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by advael 4y ago
Honestly to me the most important piece is the willingness and ability to try new things and work under certainty. I have seen first hand time and time again that it is easier for someone who is good at this to learn how to code when the r
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by advael 4y ago
The weird part of this advice to me is all the "CS fundamentals" biz. It's admittedly been quite a while since I've felt the need to go out for "junior" roles, but I have a lot of close friends who are recent b
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by advael 4y ago
Obviously an acquisition is often profitable for someone or other, but for me to believe an acquisition to be a good thing in some broad sense requires convincing me that it’s worth the resulting additional concentration of power. I’m gen
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by advael 4y ago
I do say the same about high school, and would also argue that mandatory education as a whole is a massive failure except as a means to babysit small children and eventually give them an opportunity to socialize, something which could also
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by advael 4y ago
I view university education as poor-to-useless vocational training for software engineering as well as most if not all careers that aren't explicitly research-focused, and I say that as someone who's gotten a master's degree
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by advael 5y ago
Those are extremely different situations and you’ve not really justified why they’re being compared. A “doctor bias” in every decision being made would ideally prioritize health outcomes over decisions made for profit or convenience. It’s p
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by advael 5y ago
I view drug enforcement policy meant to prevent individuals from making decisions for themselves as always doing more harm than good. The place for regulation in this space is controlling what claims profit-motivated entities can make about
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by advael 5y ago
I have a habit of modernizing (and functionalizing) C++ codebases in recent jobs I've taken, which tends to fix a lot of memory-related bugs as well as improving performance and readability. When an organization is hidebound in some wa
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by advael 5y ago
You lost me at "Duckduckgo is a worse version of google" Privacy aside, I find the results much more helpful on average these days, and weeding past sponsored links is enough of a hassle within google search results to consider it
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by advael 5y ago
I find myself in the weird position of agreeing with the desire for computing power, general purpose computation, software freedom, and ergonomics, and being baffled by the rest of this take. Platform availability : Others have pointed out
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by advael 5y ago
Look I know what you're all thinking, but we shouldn't let this one good decision trick us into supporting the current Russian regime
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by advael 5y ago
I'm honestly feeling like my perspective must be bubbled somehow. Can anyone point to an example of the DMCA doing anything that isn't just snuffing out the efforts of small communities or individuals in service of some megacorp
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by advael 5y ago
This sounds like a fun project tho I'd likely self-host the git repo because I no longer have a personal github account and don't plan to reverse that decision in the foreseeable future
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by advael 5y ago
1. I doubt errors of this magnitude are tolerated for long when the financial beneficiary of the error is not Amazon, and if I'm correct in this, a systematic selection pressure of this kind is indistinguishable from greed in this cont
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by advael 5y ago
> More importantly: If you require that medical devices be supported indefinitely, you will heavily discourage anyone from making medical devices. Such a requirement is an endorsement of the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics.[1] Had th
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by advael 5y ago
I've said before that I think it should be illegal to sunset a device without open-sourcing the technology needed to support it. Medical implants of any kind are an especially compelling case for this Probably medical devices should al
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by advael 5y ago
I am strongly against child abuse, and have never seen a campaign against child abuse that didn't seem like a callous attempt to use something that in many people's minds is infinitely heinous as a pascal's wager to get peopl
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by advael 5y ago
I continue to be very uncomfortable with gigantic companies becoming more gigantic for any reason, even though all involved players are already ones I've been carefully avoiding even accidentally giving money to for several years
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by advael 5y ago
Sounds to me like what you're saying is that the walled-garden approach of needing to approve every app that ever gets developed as a whole is what's infeasible without creating kafkaesque conditions dealing with their automation,
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by advael 5y ago
Yes, I would describe that as a pretty common human failing. Human societies are collaborative by nature, and you are likely blind to the situations in which you are "carried" by others, despite being hyper-attuned to situations i
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by advael 5y ago
I am constantly baffled by this notion that criticisms or calls to act against people who have "succeeded" are just expressions of petty jealousy or not understanding the genius of the successful, that we should instead be rooting
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by advael 5y ago
Some kinda non-conformist witchcraft I suppose. I quickly bucked the religion that got forced on me as a child, an easy journey - I'd like to think because abrahamic cosmology is plainly nonsensical, but more realistically I likely fel
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by advael 5y ago
I'm currently wondering if I should try to double-dip and this nonsensically-out-of-touch attempt to dissuade people from that behavior with its ridiculously unrealistic numbers has actually convinced me that it might be worth pursuing
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by advael 5y ago
Every attempt to strengthen a form of intellectual property should be viewed as an assault on individual rights for the benefit of whatever corporate entity can most effectively capture, hoard, and exploit it. Strengthening patents in parti
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by advael 5y ago
I may never buy a new car again. Literally zero “smart” features that have ever been advertised in cars sound like a net benefit to my use case, but they all sound like a massive breach of my privacy and sometimes even autonomy. I support e
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by advael 5y ago
I strongly agree. I think this has been the case for all versions of the public education system in living memory, and the main ways this has changed over the last few decades are twofold: -More oversight and efficiency in this process is b
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by advael 5y ago
Having been through a lot of school and gotten a lot out of it, I am strongly convinced that the current society-wide policy of treating university education as expensive vocational training is a horrible and costly mistake whose main funct
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by advael 5y ago
I doubt I will ever use any IDE, so it's a moot point for me, but from a legal perspective using VSCode in particular has become extremely sketchy, and I say that as a working dev, a machine learning researcher, and having known some p
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by advael 5y ago
As with "afantasia" a few years back, we seem to keep encountering places where the experience and perhaps even construction of minds are very different from each other, and the diversity of brains is certainly fascinating... But
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by advael 5y ago
I make my living predicated on the assumption that digital optimizers over loss functions have practical value, but seeing a pretty terrifying meta-pattern where defining and then subsequently obsessively optimizing and inevitably gaming me

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