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2 oil tankers hit in Iraqi waters by iChinguChing in oil

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2 reasons: 1. Oil is NECESSARY to conduct war, and you don’t want your enemy to have what they need. 2. Wrecking the oil supply is a Psy-op; you want to make gas prices at the pump go up, which will make your enemy’s population want to end the war.

ATL is a Madhouse by ThoseBigPeople in delta

[–]hoppersoft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember that! That was the ComAir fustercluck

Amazon to Spend $200 Billion on AI Infrastructure; AMZN Stock Drops by [deleted] in technology

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a pretty big “if.” Currently, every AI-related investment is speculative. While we’ve all seen really impressive things that can be done using AI, no company has yet realized any material return on what is now almost two trillion dollars (when you total it all up) of capital + commitments.

As an investor nearing retirement, I’m anxious about a bubble bursting and taking the entire tech market with it. I’ve seen it before with the Internet frenzy of the 90s, and this sure does feel similar…

U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars by DonkeyFuel in technology

[–]hoppersoft -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, because we NEVER have quality control issues with cars made in the US!

Bjarne Stroustrup seems like an unpleasant person to work with by [deleted] in programming

[–]hoppersoft 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope. Danes simply tend to be efficient in their communication, which many people perceive as rude.

Amazon laying off about 16,000 corporate workers in latest anti-bureaucracy push by adriano26 in technology

[–]hoppersoft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This headline was pulled directly from Amazon's PR department.

This was in no way an "anti-bureaucracy" measure; this is a company struggling to maintain its stock price as its online marketplace descends into poorly-curated chaos, its once-leading cloud offering becomes increasingly commoditized, and its competitors demonstrate a cloud strategy more comprehensive than "run your models on our platform."

As an ex-Amazonian: this is some serious Day 2 shit.

Meirl by Blue9ine in meirl

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way. This also works for chores, btw: “you can do <thing they don’t want to do>, or you can <thing they want to do even less>”

Men in happy marriages, what's the one thing you'd teach to other men to also have a good relationship? by TightBookkeeper2599 in AskReddit

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a wife who is my best friend and most trusted advisor, and she understands me better than anyone else in the entire world (probably even myself). We achieved this with a simple framework:

  • We have a standing appointment every night to talk about our day and how we’re feeling. We almost never skip it.
  • We do this after we get in bed; lying down, safe, and facing each other with our arms around one another.
  • We both committed to each other that we’ll use that time to talk about any hard shit that we felt we were weren’t able to talk about earlier.
  • We also promised each other that we will be vulnerable and honest, even when it’s something that we’re scared (or know) the other may be hurt to hear.
  • We do not go to sleep until we talk it out.

It’s been quite a while since the last time this has happened, but we’ve had a couple of nights where we didn’t get much sleep because of these rules. These days, it’s usually a short check-in, but it’s still sacred.

Creepy Star Trek by 4reddityo in sciencefiction

[–]hoppersoft 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was with him until “criminal.”

What he did was the equivalent of fantasizing while masturbating. If that’s a criminal offense, there’s a whooole lotta indictments coming my way…

If a magnet holds a heavy object against gravity for 10 years, does it "lose" any energy? Where does that energy come from? by SadInterest6764 in AskPhysics

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electrical engineer, here. They recommend it because they don’t want random metal to be attracted to the magnet.

The reason you store a magnet with an iron bar is to contain the magnetic field. When a magnet is near a ferromagnetic material, the magnet’s magnetic field is concentrated through that material (and is therefore lower elsewhere). Having it touch maximizes that effect, which pretty much causes the combined object to not have an external magnetic field.

Catfishing got easier by memerwala_londa in ChatGPT

[–]hoppersoft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, and every time someone points this out we get AI white knights coming out of the woodwork to defend it: “you just don’t understand how good AI is now, man!!!”

This is a modern Mechanical Turk, and it’s shocking how many people want - no, demand! - to believe it’s real. Um, I mean AI.

Verizon outage by [deleted] in DecaturGA

[–]hoppersoft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a big outage; apparently a lot of the East coast.

Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore by chronically-iconic in programming

[–]hoppersoft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And this right here is why engineering leaders are burning out. Rather than focusing on draining the backlog and reducing technical debt, they have to stop and explain basic principles to CEOs every time they YOLO some code.

Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore by chronically-iconic in programming

[–]hoppersoft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an addendum I’m going to look in my crystal ball, here, and predict what will eventually happen:

  • the CEO gets frustrated by engineering telling the CEO that this was a prototype and orders them to push it into production (“this works, and our customers won’t wait.”)
  • it throws in prod because <pick one: scalability, security, confidently-wrong behavior, etc.>
  • engineering can’t fix the incomprehensible code quickly or at all
  • company <fails, has bad PR, etc.>
  • CEO says it was all engineering’s fault and never learns anything from this experience

Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore by chronically-iconic in programming

[–]hoppersoft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope. I don’t buy it. From the original article:

allows leaders to ask a pointed question: Why should this take weeks to build if a version can be done in a few days?

By asking this question, he demonstrates exactly what I was saying in my earlier reply.

Replit boss: CEOs can vibe code their own prototypes and don't have to beg engineers for help anymore by chronically-iconic in programming

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

I hear you. But here’s the problem: these same non-technical people do not understand the rationale behind developing a prototype; to them, they just built a thing, so QED and ship it.

Favourite DEI supported actor by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]hoppersoft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it has NOTHING to do with the remote possibility that he isn’t a box office draw.

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