benjirenji

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[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think the difference was that before other countries would see themselves as allies and thus as part of the West. NATO is just one of many alliances that went beyond just pretending.

Now Trump threatened all of this. Take over Canada? Get back the Panama Canal? "Rescue" Greenland? Get out of NATO? Suddenly it becomes clear that it was a mistake to trust the US so much and that the same rules should count for them as anyone else.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 4 points 23 hours ago

Had a similar experience when SCUBA diving recently. New pressure gauges these days are digital and I still think the analog ones are not only prettier, but also functionally more convenient. You don't need to be able to read numbers to know you're getting into the red. Maybe they have some extra feature but I didn't need it.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't sell the same amount of product when you have to increase the price. You may need to shrink your business to not get the remaining margin getting eaten up by operational costs.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dude, wtf is wrong with them?

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Because you can't dismiss 30% of a population. They need to at least partially be taken along, just because they're too many to just declare war on.

Let's declare war on a more manageable percentage and definitely without compromising core values. So we gotta pierce the bubble of the misinformed, but defeat the ones who misinform out of malice and self interest.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the ignorant way they cope with the truth does come close to malice.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago

I agree that 0-days aren't numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.

On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.

I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 15 points 3 days ago

The job market is actually pretty bad right now and with all the recent layoffs in tech very saturated. Unionizing would make more sense.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

I know it's not an excuse, but I doubt they all know and knowingly support all of this. There's plenty of people utterly un- or misinformed about what's going on in the world or inside the US. There was this video recently where they interviewed beach-goers about the Iran war. They barely even knew what a war or Iran was.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Can't believe it kinda recovered early last summer. Wasn't that when he was flipflopping on tariffs? The tariffs the gov now needs to pay back after businesses raised prices to compensate for them?

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 129 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I guess AOL published this in the "entertainment" section because horror is also an entertainment category.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

But we have to identify this as what it is: an internal policy failure where they abandon proven processes to maintain code quality.

I guess I'm lucky my managers have not put that pressure on me yet. I do however see developers getting sloppy and lazier so the reviews actually do take more effort and AI rarely catches all problems with a change.

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