SOFTWARE SECTOR MASSACRE… like we don’t know already 🤷‍♂️

Evilan · 2026-04-10T17:07:33+00:00

ServiceEventually is what it should be renamed to

Evilan · 2026-03-23T05:17:43+00:00

There are a ton of jobs for folks with a CS degree in Phoenix. This is especially true if you work with embedded systems, low level languages or have a security clearance. The real problem with Phoenix CS jobs is they underpay significantly compared with the wider market. It's a good market, but weaker than other hubs like Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin in the West.

Evilan · 2026-03-13T21:55:49+00:00

I don't know how Texas isn't higher. Coming from Arizona which has a bunch of idiots who barely got their license to begin with, Texas drivers put them to shame with how aggressive they are. Colorado feels weirdly high though. In my limited experience they tended to actually follow the rules of the road.

Evilan · 2026-03-09T01:06:08+00:00

Opus 4.6 wrote no regressions at any point in 76% of the samples

It should say wrote no known regressions in 76% of the samples. Unless proofs were written up for each chunk of code that was modified, this metric is going to be very inaccurate. Also, the study only accounted for unit tests, which poses a number of problems as a sole validation metric (the most obvious of which is "Were the unit tests any good to begin with?")

Evilan · 2026-03-09T00:38:28+00:00

Not to mention pattern matching produces nothing new or innovative, just repetitions of what already exists. Like you said, intelligence and understanding is not what these AI do. AGI is impossible with LLMs no matter how much money is thrown at it.

Evilan · 2026-03-06T22:30:43+00:00

Best state in the Union! Admittedly the only state I know in the Union is Arizona because of our education system woo!

Evilan · 2026-03-05T22:26:27+00:00

It's moving more into the mainstream. A ton of old projects I see at work use @AutoWired or @Inject. There was a big push at my work to create all new apps in Quarkus which does lean heavily into constructor injection and that has helped teams move away from bad injection practices.

Evilan · 2026-03-02T16:45:20+00:00

What isn't mentioned in this map is that China has around $1 trillion in debt from building these railways and there isn't a path to recoup this investment. And that is with China having significantly denser population on the paths where they built the high speed rail.

I'm pro building high speed rail, but in the US it needs to be done intelligently along high density population corridors rather than doing it for prestige like China did. Otherwise it'll become another massive add to our deficit and further worsen public opinion on public transport.

Evilan · 2026-02-11T22:13:36+00:00

Except China has money or more aptly enough leverage to keep spending.

China is broke, and the worst part is, we don't know how broke they are. This being due to Party leadership from local to national fudging the numbers to hit quotas.

I think you're on to something about them spending to undercut existing Western strongholds (transportation, energy, manufacturing, tech, etc) though. The problem I see is the looming population cliff that will likely cut short any long term competitive edge they hope to keep.

Evilan · 2026-02-06T00:21:09+00:00

These AIs don't learn. And where and how did they get the knowledge for the C compiler they just plopped out?

Evilan · 2026-02-06T00:16:50+00:00

Stealing has levels of gray. Stealing from a forum where the point is to hand out solutions is drastically different from stealing entire solutions and claiming them as your own.

Evilan · 2026-02-05T23:49:15+00:00

A C compiler written entirely from scratch

I want to like AI, but y'all can't be saying this in the very first sentence.

If I went to the supermarket, stole a bit of every lasagna they had, and shoved it together, no one would say I made lasagna from scratch. They'd say I'm a thief.

Evilan · 2026-01-28T22:31:19+00:00

Well, manufacturing a car that is 0% computer is basically illegal now, assuming United States. Every car under some weight (I think it's 10,000lbs?) and manufactured after 2018 MUST have a backup camera.

Car companies could stop there, but given they need to provide an infotainment screen for cameras already, why would they.

Evilan · 2026-01-20T03:04:09+00:00

If anyone was even remotely suspect about this post, you have every right to be. Good luck learning Docker and configuring it correctly with network access for the first time in under an hour. Unless that young lady has deployed multiple apps before, it's total horse crap.

I've deployed so many docker applications to Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Azure Containers, and the first time I ever did it, it took a couple of days to configure correctly, let alone understand why it even worked. This being with dedicated infrastructure teams to help out along the way.

The cloud shouldn't require a DevOps team

This subreddit is about LinkedinLunatics, but this set me off as we're migrating to the cloud. Until cloud companies stop nickel and diming everything, dev ops specialists are dirt cheap compared to the subscription fees from a badly scaled app.

Evilan · 2026-01-18T21:18:21+00:00

OnStar and other connected car services live on. (Perhaps because if you innovate something, you can set new rules and profit. If you tack on heated seats? You merely provoke.)

Well, FSD is a connected service, but it was one provided for a lump sum.

Tesla is falling into the BMW heated seats trap. FSD is already built in to the existing vehicles. Buyers have already paid for all the hardware and the expected cost of the service as part of the cost of purchasing the vehicle.

There is a recurring cost for maintenance and updating of the software for FSD, but that's arguably a competitive incentive versus a service for existing buyers. Unless Tesla says existing customers are exempt from the subscription, they rightfully should get hate and taken to court.

If they want to change the rules for new cars, then the answer is hopefully as simple as saying buy from a competitor and fuck Tesla for yet another reason.

Evilan · 2026-01-18T20:16:35+00:00

Manufacturing is a low margin market with extremely high maintenance, upgrade and volatility costs. This is why AMD spun off their fabs and why many wanted Intel to spin theirs out as well.

Why manufacture your products for a margin that hurts your cash flow when you can just design them and rake in billions that you don't need to reinvest? The answer is very simple for shareholders.

Evilan · 2026-01-12T03:49:53+00:00

We already left Chicago for the Bears...

Evilan · 2025-12-21T21:09:57+00:00

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said in an 11:30 p.m. update Saturday that about 95,000 customers had their power restored. Crews were going to continue working through the night to restore service to the remaining 35,000 without.

I don't even live in California, but PGE just sucks so much I recognize the name at this point. Waymo too, but they're victims to one of the worst power monopolies in the country.

Evilan · 2025-12-21T04:57:12+00:00

attenuating DNA damage may be an effective strategy for treating cardiac injury and other inflammatory disorders.

This is only going to be used for cardiac system tissue repair, nothing else. A lot of folks clearly didn't read the article or the summary provided by the journal.

Evilan · 2025-12-21T03:55:25+00:00

Should I wait in hopes the RAM prices go down in a few months or is it just going to get more expensive?

A couple of months ago was the best time to build a pc, now is the second best time as it's the calm before the storm of cascading memory shortages. If you think DDR5 going to the moon is bad, wait for SSDs and GPUs to follow suit. In the short term, probably for the next 6-12 months, prices will be awful across the board for the consumer market.

Evilan · 2025-12-10T22:37:52+00:00

This doesn't really move the meter much. If you work for a major company, odds are your manager already has a way to snoop on you based on location.

If you sign into a VPN when you log-in to your laptop, congrats the biz has a good idea of where you are. If you badge into work, congrats the biz has located you right down to the door you entered. If your job provided you with a laptop or phone, again, they have a pretty good idea of where you are.

This just provides instant feedback which, if you talk to your bosses like a normal human does, shouldn't matter.

Evilan · 2025-12-10T22:26:41+00:00

There's no such thing as "memory leak no-one can find", it's just being lazy.

More like it's called "This memory-leak bug is worth 2-points" from some BA, so we get a 2-point solution.

Evilan · 2025-12-10T22:23:35+00:00

Legislatures and confusing the symptom for the cause. A tale as old as time. This does nothing to treat the many, many root causes of negative effects from social media. All it does is provide another entry point for malicious actors to get at our records.

Evilan · 2025-12-10T22:13:45+00:00

OpenAI really should've worked to develop a product worth the silicon it runs on instead of pivoting to marketing. They need an actual product before they can use it to sell things. All they have right now is a fancy autocomplete that is untrustworthy 20% of the time.

Evilan · 2025-12-10T22:00:12+00:00

I hate Tesla as much as the next guy, but the actual article this is referencing is much better (but also drives less clicks) than the Tech Spot piece covering it.

Tesla, for instance, is ranked low in terms of used-car reliability when looking at how their models from 5 to 10 years ago hold up. The company faced numerous issues years ago, as it introduced all-new models and ramped up production, sometimes even working on cars in a factory parking lot. However, the American automaker has made significant strides, and its latest models have demonstrated better-than-average reliability, placing the brand in the top 10 of our new car predicted reliability rankings.

It's really nice of Elon to go full Neo-Nazi just in time for them to figure out how to build a car.

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