Jaygles

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by Jaygles 2y ago
The best use I've gotten out of LLMs is as an autocomplete. I use Cursor at work, and it's pretty good at consistently calculating the next 10-20 characters I want to type out. Anything longer, save for some situations where the c
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by Jaygles 2y ago
In the US, a person can get a new SSN if their current SSN is heavily used in identity fraud. I've heard its a high bar, but technically a person can be associated with more than one SSN. Getting an SSN for your child isn't compul
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by Jaygles 2y ago
Same, although most of the LinkedIn profiles of the recruiters are incredibly sparse. For me some of it might be scammy/spammy
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by Jaygles 2y ago
How much of that code and dependency reduction is due to having the entire app to use as a spec? How can you be so sure this new stack won't be "abandoned"? (Vue has received regular updates for 11 years)
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by Jaygles 2y ago
No consequences, the cost can be great, and it can negatively impact productivity by introducing hurdles to legitimate uses. Those are immense pressures a soulless company will need to overcome to do the right thing.
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by Jaygles 2y ago
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by Jaygles 2y ago
> "It was the easiest thing I've ever applied for," McDonough said. "I just filled out paperwork and submitted it and I was approved." It really is scary how easy it is to sign your life away. A lot of people are
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by Jaygles 2y ago
There's only so much requirements can do to prepare one for a project. At some point there's diminishing returns on time spent spec'ing something out. And of course requirements can change, so some amount of flexibility in be
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by Jaygles 2y ago
Because corporations won't buy the fancy chat bot if there's a chance it will occasionally use slurs in it's interactions with their customers.
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by Jaygles 2y ago
Also big on minimal wallets. I rocked a ridge wallet for a while until the metal corners rubbed holes in my pants. Now I use a trove wallet and it's been perfect
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by Jaygles 2y ago
Another way to view it is to say poverty buys misery
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Previous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39710455
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by Jaygles 3y ago
This video by breaking taps is a good one for anyone interested in the process or the challenges of producing these sorts of metal lattices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpO5DgiCgyM
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by Jaygles 3y ago
The racial disparity situation in America (and all over the world) is complex enough a topic that it cannot be boiled down to such a simple explanation. I encourage you to research the various systemic challenges people of color have faced
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Yeah, if someone is leaning on an LLM, conceptually you are interviewing the LLM and not the candidate. I think the only signal you can get in such a case is how effective the candidate can use an LLM, and maybe something about the candidat
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by Jaygles 3y ago
The first version evolves over time to new requirements, which introduces cruft as you can never prepare your code to be extended to every new requirement. Subsequent versions/rewrites benefit from that history. Using the existing vers
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by Jaygles 3y ago
How did you determine what was under-priced?
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by Jaygles 3y ago
How often were your team members PIP'd -> fired and do you think it was deserved each time?
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Assuming the trains aren't wide enough to collide even if they are on separate tracks
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Yeah, the larger symptom is there is less money to go around after buying necessities. Inflation stings twice, cost savings on necessities will include shifting purchases from less-efficient local businesses to more-efficient global mega co
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by Jaygles 3y ago
When I switched over they made it clear they were getting rid of offline mode. So I said whiffs but at that point there was a turd halfway up my nose
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by Jaygles 3y ago
After the whiffs of enshittification caught my nose I did some research and switched over to Insomnia. I don’t make use of any advanced features, just a pre request authentication call that was a little bit of a pain to set up. But it’s wor
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by Jaygles 3y ago
The people who decide where money gets allocated are allocating most of it to themselves? If this was done in a government it would be called extreme corruption.
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by Jaygles 3y ago
When I started my current job, they asked me Mac or PC laptop and I said Mac. A couple days later a PC arrives. When I'm on the call with the IT guy to get things set up I mentioned I requested a Mac but PC is fine too and he said he n
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Incentives surely play a massive role but it certainly is a technical problem. Pinterest must be showing up in Kagi's search in order for it to be so high up in the block list rankings. Do they share Google's incentives? The techn
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by Jaygles 3y ago
It goes to show how hard of a problem searching for relevant information is, when some of the world's smartest engineers can't help but return the world's most useless website in their web search.
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by Jaygles 3y ago
I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air. Th
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Google says that swimming is "the sport or activity of propelling oneself through water using the limbs". It doesn't constrain the propulsion to only be between the limbs and the water. Seems like pushing against the ground t
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Ah, that’s a good point. More accurate and easier
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by Jaygles 3y ago
Extremely cool. I hand rolled some 3d objects using only CSS a few years ago [0]. One challenge I faced with the rotation was that text on the stop and bus signs would appear backwards from behind. To solve this I added an animation that fl

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