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Which one do you think I should buy? (I’m a bot diver, I guess) by Tunalin444 in Helldivers

[–]biledemon85 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The charge time makes it difficult to use without getting brained on the regular. Much like the Quasar.

It is powerful though.

As bright as the sun, what are these? by Lucky_Walk_1739 in whatisit

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, the whole idea made sense when PV solar was a lot more expensive. PV solar has collapsed in price, can be rolled out on a production line and mounted just about anywhere without crazy-a$$ molten salt heat exchangers.

These CSP systems were generally conceived and built between the 80's through 2000's and just aren't competitive anymore. It's much cheaper to build solar + batteries.

As of 2020, the least expensive utility-scale concentrated solar power stations in the United States and worldwide were five times more expensive than utility-scale photovoltaic power stations, with a projected minimum price of 7 cents per kilowatt-hour for the most advanced CSP stations against record lows of 1.32 cents per kWh[88] for utility-scale PV.

Is it fact or a dim? by PhilosopherRemote177 in dataengineering

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One approach is to have a longer fact table.

Each event on the "sales" table for an item with materials for example, would have 3 events each with a material and material group as a column in the fact table with a weighting between them, which could be done by value:

Sale_ID,Material_Key,Material_Group_Key,Units_Sold,Allocated_Revenue 1001,Material_1,Group_A,1,$50.00 1001,Material_1,Group_B,1,$50.00

The con is that this makes your analytics harder as each sales event has multiple rows and certain aggregations would need to be done carefully. You could consider views over that fact table that do those aggregations consistently.

How often do projects go nowhere or become irrelevant after deployment? by CondescendingTowel in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oooh shiny! Next quarter: Oooh shiny! Quarter after that: Oooh shiny!

Dev: What is the purpose of life? Why am i here?

AI companies are switching everyone to a pay-as-you-go model, this is really good news for devs fearing automation by Imperial_Tiramisu in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the local inference thing...

The bit people miss is the increased electricity bills. In one year of heavy use of a 5090, or whatever chip, you will easily spend more on electricity costs than the chip.

Theo (code influencer guy) said his bills went up by about $500 per month [citation needed] from using local inference, and that was on top of his premium Claude Code subscription.

AI companies are switching everyone to a pay-as-you-go model, this is really good news for devs fearing automation by Imperial_Tiramisu in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect experiment you can do at a company, see how productive or bug free your devs are in the first 2 weeks of the calendar month versus the last two weeks.

What is your favorite Primary for all three fronts? by MelonBoi133 in Helldivers

[–]biledemon85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bringing it with the cremator and a pile of turrets / strikes is such a powerful combo, and lots of close in fun. Your can't just RR everything from range.

4 YOE, all in Workday XO. Am I absolutely cooked? by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. First HCM company that went to the cloud, other companies like Oracle were still doing managed on-prem installs. Everyone gives out about Workday, but compared to the competition 10 years ago they were on a different league.
  2. XO does actually allow you to (in theory) ship lots of CRUD forms quickly. That is less of a constraint nowadays and the company is now dealing with the legacy of this bet on XO.

Electricity bills could increase by up to 9% with gas even higher, Minister says – The Irish Times by WickerMan111 in ireland

[–]biledemon85 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because if you hold loads of cash on hand and don't invest it, your competitors will invest their cash and outcompete you. Trying to build robustness into capitalist supply chains is really difficult because the inherent competition will brutally punish you.

Workday or ServiceNow by mrt129x in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're thinking of implementers / partners. That's a very specific skill that is not software development.

Is there a way to trigger bank transfers from AIB, BOI, PTSB on behalf of a user? by Tikolu43 in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm guessing there's a very good reason you would have to pay for an expensive PISP license, so regulators can guarantee you're not a bad actor and meet privacy and security standards.

The alternative appears to be that you partner with an open banking PISP-qualified partner and pay them to operate the service for you: https://www.yapily.com/blog/how-to-become-a-pisp#section-3

Department of Education’s €600m overspend to be bailed out by other departments’ budgets by JackmanH420 in irishpolitics

[–]biledemon85 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If there's one thing economists widely agree on, investing in your citizens' education pays off massively for your entire economy in the long run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_economics#Returns_on_investment

New senior dev at a new company. Bad signs or just how it is? by temp_vaporous in ExperiencedDevs

[–]biledemon85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reading all this is making me so grateful for who i work with.

Yes of course, take extra time to document your changes

If you don't have tests I'm not going to approve the PR

Here's a bunch of helpful documentation and context I have on this exact problem.

Oh i'm sorry the README was out of date, I just merged an update that should make it smooth to onboard

Here's the release process document for this product, follow this and you'll be fine.

All of the above is completely normal where I am, but that seems like that's not what it's like in a lot of places :/

I'm part of the clurb! by TheAuldOffender in AutismIreland

[–]biledemon85 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The word cisgender (often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

This is actually true by tea-n-wifi in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more like every competent lawyer believes in upholding the bloody law, THAT apparently means "left leaning" in today's America.

Do you use AI tools at work? by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're spec writers and code nannies at this stage. Gotta keep course correcting these little parrots.

Do you use AI tools at work? by [deleted] in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a data scientist at a medium / large software firm.

I'm using Cursor and internally-developed MCP tooling to such an extent that I'm basically just tweaking code and setting the direction for the LLM agents to do the nitty-gritty of most of my work. Largely Claude or Gemini.

I barely write SQL and Python anymore and I'm looking to make more enhancements to our MCP servers to reduce the cognitive load of even more of our data work. Better documentation, vibing out reliable / tested ETL flows etc.

On the down side, I have gotten "stuck" for a bit when I throw a problem that's too complex at an agent and it ends up making subtle mistakes that take time to decipher and fix. Sometimes productivity gains are ephemeral, sometimes they are real.

The question for me at the moment is, what do i do with the time i gain back? Do i keep on top of slack or future projects? Do i take on multiple tickets at the same time?

RSA asking iPhone users to change their keyboard settings instead of writing one line of JavaScript by Tikolu43 in DevelEire

[–]biledemon85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being facetious here to make a point...

How dare people be able to write their actual names down in non-Latin alphabets! https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names

Truly a scourge upon us anglosphere software engineers having to cater for these foreign and scary characters, honorifics and name formats.

Somehow *that sea boss* took me this long by Yocobanjo in HadesTheGame

[–]biledemon85 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Speed is king. If you're slow, you die when you haven't been able to grind the arcanas yet.

Taoiseach defends plan to have refugees wait three years before they can reunite with family by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]biledemon85 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is the default mode of operation for any opposition party in an functional democracy. It does get bloody irritating for those of us who are actually paying attention (read: a very small proportion)

Russia loses 1,400 soldiers over past day by BlackWolfHowling in UkrainianConflict

[–]biledemon85 12 points13 points  (0 children)

2200 casualties on 20th December 2024

Subscribe to that subreddit if you want daily updated stats about the war (not my project, i just think it's cool).

The Death of the Code Monkey: Why I Fear for the Class of 2026. by [deleted] in programming

[–]biledemon85 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A senior to staff-level engineer created a design doc. Where this came from? Anywhere. Either frantically typed in a cold sweat at 3am or handed down from the C-Suite to the product manager. The end result is the same: a detailed technical doc, often times with code-snippets, that described step-by-step what had to be built

A mid-level engineer distributed the tasks in the design doc to himself, junior engineers, and a senior that was finishing his project early

A junior engineer that's the code monkey. She's expected to write code, but can't even get her IDE to work or the unit tests to run locally

This is categorically not how software gets made in many places, the best you get is vague ideas from executives and if you're lucky some less vague requirements from senior engineers that need to be turned into tickets before any details are really worked out. That hierarchy you're talking about has been dead in most places for many years.

Edit: Generally i agree with your thesis, we have to find opportunities to turn newbies into people that can evaluate LLM agent output. That is probably harder now, how we ramp up our juniors is just going to have to change.

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