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I worked at a dotnet shop a few years ago back. We still used bash over powershell unless we required COM

No, “most opportunities” only if you want to work the startup grind. If you don’t, there are tech jobs in other cities that are boring stable 9-5 jobs if you don’t need Big Tech level salary.

In the JavaScript world, very frequently. If latest is 2.8 and I’m coding against 2.1, I don’t want answers using 1.6. This happened enough that I now always specify versions in my prompt.

Geez

Normally I’d think of “geez” as a low-effort reply, but my reaction is exactly the same…

What on earth is the maintenance load like in that world these days? I wonder, do JavaScript people find LLMs helpful in migrating stuff to keep up?


The better solution would be the JavaScript people stop reinventing the world every few months.

It’s not about the language. I get bit when they recommend old libraries or hallucinate non-existent ones.

Hallucination is indeed a problem.

As for the libraries, for using more modern libraries, usually it also requires more recent language versions.


No, plenty of articles have been written about “illiterate Ivy League students” lately so it’s not just a problem at non-elite schools. These articles have been popping up a lot lately.

Personally, I disagree with the entire premise because it equates literacy with enjoying classic literature. I don’t. So by this metric, I’m also illiterate. I don’t enjoy flowery prose full of allusions and analogy. I prefer science textbooks over Shakespeare.


I think Elon’s strategy is that he hires workaholics like himself. It’s not a scalable general purpose strategy.

For a workaholic, Elon seems to spend a lot of time not working.

Depends on your definition of work, I guess.

I don't think this fits anyone's definition of work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hwxc17/docum...


He's paying a talented guy to do something and then claims it as his own, that's definitely work! (Well, at least that's pretty close to his actual work as a company owner).

His real full time job is watching alt-right videos and memes on YouTube and 4chan.


It seems as though you are trying to say that he isn’t a workaholic because he’s not very dedicated to playing games, but that surely doesn’t make sense.

He said he was very dedicated, but turned out he wasn’t (surprise). What else could he be lying about? Surely not his work ethic

I kind of don't imagine a workaholic having online gaming scandal about paying someone to run a game for them and then doubling down on that, but well, I was already told before I lack imagination.

That is kinda orthogonal to being a workaholic.

It isn't hard to imagine someone spending 16 hours of working and then going home and playing a game and putting in money to make themselves more powerful in the game.


so does steve jobs, seems to have worked out for him

Pepsi, Tropicana, Windows Phone, etc. It’s designers and UX researchers in a bubble.

There have been so many high profile AAA flops lately. They can’t afford to release something bad. I think it’s crazy that everyone just assumes GTA6 will be a good game (aka, GOTY)

Delaying for a year is either fixing major bugs, or they’re scrambling to overhaul something.


Maybe it was too "woke" and with the changing political winds that was considered too risky. So now they have to remove all the rainbows and meaningful female characters


Seriously, people arguing over infotainment. What about the manual crank windows?!


https://www.slate.auto/en

That is just for the base model. There is an option for an electric window opener.

It is also not a finished product yet so wait and see what actually becomes of this. The modularity is nice along with the promise of easy to install upgrades and so forth.

Delivering on all those customizable options though may be easier said than done.


What are the odds the power window option is priced anywhere near the actual cost of power windows?

I'm not optimistic.


If they are interested in making money then no, there is going to be cost+profit. That is just how business works.

Though maybe people can open-source hardware a DIY solution that involves some servos, a control circuit, & 3D printing.


I want suggesting a lack of profit when I said "anywhere near". I was suggesting the profit markup might be 1500%


It could be if that yields more profit in the end.

For example,

It costs the company 10 dollars, and that 100 out of 110 people will purchase the upgrade for $20. That is $100 profit. Maybe the company also finds that 80 of those 110 people would also buy the same upgrade for $150 and yields like $11,200 in profit.

So it makes sense for the company, the persons running it, and the investors in the company to have the markup as high as it will maximize their profits.

> lack of profit when I said "anywhere near".

Sorry, to me I interpret markup to be assumed as double the cost but would not consider that "near" cost.


Well "anywhere near" is a wider range than "near". I think.

And absolute profit matters too. For a cheap enough part, a higher percentage is okay.

> It costs the company 10 dollars, and that 100 out of 110 people will purchase the upgrade for $20. That is $100 profit. Maybe the company also finds that 80 of those 110 people would also buy the same upgrade for $150 and yields like $11,200 in profit.

> So it makes sense for the company, the persons running it, and the investors in the company to have the markup as high as it will maximize their profits.

Yeah, and screw them.

Nickle and diming is bad and anyone doing it should feel bad.


Incomprehensible? No, Trump is still bitter about losing his presidency due to Covid and is exacting revenge on science and the medical community.


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