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New comment by throwaway11460 in "The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:34:26 +0000

He said he answered questions. Seems like his answers were useless since they kept asking. And why was he answering, and not someone from the team? This is classic situation in onboarding new devs on a team - the solution is to assign a dev to pair program with them for few days, that way it's either immediately visible they can't do the job and you bring that to the stakeholders, or they make a PR, nothing in between.

1 month is no time to expect great results even with onshore employees coming into your office, much less remote guys in a nonstandard difficult project. They probably meant they are finally beginning to understand it.

This is not "a team", it's a bunch of new developers in the authors' team and treating them in any other way is a serious leadership mistake. The author is wasting his employer's money.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 14:12:29 +0000

It exists because face is what gets visibly aged on people even if the body isn't easily distinguishable from children. Why is it called "child sexual abuse material" if no child was abused in its creation?

Ad reputational damage - OK, I agree if they distribute it, that's fair. But if they don't distribute and the police finds it only after they take their hard drives?

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:55:24 +0000

This was not meant as a counter argument, I am interested in more on this topic. Legacy building seems like a good reason, but not scalable imho.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:38:55 +0000

As a billionaire that wants to start a Dyson sphere, where is the profit / operational revenue?

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:24:47 +0000

It doesn't, there's no need for planets at that time, people live on rotating artificial habitats that form the Dyson sphere itself.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:19:06 +0000

Dyson spheres can be very low tech. To reiterate, it's a swarm of objects orbiting the star, not a rigid sphere.

If you have the time and raw resources, it was possible with 1960s technology.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:15:20 +0000

I don't think the article and researchers meant it's actual rigid sphere, that's just the Star Trek based popular opinion. Dyson Sphere is Dyson Swarm, people just didn't get it the first time.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:14:32 +0000

You dismantle the planets to build Bishop Rings and O'Neill/McKendree cylinders which form your Dyson Sphere/Swarm.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:04:37 +0000

This particular case is very well known and proven to be caused directly by the marketing, yes.

There is no justifiable difference like beauty, durability or function between "real" and "artificial" diamonds. Only an expert can tell, and only because the "real" ones are less perfect. And of course - both are real diamonds.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:01:44 +0000

How do you know it's not bodies of willing adult pornographic actors that merely appear child-like?

Why would you swap faces when you already had the pictures, if not to hide the adult facial features?

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:58:59 +0000

Do you expect a huge marketing campaign from BigCSAM focused on convincing pedophiles that only real CSAM proves their husband/wife truly cares about them?

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:28:44 +0000

I don't know about hentai but given the amounts of Japanese actors I have to skip because I don't like them appearing like children suggests they're not that interested in the safety thing...

New comment by throwaway11460 in "DOJ: Man sentenced to 14 years for posession of deepfake CSAM"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:24:21 +0000

There are many adult actors explicitly cashing in on their child-like appearance, especially in Japan. How do you determine that the picture is a child or an adult with child-like appearance?

New comment by throwaway11460 in "The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:09:36 +0000

Probably not deliberate, but this guy has absolutely no business being in leadership.

- he didn't make sure somebody helped the new team members build and run the project

- he didn't make sure somebody took the new guys through their first PR

- he bragged about the project being nonstandard and complicated and was delighted when the new guys couldn't just figure it out

- he decided his own opinions and goals are more important than his employers' but still took their money

- then he bragged about all of this on the internet as if he was some big hero that saved the job market

Wtf is this bullshit doing on HN front page? This is not the way to run software teams.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:05:29 +0000

Because he is paid to do so, not to keep his own job cushy and safe. Sometimes you're paid to automate yourself out of a job, sometimes you're paid to let someone take over - don't take the money if you're not willing to do it.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:04:27 +0000

My first step onboarding new people is to make sure an experienced dev helps the new ones make their first commit. He didn't even get them to that point. It's primarily a bad leader/manager, not bad workers that create a problem.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "The Time I Convinced the CTO Not to Outsource Our Developers"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:01:47 +0000

He was leader of a team and didn't even make sure that somebody helped the new guys run and build the project? He even brags about it being nonstandard and complicated? He is the problem.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "EU is pushing Meta to end online anonymity, push for Digital ID"

throwaway11460 — Sat, 18 May 2024 00:41:50 +0000

You're already excluded from banking in EU if you don't use Google or Apple online mobile services, this at least includes desktops and isn't nearly as essential.

New comment by throwaway11460 in "France admits it's lost control of parts of New Caledonia, a producer of nickel"

throwaway11460 — Fri, 17 May 2024 12:35:54 +0000

Sometimes people just want to be independent regardless of all the autonomy, money and opportunities they are offered. It's not just about practical matters, it's about "being ourselves".

New comment by throwaway11460 in "France admits it's lost control of parts of New Caledonia, a producer of nickel"

throwaway11460 — Fri, 17 May 2024 10:31:26 +0000

I agree completely, but consider that not everyone was part of that debate about the referendum and again - many probably were overpowered in voting and unhappy with it from the beginning. Again, it's really weird if the people who want your referendum to fail are the ones setting the rules or have significant influence there.

Anyways I don't mean to say it should be invalid, just that as a independentist person living there it must be really angering. If it was 70/30 it would be much easier to accept. France increasing their autonomy and recognition is a smart and sensible move given the situation.