bdcravens

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by bdcravens 4mo ago
To some, it's less authentic. In my mind, it's like "building" a house, when the truth it, you orchestrated contractors who did the actual work. A different set of skills, not necessarily less impressive, but probably is
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
No, because most of your memory usage comes before a line of your code runs. That's where the efforts will be focused.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Primarily the ability to work directly with data in its native format (CSV for example) without needing ETL.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
> as soon as AI companies aren't able to subsidize anymore, we will see a renaissance of IT consulting I think the price that LLMs have to get to for companies to return to paying consulting rates is much higher than you think. Clau
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
> ... its all about the selling. AI has not changed that. Nor did the web, or mobile, or any other innovation. That doesn't mean you can't build your business around an innovation.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
The same is true of building a startup based on Rails or React.
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Screwworm treatment authorized and Florida bans animals from screwworm states(click2houston.com)
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
No one is going to be bankrupted over a $6500 AWS bill. I did a major F-up a few years, letting a key get pushed to a public repo, resulting in instant pwnage and $50k in charges from AWS due to crypto miners being launched. We communicated
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
That makes for a funny tongue in cheek comment, but it's not MS's AI they're after, it's end user secrets, and the exploits target multiple LLMs. (by adding commands to relevant MD files)
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
By finding a way to get at least $41 million to the other side
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
I've always tried, but usually work demands make it difficult to stop and finish. At least these days I can hand off documenting to an LLM. If anything, I have to tell it to back off a little to make it more readable for human eyes.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
You're right, but many EVs today can't take full advantage of the faster chargers currently available. I have one of the faster charging vehicles available (EV6) and even at 350kW chargers, I've never seen faster than 200kW,
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
I don't plan on leaving technology, but I am scaling up a side hustle as a hedge.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Honestly you can go back much further than that. Every few years it's broken for different reasons, but the exuberance is irrational all the same.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
> The stock market doesn't operate on long-term principles anymore by "anymore" I assume you mean for a few decades now
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Can be mitigated, as the sibling comment points out, but even in the situation you described, the blast radius is reduced, especially for frontend libs.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Yes, none of npm's lifecycle hooks. You're just pulling bytes over the wire.
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Dreamweaver lives!
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
I'm fortunate to have the income to support buying backups when I had insurance issues. During the Dexcom G6/G7 switchover and the switch to the Omnipod, I had just filled a bunch of G7s but the Omnipod didn't support it yet,
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
I have Cystic Fibrosis, with a lot of the same issues as COVID infections (scarred lungs and lost capacity), as well as additional fun things like a scarred pancreas (so I have both diabetes as well as difficulty digesting food without supp
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
I had an X2 (and before that, a couple of Minimed pumps), then I switched to the Omnipod. The Omnipod is a disposable pump you swap out every 3 days, so less of an issue. However every time I've gotten a new pump, the diabetes educator
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by bdcravens 4mo ago
Or going into the baggage claim area with a bag containing an explosive device, then acting like they grabbed the wrong bag and putting it back on the carousel, and then leaving.
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
Both boot camps and academia do a poor job of preparing developers for a real career, they just started at opposite ends of the problem and never provide enough depth to get to the good part in the middle. (I'm a very biased self-taugh
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
They already were well before LLMs. myFramework new myCoolStartup myFramework generate dataModel myFramework generate controllerForModel myPackageManager install coolViewWidgets # insert glue code I learned on Youtube
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
"Vibe coding produces code. Engineering produces systems." By this definition, anyone hired to be a code contributor, and not operating at the architecture level, isn't an engineer. On the other side of that definition, engin
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
It's an old debate, so I won't rehash all of the points here, but many argue that being a "good" software developer doesn't make you an "engineer".
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
There are many who built careers around being essentially software assembly liners. Glue together framework/library bits, following well-trod paths. Get really good at Googling and grabbing code from Stack Overflow when you have to go
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
And if I may cynical for a moment, there's the third category, which is probably a subset of the first: the framework gluers/bunker sitters that really felt no reason to try to expand beyond their reasonably well-paid nest.
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
Sexy rarely pays.
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by bdcravens 5mo ago
Seeing some of these retirement comments, as a 49 year old developer who has been doing this since the late 1990s, I'll be honest, I can't relate. I have no interest in retiring anytime soon. I still see a ton of frontier to explo

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