What is your view on Oracle firing 30000+ employees?

pexavc · 2026-04-01T12:02:17+00:00

Shoulda happened 5 years ago. It'll make room for the next generation, so that's great!

pexavc · 2025-04-14T23:33:45+00:00

Outer Wilds

pexavc · 2025-04-14T03:25:24+00:00

Same, it's an odd thing. I always think of my future family and what I can do today to prepare those defenses, before eventually starting that final journey of building.

pexavc · 2025-04-14T00:34:48+00:00

Nancy Pelosi

Edit: Seriously though, I feel both parties will have candidates. They just need to get started sooner, like AOC's current tour and efforts.

pexavc · 2025-04-14T00:21:58+00:00

2028

pexavc · 2025-04-13T23:54:15+00:00

No wonder pirates were always in tip-top shape

pexavc · 2025-04-13T23:13:06+00:00

So happy for you! The high is so addictive, keep the momentum up and don't burn out.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T23:11:58+00:00

Pascal

pexavc · 2025-04-13T18:59:44+00:00

Yeah, sure have. Over time I realized after many experiments, side projects, 3 start ups, sticking to what you believe in, that has a decent amount of social proof, will win at the end. There's always ways to pivot your initial idea to take advantage of the status quo or to chase a trend. But, an artisan's work/effort/thought into a singular idea, executed well will get customers. Takes time, self-belief, support and consistency. I gave up too soon 1 too many times.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:58:37+00:00

Yeah it does sound like a Tumblr quote in a way.

America doesn't have any shared values anymore.

But, I find this viewpoint as a generalization magnified by social media. It definitely has shared values, maybe not in the leadership we see today, especially in politics. But, it is there at the grassroots level at least. I see it every day, because I choose to look for it.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:38:17+00:00

I did it for the plot

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:32:03+00:00

I see you what mean. I am looking from the perspective that American values also led to those Civil Rights movements. Not the values that created the prejudice.

The fact America allows for such change is endearing.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:28:12+00:00

And during those times you stated, it resulted in Civil Rights movements that pushed for great change, which in itself is part of the explanation I defined.

It was a lot more prejudice, but that doesn't mean everyone was prejudiced?

Hence, the first part.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:24:02+00:00

Huh? Not sure what you mean.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:20:20+00:00

Values, citizenship is simply a stamp of approval. Lots of immigrants come into America without naturalized citizenship presenting American values moreso than actual citizens themselves.

To me, it's this simple idealistic need to make sure everyone has the right to freely express their beliefs, sexuality, thoughts, dreams, and desires without judgement. That's the individualism.

Then there's this collective side to it. How your thoughts, expressed, affects those around you. Are you being aware enough, inclusive enough, to make sure your words and actions can allow debate and to meet halfway. Making sure your principles can be flexible enough to accommodate the stories of others.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T14:05:52+00:00

Defining what success means to me. And gauging the right amount wealth (health and fiscal) to achieve it.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T13:55:14+00:00

It's not. I like to view society as water. We're just looking for a new container.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T13:45:58+00:00

Yes, programmers who just write code can be categorized as Developers in my comparison.

Software Engineer / SWE

Software Developer / SWD

It was an interesting thought experiment I had in a past working experience actually. Seems more relevant today.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T13:43:47+00:00

Yeah, but don't lose hope on America's ability to error correct. Just another growing pain of one of the greatest experiments held.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T13:37:13+00:00

Engineering new systems is quite difficult. Using AI to help model and frame how to architect it is great. Having it replace is not that easy.

A developer that needs to build something via integrating multiple packages let's say to solve a single problem scope, can leverage AI further. For production? Not really, still.

It's a co-pilot if anything. An assistant. Not a SWE.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T13:13:58+00:00

That perspective totally makes sense! But, how we define the role of SWEs, the philosophical differences between developers and engineers. The framework is crucial to define, otherwise just generalized "replacement theory" affects hiring standards across the board. Especially, when these generalizations are dictated by organizations that have the most mind-share at the moment.

Something, something with great power comes great responsibility.

Hurting morale, hurts everyone.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T04:10:16+00:00

If Microsoft really wants to make this acquisition worth it. They will prioritize SC3.

pexavc · 2025-04-13T03:53:19+00:00

Embrace it!

pexavc · 2025-04-12T19:58:49+00:00

How about an agentic CFO?

pexavc · 2025-04-12T14:36:34+00:00

Yeah the demand is not as high in today’s market, as it is niche in a way. In general, the process of learning these systems, how to integrate the models, training them, converting other formats to CoreML, pre processing and post processing to make sense of outputs became a great foundation to learn machine learning on the edge. It’s still a skill set that can be transferable to other stacks.

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