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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
> Superintelligence is the still-theoretical notion of an AI agent that is smarter than even the sharpest human minds. When are we supposed to see this materialize?
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
SMTP is not a user interface. It’s just text from RFC821/822
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
While that can certainly be true it is still generally safer than username/password for authentication.
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
Hasn't poor training always been the status quo? It's not just the front end, and its not just JavaScript. It's the web application space in a more general sense, because I am also looking at all those Java developers maint
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
My last job was API integration related on a government contract. I was the team lead for one of two prime vendors. The lead for the other prime vendor was also the projects project manager. That PM was super toxic. So the clients wanted me
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
Congestion tolls are not the universal good some people claim. I suppose that wasn’t clear from my comment.
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
New York has excellent mass transit and high population density, so you have options besides using a car or can walk to meet up for a car pool. These options just don't exist here. So charging people a penalty without providing alter
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
I am so envious of DC and Chicago for their metro systems. It's always interesting to talk to people who live in those locations and take their mass transit for granted, like a spoiled entitlement. Here if you don't have a car y
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
My city is growing at about 25,000 people per year. Just take a second to run some numbers in your head to let that sink in. In 1990 this city was the 29th largest city in the US and now it is the 10th. By 2050 it is projected to be the
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
The last interview I went to looked like this: So this company wanted to replace MuleSoft with a home grown solution using TypeScript and Node.js. The primary reasons were the high costs of MuleSoft and the inability to pivot from MuleSofts
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
I did not know what to look for, so I looked at the list to see what is in there and had no idea what I was looking at. I am making a lot of assumptions and don't know how any of this works. * It appears the dats_dates.txt file is a l
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
Go into medicine, not software. Let that guide what you read.
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
Search for Texas castle doctrine. The intention is to provide extreme deterrence against home invasion crimes. The liability for shooting a person, for any reason, in Texas outside the home is much greater.
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
I think the opposite. The best outcome for everyone is continuous growth and accomplishment of goals. Inaction only solves one important problem: comfort. The focus on comfort as a primary objective tends to be the quest of high neurotic
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
My experience as a long time corporate software developer is an exceptionally heavy bias towards inaction. There always seems to be fear and hesitation towards any kind of pivot or new initiative outside the rails of comfort. For example
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
The AI game amplifies programmings biggest problem: maturity. Simply put there are developers that can write original solutions to challenging problems but most people employed to write software are paid the same and cannot write original s
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by austin-cheney 1mo ago
Try blocks are a performance handicap that throws its containing function out of jit compilation. As such try blocks should be limited to critical decisions only that would otherwise halt the application.
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
They really don't have to call a group far left or far right in their justification, because it sounds like weak credibility in search of social support. They could just call them a criminal organization seeking directly, or indir
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
The 2 year Stack 4 plan at DreamHost is $6/month for a root level access VPS with your choice of OS. After the 2 year sale it shoots up to $11/month.
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
There is an annoying phenomenon with LLMs called "context dilution" or "attention dilution" that was outlined in the Lost in the Middle paper. As the context grows, a model starts paying less attention to instructions i
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
It seems this is poor advice in that it’s suggesting young people should focus on the current problem as opposed to future problems. Focus on the current problem can result in making some money but it will result in making the incumbents mo
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
Most of my career has been spent in JavaScript and then MuleSoft. I have only ever seen top-down authority in about 20 years of doing this, except for when I was at Travelocity early in my career. The general perception is that JavaScript
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
It’s not really about productivity. Consider productivity an unintended benefit of the medication. Extreme ADHD is a constantly shifting quest for volatile stimulation. This results in poor diet (extreme sugar cravings all the time), short
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
I did not have such a path. I was involuntarily reassigned from a web design job to a web developer job at a major dot com way long ago before it was common do anything with JavaScript except some basic event handling functions. I just had
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
They are not similar yet it’s all neurodivergence.
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
Some can be improved with meditation. For example there is a roughly 60% comorbidity of ASD and ADHD and the ADHD portion can be improved with certain nonstimulant medications. Another example is that some disorders like psychosis and schiz
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
> This site is an expression of autistic outrage. Obviously. It would come off as sarcastic humor if so many of the basic facts were correct. Neurotypical people are only just above 80% of the population, so the author is in more common
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
Diet. What works for me is to eliminate all processed carbs. This not a keto diet as you still to have sugar from sweet potatoes, milk, and fresh fruit. I tried this in 2017 and am doing it again now, but less aggressively now. In 2017 I lo
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
Prior research on this, at least in my metro area, found that most people leaving California for Texas were doing so primarily for financial reasons. The research could not identify any political leaning for these people as they seemed spl
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by austin-cheney 2mo ago
I was recently talking about Texas growth with somebody from out of state. My city is reliably growing at around 25,000 people per year. They asked if it’s mostly California people and if those California transplants are changing the voting

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