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The delusion of engineers is that finally we have the means to stop compromising on quality to deliver, and fix all the garbage we’ve had to put out rationalizing about “cost-benefit”.

Trouble is management, who has the signature on the bank account which ultimately controls if and when the bailiffs are going to knock down your front door and throw you onto the street.

Management thinks we can now continue putting more, much more, of the same compromised garbage. Cheaper, faster.


Reminds me of a film I saw…

;)


Bladerunner?

I remember seeing a comic strip about this exact argument but I can’t find it any more

I really like this new HN skin for Reddit

I think you’re just in the HN subreddit. Remember the narwhal bacons at midnight!

That was the lamest thing I’ve ever seen.

Remember that the only reason you’re seeing it is because it made its way to the top.

The most likely reason for that is because the people you would expect to be on HN are still here and extremely frustrated with this behavior.


Compute is also a rapidly depreciating asset.

I don’t know but this dude at my son’s school has a 32GB RTX 5090 and it’s worth more than what he paid for; and he did the same trick with the RTX 4090 before that.

Until shortages are the rule, these assets are appreciating


Or locked away in litigation for decades… See what became of the Amiga

Well, at the risk implying intention and thus anthropomorphizing Larry... you know sharks don't eat, they simply consume food, like a fire consumes wood, this is what Larry Ellison advocates for:

"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on"


The Flair scene? Oh seriously than got me so much vicarious embarrassment, I feel uneasy just at the thought of it.

[Jennifer Anniston flips Mike Judge the bird, on-screen #inLove]

>>"How's THIS for expression?!? I'm sick and TIRED of this ... job!"

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I will never go above&beyond again – for any corporate entity – ever again. You can blame past corporate bullies, not yourselves.


They even added ansi escape trickery to hide the directive. It’s malicious, whoever did it knows it.



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