Izkata

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I blame sci-fi. As a kid in 90s who was into this stuff, it seemed like anyone who knew about dark matter knew it was just theorized and never observed. It was included as a caveat in a lot of things I read to ensure the readers understood
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There was one I did have fun making: Back around 2007 it was about AI, and for part of it I'd memorized like 2-3 minutes of what I was going to say, along with careful timing. The plan was that I'd start wandering around, includi
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The whole rest of the sentence implies they're talking about something else based on the band, not the band itself.
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...React doesn't use two-way data binding.
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I have heard of companies that are counting how much you spend on AI in your performance review (higher = better). I'm not at one of these, but upper management is pushing it hard, and I'm lucky that my team has a technical manage
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I feel like that even with regular autocomplete, I've often described it popping up as a mental speedbump.
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I recommend you read the post because that's a really bad misunderstanding of the mindset, and like the comment at the top of this chain says, the post explains it well.
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I believe you're using the scientific definition of "sentience", while everyone else is using the common understanding of of the word (which should be called "sapience", but thanks to sci-fi's usage of the word
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It may have been a 2005 phone or something. I think it was a Nokia, Motorola, or Samsung phone (our whole family was on those at the time), but whatever it was it had just about the complete form factor and an app store - mostly a screen w
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I think it ended in the late 2010s, when streaming took over: Over the 2000s and early 2010s, writers were perfecting the style first experimented with by the great shows of the 90s and earlier, where seasons were mostly episodic but led in
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There were ones before that, my mom had one. Apple added polish and used a capacitive touchscreen instead of a resistive one, then amped up the hype in their commercials, so everyone forgot these existed.
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> those keyword lists often include, in my experience, proficiency in specific tool use This used to be called "buzzword bingo" and was pretty much required. It was how you got past the initial automated filtering step before
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> were they just run the program in their heads? This is itself a skill people need to learn, that I'm not sure is possible with pseudocode and no prior experience. Too easy to gloss over details without actually running it to learn
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> Now everyone's screaming about a declining population. In general (don't know about the person you're responding to) the worry isn't so much that it's happening as it is the rate it's happening.
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> when they sacked the capitol in a violent insurrection in 2021 waving KKK and Nazi flags. The narrative gets more extreme with each repetition. None of that actually happened.
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Developer tools, at least, came through Firefox with Firebug, years before Chrome/Chromium existed.
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> Then please forgive I was triggered on their introductory expression "Raw SQL is great for simple queries, (...)" I think they might have had a second point in there that they removed but accidentally left part in. This part
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I tried out like five or six of those back when they were trendy, and they all had one or more of these issues that made them unusable: * Changes being tied to a commit (akin to git notes) so issues could have different status and comments
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Their own example is an example of this. I've heard the name Fabrice Bellard but don't know who he is and don't know why I'd care, but Guido is a well-known name among python users and does hold weight. Looking up what B
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Path parameters has nothing to do with history replacement breaking the back button, did you mean to respond to someone else?
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Between the marketing and the hype, plenty of people believe we already achieved true sci-fi-style superhuman general AI a year or two ago.
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> > We have people who can still spell after the introduction of spell check. > When using spell check to fix your document, you automatically learn to spell. Your skills improve by using the tool. A better analogy to AI would be a
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You're missing a step in the middle: It's not resource optimization itself, it's working under the constraint that forces you to learn, get creative, and figure things out. The investigation, attempts, failures, detours - a
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It can happen out of necessity: if the failure is in an ajax request and you need to send back a message or additional data in json, apache eats the body of error responses. So a success response is all that's guaranteed to get through
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All the whitespace appears to be a blank braille character, so it still displays correctly even without the indentation formatting: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2800 (Passed it through xxd to get the utf8
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I recommend trying "make this code more enterprise", it seems to pull in the joke and start overengineering everything and giving them absurd names.
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You may have benefited from using the term we already had for the cheaper measures of negative code quality: code smells.
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> If it's true that the superficial signals of quality were once somehow good enough to keep the entire economy on the rails (it's not true) It was true. The negative signals (we called them "code smells") weren&#x27
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> Our heuristics for judging human output are useless with LLMs. We used to call the negative side of these heuristics "code smells", but I see no one has used that term yet in these comments. Code smells are what the post is
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Ah, I meant to respond one comment above, to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886430

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