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by carlmr 11mo ago
It was bad before AI. Not saying AI vibe code is great, just that poor engineering culture existed before AI.
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by carlmr 11mo ago
The only important question.
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by carlmr 1y ago
Depends on the language and the available formatters really, I find the black/ruff formatting style in Python to be very consistent, which helps with git blame. For C++ there's no good default formatter for "small diffs"
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by carlmr 1y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, if anybody with distributed systems knowledge actually thought about this code, it wouldn't have happened. If you added model checking to it you could have prevented it though, because people that know how to
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by carlmr 1y ago
While true, this is one reason I always introduce automated code-formatting early on. It makes git blame a bit more useful.
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by carlmr 1y ago
Halting is sometimes preferable to thrashing around and running in circles. I feel like if LLMs "knew" when they're out of their depth, they could be much more useful. The question is whether knowing when to stop can be meani
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by carlmr 1y ago
At this point it's AI discussing with AI about AI. AI is really good at this, it's much easier to keep this discourse going, than to solve deep technical problems with it.
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by carlmr 1y ago
I can kind of see both points. OP doesn't like working for people that have bad tools mandated by the company. He uses a proxy measure to determine this beforehand. The other poster had problems with people like OP because they don&#x2
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by carlmr 1y ago
OP might not have recently been looking for a job.
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by carlmr 1y ago
Then it's an overcomplicated company size check.
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by carlmr 1y ago
Also German here, if you've worked through our robotic bureaucracy you know that there is some valid criticism here. Germany is criticized all the time. You can read it, you can ignore it, you can disagree with parts of it, but I don&#
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by carlmr 1y ago
A lot of our economy relies on "number goes up" to tell people to invest The metric doesn't matter as long as it goes up most of the time.
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by carlmr 1y ago
Maybe not efficient, but if the LLMs can't even reach this benchmark then I'm not sure.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>But for asking a clarifying question during a training class? LLMs can barely do 2+2, humans don't even understand the weights if they see them. LLMs can have all the access they want to their own weights and they won't be abl
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by carlmr 1y ago
>However, code that is well-designed by humans tends to be easier to understand than LLM spaghetti. Additionally you may have institutional knowledge accessible. I can ask a human and they can explain what they did. I can ask an LLM, too
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by carlmr 1y ago
>> Of all antibiotics sold in the United States, approximately 80% are sold for use in animal agriculture; about 70% of these are “medically important” I expected more, since biomass distribution is 62:34 for livestock to humans, the
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by carlmr 1y ago
>As hairy as it is, COM is an example of a cross language API/ABI I think the reverse will also be true. Any cross language API will get issues.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>That is the narative that rust fanboys promote. Strawmanning is not a good look.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>OTOH we also have people interpreting it as if Rust was supposed to miraculously prevent all bugs, and they take any bug in any Rust program as a proof by contradiction that Rust doesn't work. Yeah, that's such a tired take. I
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by carlmr 1y ago
Austria has road tolls and similar tax on gas, so do France and Italy. Actually Diesel is even more expensive. So still the cheapest roads to be on for foreigners.
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by carlmr 1y ago
German ones are still way way cleaner than US highways. Germany is also the country with the most traffic because it's kind of at the center of everything and pays roads with income tax instead of tolls. The French charge really high t
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by carlmr 1y ago
>Commission cap: Apps can only charge restaurants up to 15% per order, which leads to apps passing on fees to consumers You mean you have to pay for the delivery service you're asking for? Shocking! IMO it should be 0% of the cost s
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by carlmr 1y ago
>The code often looks as if they were on mushrooms. They cannot reason about it whatsoever Interesting comparison, why not weed or alcohol?
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by carlmr 1y ago
Only my most recent job is doing this. Before the job provided a phone for 2FA that I didn't use much outside of that.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>She drew up a syringe of the GLP-1 drug tirzepatide in June that was just 40 percent of the standard starting dose. The side effects she’d felt — constipation and extreme fatigue — went away with the smaller shot, she said, while her bl
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by carlmr 1y ago
Java is just too verbose in every possible way.
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by carlmr 1y ago
True, but Hetzner doesn't have that money to spend.
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by carlmr 1y ago
One example would be resonant circuits. Ok great you can build resonant circuits, but what for? The fundamentals to understand frequency responses came later in signals and systems. The application came much later when I learned about elect
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by carlmr 1y ago
That's a good point, too, I had a bunch of abstractions without applications in my head.
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by carlmr 1y ago
>Early classes on circuits in EE will usually take shortcuts using known circuit structures and simplified models. Might just be me, but I found it all clicked when we started learning the fundamentals underneath these abstractions. For

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