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New comment by hiptobecubic in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

hiptobecubic — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 05:24:51 +0000

I've had mixed results writing "normal" business logic in c++, but i gotta say, for SQL it's pretty incredible. Granted SQL has a lot of boilerplate and predictable structure, but it saves a ton of time honestly.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 15:00:58 +0000

It's not artificial at all. It's a real limitation that was so outrageously annoying for the reasons mentioned above that VLC was able to "win" by tackling this one issue alone.

The success of vlc is all the proof you need. As you say, why else would it be so popular?

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco"

hiptobecubic — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 13:51:12 +0000

I'm confused, are you saying that no one can detect if you're smoking or vomiting?

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'"

hiptobecubic — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:19:29 +0000

If your management team can't figure out how to do what you're asking, maybe you should be firing them instead. If _no one_ can figure it out, maybe you should be firing you.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'"

hiptobecubic — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:11:57 +0000

Good for you, i guess? It was absolutely as stupid as they describe. There were multiple teams that were literally interviewing people to join and then laid people off in the middle of it. My own team was trying to fill multiple positions and then they fired one of us (long tenure, good perf) and told us we could hire backfill as long as it wasn't the experienced, useful person we just let go. We explicitly asked and the answer we got was that this stupid shit was somehow protecting alphabet.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "There’s no planet B"

hiptobecubic — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:58:57 +0000

Why would you not expect these exact same challenges to develop almost immediately on Mars? It's not like one country will own Mars and even if it did, one country generally cannot agree on environmental policy even internally. I fully expect Mars, at best, to be a terrible version of Earth with all the same problems and way fewer benefits.

When has "This is too hard, let's do a full rewrite" ever worked?

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Lisp is more trendy than Rust?"

hiptobecubic — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 23:13:08 +0000

I do honestly prefer using vim over emacs for a bunch of reasons, but I wish it was configured with lisp instead. Emacs seems like a fun playground.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Declarative GUI with constraints-based layout engine for Python"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:29:41 +0000

I was just thinking we used traits and enaml quite a lot in the scientific Python community and didn't realize that's what this was pointing to.

As far as using it goes... It was alright. Very very fast to set something up, but has the usual "many things are now easy, but some things are now impossible" problem that many other frameworks introduce.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:15:29 +0000

Depending on the product, the latency difference might not even be visible compared to the every day latency of the backend itself.

If your ui maintains state via some kind of async layer then the latency might not be observable at all.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 14:13:21 +0000

So many examples of this across Google it's not even funny.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:08:35 +0000

I've had people tell me my website doesn't work for them. It always turns out to be because they've appended ".com" to it.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:00:01 +0000

Ok... So two middlemen

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says"

hiptobecubic — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 22:57:17 +0000

To be fair, meta basically wants to be the web and in practice, for many people i know, it basically is.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "We Are Not Adults Just Because We Say So"

hiptobecubic — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:32:52 +0000

You two seem a lot more interesting than everyone else i know. :(

New comment by hiptobecubic in "'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat"

hiptobecubic — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:02:09 +0000

You could submit your proposal to other journals as well though

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Common Lisp vs Racket"

hiptobecubic — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:47:12 +0000

You don't. You run it in emacs. That's what they are saying.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Time Till Open Source Alternative"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:15:24 +0000

True, although I feel like none of those products have made positive product-oriented changes in many years now. Gmail at least is spiraling down the product toilet, which makes me really sad.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Time Till Open Source Alternative"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:13:16 +0000

Ideas from the gmail ads team regularly get shot down by product because it would make gmail suck too much and piss everyone off.

I feel pretty bad for the ads team honestly. Like, their job is to basically just ruin products. Literally no one likes anything they do, ever. Their justification for everything is always just "You have to let us do this because $$$" and no one respects that, even though everyone knows that it's how the world works.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 06:08:03 +0000

"Just pack up your life and move to another zipcode if you want to have a baby" is such an SF answer it's almost a parody of itself.

New comment by hiptobecubic in "Time Till Open Source Alternative"

hiptobecubic — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 02:10:23 +0000

This is also why Google sucks at so many things, despite having the best offering on paper. GCP is honestly great, but a terrible product. Stadia? Zillion chat apps? Google Inbox by Gmail by Google? Google wallet pay Android pay wallet? They all work great and would be best in class if they were decent products and you could figure out how to get them to work at all.