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New comment by noitpmeder in "Productivity isn't about going faster"

noitpmeder — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:59:33 +0000

"Trust", as unquantifiable as it is, will be the only metric

New comment by noitpmeder in "GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values"

noitpmeder — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:37:08 +0000

I'm not saying there can't be very clear counter examples, I guess the overall sense though is that "being a team player' is generally considered an attractive quality in any employee. If A is a team player and B isn't, and they're otherwise equivalent, you're probably going to take/keep A.

It's not like (most) hiring managers put "not a team player" in the pro column.

New comment by noitpmeder in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

noitpmeder — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:33:03 +0000

Not sure any of the band members are over 1b individually which is the current threshold. Maybe, though.

New comment by noitpmeder in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

noitpmeder — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:24:39 +0000

If a qualification for the role is "appreciation for certain less represented cultures/ideas/..." then sure. Otherwise, for a backend c++ engineer the benefits are significantly less obvious, to the point it's really hard to make a case for why DEI concerns should trump traditional evaluation metrics for skill.

The goal should be to hire the best team for the use case, regardless of gender/race/culture/background.

New comment by noitpmeder in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

noitpmeder — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:18:20 +0000

If you're not a team player I'd expect you to be on the chopping block regardless of underlying race, mental, culture, ...

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

noitpmeder — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:07:52 +0000

I think it's probably enough to get your phone to open your texting app with a pre populated number and message body, then all the user needs to do is hit send.

New comment by noitpmeder in "Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB"

noitpmeder — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:27:03 +0000

Are neither of those things possible with a sqlite backend??? Why would one ever reach for this bespoke database tech

New comment by noitpmeder in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:04:32 +0000

And what's your opinion on the em dash?

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:34:16 +0000

It's probably more "enough people are affected by consumerist advertising that it's effective"

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:32:47 +0000

How the fuck did Texas get this one right but the rest of the USA is in flames.

That being said, things like Nyse Texas paint an opposite picture of the state.

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:31:24 +0000

You say "a lot of people" but there aren't many of those. The scalpers/pokemon resellers/... making bank and posting on Instagram are, if not outright fraud, at best the 1% to 0.1% of those trying to do it

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:29:35 +0000

Please do the math on what $50/week could mean to you in 10 or 20 years and compare that to the likelihood you have any kind of edge betting.

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:25:06 +0000

Realistically though, with the demographics as they are, aren't these young men just throwing dice to gamble against and take the money of other young men? Isn't this a 0 sum game?

Or is it more young men vs the establishment where the establishment wins the vast majority of the time but occasionally a young dude makes the right longshot bet?

New comment by noitpmeder in "Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study"

noitpmeder — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:22:42 +0000

Because the vast majority of 40/50 year olds don't fit into either category you described?

New comment by noitpmeder in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

noitpmeder — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:43:49 +0000

If anything every day we prove the current setup is NOT sustainable

New comment by noitpmeder in "Life During Class Wartime"

noitpmeder — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:37:59 +0000

How about we just get rid of all the fucking loopholes

New comment by noitpmeder in "Agents for financial services and insurance"

noitpmeder — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:11:42 +0000

Why would anthropic at all prefer this approach when that middle man can switch and cost-arbitrage between countless other model providers.

We're not talking about what is best for the consumer (ex more competition to force iterations and improvements), but what Anthropic thinks is best for Anthropic.

New comment by noitpmeder in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

noitpmeder — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:08:42 +0000

My kneejerk is that most consumers these days expect delivery for items purchased online, and allowing them to pick up their items at a brick and mortar probably isn't the issue.

Now, dropping off items you're selling? That probably removes a decent hurdle for many first-time/one-time users who aren't familiar with shipping (what box/label/insurance/padding/...).

New comment by noitpmeder in ""Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++"

noitpmeder — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:18 +0000

And tl::expected (a largely identical impl) has been available similarly as long!

New comment by noitpmeder in ""Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++"

noitpmeder — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:58:39 +0000

exactly, use std::expected as the return type, avoid exceptions, and make a failable factory constructor to build your type. Make invalid states unrepresentable!!!