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New comment by dietr1ch in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

dietr1ch — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:09:30 +0000

This kind of assumes that Google hasn't been progressively testing how far it can go to secure big contracts.

Over a 10+ year period it dropped the do no evil part, it implemented code siloes claiming it was because of Waymo's code being stolen, it prevented a union from being formed, it got into military and genocidal contracts.

I don't think it's the nice place to work at it was in the 2000s and early 2010s where the worst moral offence was advertising though a monopoly

New comment by dietr1ch in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

dietr1ch — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:08:33 +0000

Should it? If it was real world infrastructure, like a bridge it'd be easier to say that it belongs to those who lead the project and those who put down the money

New comment by dietr1ch in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

dietr1ch — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:24:38 +0000

TIL you can get anchored links to PDFs (at least on firefox),

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14740#subsection.E.2

New comment by dietr1ch in "πFS"

dietr1ch — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:02:48 +0000

New comment by dietr1ch in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

dietr1ch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:27:13 +0000

Yeah, it's harder to work on, or maybe just different, but I guess the docs, info(searchable docs, posts, experience), and tooling are lacking.

What's the story for version control, debugging, testing, releasing? It'd be cool to have everything together for data locality and simplifying the stack, but it feels you'd lose a lot of useful knowledge about how to do stuff "properly".

New comment by dietr1ch in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

dietr1ch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:23:01 +0000

If your memes are too spicy you'll get HR try to turn a critique of something being bad or underfunded into a personal attack on people that put a lot of effort into something no matter how broken it is. They'll pull strings and you'll have to speak with your manager about it and even if they agree it wasn't a personal attack, they'll push you into not doing it again and just lay low under their radar. It's not the usual though, so maybe it only happens if someone feels attacked and complains to HR about it?

Memegen is something that HR wants gone, but knows it cannot afford to take away as they already made Google a worse place to work at during the past 10 years. They already sort of hijacked it and took control of it.

New comment by dietr1ch in "The Ü Programming Language"

dietr1ch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:02:27 +0000

It's sad that the compose key isn't prevalent. Combining " and u into ü makes a lot of sense, however people thought that we wanted 40 different slightly different keyboard layouts instead of a universal one. Despite how annoying it might seem to get, it's not that bad really.

New comment by dietr1ch in "Bot vs human traffic"

dietr1ch — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:42:07 +0000

Not shocking if CF is now trying really hard to keep me out of the internet

New comment by dietr1ch in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

dietr1ch — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:44:57 +0000

Right, let's do absolutely nothing so we can fire Joe, who's been underperforming for the last two quarters (because of healthcare issues, life affordability, lack of direction, burnout, etc).

New comment by dietr1ch in "Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications"

dietr1ch — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:37:02 +0000

I ended up using thiserror everywhere but `:/src/bin/`, and using eyre in there.

It's a nice compromise between being precise on your errors with your code, but allowing you to be careless at the very end of the error lifecycle since running into errors there has very few ways of going about them, and you don't want to deal with the burden of updating that error handling all the time.

New comment by dietr1ch in "Please Use AI"

dietr1ch — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:04:28 +0000

Yeah, but no one has a book on pretty much anything at their fingertips that you open and find a hopefully good chapter on what you wanted.

With books you needed to consult people on which book to read first.

New comment by dietr1ch in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

dietr1ch — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:17:08 +0000

I found that my best 5-6hrs a day are enough to do the work that I could do in 8hrs. With less time I'm also forced to prioritise, prune more heavily, and be creative, but at the same time, there's stuff that in the short term is always a bad idea to automate and some dumb grunt work can get it done, in which working for longer gets more done if you only care about the short term (like management loves to do).

New comment by dietr1ch in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

dietr1ch — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:53:42 +0000

So you just change your address in your broker? Or do you need to transfer the stock to a Canadian broker?

New comment by dietr1ch in "Ferrari Luce"

dietr1ch — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:30:01 +0000

At least it tries to look like a Ferrari a bit more than the rest of the car. It's a rounded F40 without the wing

New comment by dietr1ch in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

dietr1ch — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:49:45 +0000

How do they get the cost-basis reset?

New comment by dietr1ch in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

dietr1ch — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:44:24 +0000

I wish computing evolved to let thin desktops evolve into some screen + phone mount where the dock provides extra power, compute+GPU, screen and peripherals.

The problem is attaching a thunderbolt/network CPU with it's own memory doesn't work as well (although aren't external GPUs similar? external compute+memory).

New comment by dietr1ch in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

dietr1ch — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:26:36 +0000

I was talking more about laptops, but haven't you seen people sms bubble colour-shaming?

New comment by dietr1ch in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

dietr1ch — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:12:25 +0000

For most people Apple's main selling point is about showing off the cute devices and battery life, but that's not going to play a role when users are free to choose the tool that will call the models.

New comment by dietr1ch in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

dietr1ch — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:43:48 +0000

Reminds me of that dad teaching their kids programming by preparing a PB sandwich [^0].

Solvers are generally really good at bending your rules, but in a context where you want that. An outlaw rule-bending maniac is not what I want from a helpful agent.

[^0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmqRoRDrFg

New comment by dietr1ch in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

dietr1ch — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:19:27 +0000

> Is it because there's not the energy capacity to run smelters?

Most mines are in the north, but the hydro capacity is far from them in the south. That's one challenge, but to me doesn't explain why. Chile nationalised copper with aims to develop our industry, but then the US decided to sabotage our democracy.