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leisesprecher

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  • The Death of the Junior Developer

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  • You're oversimplifying things, drastically.

    Corporations don't have one projects, they have dozens, maybe hundreds. And those projects need staffing.

    It’s not a chair factory where more people equals faster delivery

    And that's the core of your folly - latency versus throughput. Yes, putting 10 new devs in a project won't increase speed magically. But 200 developers can get 20 projects done, where 10 devs only finish one.

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  • This is just the peak power. The average power is much less. And batteries can maybe work on a grid scale for smoothing, but not for an individual consumer like a data center.

  • The Death of the Junior Developer

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  • Outsourcing is realistically often a tool to get mass, not for cost.

    There's a reason so many people went to coding boot camps, there was a huge demand for developers. Here in Germany for quite a while you literally couldn't get developers, unless you paid outrageous salaries. There were none. So if you needed a lot of devs, you had the chance to either outsource or cancel the project.

    I actually talked to a manager about our "near shoreing" and it wasn't actually that much cheaper if you accounted for all the friction, but you could deliver volume.

    BTW: there's a big difference between hiring the cheapest contractors you can find and opening an office in a low income country. My colleagues from Poland, Estonia and Romania were paid maybe half what I got, but those guys are absolutely solid, no complaints.

  • Many will be triggered

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  • I use Xanax, BTW.

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  • I get your point, but have you looked into the power demands of data centers? They already have room filling batteries for power outages, but those are just enough to keep the lights on while the diesel generators start.

  • Weww lawd he's a coming

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  • Covid hit just around the time where people around me (and myself, obviously) hit 30, got kids and settled down.

    That means, covid turned into a "getting old" speed run for me. Before covid, there was something going on each weekend, a party here, a gathering of friends there, it was almost always at least something going on. When the lock down was unlocked up for real in 2022, most people had partners, didn't want to go out anymore or do anything at all, some kids were on their way or just arrived.

    It felt like a development of 5-10 years was compressed into one or two years.

  • Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI

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  • None. There is no model that can output anything even remotely usable on that tiny amount of RAM and certainly not using the few CPU cycles your vps has to offer.

  • When RTX 5090 is realesed...

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  • Both have potential revenue streams used to justify the cost.

    You sure about that? AI in any semi-professional environment uses proper AI accelerators with loads of ram and not overpriced consumer cards. And that ignores the fact that AI never produced any relevant revenue stream.

    Miners, do they even exist anymore? Bitcoin is ASIC land and ethereum switched to proof of stake?

  • When RTX 5090 is realesed...

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  • What is competitive about textures? Is eSports an arts contest now? You can't seriously suggest that having better textures makes a gamer better at playing counter strike.

    4K high FPS is exactly the kind of useless numbers game I'm talking about. There's a point at which humans don't see differences anyway. Especially in those super high competitive games you also have pretty fast paced movements, you can't see texture quality.

    Yes, if compared in a lab environment the newer card will probably create a better image, but we're pretty close to "virgin blood infused speaker wires for audiophiles" territory.

  • When RTX 5090 is realesed...

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  • I honestly don't understand why people keep buying these. It's not like games look that much better compared to cheaper models.

    And what's really surprising to me: who exactly pays those scalper prices? Who can justify shelling out 1-2000 currency units for a (part of a) toy?

    The entire industry lost its direction. It's only about some artificial numbers go up and no one even tries to come up with a reason for those numbers.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • Businesses (at least the larger ones) replace their hardware every few years anyway. They don't care whether their new Optiplexes run Windows 10 or 11 and most hardware bought since 2022 probably has Windows 11 installed already, probably all since 2020 supports it. So there's hardly a problem here. (Btw I'm taking the management view here, I know that it's a pain to actually deploy, but that doesn't matter to management).

  • AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

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  • The new Intel chips already addressed that, at least for notebook class devices.

    Realistically, there wasn't really a reason for Intel and AMD to be super power efficient, simply because there wasn't any competition for quite a while. It took Apple Silicon to show how powerful arm can be and how easy the transition could be.

  • Reasoning failures highlighted by Apple research on LLMs

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  • You don't have to get all philosophical, since the value art is almost by definition debatable.

    These models can't do basic logic. They already fail at this. And that's actually relevant to corpos if you can suddenly convince a chatbot to reduce your bill by 60% because bears don't eat mangos or some other nonsensical statement.

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  • Even ascribing consciousness into others or ourselves is actually pretty stupid if you think about it.

    Stemming from religion there's this idea that human "souls" are somehow special and exist on a plane outside reality. But that's not the case.

    We are just semi-rigid blobs of mostly water that grew into weird shapes.

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  • The real question is, why are you so sure about that?

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  • As an academic discussion, sure.

    But why exactly are these guys in charge of almost everything to some degree? Economics is essentially string theory for people who are not smart enough for physics - theoretically maybe sound, but utterly useless for reality.

  • Goos-Hänchen effect

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  • Hähnchen means little rooster, btw.

    So this is an article about Hähnchen energy.

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  • But she was elected directly by actual people, wasn't she? It's not like she was put in an office by her party alone, people voted for her - as far as I remember even after the Jewish space laser incident.

    And that's fucking scary. I don't think the smoke screen theory is wrong, but it seems more like a collateral benefit. People in the US are stupid, brainwashed or insane enough to elect a person like her into a position of power.

  • Microsoft officially recommends a new PC and OneDrive to update to Windows 11

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  • DuckDuckBuntu?