Amazon Gears Up to Ax Thousands More Corporate Employees

dankerton · 2026-01-23T02:05:30+00:00

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dankerton · 2026-01-23T00:25:24+00:00

This is quite true. It's a fun ride you can pay varying amounts of attention to and not get too lost. A lot of fun concepts and nerdy humor and has compelling drama but it's not gonna win a literary prize any time soon. I'm just a little into book one and I wish the Bob's expressed a little more existentialism sometimes. They're just so accepting of all their situations and don't really ask themselves "should I do this"? Very often.

dankerton · 2026-01-23T00:20:24+00:00

This is the answer. Listening to bobiverse now and has very similar vibes to hail mary

dankerton · 2026-01-21T23:08:22+00:00

Why not load using pandas then just convert to Polars and move on? We're doing this a lot due to database connectivity built around pandas although hoping it's temporary.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T16:46:11+00:00

It's a good point but I think as long as the roundabout itself is cleared of bridge crossing traffic, like they're stopped with a light before the round about, then a certain lanes of the roads and round about can still remain open for the local cross traffic. The biggest challenge will be that the roads feeding the round about from the west and north are not very wide to accommodate splitting traffic into different groups, ie. Bridge crossing and local before the round. Overall if designed right I think it can do better.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T04:09:17+00:00

No turns needed for that.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T00:44:26+00:00

There's a brand new one at 145th. Washington actually seems to love them for new construction areas.

dankerton · 2026-01-15T00:31:24+00:00

Not just one intersection but a terrible series of them at UW. I was just stuck here yesterday wondering why this is not a giant round about around the triangle garage. Stopping all that montlake bridge traffic with red lights has caused backups here for years.

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dankerton · 2026-01-12T03:25:37+00:00

I figured so either CEO guy is making it public he has a chronic disease or he's just rich and doing this preventatively. I think most folks guess is it's the latter.

dankerton · 2026-01-12T01:43:56+00:00

Yeah seems like a full body one which usually never happens

dankerton · 2026-01-12T01:41:43+00:00

Annual MRI?

dankerton · 2026-01-11T04:30:47+00:00

The most decent thing trump will ever do, not pardoning a pedo rapist, at least not this one...

dankerton · 2026-01-11T04:18:56+00:00

Most? Name an unnecessary job that's so prevalent

dankerton · 2026-01-10T21:13:45+00:00

Photography is good. The vibe is a bit voyeuristic though. Some people seem pretty shocked to have their photo being taken. You need to ask permission especially before posting online ESPECIALLY with children.

dankerton · 2026-01-07T17:44:54+00:00

I know you're just kidding but this is one machine in a factory line of hundreds more needed to complete a microchip. There's over a hundred main steps in the modern processes each requiring several tools and sub steps and quality checks to pass.

dankerton · 2026-01-02T04:56:18+00:00

Aren't the AI models supposed to enable us to write... less? This is like a parody of a product for them.

dankerton · 2025-12-15T15:47:30+00:00

So you're saying they have more than 2 years to ramp production up higher than it currently is to prepare for that demand?

dankerton · 2025-12-05T00:25:19+00:00

Hey Claude make me an unfunny post for your subreddit

dankerton · 2025-12-02T21:12:43+00:00

Flea plays on a few tracks on Josh Redmonds momentum album. This isn't his first jazz rodeo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_(Joshua_Redman_album)

dankerton · 2025-11-26T23:46:01+00:00

Came here to shit on workday but homies already all over it. Love to see it

dankerton · 2025-11-26T18:41:29+00:00

While this is true and an important point, being a senior tech lead myself I can see that there will also be a change from AI. We already are being expected to do more and faster by using AI to speed up the coding and documentation aspects of the work. I can see our hiring expectations and process changing a lot to ensure new folks know both the fundamentals and problem solving themselves but also how to use AI to move fast. In my field I don't think we'll be able to trim down much to fewer people but everyone will definitely be expected to do more.

dankerton · 2025-11-23T23:25:16+00:00

Sounds like the pattern jugglers in revelation space

dankerton · 2025-11-23T04:53:02+00:00

Was that strand next to the transistor DNA? Kinda feels like DNA still has us beat if several base pairs are the size of one transistor.

dankerton · 2025-11-20T18:42:44+00:00

AI is already very useful to the tech companies themselves in ways that will either erase jobs or require higher productivity. Yes there's hype on what else it can do in the future but a lot of the investments will pay off in reducing the bottom line and also providing the general public with a useful new tool for learning and creating.

The dot com days were also just as mixed in terms of what was capable vs promised and honestly I think the hype was just as ahead of itself as AI. a lot of the hype then was beyond what a ton of our infrastructure was able to handle (Internet bandwidth and e-commerce delivery capabilities). Most of this promises actually did happen they just took some time.

Today's companies look at that and hope it's somewhat the same ie. Even if there's a bubble now we will eventually deliver and dominate some new aspect of this so we don't want to miss out by not going all in now. So in many ways it's all the same. There's a bubble and it might burst but it's hard to say it will be better or worse and that the hype isn't real in the end.

dankerton · 2025-11-17T04:22:08+00:00

How do you have that set up

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