- edfletcher_t137Working with Andrew Lee on vp.net, who maliciously imploded Freenode some years ago. Birds of a feather...
- > YouTube I believe has more viewing hours than Netflix.
Yep by a significant margin in fact https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...
- > Does HBO+Netflix have a 25% share of the streaming market? I've no idea, but possibly.
No, not even close. According to Nielsen from this year, Netflix has only 7.5% of total TV hours and "Warner Bros + Discovery" clocks in at 1.5% ("HBO" as an independent entity is not tracked), for a total of 9%. A whopping 16% to go before crossing that 25% threshold.
https://www.nielsen.com/news-center/2025/streaming-reaches-h...
- Those folks who are trying these tools are going to make it through this period. If you're not yet, you won't. Period, end of story.
Those hackers you're so lamenting are gonna make it, but you aren't.
- Lack of Claude is a glaring oversight given how popular it is as an agentic coding model...
- > If there is AI slop in your codebase it is only because you put it there.
Nailed it, came here to say this.
If anything, this entire post should just be titled "AI PEBKAC".
Don't blame the tool because you're using it wrong.
- What The Actual Fuck
- "Amusement Park" has to be one of the worst headline choices here. So these people are amused by building killing machines? They are amused that their work is directly related to death & destruction? They are monsters if so.
- The first two points directly contradict each other, too. Learning a tool should have the outcome that one is productive with it. If getting to "productive" is non-trivial, then learning the tool is non-trivial.
- OP's YT is full-on "old man yelling at clouds" https://www.youtube.com/c/lukesmithxyz
- > The perception of privacy is just as important as the technical details that make something actually private. I try very seldom to call for anyone to be fired, but I think whoever authorized this movie ad through Wallet push notifications ought to be canned.
Spot on. Look at it this way: would SJ have allowed this to happen? Absolutely not. And if it somehow had happened while he were still there, he would've unquestionably (and quickly) fired the responsible parties.
- > The black hole universe also offers a new perspective on our place in the cosmos. In this framework, our entire observable universe lies inside the interior of a black hole formed in some larger “parent” universe.
Does it also follow that black holes in our universe contain universes internally, beyond their event horizons?! Seems like it should. Mind-blowing.
- > So I’ll keep being skeptical, until it’s over.
I feel you've misunderstood the moment. There is no "over". This is it.
- > One such example would be to do a live code review. This could be done asynchronously or synchronously. It could allow actually talking through topics and issues that relate to the challenges in a real software project. This would allow to surface much more of the knowledge in an experienced software engineer.
From my understanding of the post, this was the initial screening phase as it was in response to OP's application. In other words, this is what every candidate who passes the application screen (the weakest one) is sent.
Let's say they have 100 candidates for this role. A proper code review here should take ~45 minutes to an hour. Even 15% of the candidates requesting a full code review - regardless of synchronicity - represents a 11.25-to-15 hour time commitment from the hiring team. For the initial screen. That is asinine. No proper organization would accept such a large time sink for so few candidates at this phase.
As I've said already multiple times in this thread, OP very clearly does not understand the asynchronous relationship at play here, and then based much of their interactions & interpretations on this misunderstanding.