a good team.
It’s no wonder that companies like Google which focus so much on pointless memorization of algorithms you’ll probably never have to code or even think much about, only have devs stick around for like 2 years on average.
This insane talent churn is internally rationalized as how to find the best talent and get rid of the rest. But it tends to do the opposite, as the best talent doesn’t have to put up with this nonsense of 8 stage interviews, constant performance reviews, unnecessarily competitive environments, and the constant looming threat of being fired for not outdoing everyone else.
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Apps really aren’t more complex now than they were in 2005. 99% of the time it’s just the same basic CRUD front and back end.
We’ve added a lot more ways to do the same thing and a desire to support them all adds complexity. Why not let people log into your app with every imaginable 3rd party account in existence? Why not create a bunch of ML models to figure out what to show people, which totally isn’t worse than a basic search and sort? Why not spend 300% more on cloud services and training everyone on them, then complicating all our apps to support the, just to get a couples of tenths of a percent uptime, in theory of course, than being down that extra time would ever cost the business.
Learning over complicated things makes us feel smart and gives us the hope of more job security. Implementing over complicated things lets us pretend our employer needs us because otherwise they could get by with half the team or less.
We also have a thousand ways to complicate simple things because every dev just has to have a bunch of repos on GitHub, because a resume alone means nothing, but rehashing some else’s code to make a library that does almost nothing, or already exists in 100 other flavors, that, that’s what an employer should look for.
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@BassByTheBay Yeah that Google engineer was completely out of line, and got suspended from his job by Google for it.
Some of this nonsense comes from pure marketing hype by all these companies vying for press and investor cash by making BS claims about how much more capable their models are than they even could be.
The rest of it comes from a dumbed-down effect.
AI used to be a fringe field where you had to really understand how these algorithms worked, how they worked together. Most devs and researchers were coding and training neural networks from scratch.
Now, any dimwit who watches an hour long video can do the same with off the shelf software and hardware they have no understanding of.
Even a lot of the “expert” devs only have a surface level understanding of various algos and concepts, with most of their knowledge in how to use various libraries and apps, and how to set up the workflow of collecting, scrubbing, normalizing, and classifying training data.
This is where you get all these ideas about “emergent attributes” (which are baked into the algorithms just not in an obvious way) and how it’s all “magic” and how “we don’t understand how AI works”.
This whole, “I don’t understand it so nobody does” mentality coupled with the marketing hype gives rise to these ideas about sentience or even sapience.
It’s just a matter of time before this dumbing-down plus better capabilities merges with the mind virus of virtue signaling and choosing to be an “activist” to make yourself feel important in a culture of nihilism gives rise to an asinine movement of people claiming AI is slavery and torture because they’re “alive”.
You know it’ll happen, the trajectory has been laid.
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@ Also, in your calculations, you have to factor in days off. Weekends, holidays, sick days, vacation days.
Weekends alone give you an average of 104 extra workdays a year, that’s over 28% more workdays robots would be working.
Add in other time off, breaks, and the significant ramp up time you have for training and getting a person to their peak average productivity, on a job with high turnover.
Factor that all in and you could probably cut your estimates by half.
And again, this is just a prototype.
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@HealthyDev I think the definition you mentioned is the original, which then got turned into, “Anyone who doesn’t go above and beyond.”
But I’d ask, what’s wrong with the bare minimum? It’s nice to get more than what you’re entitled to, but it’s a slippery slope when “nice to have” becomes “required”.
They’ve done studies with tipping at restaurants and show that tipping more doesn’t give better service as servers just raise their expectation of what the deserve for the service they already provide.
There’s also the issue that most places don’t have a defined, straight forward path for upward mobility. It’s usually playing office politics and/or waiting for someone to quit/die/be let go.
Putting in extra effort has to lead somewhere or eventually people will stop trying.
We can say people should always drive to do their best without reward as it’s a virtue and leads to personal growth.
But this tends to be more propaganda than anything else, an attempt to get more work out of staff without more pay, on the grounds that their reward will come in some form of personal growth and satisfaction.
The corporate version of, “If you lead a good life, you’ll be rewarded in heaven. Not now, not by us, but later, in heaven, by God.”
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It’s already begun to. Not as a direct boycott but with western companies pulling out offices, manufacturing, and retail, ending flights to China, high tariffs, banning of certain products being sold there.
The same is being done from western aligned eastern nations such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
Even Thailand which plays all sides has ended tax exemptions on cheap Chinese imports, making them a lot less competitive.
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@CreationsFlare I realized that as a young child, so did everyone around me.
Who doesn’t know that junk food is bad for you.
There’s lots of nutritious cheap foods, people just choose not to eat them because they’re not as appealing as junk foods.
I’ve lived in multiple countries where people are far poorer, adjusted for cost of living, than the working poor or lower income classes in America, yet they manage to eat much better foods.
Why? Because they aren’t insisting everything they eat taste like a pizza or piece of cake.
Also, even if you legitimately can’t get access to anything but unhealthy foods. Not it’s out of your way to get it, but like practically speaking, just not possible, you simply eat less of it and stave off micronutrient deficiencies with cheap vitamins, which ultimately costs less than eating excess junk to get more nutrients along with the extra calories you don’t need.
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@forestfire47 Yes, that’s what it is. And it’s not doing political satire, it’s doing non-Leftist satire. They take hard, on the nose punches at the Right, then pretend to take these pulled jabs at wokeness which in reality is just more criticism of the Right because all these jokes about how wokenss is fake and just virtue signaling are about Vought, a hyper capitalist company, run by rich people, who side with racists and fascists and whitewash movie characters because profits. You even have a not so subtle, anti-union poster from Vought on the wall of one of their old factories.
So even the lame attempts at appearing to go after both sides is a farce and is just more going after the same one side.
Even the choice of race in the characters is overtly racist. In the scene at the conspiracy con, like every extra is white, I’m a show where they force in unrealistic diversity everywhere else, that’s a deliberate choice. Same with the secret meeting of the rich and powerful, everyone is white aside from Sage who is there because tokenism and not part of “them” but to manipulate them, and the soon to be female president who is being set up as a “bad guy who really isn’t bad and has a change of heart and redeems herself”. Because the show will allow for 1 dimensional bad characters who are white but anyone else has to really be good and only acting bad because they were a victim of something.
It’s too overtly political and pushing tired messaging every other show is.
They thought they could do a bait n switch by not making it so obvious till season 3 and now they’re mad they’re being called out.
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Tipping is out of control at sit down places. If the owners had to take a income hit due to increased food, labor, rent, utilities,Katie’s, repairs, delivery fees, and advertising costs, why do servers get the same 20%+ tip on food that’s gone up in price 50%?
They’re actually making more than before Covid since nearly all their income is based on tips, which are based on food prices, which have gone up more than inflation.
And they still complain those tips aren’t enough, because they’d like to earn more. Yeah we’d all like to earn more.
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@ashvandal5697 $3 is a 17% difference. Pretty significant. And McDonald’s in Aus is slightly more expensive than in CA. So not sure what your point is. All you’re suggesting is that the places where min wage is highest, food costs are higher. There are other cost differences comparing Aus to CA. Even if you narrow it down to LA vs Sydney, a Big Mac is around 2% more expensive but property values are around 15% more expensive and food prices around 6%. Labor is the biggest cost, followed by COGS which is mostly food, then rent and other occupancy fees. So two of the three largest costs being significantly more expensive would account for most of discrepancy.
All this shows is that where the cost of labor is high, as it eats up 45.5% of revenue on average, the cost of McDonald’s is higher.
So is it just gouging? The proper term here would be reinflation, or charging more than inflation because customers expect an increase with inflation.
I doubt it. Nearly all locations are franchises and on average, they’re clearing around $154k a year in profits. That’s not much on net sales of $2.7m and considering the risk they take. Their net profit has also been shrinking for years. When the expense that eats up 45% of your gross sales goes up by 15% and you’re only clearing a 5.7% profit and taking on all the risk of the initial capital outlay, you’re going to have to raise prices, it’s not gouging.
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@Blythe985 Except it’s not one celebrity it’s tens of thousands of millionaires and billionaires and each one is producing more pollution than several to dozens of people. And unlike the average person driving to work and having dinner, these private jets, yachts, multiple mansions, multiple cars, none of it is even slightly necessary.
And not eating meat would do nothing for global climate change anyhow, and insect flour based foods are highly processed and far more expensive per calorie.
Also, billions of average people aren’t in front of cameras, being hypocrites to get people to give them more money they don’t need, so they can buy more trash they don’t need, and take more flights they don’t need to.
Taylor Swift is.
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What the clown doesn’t understand, who says it’s American demand for the drugs which is the issue, is that the demand was created by Big Pharma getting millions on opiates, then idiot legislators and regulators cutting them off instead of weaning them off through proper rehab treatment.
That demand wasn’t there 20 years ago. It didn’t just appear. Americans didn’t just decide they wanted to take something with a super high chance of killing them.
They were addicted by Pharma and bad doctors, cut off while addicted, then left with only illegal and dangerous alternatives.
Also, as long as there are easy to get opiates, there’s little incentive for them to stop taking them.
Anyone who thinks demand alone determines the market, doesn’t understand economics.
When the cost of supply goes way up, demand goes down.
Make it harder to bring opiates into the US, prices go way up, eventually most addicted are forced off it.
It’s why crack was so much more of a problem than cocaine was, because it was so much cheaper.
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@ The bots are still easy to sus out, the paid shills can be a bit harder but still fairly obvious after a few exchanges as it’s just a job, they usually stick to a script or at least a lost of talking points and can only rephrase them to some extent, and they are really focused on those talking points.
Like the Chinese Wumao shills, they will launch into stilted attacks on your government if it’s a non-friendly and refuse to discuss anything negative about China. Everything gets deflected with some half baked version of “What about the things your country does”.
I’m e you’ve seen it a couple of times it becomes easy to spot. They’re also pretty dumb and will use a profile pic showing they’re Chinese, usually so,ethereal in China, and will even set their location as being in China… but they don’t have YT in China so they’ve got special access or are using a VPN, and why would a Chinese national break their law, use a VPN to access an illegal platform, just to defend their own government, which they’re disobeying lol
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I left the US decades ago because I saw how things were going to turn out, and I was right. The place I moved to has its own problems but I’m safer, my money goes 3 times as far, people are actually nice and help each other, there’s no left vs right political holy war going on.
And I see more and more people from the west and even other poor countries moving here to get away from the BS in their countries.
Unlike that liar in that TikTok video talking about her tourist experiences in other countries, most people I meet outside the US like Trump. Only people who often don’t are women from Canada or Australia. It’s like 95% women.
It’s funny when I see woke fools try and push woke ideology here and it never makes it out of their little online echo chambers for spoiled, entitled kids pretending to live in other countries with daddy’s money. They take a few touristy trips here and there, love in a tourist area full of expats, think they know the culture because they learned some phrases in the language and eat local food.
Then they rant about all the western far left talking points while being too dumb to realize all the things they’re complaining about are embedded in the culture here. But they won’t say anything bad about it because they only feel brave enough to complain about what white people do. Everyone else gets a free pass.
The US Constitution is still the best in the world but a place is only as good as the people who live there and it only takes like 10% of the population to be garbage to ruin a place.
So I left the US, I didn’t announce I was leaving, I didn’t threaten to leave, that’s for fakes and liars. I just left and am so happy I did.
Going back to the US for a visit is painful and I try to avoid it.
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Yeah they all think they’ll be given free everything to sit around and write poems, paint, and stare at the clouds.
And somehow, magically, food, shelter, infrastructure, medicine, raw materials, will all just appear because there will be countless people who have a deep passion for working in mines, operating dangerous machines, and sitting hunched over in cubicles all day when they could be staring at clouds
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@throughthoroughthought8064 I’ve followed parapsychology for decades and there is nothing even remotely approaching proof of psychic powers.
At best you have some statistics based on small scale studies which, if you rationalize away methodological issues and squint hard enough, you can claim “statistically significant” results that imply there’s something going on besides chance.
Even the few studies that were fairly well done but far from perfect, they still tested small groups of people.
If you were using the same approach for studying the efficacy of medical treatments, you’d never get FDA approval.
But even if you pretend these small scale, unideal studies somehow demonstrate what you’d see if better studies were done at large scale, of hundreds of thousands of subjects or more, it still doesn’t demonstrate that psychic abilities exist, much less provide any framework to build a testable, working model of.
At best they suggest that something may be causing results that are a bit better than chance.
Claiming that points to psychic powers being a thing is just a variation of the god of the gaps fallacy.
And none of this has anything, at all, to do with this specific person in question or their claimed story.
Even if you pretend some statistical abnormalities found in subject counts that wouldn’t pass muster to draw conclusion in medical or even nutritional epidemiology (which is notorious for having low standards), AND you pretend that this abnormality must be due to psychic powers existing, in now way does it prove that OP has such powers or if they do, that they are capable of the result claimed, or if they are, that they were the cause of the claim, which you don’t even know if it even happened or not.
You’ve built a really precarious house of cards to stand on here.
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@marcustulliusc It’s not a red herring. Rare or not, you said weight gain was ALWAYS about calories and consuming too many. I pointed out that the body is more complex than that. If you want to talk about fallacies, you’ve tossed out a hasty generalization there. I’m not disagreeing that the vast majority of obese people are obese due to poor diet and inactivity, just saying that it’s not as simple as pure calorie counting in all cases.
Typical calorie counting breaks once you hit a certain body fat content as those calculations aren’t made for cases where so much of the body weight has low metabolic activity.
So the calculation of how many calories you need at 20% body fat won’t work when you’re at 50% because all that fat doesn’t burn many calories.
Even if you compensate for that, it doesn’t account for the content of your food. If you’re eating almost all high glycemic load carbs, you’re going to keep your insulin levels so high, nearly 24/7, that the body will continue to sequester calories into lipocytes and keep them locked up there, similar to what Cushing’s does but by different mechanism.
That means even if you have a normal caloric intake, you’d still gain fat and end up with fewer calories being burnt. The body would compensate by lowering its metabolism, causing low energy and all sorts of other issues.
Now this isn’t caused by a disease but it is a common case where simply lowering calories doesn’t work. It’s more nuanced.
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@USBestCountryonEarth These tourists buy package tours from Chinese owned companies who own virtually every aspect of the tour, from the hotels, to the transport buses, the restaurants, the gift shops, the nightclubs, the tour guides. At every step of the way that money is minimally brought into Thailand or funneled back out. It’s amazingly easy to underreport income and skirt taxes. Since they pay up front, in China, almost all the income is off the books. Any in country purchases are done with cash or WePay which is basically impossible for the Thais to track.
Even when they do generate money in the country, they have ways to launder it through businesses that operate at a loss so avoid or minimize income taxes,
A lot of massage shops, weed shops, and nightlife venues, even restaurants are money laundering operations. Or as the Thais call them, “black money” operations.
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@kneesnap1041 Most things are poorly and unintuitive named which adds to the learning curve and cognitive overhead, it’s not designed for for what basically everyone uses it for, things like open source OS and kernel development vs corporate/gov development teams, and those extra steps and options create lots of opportunity to mess things up.
And while I know that there are the type who think endless flexibility in how you handle your branching strategy is just the best thing ever, it’s not, not when when most people using it will be having debates of which is way of branching is better, none of them are ideal, and there’s no guardrails to ensure people stick to whatever you went with.
If you have a highly experienced team, you know from lots of experience a specific branching strategy is the best for your team, and everyone just does everything right, great. But for everyone else, simpler, opinionated, and standardized lets you just get things done and not have to worry.
And the complexity leads to difficulty in visualizing the history without GUI tools, and there’s so many of those, the ones built into a lot of IDEs aren’t great so do you stick with that or buy some better commercial app, learn that and your next job probably won’t be using it.
Mercurial is a lot better, hell, even MS TFS (while lacking some nice to haves) is just so much easier to use for what most orgs are doing.
I don’t work on an open source Linux distro, and I’m guessing most of you, pretty much all of you, aren’t either. Git just wasn’t made for how most teams in orgs operate or the type of projects they work on.
Why not use the right tool for the job.
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Just get rid of Agile and Scrum.
More companies are realizing they’re a waste of resources, even larger ones, CapOne is a recent example.
They’ve been so misused and abused and the whole point of having a methodology is that it works, it’s laid out, and the results consistent.
If your methodology is so easy to misinterpret, corrupt, or just do whatever with, it defeats the purpose.
You’ve even got the guy who created Agile saying over and over how it’s pointless now and all this nonsense, complexity, and ceremony layered on top isn’t at all what he intended it to be.
The only people hanging onto things like SCRUM are people who don’t know anything else, and the priest caste who make a living off peddling it.
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@istvantoth7431 Yeah, you see various issues with Boomers, Xers, Millennials, and Zoomers. There’s some overlap but compare Boomers and Xers to Zoomers and younger millennials and you see some distinct behavior like flat out refusing to do a task because they don’t like it, not showing up for meetings because they wanted to take a shower in the middle of the day… when they know they had a meeting scheduled. And before 2022, when they thought they could just change jobs in days, they honestly didn’t care if they got fired.
Older generations who did things they weren’t supposed to at least tried to hide it, they knew they were cutting corners and it wasn’t something to brag about, zoomers are more likely to feel entitled to do whatever and think you’re in the wrong I’d you don’t go along with it.
And of course, doing whatever always boils down to not doing real work but expecting to be paid, well.
I know some Zoomers who are great workers and don’t act like this at all, but when you do see misbehavior in the 4 gens who make up most of the workforce, you do see a worsening trend and more belligerence. And a lot of managers now are Millennials and realized late in the game you can’t operate this way, but all you hear is how it’s Boomers who don’t get it.
Like, you think Zuckerberg lets people just do whatever and still get paid $250k a year?
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@frank13621 The last time I applied for a job I accepted was 6 years ago. I applied again last year, out of 3 positions I applied for, I got 3 interviews and one job offer, which I didn’t take because their initial claim of being fully remote was, in the end, revealed to be soon changing to hybrid remote, which I had no interest in. 2 of these 3 positions, HR reps reached out to me about. I also had another job last year offered to me through a personal contact but the salary wasn’t what I wanted, but they did ask for my resume and wanted to hire me, no interview needed. I didn’t really apply for that so I don’t count it, I just wanted to see what they would offer.
There was one attempt at applying for a job which I never actually applied for, so I don’t count that. I never submitted a resume, I first wanted some questions answered about the job and pay as the company was outside the US. They never replied over their “careers” email. I tracked down the personal emails of both founders and emailed them directly and also got no response. Given how small this company is and how casual their operating structure is by their own admission, not being able to get some very basic questions answered up front is a big red flag, so moved on.
I spent time researching these companies from multiple angles, tailoring my resume for the jobs and the nature of the companies. All in, I’d say I probably spent around 8 hours to get 3 interviews and a job offer, which is nothing really.
None of these companies were high profile tech companies but they did range from established startup to Fortune 500. I’d never even bother with high profile tech companies. I do have friends at Amazon NYC who could almost guarantee me a nice paying dev role, with decent stock bonuses and a signing bonus, but they all hate working there and despite still being “remote”, they feel obligated to fly to NYC several times a year to sit in a pointless meeting that could and should be done over a call, if at all.
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They see differences, they just don’t care and they aren’t born knowing what a race is or how to group people by race. There isn’t even one set of races, there’s a bunch of them, each using different races and ways of grouping people. The whole black, white, Asian, Latin, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, native thing Americans use is the most idiotic, oversimplified, and meaningless of all the racial grouping methods.
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@H.Hardrada Not really an apt comparison. There’s no debate that overheating causes weight gain, it’s a settled matter.
Making America better, is a nebulous thing, outcomes can be subjective.
To start, you have to lay out very specific issues and very specific proposals to fix them.
Then you have to see if there’s any established, demonstrable evidence that supports that course of action will work or not.
Good luck finding that for most things. You can’t just run a bunch of socioeconomic tests with a control on the scale of a large nation like you’re testing some compound on a rodent model.
And anti-globalist isn’t isolationist. You’re reducing it to a false dichotomy.
Globalism is an extreme, it’s been tried, it only benefits large corporations and corrupt politicians.
The pendulum needs to swing back towards nationalism. People should have more direct influence on how their laws, public officials, and economy operate.
The further the governance of these things are from those it affects, the more room there is for corruption, and accountability goes out the window.
Smaller, more localized, fragmented governance not only allows for experimenting with far more socioeconomic ideas, but ensures that when some fail, they incur fewer casualties.
It’s also much harder to corrupt a large number of leaders who are more accountable to their constituents than a handful of elites, pulling strings from behind interchangeable figureheads, there only to provide the thin veneer of self-determination.
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@drillingig2368 Maybe in the US, UK, Aus, and some other Western countries.
Go to east and south east Asia and you’ll see lots of amazingly attractive women who make Webster women look like vomited up dog food, who think the roided up, tatted up, show off types are disgusting.
In their cultures, guys like this are seen as pathetic and being with one is embarrassing to the woman and their family.
So even if guys like this get women in western countries, they’re getting table scraps by global standards.
And what’s even more sad is all the time, money, and loss of health they waste to look like that and it gets them no net gain.
Good thing is they shorten their lifespans so the rest of us don’t have to deal with them for too long.
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@ Yeah because you’re giving yourself a steady stream of fructose all day. The fiber might help keep you full so you don’t over consume and that’s helping you lose weight but it’s not just about weight.
A third of people with type 2 diabetes are normal body weight or even skinny.
Maybe if you’re only using low sugar berries like cranberries and raspberries or something like avocados, but most fruit is high in sugar and not something you want to be consuming all day.
Especially fructose which is metabolized in the liver and puts you at higher risk of fatty liver disease.
I’d stick to protein, avocado, the lowest sugar berries, and maybe some veggies.
Just skip veggies that are high in oxalates like spinach, kale, and don’t use too many almonds for the same reason.
Hemp protein is low quality. Only like 15% is bio available to be converted into muscle and other tissues.
Better off with the fiber from the berries, some veggies, add in some acacia Senegal for soluble fiber, then use a better protein source like a clean brand of whey. You can go with cow or goat milk whey.
Cows milk is fine if it’s grass fed and ideally lactose free as well.
There’s no value in the lactose, it’s just unneeded sugar and the potential for an upset stomach.
Goat and sheep’s milk is far easier to digest but sheep’s milk is pretty gamey tasting and more expensive and harder to find.
Goat milk has a similar taste but less intense. And you know it’s grass fed since that’s how they’re all raised.
Goat milk also has a good amount of omega 3s, although if you use goat milk whey powder it doesn’t matter as you’ll only end up with the protein.
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@simonpetrikov3992 Nothing false about it. You already sacrifice for your kids by raising them. It takes an insane amount of time, effort, and money just to get a kid to 18.
This idea that your life should be minimal survival so your kids can live on easy mode because they made poor life choices or are simply greedy, is BS.
And the idea that it’s not even your choice, and something you just have to do, because poor life choice/greedy people say so, is even more BS.
It’s also really hypocritical to have this coming from people who have no kids or if they do, won’t be doing the same for them, because they want this money for themselves.
This isn’t a case of parents being rich and their kids not having food, it’s parents wanting to enjoy some of their life before they die and kids wanting to take that enjoyment money and blow it on am affordable luxury lifestyle for themselves, something they don’t want to work to earn and wait till they’re old to enjoy.
Pure greed.
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For an industry that is so technical and supposedly operates on logic, and gathering then analyzing data to optimize everything, it just loves to fall for the same cons over and over.
Use Agile and Scrum to build things faster!
Focus on scalability! Everything has to scale to Google levels, because Google does it that way!
Offshore all your workers to dirt cheap countries, it’ll be fine!
Change your tech stack to whatever is trendy, because look at the cool new bells n whistles. Don’t worry about all the time you’ll spend relearning how to do everything, you’ll make it up with increased productivity before you have to learn the new stack in 5 years, guaranteed!
A mainframe and thin client? Lol, we use a fat client and server now.
What? You still doing client-server? It’s all about the web, thin client in the browser FTW!
Wait, you’re not using a big JS framework and still doing server side rendering? Lol
JS front ends are getting too bloated, the future is server side rendering on a mainframe, er, servers, I mean The Cloud TM and a thin client.
Coming soon: You’re still paying crazy The Cloud TM hosting fees? Lol, just toss up some dirt cheap servers in co-lo and roll out your own personal cloud, it auto configures almost everything and costs ten times less. Oh wait, you got locked into all that vendor specific tech? Sucks for you bro.
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