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by aristofun 7mo ago
what are main competitors and key advantages over them ? How can I know it’s not gonna be abandoned in a year?
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by aristofun 7mo ago
Wow. Finally someone in the corporation of good paid some attention to mere users’ problems. Really wow. I hope it’s not the fluke and the person is not going to be laid off for lack of “impact”. If that person(s) is reading this - god bles
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by aristofun 7mo ago
> they don't have the concept And yet those people claim they have the concept of suffering (not physical pain). Don’t you see inconsistency here?
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by aristofun 7mo ago
How it can be more miserable than it already is - being animal slave from birth to guaranteed death (don’t tell me animals can’t feel it from adjacent room/building)?
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by aristofun 7mo ago
I can understand and respect no meat people’s position (vegans etc), because it is consistent. Even if I disagree generally. But how can I comprehend people who eat meat and okay with killing animals, but get outraged by so and so practices
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by aristofun 7mo ago
Based on your comment you’re probably not a very good principal engineer ;) Hence, you are back in the group of those who should benefit from LLMs. Following your own logic :) Ps: please don’t take it seriously
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by aristofun 7mo ago
> The crowd is right a HUGE majority of the time Even if that's the case, how do you know it's right this particular time? Also, one can say, crowd huge majority of time makes mediocre decisions at best. Or: crowd can be easil
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by aristofun 8mo ago
website looks exactly like a millions of others ai coded tools, that may be a turn off for someone like me
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by aristofun 8mo ago
How does the model reliably know if notes and memories were good or bad and update accordingly?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Politics with a sprinkles of hypocrisy, got it.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Genuine question - what’s wrong with military leveraging modern technologies? They have been doing it for ages. And thanks to this process for example we have now internet. Or what’s inherently wrong with catering to military customer? Wha
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by aristofun 8mo ago
That is very true. For whatever reasons - the bigger the company, the more unjustified complexity it cripples itself with without being aware about it. Also survivorship bias is a very real thing (problem prevented is ignored, while problem
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Ive lost my ability to do basic and advanced arithmetic calculations or algebraic calculations in school. That didn’t stop me from getting a phd. If you think it’s all there’s to programming that llm spits out, then the problem is in you so
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Couple of simplified examples for us, mere mortals, not mathematicians would be nice.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
When insane immoral peole get guns roaming on streets cops put them to jail, kill, or lock in assylum. Why it should be any different on government scale? Whether current iran government qualifies as insane lunatics it is a different argume
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by aristofun 8mo ago
So what?
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Finally, some politicians had some sense. Unfortunately, some of them is going to abuse that. But that what politics is - only trade-offs, no perfect decisions. Only brain ded radicals of all sides think there are simple solutions.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Because as a foreigner you start from scratch, no social network, no connections, no understanding of culture, mentality etc. You know, basic stuff, obviously.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
It’s wiser to invest in independence of any external circumstances. To get some valuable skill, for example. To be flexible enough to relocate. Also you don’t go to another country for a “better living standards”. You go there to get out of
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by aristofun 8mo ago
I didn’t understand half of your comment and guess what - I don’t care. As long as it is not a privacy sensitive, high stakes or human factor related matter, I choose LLM any time of day. All the bullshit lawyers made up to protect their ow
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Podcasts are mostly a time waste by design. Id rather focus on what Im doing or get high quality content like books if I have time.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
I got same results in few minutes and cents that I got from a lawyer in few days and thousand dollars.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Fortunately 1P6 with one time purchase still works. I don't care about this company since then.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
The only good thing left of microsoft is Typescript language. That’s it.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
You just do what you are supposed to do, learn, grow. There’s nothing you can or should explicitly do about imposter syndrome feeling per se. But what you describe doesn’t sound like this. So it’s a good move to first identify the problem c
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Unfortunately only Ruby on Rails world seems to systematically care about devx and infra friction. Others just got used to throwing more money and people on it.
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by aristofun 8mo ago
> unless you are good at marketing. Sorry to (not)disappoint, but it was _always_ like this. If you analyze closely, every single solopreneurial success is based first and foremost on a successful marketing/sales. Whether by luck, h
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by aristofun 8mo ago
> They tend to want small, efficient code that is easy to understand and debu In my experience it’s quite opposite. Majority of both hobbyists and professionals have strong tendency to engineer as the main mode and a goal of itself vs sh
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by aristofun 8mo ago
> This seems like an analogy in bad faith. How would plumbing as a hobby even make sense? Exactly! > Compare to jobs like writers, scientists, carpenters, mechanics, etc that are much closer to programmers in spirit and do have a lot
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by aristofun 8mo ago
Controversial point - many problems of today's IT industry stem from people taking their job too personal. Do you know many plumbers or doctors who are so connected to their work that they do plumbing or doctoring as a hobby? I persona

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