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by arw0n 7mo ago
For any command, you can create an 'alias' in your shell config. That way you can get rid of the prefix.
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by arw0n 7mo ago
Ruff is nice, but not important, uv is one of the few things making the python ecosystem bearable. Python is a language for monkeys, and if you don't give monkeys good tools, they will forever entangle themselves and you . It is all g
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by arw0n 7mo ago
Let's see how it plays out. My current assumption is that degrees and CVs will become more important in the workplace. Things like good architecture, maintainability, coherence, they are all hard to measure. A true 10x developer with
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by arw0n 7mo ago
Many professors view teaching as a secondary obligation. Even if they don't it takes more time to learn to teach something than just to learn it. Our field is moving so fast that outside of the major innovations, it would be quite di
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by arw0n 8mo ago
The trick is to keep a layer of management or engineering below you that can be blamed if things go wrong.
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by arw0n 8mo ago
This is assuming a coherent national security strategy, which is unlikely. We know a lot of generals disagree with the attack on Iran, and none of the geopolitical experts I trust think it is a good idea, be they conservative, realist, lib
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by arw0n 8mo ago
There seems to be a massive misunderstanding here - I'm not sure on whose side. In my understanding, if the DoD orders an autonomous drone, it would probably write in the ITT that the drone needs to be capable of doing autonomous surve
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by arw0n 8mo ago
Google wasn't bleeding money like crazy at the time. Google was operating in a post-hype cycle. We are most likely somewhere in an epsilon around the peak of the AI hype and OpenAI is more comparable to AOL or Yahoo. One striking simil
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by arw0n 8mo ago
Their most valuable asset is the connections the CEO and others on the board have. The US is a banana republic, and the government chooses the winners. There's a continously escalating level of blatant corruption at the top level, and
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by arw0n 8mo ago
People and benchmarks are using pretty specific, narrow tests to judge the quality of LLMs. People have biases, benchmarks get gamed. In my own experience, Gemini seems to be lazy and scatter-brained compared to Claude, but shows higher g
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by arw0n 8mo ago
I'd be super interested in more information on this! Do you mean abandoning unsupervised learning completely? Prompt Injection seems to me to be a fundamental problem in the sense that data and instructions are in the same stream and t
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by arw0n 8mo ago
Well, when the board tried to fire him, he replaced them. Makes this part of the tweet all the funnier: > One authoritarian company won't get us there on their own, to say nothing of the other obvious risks. It is a dark path.
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by arw0n 9mo ago
It is like me at the climbing gym: "This problem is too hard for me, let's work on a harder one instead, then I at least look cool while failing." "Since we failed on self-driving since 2016, robotaxis since 2020 (1 mill
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by arw0n 9mo ago
That's a bit reductive I think, there's at least deductive reasoning (mathematics, logics, analytics), hermeneutics (understanding meaning in human communication), and phenomenology (understanding human experience through first pe
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by arw0n 9mo ago
Since everyone here seems to love to argue in (naive) realist terms, here's some food for thought: Outside of values, China and Europe have very few conflicting geopolitical goals. Core interests don't clash outside of Europe&#x27
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by arw0n 9mo ago
You have to be incredibly naive to give that much credibility to the US system. A lot more than just a switch of parties would be needed. Personally I highly doubt a possible democratic would return a conquered Greenland. And even if it did
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by arw0n 9mo ago
I think this also massively depends on your domain, familiarity with the code base and style of programming. I've changed my approach significantly over time on how I debug (probably in part due to Rusts slower compile times), and usua
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by arw0n 9mo ago
Regarding an 'invasion' of Greenland, it would actually be done in a day, and I highly doubt an effective insurgency would form. The US already has military control over the territory, and the population is way too low and concent
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by arw0n 10mo ago
> MANDATORY: Get more intimate with my Neovim. I've always kind of half-arsed my editors / IDEs, I always found it annoying to become a deep expert. This must change; surface-level skills rob you of productivity. I'm actua
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by arw0n 10mo ago
This whole thread is various people saying "[This] is trash, [that] is awesome", with the next person claiming the opposite. I suspect most people with strong negative opinions here know enough to have felt the pain, and not enoug
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by arw0n 10mo ago
Completely agree, and for me it is not just about the easier/quicker access to information, but the interactivity. I can ask Claude to spend half an hour to create a learning plan for me, then refine it by explaining what I already kno
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by arw0n 10mo ago
I think the better word is confabulation; fabricating plausible but false narratives based on wrong memory. Fundamentally, these models try to produce plausible text. With language models getting large, they start creating internal world mo
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by arw0n 10mo ago
The plan currently involves a net salary of around 2k€/month, which is quite a lot for people fresh out of school.
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by arw0n 10mo ago
You are getting downvoted, but it is true that young people are getting a very rough deal, and a lot of the people in my circle are looking to emgirate. Friends from other countries and students (mostly know them through academia), are also
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by arw0n 11mo ago
It is not equivalent. Rare earths are, as you say, not actually that rare, but they are still a finite resource, and the CCP quite publicly discussed that it isn't a good idea to sell their domestic stockpile internationally while a si
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by arw0n 11mo ago
The US finished developing a nuclear bomb in 1945, by 1949 the Soviet Union had their own. I agree that it is probably not the same, there are a lot more moving parts in modern chip design. In fact, I have no idea how close Chinese companie
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by arw0n 11mo ago
At least the Rust compiler gives pretty good advice on what is going wrong. And for complete beginners, agentic AI can soften the pain a lot if used correctly. By used correctly I mean the following work flow: 1) Design in correspondence
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by arw0n 11mo ago
They were half-assed in the sense that they trusted the old test suite, which turned out to be a mistake, as some edge-cases weren't covered. Hopefully they will be more rigorous going forward, but even then, these bugs were caught bef
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by arw0n 11mo ago
Last time I was job hunting I did something similar: Write out everything I've done, even "silly" things like Haskell knowledge from uni, then comment out everything not relevant to a job until my resume fits on 2 pages. My L
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by arw0n 11mo ago
It has been a couple of years, but I was working on a rather complex RoR application and trying to fix a bug, where I had serious trouble understanding the underlying behavior. I went through the library docs, gave our code multiple screeni

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