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  • ryannathans@aussie.zonetoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns
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    2 days ago

    Billionaires sleeping around, even with consent, is enough to sink them as CEO. It’s happened to big companies in Australia. It’s news for short sellers and a great lever to pry open the dramas of their personal lives and get people talking in private interviews. Especially if there’s a court case, discovery can be spicy


  • Using AI doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn how the systems you are working on or building work, or what tech stack choices are good for what purposes, or what’s happening under the hood in the systems you’re working on. In fact, learning these things is critical for being able to drive and review work to correct outcomes and efficient operation.

    Whilst it might be useful to be aware of certain design patterns, coding concepts, and other low level details of how languages work it’s unlikely you’ll be applying these concepts yourself - but you must still be able to recognise and understand them. They don’t go away in an AI world.

    Understanding how things work and when to apply what methods and technologies is still as critical as ever, and is the difference between an engineer using AI on the job, vs an executive vibe coding some shit that doesn’t operate scalably, or work on other computers, or can even be hosted safely.

    If you can’t explain what’s happening inside the computer when you run any random line of code, start there. You should know when you’re going to disk, or memory, or network, what the costs are, what happens when async code awaits, when you spawn threads, spawn processes, put sync code in async code, put async code in sync code, what the TCP stack is doing when you send data, what the UDP stack does differently when you send data, why you don’t put slow operations in the main thread, what healthy caching looks like, what happens when unexpected things go wrong and how to handle those situations, why it’s dangerous to try/catch all exceptions instead of just the ones you expect, etc




  • Yeah it’s fucking cooked in NSW’s public system too

    Like repeat ER visits because they don’t have basic equipment or can’t give patients an urgent MRI. ER full of junkies wanting meds to ease their come downs while patients sit for hours to be triaged. Watched groups of nurses sit idle and chat, with doctors telling them multiple times patients need pain meds. No security staff around when junkies are harassing people in the ER.

    Repeat visits and their costs would be reduced with better policy, better staffing. Patient outcomes would be better and cheaper to treat instead of making them wait a week for scans for crippling injuries.

    Urgent cares turning people away who clearly meet criteria drive more people into ERs. The ability for our healthcare system, even when not busy, to deliver timely services is shocking