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New comment by depereo in "Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada"

depereo — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:29:23 +0000

Tax cuts are used more often when the government wants to see more private investment into an industry. Not really an issue with 'AI' right now.

Direct subsidy is more common when the government wants to see a particular outcome; then they can more easily steer those funds to realize it.

New comment by depereo in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

depereo — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:36:53 +0000

10 EC votes to Biden. 0 to trump and no hope of any in this year's election.

1/8 red house seats. The other 7 very comfortably blue.

The rest of the state doesn't seem like it matters much to the only results they'd care about - seats and EC votes.

New comment by depereo in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

depereo — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:48:45 +0000

Republican side probably doesn't care; Maryland voted 65% for a democratic party president.

New comment by depereo in "Experienced engineers are struggling to get hired"

depereo — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:55:05 +0000

Not in 3 years each of experience in 'this specific nodejs library' and 'gcp networking' and 'foundationdb'.

New comment by depereo in "Prostate cancer includes two different evotypes"

depereo — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:05:59 +0000

Another entry in the 'marketing and technical terms don't mean the same thing despite using the same words' saga.

New comment by depereo in "NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9"

depereo — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:54:40 +0000

Good validation of the 'fail early' strategy. If the door came off when they were higher up it would have been worse.

However, this failure seems to have not followed a strategy; the result was just luck.

New comment by depereo in "Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession""

depereo — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 04:27:29 +0000

He understands that if he keeps spouting this stuff the stock keeps going up.

New comment by depereo in "What it was like working for Gitlab"

depereo — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:14:54 +0000

Not my intention, sorry!

Big organisations are stable, mostly due to the often frustrating inertia and lack of risk taking coupled with their existing, mature revenue streams.

New comment by depereo in "What it was like working for Gitlab"

depereo — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:25:17 +0000

Like with any other business, you talk to the sales team and come to an agreeable middle ground.

We don't pay 'list' for gitlab SaaS.

New comment by depereo in "What it was like working for Gitlab"

depereo — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 22:22:39 +0000

I think this trend to talk about startup practices in large orgs is more executive nostalgia and a complaint about all the processes put in place to catch mistakes that have been made before.

The same people as developers would be pursuing rewrites of rock-solid 20+ year mature software projects because there's a trendy framework.

Large organizations don't have 'startup spirit' because 'startup' companies fail. Employees of large mature orgs with 6000 employees didn't sign on to a company that's got a good chance of not existing next quarter. They're not taking massive risks and throwing halfbaked features into a brand new product with 1 client hoping to get bought by facebook or maybe an insurance company.

If those big companies are really complaining about not having startup spirit maybe they should provide an exit for the VCs and aquihire (briefly because the engineers will all leave asap) a startup!

New comment by depereo in "Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks"

depereo — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:07:45 +0000

The best translation, however, is from Fortinet's clarifying statement.

https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/111892744775689047

"It appears that due to translations the narrative on this topic has been stretched to the point where hypothetical and actual scenarios are blurred"

New comment by depereo in "Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks"

depereo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:40:34 +0000

It's not something that actually happened. It's just some bullshit that's gone viral.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111886558855943676

New comment by depereo in "Researchers develop novel 'bone bandage' material for cracked bones"

depereo — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:45:17 +0000

In general a doctor is going to recommend and proceed with a hip replacement because it has been proven to have a positive outcome on quality of life, even considering the risks associated with surgery.

Someone getting a hip replacement is getting one because their existing hip is substantially impaired.

Yes it's better than their situation immediately before the surgery. It's probably not better than when they were thirty.

New comment by depereo in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

depereo — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:30:51 +0000

Amazing, and I've somehow managed to find each and every one of 'em over time in various comment threads, here and elsewhere.

New comment by depereo in "Chinese researchers planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer"

depereo — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:16:47 +0000

If there's serious work that can't be effectively done any other way then complex and esoteric cooling setups to overcome those challenges are fine to design and use.

Not sure what needs 1600 cores in one 'chip' but it's probably fairly impressive.

New comment by depereo in "Kayak's new flight filter allows you to exclude aircraft models"

depereo — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:42:04 +0000

It's different when it's a deliberate conspiracy to mislead consumers, especially when that consumer is choosing services that advertise that a safe vehicle will be used.

If they just stopped showing what plane would be used on the route, maybe they'd get away with using 737-MAX series.

If they say 'it's a 737-800 don't worry about it' and swap in a max every time, or 'fly with us on an airbus' and bring in a boeing death-tube after a purposefully misleading advertisement of a different service...

New comment by depereo in "What happened to the US machine tool industry?"

depereo — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:47:47 +0000

I think of it as another type of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

New comment by depereo in "What happened to the US machine tool industry?"

depereo — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 19:45:59 +0000

MBAs are fine, honestly. I have a manager who came up in the industry he works in. He worked at the 'coal-face', understands the issues and has real perspective. He got an MBA later in his career and uses what he learned from that to more effectively communicate up the chain and has some new ideas that he filters through his industry experience to make his team more effective.

Children who get an MBA before getting a job and think they have some magic sauce that solves problems for an industry without respecting the work that's been done and knowing why those problems exist to begin with (maybe they're trade-offs? For a real reason?) are a problem, as are the clueless twats who listen to their breathless assertions as though they carry any weight.

New comment by depereo in "Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees"

depereo — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:40:58 +0000

Counteroffers are 'stem the skills bleed' at best. People who take counteroffers were annoyed enough to look in the first place, and know they're valued enough elsewhere to get a market rate. I've heard that even if someone accepts a counteroffer and stays they're very unlikely to still be there 12 months later.

The company can use that time to figure out what that person does and make sure when they leave it's not as painful and abrupt.

New comment by depereo in "Juniper Networks to Combine with HPE"

depereo — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:04:35 +0000

It's as coherent as broadcom's 'new IP'