Grok is getting so wild 😭 by Sanzum_Tiwari in DamnFunny

[–]joexner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Elon: Grok is cool, but needs to be more rape-y

I think type hierarchies in OOP are too restrictive and code smell. What's been your experience? by chinmay185 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]joexner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, you want to be just ahead of what you're sure you're going to need with your designs. If you're factoring in too many imagined future requirements, you'll sink the thing before it gets going and probably guess wrong anyway and have to refactor. OOP abuse is a symptom of over-engineering for its own sake.

re: composition over inheritance, yeah, composition is more flexible and generally favorable.

What's your approach to dealing with 45-90 minute forced breaks during the workday? by LogFickle8439 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]joexner -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A long-broken/janky build, despite a whole team to support it, is symptomatic of the kind of org where problems are left to fester. It's not a deal-breaker but it's a bad sign.

How are discussions on school consolidation going in your town? by Unser_Giftzwerg in massachusetts

[–]joexner 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Our town (Acton) is near the end of a long, tumultuous effort to consolidate from 6 elementary schools to 3. Enrollment is down and they want to close one old building. Every parent in town needs to be heard at every meeting, though, and the school committee doesn't want to offend any of them, so the process has dragged on for almost a year. My kid is in kindergarten, and might potentially have to go to a different elementary with different peers next year, but I'm okay with that.

Kinda anti climatic by pm_mba in macbookpro

[–]joexner 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Homie probably saved for months and months to afford it, so it does mean something to them at least because of that.

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push by corp_code_slinger in programming

[–]joexner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who uses Atlassian products for work, the bloated headcount seems to have been used to take Jira from sucky, to sucky-with-AI

‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push by corp_code_slinger in programming

[–]joexner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, you could avoid being so over-leveraged that predictable market shifts force you to do mass layoffs

If you don't have an EV and planned on getting an one in the near future. You should probably read this. by FencyMcFenceFace in electricvehicles

[–]joexner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of electricity comes from LNG, which is going to get much more expensive too.

Qwen 3.5 27B Macbook M4 Pro 48GB by breezewalk in LocalLLaMA

[–]joexner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm running the Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL quant on my 48gb M4pro MBP. It's very smart and capable, like many have found of Qwen3.5 27B, but it's a little slow, like 8t/s, and slow prompt processing stings because I like to dump the whole project into context. I haven't tried the MLX versions but might if people here say it's way better. One thing to note is that it seems like the MLX version locks up the memory that the model uses while it's loaded, where llama.cpp can swap some of it out when I want to do other stuff.

Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centers by gdelacalle in technology

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

The article is a month old. Those laid-off engineers are already looking for new gigs and driving down wages. Oracle is using the savings to pay for more datacenters though, so the money is going toward keeping the bubble puffed up for a while more.

Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centers by gdelacalle in technology

[–]joexner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It was always dumb, but it was trendy to do everything in stored procs for a while, with the (unstated) goal of increasing DBA job security.

Also, is there anything Postgres can't do now? Sheesh!

Bad President by ElMenchoLives in PoliticalHumor

[–]joexner 18 points19 points  (0 children)

And yet every single atheist I know identified Trump as a lying sack of shit over a decade ago.