AllegedAlec

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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> And then there are third-tier historical medieval towns that are 100% walkable and you again don't need a car. Ah yeah sure I'll just find work in a place and then buy a house there. It's not like 3+ decades of mismanage
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Stereotyping people is good.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
You clearly missed the entire message of the entire "three kinds of developers" sort of shit if you think that a fourth type that's perfect is what's missing from it.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Extremely retarded. "Think of the children" all over again in the guise of "Think of the misinformation" when this is all just some kind of easy way to get rid of apps like newpipe.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
So just fucking anything then... What the hell is the use of pronouns at that poitn
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Insecure by default. I remember in the previous place I worked we used ASP webforms. One of the major headaches I had to deal with is that by default, microsoft allows all users to view a page. I had to create huge scripts to go through the
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> If you want to gain ground politically, you need to at least acknowledge what the problem is, or is perceived to be, and offer a real solution. Why? If you do not believe it is a problem that's just like apologizing when you haven
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> Coding agents have now got pretty good at checking themselves against reality, at least for things where they can run unit tests or a compiler to surface errors. YMMV. I've seen Claude go completely batshit insane saying that test
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
I saw the context mentioned shortly, but I'll look into it. Sounds interesting!
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
I was specifically thinking about integration with LLMs. I feel like if we're able to really get the small problem domain related DSL stuff right we can divide the difficulty of a problem into multiple smaller issues. In my experience
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
It'd be interesting to look at some of the stuff Alan Kay talked about. With STEPS he was working on some interesting notions that might actually help here. The entire work they were doing with that was effectively based around creatig
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
I have one of those coworkers. I tell him I have a problem with a missing BIOS setting. He comes back 2 minutes later "Yeah I asked an LLM and it said to go into [submenu that doesn't exist] and uncheck [setting I'm trying to
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> How do you determine the productivity of a doctor? At the end of the road. Patient outcome and contentedness compared to others with similar indications. Patients seen and all that is that sort of short-term BS that you see everywhere
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> the metric itself doesn't become a subject to optimization By making the metrics part of a sustaintable company-wide goal. If there's a company-wide goal to increase X kind of revenue by Y% making actionable targets on how a
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> Like can we determine the productivity of doctors, lawyers, journalists, or pastry chefs? Yes, yes we can. Programmers really need to stop this cope about us being such special snowflakes that we can't be assessed and that our maa
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> People that create things get to name them. And if they pick something dumb enough other people get to ignore them.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Thank you. It's maddening how people keep making this fundamental mistake.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
It does not because no one said or even implied anything like that.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> you feel comfortable complaining about other people’s stylistic choices in writing Yeah, why be such a privileged prick that you belittle someone's diction? Everyone should be free to write how they want to. In fact: if you compla
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
I use it but I'm very careful about it since it just puts hard drives and usb sticks into the same category. Most of the time that's fine but if you have hard drives smaller than the usb stick in your system it'll autoselect
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
In that case sure maybe not. However, most systems aren't run by deep experts but by regular users which expect a device to be plugged into a network and then have the capability to use the internet without user interference. That more
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> What would be an example of a necessary network call that an ideal OS DHCP
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Hey, while you're not at home I'm actually using your house as a bachellor pad. Since you're not in, it doesn't affect you, so why complain about it?
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
That's still insane. We're talking "adding on another electricity and gas bill, your phone bill, your gym membership and internet + tv". These are serious costs.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
I grew up during the age of fads, and "Open World" is very much one of them that keeps on recurring. There's no reason whatsoever for mario kart to be open world.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> No it isn't! Men need to talk about their feelings just as much as women! There isn't some major difference in how we handle emotions! Yes there is. It isn't some societal thing either. It's ingrained deeply in biol
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
> Hand written essays are inherently ableist So is testing; people who don't have the skills don't do well. Hell, the entire concept of education is ableist towards learning impaired kids. Let's do away with it entirely.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
Sure bud.
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by AllegedAlec 1y ago
We should not bend over backwards to use language the way anally retentive people demand we do.

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