Void Compiler 💾⚡
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Void Compiler 💾⚡
@voidcompiler
In code space, no one can hear you scream. Staring into the void* ptr = NULL; .NET dev AI and maths nerd Bitcoin enthusiast Crusader against fake agile
UK Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Ukraine is going to emerge from this war with the world's most advanced drone capability. Breadth of options, huge manufacturing capacity, highly optimised tech, tried and tested strategies and tactics, a huge number of highly trained and literal battle tested personell.
It's truly something to behold.
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Ukraine's military intelligence says its strike drones now fly 3,500 km, far enough to reach every target in Russia up to the Urals and nearly to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. The previous record was 1,750 km, set in Feb 2026. The reach has doubled — 24 Channel. 1/
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Some (most even) of our MVPs took months. I'd joke that the M stood for Maximum. It was hard core waterfall.
If we proposed something smaller we would get pushbsck -- because the verification and sign-off processes took so long there was always presssure to ammortize those delays/costs by having large MVPs (both oxymoronic and moronic).
tbf the C suite folks picked up on the glacial release cadences and forced senior engineering management to ditch the whole thing and to be more agile (as in true agile).
Typocally unrelated things came up during an MVP, aand would get done in the MVP "feature" branch, vecause that was the only release route we had.
Meanwhile other teams would have other feature branches, so of course there would be huge conflicts at merge time.
I can still barely comprehend how retarded this all was. Was it a bad dream?
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@johncrickett A day, and then you find out? What I'd give for that.
We don't get feedback in a week, and I'm pretty sure we'd just keep going.
The magic word is MVP. It means we'll do the wrong thing and lie to ourselves that we'll come back to it.
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“It hurts to spend days on a feature, only to find out you've been heading in the wrong direction.”
There are two lessons here:
1. Get feedback early. Bring stakeholders and reviewers along as the work evolves instead of waiting until it's fully formed.
2. When reviewing work, don't just tell someone they're wrong. Ask questions, challenge assumptions, and help them reason their way to a better solution.
Good reviews aren't about proving who's right. They're about improving the work and helping everyone learn along the way.
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@Triode_in_situ @olsenbdnr I do think a lot of devs have no comprehension of how fast contemporary CPUs are, and what they're capable of.
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@olsenbdnr You need at least two for DR. You are right though scaling vertically on bare metal is a lost technique. People have forgotten how responsive things can be when you have zero levels of abstraction.
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@tomfgoodwin It works great if you take ownership, focus on small steps/tasks, and challenge the LLM responses.
One shotting doesn't work for sure.
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errmmmmm, not to be miserable but has anyone noticed that agentic AI doesn't really work at all.
Like the errors compound, fragile integrations ( any external change breaks it ) , observability is an issue, no verification, context loss, the whole thing seems VERY tricky
Not sure this can ever be fixed.
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Nothing Labour do will improve anything. They are all idioligically locked-in to endless bad policies that suppress growth. They only got in because folks threw the towel in with the Tories and their 14 year long omnishambles.
Given the choice between Starmer, Burnham, Streeting, Rayner, Milliband, etc. I suspect Starmer might be the least worst tbh.
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For this week's @MerrynSW Talks Money market wrap, Merryn was away so @Frencheconomics kindly joined me - on camera, no less! - to discuss Britain's economic woes, Blair vs Burnham (and Starmer), and what level of gilt yield would constitute a crisis youtube.com/watch?v=Lwe94c…
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@LynAldenContact I was under the impression that tax revenues have been below total expenditure for many years. Hence the ever increasing debt.
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The answer to the question of what’s the long-term plan here, is that there is no long-term plan here.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
The US debt crisis is set to become significantly worse: Entitlements, interest, and other mandatory outlays are estimated to consistently surpass Federal tax revenues by 2031, according to CBO. These expenditures are projected to rise to ~20% of GDP by 2040. That would be the highest percentage on record when excluding the 2020 and 2021 pandemic period. Net interest alone is estimated to reach 5% of GDP, an all-time high. At the same time, tax revenues are expected to increase only modestly, to 18% of GDP, the highest since 2020. To put this into perspective, tax revenues as a % of GDP exceeded entitlements, interest, and other mandatory outlays by 8 percentage points in 2000. What is the long-term plan here?
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@ExtinguishedEng The distribution of possible outcomes - emerge
- didn't emerge
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When's the last time you heard good news about people in caves, except when they get rescued? What is so great about caves? Stay out of caves.
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It's apt, given they're usually plastered with shit.
James Vincent@jjvincent
someone told me this today and I didn’t believe them: the dashboard of a car originally referred to a barrier at the front of carriages that shielded the occupants from dirt “dashed up” by the horse’s hooves
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@Triode_in_situ @PolymarketIntel They don't have the means.
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Putin: If Russia is provided with objective data regarding the crash of a drone in Romania, Russia will conduct an objective investigation.
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@randomrecruiter The execs get paid for making devisions and executing them, not for making good decisions. Nothing has changed in that respect.
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We're in the weirdest job market of all time.
From 2020 to mid 2022, companies were hiring at a pace that made no sense.
Some teams grew 50%, some doubled. Everyone was afraid of missing out on talent, so they just kept adding headcount. If you could spell the word "javascript" you could land a remote role and a 25% raise.
Then the second half of 2022 hit and the hangover started. Layoff after layoff. Each wave was supposed to be "the last one."
Now in 2026 there are already over 130,000 tech layoffs and we still have another 6 months to go in the year.
The twist this time is AI.
Companies aren't just saying they overhired anymore.
They're saying AI is making them leaner. That they can do more with fewer people. It's become the convenient new reason that sounds strategic while making their stock pop.
But here's where it gets absurd.
More and more companies are admitting the AI math isn't working out. They can't find the ROI they promised their boards. The computing costs are massive. It's more expensive than they thought, not less.
So let me get this straight.
We're in a job market where companies fired their workforce to buy something they now say is too expensive and doesn't work as advertised.
And the executives responsible for those decisions? They're still collecting their bonuses.
Weirdest job market of all time.
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@John_Stepek @thomasforth The main problem was that the money raised wasn't used to fund new council housing construction.
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@thomasforth I think if you look at affordability it's clearly a big issue anywhere within commuting distance of London. The rest of the country, not so much. So yeah, regardless of your views on RTB (I don't feel I know enough either way), I don't think you can cite it as a key factor
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If Right to Buy (which I think was a really bad policy) were a big source of our housing crisis (which I don't think it is) we might expect Scotland, which diluted Right to Buy in 2001 before completely getting rid of it in 2016, to have performed better since then. Has it?
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But what do they all do?
facebook is the same dumpster fire it's always been. I understand scaling was a huge challenge in the early years, but now?
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
LinkedIn post from Meta employee about the “death march toward layoff day” Don’t understand how anyone operates in that environment… Definitely seeing ppl leaving Meta w/in my network and at this point seems incrementally bearish for Meta
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@gato_do_mato @VladVexler Most traps aren't irrecoverable binary states.
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@voidcompiler @VladVexler if he was "trapped" 4 years ago - how can he "sink deeper" with every year though?
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Putin started a regime security war that is now undermining the security of his regime.
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@gato_do_mato @VladVexler And every year he sinks deeper into the quagmire of his own making.
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@VladVexler It was always a risky attempt at a power grab. He had become over confident from previous military excursions, and probably it was just a matter of time before he overreached and became deeply embroiled in such a political and military quandary
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@VladVexler I think he's trapped now. Pulling out of Ukraine would be political suicide. Staying in Ukraine will lead to continued decline of Russia and a slow leaking away of Putin's power.
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