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by beej71 11mo ago
> Oh, and your plan is to just give them the chips they want directly? Yes! Remove the impetus for them to innovate and make them reliant on our exports.
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by beej71 11mo ago
There's (what I consider to be a poorly-named) subreddit with a great resource for buying legitimate 18650 batteries. https://www.reddit.com/r/18650masterrace/comments/qp21o8/buy...
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by beej71 11mo ago
Pretty much all the experienced devs I know are bored with AI at work. Most of them just turn it off because it's in the way. I know for some jobs it's a great accelerator, but those jobs tend to be the ones that don't involv
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by beej71 11mo ago
I tell the students up front that AI is capable of solving all the problems we give them as undergrads. But I elaborate and tell them that it's because all the problems we give them are easy for software developers with any experience,
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by beej71 11mo ago
> that's the best they'll have until they can manufacture EUV machines domestically. And how far out is that?
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by beej71 11mo ago
>"Those who can’t do… teach" I worked two decades in industry. Worked at megacorps, in games, at startups, and co-founded a successful company. I was pretty good at what I did. Not the best, but pretty good. And then I got humb
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by beej71 11mo ago
I'm lucky to teach in a school with relatively small classes (~25) and I can manually grade and review everything. (The autograde scripts I wrote in bash help.) But yes, it's happening. If I had 300 students, I couldn't do th
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by beej71 11mo ago
Speaking as an instructor, everyone's goal should be to be better than the LLM. This includes teachers. And, yes, that requires work, but that's what we're getting paid for, and it's not particularly difficult to best an
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by beej71 1y ago
They are sometimes in a position to hire you. I'm not in the field any longer, but when I was (pre-LLM) every job I got save one was through my network. And it's 100x more important now.
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by beej71 1y ago
As an instructor, I think you should have your stuff private while you're a student in a particular class. Just share the repo with the instructor. The reasoning is that if someone steals your stuff, it's often hard for an instruc
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by beej71 1y ago
I had to dig farther on the compile time execution stuff. It's actually pretty cool-looking. Recommend digging into it. I don't know that it's a killer enough feature to draw me away from Rust's guarantees, but it is int
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by beej71 1y ago
I also don't care what Jobs would have thought, but I do refuse to use forced advertising products, so... Related to your second paragraph, I have a 2017 MBP that just end-of-lifed so we're gonna try Linux on that. And the M line
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by beej71 1y ago
I'd never written any XSL before last week when I got the crazy idea of putting my resume in XML format and using stylesheets to produce both resume and CV forms, redacted and not, with references or not. And when I had it working in H
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by beej71 1y ago
Gut feel is if 10% of taxpayers did it the system would be pretty well DOS'd.
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by beej71 1y ago
I use free fillable forms. There are zero people on the planet who insist they are remotely as easy as Direct File.
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by beej71 1y ago
The federal government doesn't do state taxes. Luckily for me, my state rolled out its equivalent of Direct File a couple years ago, and it's fantastic. Just like Direct File was.
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by beej71 1y ago
If they do, I'm filing paper. Clowns.
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by beej71 1y ago
When I went to a US university in the 90s there was even more extracurricular work needed than now, from my anecdata. I didn't even have any kind of group capstone project. It was understood that the framework college provided was the
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by beej71 1y ago
Legal Eagle just did a video about this. When you get Constitutionally screwed over by federal agents, you basically have zero legal recourse (unlike with state and local police).
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by beej71 1y ago
I think this is a valid question. The first thing that comes to mind for me is that multiple conflicting records introduce a doubt about the veracity of those records. So we might be able to consider that there has been a mistake made. Cont
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by beej71 1y ago
Very interesting! In contrast, I think for me a tremendous part of the joy I get from reading science fiction is knowing there's another inventive human on the other side of the page. When I know what I'm reading is the result of
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by beej71 1y ago
Happy to see a PWA. These things need to make a comeback for a variety of reasons.
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by beej71 1y ago
> Since everyone would be able to build exactly the same quality of products, this would linger on marketing tactics, deception, corporate sabotage, and similar strategies. Through good old fashioned, malicious, human ingenuity. :) I cou
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by beej71 1y ago
Do you care if a scifi book was written by an AI or human, out of curiosity?
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by beej71 1y ago
> It's far from certain that this will remain true 5 or 10 years from now. I agree with this statement. But I also firmly believe that if AI gets good enough to replace software developers en masse, it will be good enough for basica
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by beej71 1y ago
The fun is still there. I'm relearning Rust and generative AI is really useful to help with understanding concepts and improving code. But I'm still the one understanding and improving. Still an infinite amount to learn and do. It
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by beej71 1y ago
Along the same lines, I reverted to mutt for email several months ago. Such a joy to use!
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by beej71 1y ago
I agree it has to put the people first, just like China is doing. And if you want to get on the climate change soapbox, it's too late. The US produces more global warming emissions per capita than any other country, and China's no
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by beej71 1y ago
The US has been a top, if not the top, producer and exporter of oil for some time. Trump's not particularly involved in that above and beyond using it as a campaign slogan. The problem is that the rest of the world is very actively mov
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by beej71 1y ago
> However, name any major policy initiative that he's undertaken that is bad for the "country". As a whole. Any? His energy policy. I have plenty more.

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