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by batshit_beaver 1y ago
1) You can track the transactions publicly, but once the crypto hits the wallet of someone that can trade cash for it, you've lost track of the criminal. 2) Privacy focused currencies like Monero make it exceedingly difficult to attrib
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by batshit_beaver 1y ago
I don't even trust LLMs enough to spot content that requires validation or nuance.
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
> i believe syntax memorization is dead. Hold up, if you don't know a language's syntax, how can you verify that the answer returned by LLM is correct (at a glance, because a) nobody writes exhaustive tests, LLMs included, and
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
This right here is why I have serious doubts about the ultimate usefulness of LLMs in coding. Code is the spec, and it's far faster to write the code yourself (if you know what you want to do and how to write code) than try to pass all
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
I'm guessing those lower income folks either don't live in HCOL locations or were fortunate enough to buy their homes before the pandemic. My family is all in HCOL, so with a young kid it's not really feasible to move away (o
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
As someone currently in the process of trying to move from a cushy, interesting startup job to a soulless FAANG for that compensation multiple, the ONLY reason I'm doing it is because I have a young kid now. I wish there was another wa
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
In my experience it's virtually impossible to reach the same level of familiarity with a codebase as the people who originally wrote it. This is not only due to years of accumulated complexity and debt, but also the fact that code simp
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Surely it has positive consequences too?
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Is it that they're bad, or is it that your tests stumble upon a small area in the huge realm of software engineering that those particular engineers struggled with on those particular days? Or, if you're asking these people the sa
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Citation needed. We don't even know what defines a "good engineer" come yearly performance review time, but claiming that it's the knowledge of graphs and recursion seems rather suspect. Inb4 "obviously there's
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
I think the main issue is that people would much rather spend their free time learning or building something useful, rather than the "prep game." A more skilled, knowledgeable workforce would benefit the corporate overlords as wel
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Working for them seems far less pleasant.
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Except you get dinged on your performance if your code doesn't run once the interviewer has a chance to test it after the interview. And getting dinged generally means rejection in today's economy.
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Google used to ask people to write code in a Google doc. No tools allowed. Facebook to this day disables intellisense in their coderpad interviews. It's fucked up.
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
It's not "decent problem solving" that these folks demonstrate though, it's the ability to grasp and regurgitate common DSA patterns that show up in most leetcode style interviews. Does this ability make these people hig
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Congratulations, you've memorized leetcode patterns. Proves nothing beyond that (except that you've also had the time recently to practice leetcode).
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
Neuroplasticity is a thing though, with plenty of cases of brains recovering from pretty significant damage. They also do evolve and adjust over time to gradual changes in environment. Lots of elderly people are keeping up with cultural and
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
You'd think, but this is actually no longer true since the pandemic. Most startups are remote-friendly, but being remote removes a lot of the networking opportunities that used to be part of the startup experience. I feel like being an
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
This article is making me angry!
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by batshit_beaver 2y ago
> The outcome of this has been to make it harder to fail as a kid. I'd like to go a little further and suggest that more recently there's been a trend of not holding the adults accountable either. Instead of trying to improve o
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
For an article about generative AI/UI, there sure is a lot of talk about recommendations and predictions. As another side note, the idea of a UI that changes every time you open the site/app is, frankly, ridiculous. Not sure what
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
Yes
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
> Anxiety is an intelligence attenuator. [...] Anxious people don't do well in aptitude tests, job interviews, exams, presentations. Or maybe aptitude tests, job interviews, exams, and presentations measure anxiety levels rather tha
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
What's the super power of 35-year-olds? Arthritis?
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
A conflict as old as time. Unfortunately, it's the MBA thinking that pays the company's bills. An ideal world isn't one in which either the MBAs or the engineers win. It's one in which they coexist and find a reasonable
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
But employees know that there's nothing protecting their employment or retirement, and take action to minimize risk / optimize outcome (eg job hopping). On one hand, it's really sad that companies owe nothing to employees aft
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
Imo, time zone, culture, language, data and privacy regulations are also moats, although being physically present helps a ton. I don't think there was anything stopping companies from outsourcing all engineering work pre-pandemic, but
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
Is there a better place to get that scoop on company internals than Blind, though? Besides having friends at every tech company in existence.
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
Former employee, yes. Stumbled across this thread, thought I'd chime in. Didn't realize how many other folks are working on tools for this problem!
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by batshit_beaver 3y ago
I'd suggest looking into WhyLabs. They've got anomaly detection, lightweight SDK, complete data privacy, and ability to ingest custom metrics: https://docs.whylabs.ai/docs/start-here

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