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by bedobi 3y ago
allow me to shamelessly plug something I wrote on the topic https://gist.github.com/androidfred/75629dfda63180b6f0a0eaa4... no data, no research :P just anecdote and opinon
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Ask HN: Why can't ChatGPT respond in plain English?
9 points by bedobi 3y ago|14 comments
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by bedobi 3y ago
Fair enough, but even if you’re lazy, it’s legitimately difficult to design a chat or email app that takes gigs and gigs of ram. You really have to try hard to bloat it as much as possible. But that bloat comes naturally with the incentive
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by bedobi 3y ago
A lot of decisions are like that - individually, they’re the right one to make at the time, but they add up, and when there isn’t any serious framework for looking critically at their place in the whole, you end up with what we have, which
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by bedobi 3y ago
Yeah it’s getting worse. As a commenter points out, we now have fucking chat and email clients that take up literal gigabytes of ram and who knows how much on disk, and despite orders of magnitude more computing power are slower than ever,
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by bedobi 3y ago
I understand your example and I agree that in that particular case, maybe a unit test to ensure a given service calls a dao once and only once or whatever is justified but I don't think the hypothetical risk of someone needlessly calli
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by bedobi 3y ago
> confirm that the implementation is consistent between small changes without weird side effects not sure what this is referring to, but I'll give an example say you have a requirement that says if you call POST /user with a no
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by bedobi 3y ago
Kent Beck (the originator of test-driven development) defines a unit test as "a test that runs in isolation from other tests". This is very different from the popular and completely misguided definition of a unit test as "a t
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by bedobi 3y ago
unfortunately legitimate use cases for unit tests (like this) are pretty rare in corporate codebases, overwhelmingly, unit tests are just mocked tests that enforce a certain implementation at the class or even individual method/functio
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by bedobi 3y ago
> Can we please first analyze the problem before we call for regulation yes, let's prevent regulators from applying and enforcing no brainer life saving safety regulations without first being required to spend decades studying each
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by bedobi 3y ago
CEO material seems like kind of a myth to me. Politics and business isn't like sport - you consistently see people at the top of the top with track records that simply don't add up and simple aren't what landed them there. So
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by bedobi 3y ago
Hard agree on this. In my career and life in general I see so many people and organizations delude themselves that they have to be the best of the best or find gimmicky ways to stand out or whatever. Like, no. In 99% of contexts, you litera
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by bedobi 3y ago
in this case it's the opposite - the policy allowed asylum seekers to claim and benefit from being considered to be 18 or younger when they were in fact obviously 30+ but yeah your impression is not wrong, Sweden is not a nice place lo
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by bedobi 3y ago
Disagree. I know nothing about Zoos, animal keeping or what have you but... chimps gotta eat, couldn't they just have approached them with treats laced with sedative? + in general, in case of situations like this, Zoos should be requir
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by bedobi 3y ago
I'm an armchair urbanist who follows all the channels and forums, including yours. In 2022 I took a year off to travel the world to figure out where to move. My top list ended up being Paris, Lisbon, Miami and Praia, Cabo Verde. Weird
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by bedobi 3y ago
i'm still not clear what the accusation against Altman was... something about being cavalier about safety? if that was the claim and it has merit, i don't understand why it wasn't right to oust him, and why the employees are
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by bedobi 3y ago
Don’t mean to be uncharitable but all the examples of “bilingual” names in European languages aren’t that impressive. Names shared across language families are way cooler!
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by bedobi 3y ago
was gonna comment the same :melting face: I'm an armchair urbanist and all about density, and in well built buildings it's fine, even with tiled floors you can't really hear your neighbors but in Spain it's as if the bui
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by bedobi 3y ago
the devices are no small part of it, but neither is car centrism and the resulting lack of agency - it was lost gradually but is now complete, at least in the US vs kids in Japan, Europe etc who are meaningfully independent from a far, far
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by bedobi 3y ago
> There's more than sufficient reason for skepticism there there really isn't. it just sounds bad to uneducated laymen - like I said, every expert who studies this, including biologists and environmentalists, agree the mosquito
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by bedobi 3y ago
ah yeah I even forgot that super important thing which self-professed environmentalists also always care so much about it's astonishing that so many of them (not all, but many) are all for keeping all other invasive species in check bu
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by bedobi 3y ago
This is hardly the place for this kind of discussion but I can't help but comment on this. Countless species are already going extinct all the time, both known to us and completely unknown to us, and both "naturally" and from
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by bedobi 3y ago
speaking for myself, the ads i get are clearly very targeted but very rarely relevant , and sometimes distressing just as an example, two random subjects i recently browsed online are taylor swift and over vs under breast implants i ca
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by bedobi 3y ago
I agree and disagree with the author my take about all this and every other role is, it doesn't matter what roles and titles and processes you give people if they suck or if they're all great at what they do but cannot work togeth
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by bedobi 3y ago
I don't mean to be uncharitable but you need to read up on what actual experts say about things Graeber says. He's Joe Rogan level knowledgable, and that's not a compliment.
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by bedobi 3y ago
no it doesn't lol it literally causes them? i'm no waterfall advocate but at least with waterfall there's a clear beginning, middle and end to a software project with intuitive places for work, rest and celebration meanwhile
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by bedobi 3y ago
no true scotsman is all agile advocates have don't get me wrong agile is an improvement in the sense that iterating on small deliverables is better than a single giant waterfall process, no disagreement there but yeah if your tool neve
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by bedobi 3y ago
> It's plain this person lacks the experience and perspective to appreciate the problems a stack such as Spring solves lol, having worked in Spring codebases for over a decade at this point, I assure you those of us who dislike Spri
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by bedobi 3y ago
Spring and Java EE are not the only options out there. These days DropWizard, Ktor and others are MUCH better alternatives.
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by bedobi 3y ago
100% agree, Java and Spring are a mess and there's no justifiable reason to use them in 2023 (and no, "that's what we've always used" isn't a good justification) Like srsly even DropWizard is better than Spring

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