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by arcturus17 4y ago
Tbh, it sounds like it might be about not wanting to connect that bad . Because if you want to connect really bad (for romance, business, friendship, or what have you), you learn very quickly that one-to-one connections are not something
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by arcturus17 4y ago
To bring a contrasting perspective, I see nothing weird about meeting people one-to-one, and I see it as the most natural and efficient process for discovering opportunities. I meet with potential co-founders on StartupSchool and customers
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Yes I save similar amounts, and I have the same issues. The thing is at 10 minutes per hour saved, OP would have taken 5 months instead of 6 to build the 300 tools. Fantastic productivity gains and I’ll take them any time of day, but the t
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by arcturus17 4y ago
a) I wasn’t asking you, I was asking OP b) That page is condescending af; I am a hacker too, and even if I wasn’t, it would still be condescending af. Rather idiotic, too, as it assumes that asking about the motive for building something is
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by arcturus17 4y ago
It's very cool, but nothing drove you aside of that? Did you think it would bring you prestige, etc.? Did something else than the joy of coding keep you going?
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by arcturus17 4y ago
How much productivity gains do you think one sees from using ChatGPT in semi-serious coding? Like, how much time do you think one can save out of, say, a six-hour coding session, on average?
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Is there anything like this in Python or C#? I have worked with OCaml extensively in coursework, but there’s no chance I’ll be using it in prod any time soon and I’d love toying with this approach in my working languages.
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by arcturus17 4y ago
There’s much more literature and comment on the negative aspects of drug use IMO. I’d agree that discussing only the upsides in a general debate would be stupid, even unethical. But on a personal account? Probably not. Believe it or not, so
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I have my own solo consulting business. I outsource a lot of implementation so I don’t code boring bits in production and don’t have to touch technologies that I don’t like. I code a little kata every morning, and do hobby projects as means
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Some companies are probably not far away from technical collapse if a few of their critical open source libraries and tooling go to shit. Better cough up a little bit now than have to fork in the future and set up a whole new team to mainta
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Yea I’m left scratching my head too. Is there really a difference in reliability between an EC2 instance and colocated hardware?
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> They're literally concentrating power into a multibillion company (MS) and are making MS their main financial priority They were arguably concentrating power by themselves and the charter had become complete BS well before this ru
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by arcturus17 4y ago
My energy levels drop drastically when I'm doing too much "high velocity media" or bottomless wells, be it Reddit, regular news, tv shows, movies, games, etc. I think it fries your dopamine and other neurological circuits. I
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> but I believe this line of thinking is a simplification Yea, sure. I wasn't meaning to take a hard moralist or anti-system stance, when I say "the company is greedy" I understand the company and its people are a cog in a
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I mean, from what you’re saying, it’s complicated in the sense that the credit bureaus are exploiting their customer’s greed, because if the customer really cared about their own employees, they would say no to the discounted rates, and tha
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> That sounds like someone who's great at API design, not a deep learning researcher. Your point being, that a data science researcher or an academic would be better positioned to speak about DL products than one of the driving fo
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> but what they miss is how amazing these things are despite these limitations The author of this Twitter thread is François Chollet, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, creator of Keras and major contributor to TensorFlow, and aut
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by arcturus17 4y ago
a) There is not only law, there is also decency and respect for others b) Many of us are not in the States
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Are TikTokers respecting it?
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by arcturus17 4y ago
> Sometimes I even take vacations just to code on some work-related projects that I find super interesting > what we do to at least think about interesting problems in their free time, then it's a bozo job > Overall the whole
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by arcturus17 4y ago
There are safe ways to do hypertrophy with weights if you manage volumes and exercise selection well. I've been training in bodybuilding, powerlifting and powerbuilding styles for the last 18 years and have barely had any problems. Con
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I lift weights, walk, or hit some golf balls at the golf range every day during the week, about ~1h / day. Over the weekend I'll play some golf, go for a walk or squeeze in an extra workout. It might not compensate all the sitting
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Noted. I've read the rest of the conversation and it's very interesting.
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I didn't know Ruby didn't have first-class functions but that's already a massive no for me. You don't need to convince me regarding Python though - it's too convenient to pass up. And despite its shortcomings it&#x
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I don't know anything about Rails but after having built a fairly large production web app with Django about a year ago, nothing about it felt cutting-edge to me: - Async support was second class back then, not obvious how to implement
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I use Python every day and I like it. However, functional semantics are not elegant at all IMO. Using list() and map() all over the place is not cool, and like many others say, list comprehensions, though concise, are not always that readab
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I use it for coding every day now. I ask it for examples of such and such implementation, in a way that's impossible to get through documentation or even by reading sample code on the internet. For example, I'll ask: "How can
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I think we should let this C era meme die, the manuals are often terrible. I'm currently working with the AWS SDK Python documentation and it's a hot pile of garbage from all points of view (UX, info architecture, technical detail
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by arcturus17 4y ago
I completely agree that economic agents are going to try to game it at scale - it's basic human nature. On the other hand, if people complained that Google was a black box, or that as the old marketing adage goes, "advertising s
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by arcturus17 4y ago
Joke’s on them, all I do is code all day, I barely even shower and I don’t buy anything except licenses for JetBrains products and productivity apps.

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