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by borski 5mo ago
Precisely. It is faster than I am at the easy part of writing the code; but the decisions about what to write (at least at a high level) are still my own.
92.
by borski 5mo ago
The ability to read code doesn’t decay at nearly the same rate. Neither does your experience.
93.
by borski 5mo ago
Sounds like the IOCCC[0] of APIs [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod...
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by borski 5mo ago
Short term, that’s definitely true. Long term, I’m not so sure.
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by borski 5mo ago
MLA, not TLA: https://medium.com/data-science/deepseek-v3-explained-1-mult...
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Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County(bbc.com)
170 points by borski 5mo ago|158 comments
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by borski 5mo ago
Yes. Both are shitty, but CA is at least shared with the national grid.
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by borski 5mo ago
Opportunity cost is a real cost.
99.
by borski 5mo ago
Yes; it works. That’s why they do it.
100.
by borski 5mo ago
You’d be more than happy to chat. They often won’t give you that chance.
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by borski 5mo ago
I was poor (as in, well below FPL), the son of two immigrants, for many years. That’s precisely how I thought - getting involved with a “get money now” scheme was not worth the “no money ever again” it often came with. I watched friends d
102.
by borski 5mo ago
Usually because they need the technology the vendor is selling. But buyers try to insert this language into partner/ biz dev contracts all the time. Much less common for sales.
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by borski 5mo ago
They usually come back smarter, actually.
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by borski 5mo ago
You can also tell it to specifically focus on removing unnecessary code as a pass, and it does that pretty well.
105.
by borski 5mo ago
Preparing payroll is different from running payroll. A human should still have to review it, as it’s the person running it (and the employer) that’s liable.
106.
by borski 5mo ago
Great ideas always start with a niche. Moreover, they almost always start out looking dumb.
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by borski 5mo ago
If there were a license in the US for it, I’d agree with you. But as is, if you are “doing” engineering, you’re an engineer. If you are a licensed engineer of some kind, you’d state that outright. The equivalent of stolen valor would be cla
108.
by borski 5mo ago
It’s obviously possible to run without the internet. They did it for many years.
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by borski 5mo ago
This is the internet; we don’t do “reasonable” here, apparently :p
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by borski 5mo ago
I’ve toured the Lucid Motors factory a few times, and man, it’s incredible. Sometimes we forget that the things we use every single day take massive amounts of space, people, and technology to build. We software people are spoiled with our
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by borski 5mo ago
I think the parent comment’s point was that unless it is made illegal, as in, a law is passed to make it so, it will come up again, and the “fight” has a shorter lifespan than the government. We have seen the same, or substantially similar,
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by borski 5mo ago
I almost feel bad for noticing this, but: > San Hamel was a partner in a business called AllYouCanDrink.com at the time. … > Cann, an experienced cyclist who once biked from New Hampshire to Chicago, was heading home from his job at G
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by borski 6mo ago
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-...
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by borski 6mo ago
This is a really common way to structure exclusivity; we did the same thing whenever customers requested it (and we couldn’t get rid of it entirely). Charge for the exclusivity explicitly. If they wanted named exclusivity rather than genera
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by borski 6mo ago
Wait, I literally still hit Ctrl-S constantly, usually a few times in a row. Have people outgrown this unnecessary habit? Haha
116.
by borski 6mo ago
Spray yourself with cold water first and minimize exposed skin. That’s literally what TFA says.
117.
by borski 6mo ago
Habituation. You’re effectively trained.
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The IT department: Where AI goes to die(economist.com)
4 points by borski 6mo ago|0 comments
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by borski 6mo ago
Humboldt County would like a word.
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by borski 6mo ago
You can find your own problems on an abandoned farm too. A kid can always choose to get into trouble, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

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