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Microsoft to Ship Coreutils with Windows

dshacker — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/941314/microsoft-windows-11-developer-optimized-experience-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372852

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by dshacker in "Programming Still Sucks"

dshacker — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:18:47 +0000

You're absolutely right - this is not X, but Y.

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I'm absolutely tired at work on how many people are writing with em-dashes with obvious AI prose. I feel a little bit insulted but then I remember we all participate in this charade.

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:42:41 +0000

I'm not sure how to prove otherwise, but this actually happened to me. I don't understand this kind of comments saying "FAKE" for views or blog-posting. This is something that happened to me, and I can say for sure people were really pushed in this situation to ship faster every time.

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:40:15 +0000

It really demotivated me when this happened, I just kept seeing the PR open, but then I saw the changes applied before the PR was merged, which made me very confused. I then had an alert placed on every one of the updates made by Mike to make sure he didn't do this again. People were against "reset reviewers on commit" for "agility".

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:18:59 +0000

I think people can be in hard conditions, needing a job, under pressure, burnt out and feel like this is their only way to keep their job. At least that's how it felt with Mike.

At the end, I spent a lot of time sitting down with Mike to explain this kinds of things, but I wasn't effective.

Also, now LLMs empower Mike to make a 1600 line PR daily, and me needing to distinguish between "lazyslopped" PRs or actual PRs.

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:09:57 +0000

I mean, there are some exceptions on when 1600 PRs are acceptable (Refactorings, etc) but otherwise agree.

What really bugs me is that today, it is easier than ever to do this (even the LLM can do this!) and people still don't do it.

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:09:07 +0000

Thanks! Fixed.

New comment by dshacker in "AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility"

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:07:55 +0000

Right, I think there is always a balance between being strict on code reviews, and just letting people ship stuff. I've also seen the other end of the stick in which a senior employee is blocking an important pr over "spacing".

AI Lazyslop and Personal Responsibility

dshacker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/ai-lazyslop-and-personal-responsibility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770675

Points: 66

# Comments: 73

New comment by dshacker in "I have vinyls with no vinyl player"

dshacker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:15:45 +0000

To be honest I'm not a native english speaker, so I might be using words wrong.

I have vinyls with no vinyl player

dshacker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/why-i-have-vinyls-with-no-vinyl-player/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544651

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by dshacker in "AI 'Map Reduce': Scaling AI Tasks"

dshacker — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:53:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

How my manager tricked us team into doing things: The Experiment Framework

dshacker — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:26:27 +0000

Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/experiment-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44637854

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dshacker in "The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management"

dshacker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:40:08 +0000

Comparatively to other companies, (amazon meta) I feel like Microsoft is "nicer"

New comment by dshacker in "The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management"

dshacker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:39:32 +0000

Same experience for me, I still remember at IC1 getting 7k stocks over 5 years as my "stock bonus" for the year. which meant getting 1 or 2 MSFT stock every 4 months :D

New comment by dshacker in "The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management"

dshacker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:37:09 +0000

Right, but there is even an implicit pact, you get lower-than-market compensation but you get better benefits and long-term stability. At least that's the mental math you did when joining the company and comparing offers between employers.

New comment by dshacker in "The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management"

dshacker — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:17:47 +0000

Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards tech roles at that?

The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management

dshacker — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:54:21 +0000

Article URL: https://danielsada.tech/blog/microsoft-pact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484874

Points: 124

# Comments: 99

New comment by dshacker in "Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git"

dshacker — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:15:17 +0000

I mean yeah, in theory. I just found it really hard to work on multiple changes at a time vs git branches. Back in SD i used to have 2 or 3 machines + multiple VMs to be able to work on multiple things at a time. So I wouldn't say no need. In git I can do work, submit, switch, do work submit switch.

New comment by dshacker in "Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git"

dshacker — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 06:13:08 +0000

Shallow clone of all of office, not onenote.