LouisSayers

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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Good point - it works well in a group setting to look around and make eye contact as you speak. It makes others feel included in the conversation.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's hard to say unless you had a recording of yourself in a conversation to listen to / watch why exactly you're getting this response. As others have mentioned: tone, pacing, modulation, content ... these could all contribu
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> but what about when the existing codebase is already inconsistent? Then you get people together to agree what consistent looks like. I find the easiest way to do this is to borrow someone else's publicly documented coding conventi
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
The use of LLMs reminds me a bit of how people use search engines. Some years ago I gave a task to some of my younger (but intelligent) coworkers. They spent about 50 minutes searching in google and came back to me saying they couldn't
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> the ability to describe problems very clearly Yes, and to provide enough context. There's probably a lot that experience is contributing to the interaction as well, for example - knowing when the LLM has gone too far, focusing on
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> I can see myself working in cybersecurity well into my 70s Also testing for physical security and social engineering. Old folks could make pretty good pentesters.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> when it can cost you a fraction Except, you get what you pay for. If someone is good then they are able to compete for more highly paid positions and therefore aren't working for 20% of the salary. So in the end you shoot yourself
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
they already are...
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Literally “If Mountain View won’t go to Mohammed, then Mohammed must come to Mountain View” :D
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I went to Belgrade a few years back over Christmas by myself and had quite a good time. In particular, the Nikola Tesla Museum, free walking city tour, massages, and some cool bars. Everything was really inexpensive compared to say Germany,
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
All were web forms except for the startup job which was inbound off of a hackernews "looking for work" post I commented in. To be fair though the only online application that went through was Atlassian.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Quiet possibly, I'm on the equivalent of $90k USD which would be considered as the bottom of the higher (or top mid) salary over here if that makes sense!
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I live in New Zealand, applied for 5 jobs in March 2024, got 2 offers (Atlassian, small startup - both Aus based remote jobs), the other 3 companies didn't move me past resume. I have a CS degree and over a decade of experience as a fu
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Most people would understand, some play dumb, and some people just have low IQ...
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Even as an extrovert you get people who just ramble. In a social setting you can just tune out or move on, but in a work setting... It's extremely tiring because you're trying to catch what's important and distinguish from th
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
It's not so much about changing your mind, but rather more that as a learner of German, you have to do a bit more upfront thinking, and be more considerate of the thing you're talking about. For example, "can you pass me the
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I purposefully gave the example in germinglish - it's neither German or English but the point is to explain to English speakers how the words in an English sentence would change if applying the same logic to the English language.
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I'm at the point of learning German that it's starting to get interesting. One thing is that when you begin a sentence, to get the grammar correct sometimes you need to know what comes at the end of the sentence, along with unders
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
That depends on how you set up and do your monitoring. Not every failure needs to be indicated by an HTTP status code. For example, on a server I'm working on there are helper functions that generate different types of responses. Respo
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
As it's not to do with the http request and the body was able to be parsed, in my book that'd be classified as being at the application level, so results in a 200 status with a JSON response detailing the issue 200 OK {status: &qu
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
I like to find a middle ground. I use http status codes to encode how the _request_ was handled, not necessarily the data within the request. A 400 if you send mangled JSON, but a 200 if the request was valid but does not pass business vali
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
> I am keenly interested in seeing if someone can leverage AI for query performance tuning or, within the RDBMS, query planning. That feels like an excellent (if highly specific) domain for an LLM. Pay the $20 for Claude, copy the table
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
"Game changer" maybe. But what you'll probably find is that people that are skilled communicators are currently getting a decent productivity boost from LLMs, and I suspect that the difference between many that are bullish vs
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
100%, and to add to this... people who are just doing it for the money should absolutely quit, because they tend to end up wanting to switch roles or often quit a couple years in anyway. People that actually enjoy writing software / so
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
If it helps, I have years of experience and got 2 offers (good ones too) after applying to a handful of companies in March this year. If you are skilled, can talk to people and aren't afraid to put in the yards to prepare for interview
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
And how much of this is just correlation and not due to mobility per se? From the first link you provided: > Firstly, increased risk for onset of mental disorders between mid-adolescence and early middle age could be a consequence of ser
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
And I went to 7 different schools growing up, have since lived in several countries, have a master's degree and money in the bank. Correlation != Causation. People are different and respond differently to various situations. For me per
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
If you're already reaching out like this then you're doing a lot right already. That being said, the one thing that you can't really replicate is getting honest feedback about what you're doing at work. For example, you
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Haha yeah, more like "look - it's a bunch of dorks playing on their computers"
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by LouisSayers 2y ago
Well said. People definitely latch on to the negatives, and that is in itself a big part of the problem of social media type platforms today. Sure there's misinformation etc, but I'd much rather what we have today - it's not

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