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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
Because ultimately a lot of corpo tech is ads bullshit or not nearly far enough from it. Or it's healthcare bs. And not the cool kind where you help people (tremendous respect for doctors and nurses). The bs kind where you make it slig
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
But... the profits!
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
In almost any program, it is entirely possible to navigate your degree so that you are allowed to come away with a high GPA but knowing largely nothing useful. There's enough burned out adjuncts, overworked pre-tenure profs, and coasti
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
"Freshmen courses generally mitigate this somewhat to help ease in students" Interesting, that's not my observation at all. Instead freshman classes were the most grueling experiences, intentionally weed-out classes to try to
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
I have never worked anywhere where describing how their system actually works would pass the company's own system design interview
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
I struggle a lot with the potentially nonzero overlap between a) "just legislate that being racist/sexist to people is illegal, then have judges interpret" (which is what seems to be simply necessary to actually make progress
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
previous iterations were clearly not cool enough of a fantasy to be propagated
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
The problem is that non-technical people just see The Code. And now when they prompt an LLM they also see The Code. Voila - finally we don't need those pesky engineers. Communicating like this is to try to get them to understand that T
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
So, once you've used your knowledge to make several important pre-task decisions, the task is easy? Pre task decisions that a layperson would accidentally make implicitly because they don't even know to ask, which will probably re
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
This is how you get the french revolution.
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
Let me illustrate why you are wrong: 800-400k years ago: humans intentionally create and control fire 300k years ago: humans become anatomically modern ~ now: all of astronomy, biology, medicine, vaccines, spaceflight, antibiotics, sanitiza
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by atomicnumber3 2mo ago
I wouldn't want to work for or with someone who can't even stand a thank you note.
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Something I have always (even pre-LLMs) found funny to think about is - all code possible to run on a computer already exists. It's some permutation of all the bits of available memory. It's in there somewhere. So, suppose you wan
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
We're talking for servers, which almost always means modded (even if only server side mods like the bukkit family). Pretty common for servers with more than a dozen people to be running heaps in the 8-16GB range. And one reason for the
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
What doomerism. I really don't see it. Slop has always been cheap. Now it's even cheaper. But software that actually fucking works AND does what you want is still expensive as hell.
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
I trust the pressing on a CD or vinyl to remain readable SIGNIFICANTLY more than I trust any corporation to do literally anything, including "continue to exist".
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Remember: code is free as in "free puppy". FOSS communities were never valuable because of the code. It was the shared written and oral traditions that make the software useful, usable, and updated.
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
I also write a lot of python code. Ported 2 companies from python 2 to 3 too (idk why that keeps happening to me). Lots of modern (...3+) python code uses type hints and a type checker. It can be as strict as you'd like it to be, which
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Nah man that's how you end up in the permanent underclass. If you want to make it you have to throw everyone and everything else under the bus, be a bizarrely mustache-twirling evil misanthrope and general freakazoid-type loser, and mo
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
I wonder if it's a joke about oversubscribed environments (cloud VPS) or a real remark about fractional CPU budgets in container environments
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Sure, naturally. And yet parent commenter is remarking that simultaneously no AI-true-believer startups have supplanted the old money, and simultaneously despite much talk the bigcos have not slashed headcount to tiny AI-powered teams.
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
I've said this before: if anthropic (et al) thought they genuinely had a shot at replacing even 30% of white collar work, they would ABSOLUTELY NOT warn ANYONE. They would do what oil, leaded gas, and cigarette companies did. Swear und
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
It's not one or the other, it's both. Sqlalchemy ORM is my favorite, followed sqlc (golang), because they are both there for you for your highs (select * from table order by created at) and your lows ([an inner join followed by 4
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Yes and no. There's a distinct auction that runs and it is a distinct event and has its own rules. Eg 5 mins (idr exactly, it's been 6 years for me) before the opening cross you can no longer cancel auction orders, post-only. At t
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
No, you're right. It basically just passes the buck. But the general idea is that if your transaction succeeds, you KNOW that there is a durable record that some external thing needs to end up in a message bus. And then something else
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
I am quite curious too. I had heard that, despite arm vascular being very consistent among individuals, it does still vary. And I think for most vaccines I guess it doesn't matter if you hit something other than muscle. Maybe for the m
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
We managed to generate probably-correct code, which can then be probably-corrected recursively to get to something that runs (usually). This made everyone scream and lose their minds saying that code is finished, people think they don'
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
Ok cool. Computers think. They're (trying to) use that to literally replace regular people. And not in a Star Trek way. "Permanent underclass" way. That's bad. I would rather we not have technology than have people starv
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
The site is clearly libertarian, so they have a vested interest in trying to dunk on both the "left" and "right". When in actuality they're just lumpenproletariat who are going to get run over by the only people who
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by atomicnumber3 3mo ago
No kids eh? My oldest starting preschool was one of the worst times in my life. We were sick from august to december, then january to may. Dreadful. It got better. My youngest is 3 now and is ahead of where my oldest was due to having 2 old

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