I’ve been a big fan of monorepos because it leads to more consistent style and coding across the whole company. It makes the code more transparent so you can see what’s going on with the rest of the company, too, which helps reduce code islands and duplicated work. It enables me to build everything from source, which helps catch bugs that would only show up in prod due to version drift. It also means that I can do massive refactorings across the company without breaking anything.

That said, tooling is slowly improving for decentralized repos, so some of these may be doable on git now/soon.

Vindicated. I will now be accepting apologies from everyone who downvoted my previous comments on this

Honest question, why does the fediverse like firefox so much? This is not a common opinion to have on the internet, but everyone here and on mastodon seems to have it.

Yes. The problem with cookies was that they could be used to track and identify you. If this can’t do that, then what’s the issue?

10+ YoE here.

Companies’ hiring processes have become very slow. I applied and got interviews with 4 companies. I only got offers from 2 of them because the others were so slow. Meta was the slowest, 6 months to first interview.

That said, the offers were $800k/yr and $500k/yr total comp so I can’t complain. The catch was mandatory in-office in downtown SF. I’d have to move. It was a hard decision if I’m being honest.

They are. Read their environmental report.

They invested over $3.1 billion in renewable energy projects with an expected combined generation capacity of approximately 4.5 GW. That’s twice as much energy as all their datacenters combined.

New power plants take time.

The author neglected to link to the actual report. Page 34 and 35. The Scope 2 stats the article cited don’t account for clean power generated.

Their link for the claim “Google cited AI as the cause” doesn’t mention power at all.

The link for the Microsoft numbers takes me to a report saying the 30% number is for Scope 3 emissions, which have nothing to do data center power usage.

Some random Chinese company: does something jenky

Blogger: “The entire country of China is doing this jenky thing!”

They just added a fee so that AWS can’t copy it without paying. What’s the big deal.

Batteries.

They can use backup generators or consumer power for emergencies. Almost never happens in practice.

It’s behind a paywall

It’s from solar and wind power. It’s not the same thing.

They buy power plants and run it themselves. It improves reliability. For example, Google owns its own solar and wind farms.

People are downvoting because they want to hate AI. And hating AI is valid. There are many reasons not to like AI. Environmental and power reasons are not one of them.

Can we stop with the AI misinformation? AI is not slurping up consumer power. All major tech companies use privately generated, non-consumer power.

Bitcoin is still causing these power grid issues. It has been since 2019.

Edit: to the brainturds downvoting without even looking into it, read it from the source

A few of these are not red flags though… Yellow at best

More details from the article:

• In the 1920s, many Mexicans were fired from their jobs due to intense anti-immigrant racism and the great depression.
• Private and city local agents would show up at some people’s door with train tickets in hand, and say “pack your bags and get on this train.”
  • Hence the air quotes around “deported”.
• At first, most American Mexicans left “voluntarily”:
  • They wanted to escape racism and find work.
  • The Mexican government promised them free land, as well, further pushing many to leave.
• Many of the American citizens that left were the children of non-citizens, whose parents made them leave.
• It wasn’t until later the federal government got involved, and comparatively fewer (90k, still a lot) were deported forcibly.

Interestingly, this is a common trend when we look at anti-immigrant action. The federal government is rarely the actor that does most of the damage. Most of the action comes from extremely racist MAGA-type populists going around burning property and attacking people en masse. See also the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Regarding the cognitive dissonance required to A) value decentralization of power, and also B) support the CCP: 🤦

It’s simple: People who gain from misinformation create platforms that empower bots and sockpuppets.