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by Zababa 4y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
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by Zababa 4y ago
This article seems to describe people unable to find meaning in their job, unable to understand why they exist. There is a big difference between "my job is meaningless", as in, "I am unable to find meaning in my job", a
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by Zababa 4y ago
I'm curious about what makes document databases a good fit for e-commerce. I've never worked in that industry.
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by Zababa 4y ago
I had the opposite experience with dwm. I don't like cycling through overlapping windows on the same "desktop", and I don't like taking the time to place windows correctly. With 2 screens, I have 18 "desktops",
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by Zababa 4y ago
> We're headed towards a future where all of the drudgery is automated away and we can be free to pursue all of the hobbies that we never have time for because we're too busy working on shit that doesn't really matter. I d
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by Zababa 4y ago
That is a good point, we've never had so much information accessible. On the other hand, it's sometimes hard to know what actually matters. Maybe we (or I) don't know how to fully tap into its potential, but I still feel that
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by Zababa 4y ago
I think the question is, how fast can it get better? You could apply the same reasoning that you did to compilers, and some people probably lost their jobs, while others grew along with them. Compilers have been improving for a while. If AI
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by Zababa 4y ago
I did start with C at university, C and Scheme. We didn't go very in depth in the "defensive programming" part, especially with C. We talked a bit about safety when we were doing web and database stuff, but I think that'
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by Zababa 4y ago
I feel like quoting generates way more engagement than retweets, it's something active where you have some kind of "skin in the game", while retweets are passive. Often the worst tweets I see are through quote tweets, because
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> Why would you take care of major offenders first, instead of taking care of all offenders at once? For the same reason that if you had two jobs with the exact same conditions, but one paid twice as much as the other, you would probably
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by Zababa 4y ago
Here in France it was the first winter where the cold actually bothered me, and the first time I had to heat in 5 years.
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by Zababa 4y ago
You know, I never really realized it before you put it into words, but you're right. Not seeing some colors as well or at all is something, but the most confusing thing, usually both for me and other people, is how they're able to
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by Zababa 4y ago
I don't think things are that simple. I like functional programming, but I also like good tooling, having a rich ecosystem, job opportunities, backward compatibility, simplicity, people to talk to. There are lots of things that can wei
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by Zababa 4y ago
It's easier than ever to eat healthy, yet 80% of Americans males are overweight. Something is not right here, either of those statements have to be false.
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I don't know about other people, but for me, it gets tiring to ask for help all the time, and I'm not used to working with senior people. Programming in college was with groups of people as clueless or even more clueless than me,
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by Zababa 4y ago
As someone that's new in the industry: nobody taught any other way. All during college it was Node/React/Mongo, or Node/Angular/Mongo. If I didn't spent some time on HN and learning about the rest of the tech I
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by Zababa 4y ago
> We even have browser support for CSS variables now so what else do you need? Not writing CSS in a different file and have it applied to all my page would be a start. Creating a class for each different component and then writing CSS fo
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by Zababa 4y ago
Maybe not as big as what's happening with AI, but I can see my parents constantly having to adapt to Microsoft's new redisign of Windows, or <software> having a new version, or laws changing. And that's for jobs conside
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by Zababa 4y ago
By using Typescript you can share types on the backend and frontend. Java stacks tend to do the same thing but for backend and database by defining data at the ORM level. You can connect to your database in any language, but most people usi
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by Zababa 4y ago
Node runs circles around Django/Rails, and batteries included in Javascript tend to be pushed to either the frontend or the database. Node backend tends to be thinner, compared to Java/Django/Rails. Some people don't kno
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by Zababa 4y ago
OCaml with tooling and an ecosystem from the size of Go would be an ideal. Java and C# can more and more be written like MLs too.
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by Zababa 4y ago
It is the same thing as centralization/decentralization. Centralization is more efficient (economies of scale and other things) but more fragile.
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Substack is a website where basically anyone can start a blog/newsletter, there is a subscription model (you subscribe to a newsletter/blog, not the whole site) that the authors can use to put some content behind a paywall. On one
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by Zababa 4y ago
The reminder of what Dino is at the start of the article is great, thanks for that. Congratulations on the release!
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by Zababa 4y ago
I'd recommmend Mamoru Oshii's movies too, they are masterpieces as well.
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> Technology isn’t inevitable. It’s a choice we make. I think it is inevitable actually. The history of humanity seems to suggest so at least.
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by Zababa 4y ago
Interesting, thank you for sharing!
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LLM work in only one way: try to predict what's said next. ChatGPT talks like a human because it has been trained on text written by human. What it "says" has no basis in reality, it doesn't check an internal state. It c
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by Zababa 4y ago
Try character.ai, which is better. If it's still too sanitized for you, there's some open source effort around Pygmalion.
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by Zababa 4y ago
Being racist is pretty much the most controversial thing nowdays in the vague american-centric internet culture, so it's a good test of how far you can go with your prompts.

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