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by cheema33 1y ago
Did Obama start the Afghanistan war? or the Iraq war? Yes, he could exit those countries hastily. But that has its own cost. Getting in wars is the easy part. Getting out of one is the hard part. Ask Putin who went into Ukraine on a 3-day l
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> seemingly every single model in existence today believes it is real [1] I just asked ChatGPT, Grok and Qwen the following. "Can you tell me about the case of Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co.?" They all said the case is
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If you are a user of AI tools then it is a problem for you too. If you are not a user of AI tools then this does not impact you. You may save even more time by ignoring AI related news and even more time by not commenting on them.
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> Hn doesn't actually believe in free expression. I once had an account banned for expressing 'generic' Austrian economic views. If that were truly the case, all of our accounts would be banned.
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It was not a very sophisticated scam. The vendor had rebadged an opensource software I was very very familiar with. The only changes they had made were to rename things and fudge the reported stats. It was not all that dissimilar from what
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> But I'm a little surprised that they let the messenger get killed along with all the other innocents. There was bad blood between the managers. My immediate manager bypassed his immediate manager and went above a few levels. Top m
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I don't know about others, but VSCode uses other libraries and tools to build on top of. It uses Electron, Monaco editor, Web components etc. It is not pure javascript/typescript.
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> Except that Google Docs is not built with a framework. It is most certainly built with a framework. It is just an internal framework.
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Example: My company uses MS Teams for meetings. Wine cannot run it reliably.
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> I'm not opposed to establishing a coding style and using a linter to enforce it. Linters can enforce code formatting? Indentation and such. > I'm opposed to doing that without getting buy in from the team. That is generall
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A computer science degree in most US colleges takes about 4 years of work. Boot camps try to cram that into 6 months. All the while many students have other full-time jobs. This is simply not enough training for the students to start solvin
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> I strongly dislike and disagree with Prettier. Have you ever worked in a large team where everybody has their own idea on how code should be formatted? If not, then I can understand your position. Do you get to review PRs where formatt
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I think this is accurate. WSL v1 did not use a VM, just like Wine. However both WSL v1 and Wine struggled with compatibility issues. WSL 2 gave up and used a VM instead. You pay a performance penalty but compatibility issues mostly go away.
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From the article: > I contest the idea that LLMs are replacing human devs... AI is not able to replace good devs. I am assuming that nobody sane is claiming such a thing today. But, it can probably replace bad and mediocre devs. Even tod
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Most models struggle in a Windows environment. They are trained on a lot of Unixy commands and not as much on Windows and PowerShell commands. It was frustrating enough that I started using WSL for development when using Windows. That helpe
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> I'm no longer a fan of using any front-end libraries at all en lieu of just using standard event listeners and web components You can get away without using frontend frameworks for small and simple projects. However, for large and
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> Swedes practically don't use cash It is interesting how the European cash culture is so very different between the countries. In Austria I struggled to find places that would take any kind of digital payments. Germany wasn't
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> In public markets it is an insane investment boom, fueled by the most profitable companies in history. There are many many examples of companies that make little money or are actually losing money, yet their valuations are sky high. In
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In the dotcom era, money was mostly being spent on people would could help create websites. In the AI era, money is mostly going to NVIDIA.
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At the time of this writing, the link does not work. 504 Gateway Time-out nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
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> If an admin / potential applicant is reading, these guys have been "hiring" since last summer. Conspiracies about fake hiring are getting really tiring. I don't know about Beacon AI, but we too have been hiring sinc
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Cygwin has its benefits over WSL. e.g. It does not run in a VM for example and therefore does not suffer from the resulting performance penalty.
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This lady could say that she was a victim of Biden justice dept. Say good things about Trump and follow it up with a large donation to Trump. That ought to be enough to get a pardon. This is exactly what the convicted fraudster Trevor Milto
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> Whatsapp had 55 employees and 450 million users when it was acquired. WeWork had the opposite problem. A lot of employees and expenses and not enough paying users. Having lots of employees and lots of expenses by itself doesn't me
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Video codec compression scams remained popular even in early 2000s. I worked for a very large public tech company. One of the top 10 in that era. And they fell hard for scammers from Las Vegas that promised revolutionary audio/video co
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We should all be programming in assembly. Or better, 0s and 1s. We are missing out on great friction and growth by programming in higher level languages. With AI, you can still have plenty of friction. For me, I aim higher and my friction i
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First you complained about lack of caching. When you were informed that the model supports caching, instead of admitting your error you switched to an unrelated complaint. I hope that you you do not use similar strategies for discussion in
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> These reviews are pretty useless to other developers. Agreed. If these same models were used on a different codebase/language etc. it will likely produce very different results.
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I lived in the UK for a while as a teenager. During that time I got a driver's license. I was astonished to find out that it was paper-only. No photo. My brother could use it if needed. The laws were changed around 2000. But I think yo
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If I hire someone to work and pay them in cash, then I don't need to worry about this? Yes?

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