JohnFen

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by JohnFen 9mo ago
In my workplace, I have just a laptop. It's not ideal, but it's fine. I have a large external monitor, an external keyboard, and a crazy large hard drive, so it's OK. At home, I use towers.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> I'm disheartened by this "good riddance" attitude. Do others here feel the same? I feel the same. One of the surprising things I learned with the advent of these tools is how many devs there are who really hate programmi
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I know this is a hard thing (much easier to say than to do), but I'd encourage you to try to focus less on what you have no control over and more on what you do have control over. The future always brings surprises, some good, some not
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't understand your question.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> With appropriate safeguards for privacy and consent Oh, boy. That's too enormous of an unsolved problem to just handwave away like that.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
It isn't good enough. There's far too much ambiguity and imprecision inherent in the language. Just look at how often it is that native English speakers misunderstand each other. To make English (or any human language) suitable fo
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't see how that follows at all. But LaTeX seems to disprove the notion, since it is, in fact, very good for typesetting documents.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
LaTeX is a programming language. Any attempt to refine english to act like a programming language will just result in a new programming language.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
We already have that stuff. It's generally called "professional jargon". In software development, we even refined it greatly to meet our needs. That's what programming languages are.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> I don’t have any motivation to learn new things Honestly? This is the core problem you have, and it's not related to genAI at all. In this industry, it has always been true that you need to be constantly learning new things. If th
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> If execution is the real attack surface, why do we still allow it to exist on user devices at all? A device that relies on external services to operate (outside of specialized devices such as communications) is one that is not suitable
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
The most technically interesting, cutting edge, and meaningful work I've done as an employee was in a government job.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Hmm. I guess I don't really understand what you mean by "boring colleagues", then.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Boring colleagues all the way. I don't need or expect my coworkers to entertain me. I do need to find some sort of meaning in my work.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
If staying in a position means that you are helping to create or support actions that you find morally or ethically bankrupt, leaving is an entirely rational response.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> I think you need to assess what you're actually mad about. I'm not mad. I'm a bit nervous and disappointed. And I know exactly why. It has nothing to do with the quality of the graphics of the ad. Besides, why would I &q
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't think that whether or not the US has an interest in occupation is a large factor in this risk. If the US attacked China, China would respond, guaranteed. That would lead to a full-on war. Unless the US backed down, a nuclear at
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI? Certainly not. I have better uses for my time. All I'm saying is that my spidey senses will be up. It makes GOG a colder, less welcoming thing for
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
It's not about the quality of banner itself. It's about my concerns that this is the tip of the camel's nose. I'm certainly not going to stop buying from GOG over this one incident. That said, this does reduce the esteem
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Damn, I am seriously disappointed in GOG about this. I love them and hope this isn't the start of a larger effort. I want them to keep being a company that I want to be a customer of.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I have window breakage detectors, motion detectors, and cameras inside covering the external doors and windows. I originally installed them specifically because some sketchy neighbors moved in, and it paid off when they kicked in my front d
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I strongly prefer them because I have yet to experience bluetooth headphones/earbuds that are actually very good.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I don't think that genAI will replace developers. I do think it's possible that it will change what being a developer means, though. The real question, I think, is "if this change happens, is it something you could be OK with
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
> because this didn't get much attention around here the past few years HN does not comprehensively cover everything that is happening. It tends to focus fairly narrowly on what is hot with the Silicon Valley crowd, but they're
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
Have schools stopped teaching the standard essay formula? Summarize your essay in the first paragraph (tell what you're about to say), then actually say it, then end by summarizing what you just said.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-...
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
I missed that! Thanks
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
That "charitable version" is the same explanation Trump has been giving from through his first term as well. He's long been in favor of a weak dollar.
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
The relationship between those two things isn't necessarily clear. > Testable hypotheses about the relationship between stock prices and consumer confidence seem to appear in the business press whenever new consumer survey data is r
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by JohnFen 9mo ago
This is not a good thing. > Is it not a good thing that these folks could do something more productive in the private sector? That's assuming that they could do something more productive in the private sector. I don't think tha

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