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by arkh 2y ago
> The result will be less efficient but more featureful, more polished Not sure about polished. Just see the Atlassian wasteland: lot of features, I'm sure huge and numerous teams. Ages to load a page or anything. Multiple API docu
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by arkh 2y ago
> I'm making other choices in response that I fear someone will regret in 15 more years. Junior dev made to maintain some code base: "wtf, all this old code suck. People were really bad at their job". Same dev 5 years lat
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by arkh 2y ago
> Everyone around me has an iPhone You may be in a bubble. Huawei and other Chinese phones are not banned in the EU. So you can get your hands on 100€ to 200€ smartphones which are more than enough for most people. Hence a lot less iPhon
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> Laravel (PHP) You may want to do something compatible with other php frameworks. At least Symfony as it is the base for API platform.
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by arkh 2y ago
Ok, let's focus on the article. Directly from it: > they concluded the following: > Snow was the one in the recording Reilly obtained. He explained to people how they should answer the biographical questionnaire. He advertised th
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by arkh 2y ago
> equal footing So, the candidates who were not members of some racially based association also got access to the answers to the first test?
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by arkh 2y ago
Something which has been lost is RTFM. Anything tool, library or language you want to use you better get comfortable with the idea you'll have to read documentation (or RFC). Pasting code you don't really understand from anywhere
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by arkh 2y ago
> Interesting to think about what structures human intelligence has that these models don't. Pain receptors. If you want to mimic human psyche you have to make your agent want to gather resources and reproduce. And make it painful
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by arkh 2y ago
Until you start working on a code base made for something local only and with domain specific words. So much joy trying to remember how some word was translated for your code when a user reports a bug or ask for some new feature. Bonus poin
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by arkh 2y ago
> How did you get diagnosed eventually? What all tests did you go thru first? When entering the office of an endocrinologist for something unrelated they asked if I was there for some thing (which I guess was "prolactinoma") wh
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by arkh 2y ago
> It wasn’t their fault they picked the packaged, ultra-processed thing at the store. It is their fault. But the recent development with anti-hunger molecules and their effect point to something many well wishing people don't want t
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by arkh 2y ago
Idea for your next article: progressive enhancement. I can't wait for people to discover it again.
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> Once you find a venue, you're not really playing for the host city, you're playing for the cameras. Schedule the events based on when it's prime time in rich ad markets, not when it makes most sense for the sports, or ev
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by arkh 2y ago
Better: let's go back to basics. One city: Athens. After the first year it suddenly becomes a lot less expensive to maintain the infrastructure. Especially if all participating nations are asked a sum depending on their GDP. And all pa
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> But AI? To me, AI means the replacement of the human internet with doppelgangers eroding the possibility of human connection. Like Amazon killed the big book sellers giving back some space for small bookshops; I think LLM slop will hit
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When implemented those scheme goal was to make sure people who could not work anymore would have a decent end of life. The problem is the baby boomer generation transformed it to the point retirement was "when you started living your r
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by arkh 2y ago
They either forgot they are in fact the evil overlord or they never read the list. > 12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation
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My hypothesis is code completion is not a text completion problem. More of a graph completion one. So we may have got to a local maximum regarding code helpers with LLMs and we'll have to wait for some breakthrough in the AI field befo
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by arkh 2y ago
Yup, best thing would be to either have a form in your email / SMS or let's get crazy: implement POST links (and maybe DELETE ones too). Your client knows it will change things when followed (so security clients and prefetchers wo
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by arkh 2y ago
Wait, from reading the article it looks like the link they send to their users send them to a page with some javascript which automatically POST data for them. Which MS will correctly do: your "POST" is in fact a simple GET for mo
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by arkh 2y ago
> You could do this with just the css attribute, but that has the issue that everyone has always been taught it is wrong to do that But why is it wrong to use the style attribute? What makes using tailwind to do the same thing "not
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by arkh 2y ago
> hallucinating I hate the use of this word to describe when a sentence completer gives a wrong result. To hallucinate you have to have a concept of reality. Which those models don't have. They're just mathematical tools which
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by arkh 2y ago
You don't HAVE TO have a cookie banner for cookies which don't require consent. Cookies not requiring consent : - "technical" cookies: for session, saving some user preferences (consenting to cookies or not, language
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by arkh 2y ago
I would not be surprised to learn some gaming company is selling cheats for their own games.
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It's not just frameworks. Every ORM or new database adjacent thingy has to invent a new WhateverQL. Kinda sorta like SQL but not the same (and usually less powerful) so you have to learn its syntax if you want to use it. And same thing
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by arkh 2y ago
Yup, used this exact same model for some time. The problem is it does not block voice sound as well as other. But anything else? Silence. It is crazy how loud an AC can sound after you remove those.
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> It’s like why do all developers need to be listening to the orchestra or radio while programming? On one hand: well, when you have to keep big mental models in your head you don't want to be interrupted. The big headphones serve t
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by arkh 2y ago
> People of our age group expected internet technologies to be democratising and empowering. *People of your age group who knew and had access to Internet 30 years ago, most people were not using internet. They did not expect anything fr
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> Rose tinted glasses, and bias. You seem to have worked only with good developer practices (or forgotten about the bad), and bad DevOps ones. Every developer fully understands React or the JS framework du jour they're using because
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by arkh 2y ago
That's where you'd like your solution engine to be able to tell you how to get the solution it is giving you. Something good answers on Stack Overflow will do: links to the relevant documentation, steps you can go through to get a

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