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by apercu 2y ago
Amazing. I'm not an EE and the first half of that sentence had be believing you.
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by apercu 2y ago
> The reason I moved forward with this role was because miscommunication or zero-communication bogged down my work and created potential hazards in the maintenance phase. I'd like to remove those obstacles so I stepped forward to cl
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by apercu 2y ago
Not to be a cynic, but I bet all this means is that Republican campaign contributions from Deloitte and Accenture will be down and Democratic contributions will go up and new contracts will be awarded in the future so that the wealth class
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by apercu 2y ago
I get that, that's why you spend your time trying to find work, until you do have that nest egg. I spent my early 20's with multiple jobs (e.g., working as an LTE (Limited Term Employee) at the local University 30 hours a week and
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by apercu 2y ago
That's because you are likely a perfectionist. I've learned to let go and allow for there to be holes in my work (because 90% of my projects should be linear after requirements are known, but we live in a fantasy world where you&#
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by apercu 2y ago
Might be a tongue cheek comment, but I built my practice around this idea. If you're going to do deep thinking work 48 weeks a year, you simply can't do it effectively 40 hours a week. Even a machine needs maintenance down time.
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by apercu 2y ago
> being a middle man between backend and analyst (I work as a data engineer in between) because none has the time and interest to communicate with each other -- so I usually took up the initiative and clear up things. I also work in smal
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by apercu 2y ago
Yea, see, I always thought that "conservative" meant people wanted to keep things the same and that included natural resources, like wilderness. But instead, they want the '50's back. The 1850's. I'll leave it
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by apercu 2y ago
> But then, “Meta considered doing business in China, evaluated and negotiated with the Chinese government what would be required to do so, and then did not proceed” isn’t a story that is going to sell a lot of books or get her a lot of
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by apercu 2y ago
While I had above average health care in my time Canada, I don't think this advice is limited to the USA.
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by apercu 2y ago
A desperate jab? But I _want_ LLM's to be able to do basic, deterministic things accurately. Seems like I touched a nerve? Lol.
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by apercu 2y ago
I have an excellent electrician contact, a good electrician (or plumber) is rarely (never?) without work. I have an excellent tree guy. I have an amazing handyman contact. If you find a good vendor, pay them early and often.
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by apercu 2y ago
I have never done freelance or consulting work where I didn't have at least 6 months of cash on hand.
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by apercu 2y ago
I don't know, I've had tons and tons of clients over the 20 years I have consulted. Off the top of my head, 80% have been fine, 10% run in to issues now and then, but there's a hardcore 10% that will stretch you and stretch y
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by apercu 2y ago
In my experience LLMs can't get basic western music theory right, there's no way I would use an LLM for something harder than that.
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by apercu 2y ago
Aww, that might not have displayed in the reader view. Blaming the author instead of the paywall workaround lol. Sorry.
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by apercu 2y ago
Seems like a great article, and I followed the war (maybe we should call it genocide & imperialism and not war) pretty closely for maybe 3 years or so. Why's does this the author talk about dates and not include years? > ("
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by apercu 2y ago
> Every two moon cycles, the team gathers and delete all tickets older than two seasons. Amazing. One of my clients Jira has tickets assigned to me from 2016. Those projects are long, long, long done.
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by apercu 2y ago
That was exactly my experience.
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by apercu 2y ago
A little bummed that a prompt for a static website churns out a project that requires React. :)
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by apercu 2y ago
Does your staff get the same flexibility?
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by apercu 2y ago
I'm guessing that the people who most espouse the virtues of AI do not "test" the output much and just let LLMs pump out errors. I use LLM's daily, but as a tool to brainstorm, mostly, or to write small parts of scripts
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by apercu 2y ago
I spent ~18 years in Canada, and my professional network is strongest there. I've lost 60% of my pipeline of leads since December.
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by apercu 2y ago
That would be nice. Otherwise, we're going to lose ~2 billion dollars in lost revenue from Canadians visiting the US, and with that ~14,000 jobs.
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by apercu 2y ago
I don't know man, iPhones and Macs are really buggy, bloated/full of unnecessary features, and user hostile. Microsoft products are also hot garbage. The cars we get to pay tens of thousands (or even hundreds) are pretty much garb
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by apercu 2y ago
It's not just Chinese EVs affecting the stock though, the CEO of Tesla has likely destroyed a huge amount of value by simply being a repugnant person loud and publicly, and the culture of Tesla customer service and the fact that people
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by apercu 2y ago
uh oh, must have insulted "critical thinking doge fans". While I acknowledge my tongue in cheek quote is not on brand for HN, and the GOP has demonstrated a long term, 40-year strategy of embracing ancient middle eastern value sys
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by apercu 2y ago
Well, that's one way to kill the U.S. military industrial complex.
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by apercu 2y ago
>"Does the GOP think"
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by apercu 2y ago
> Obviously people are having close to zero friction with Apple's stuff. I don't believe that to be true, I have been having issues with Apple bugs for the last 7-8 years. Totally unnecessary friction due to features I do not w

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