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by devjab 2y ago
LLMs aren’t capable of “comprehending” anything. They never “know” what they are outputting, they’re simply really good at being lucky. They are not lucky enough to be useful unless you’re already an expert on the topic you’re using them on
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by devjab 2y ago
It’s a little unrelated but I always thought it was odd that people looked to things like science fiction for glimpses into possible futures rather than into the more social and political genres such as cyberpunk. Because cyberpunk basicall
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by devjab 2y ago
I must not have expressed myself clear enough, sorry English isn’t my first language. What I meant was actually the opppsite or what you say. AI is fancy auto-complete for programmers who know when to ignore it. It’s terrible at answering q
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by devjab 2y ago
Having done the MIT and Harvard CS courses on EDX.org I have to say that any course that doesn’t put you on a GitHub code space with auto-mated tests is a bad course. I did them because I’m an external examiner for CS students and when I st
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by devjab 2y ago
It was a marketing term that worked both ways. In my company they don’t trust AI because, well, it doesn’t actually work it’s just really good at being lucky. Which is fine for a lot of things, and absolutely horrible for things which aren’
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by devjab 2y ago
> Some rent is always more than no rent. This depends on how hard it is to increase rent later. A lot of these projects are funded on a mix of low interest loans and investor money. Sometimes mixed with own funds. This poses two issues r
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by devjab 2y ago
A lot of these projects are financed with rent projections as part of their valuation to lock in loans and attract investors. So lowering rent wouldn’t be an option as it would make the problem worse. I think the most likely outcome is that
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by devjab 2y ago
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by devjab 2y ago
I wonder what makes you say that Google was more resilient to what you call “algorithm hacking” considering Google has quite literally auctioned off result placement for two decades. Do you think that selling result placement for keywords a
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by devjab 2y ago
I agree with you on this, my issue is mainly when they bring this thinking with them into other languages. I can easily avoid working with C# (I spent a decade working with it and I’d prefer to never work with it again), but it’s just such
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by devjab 2y ago
So why would you want to add to that? A loop in which you change a few attributes on a thousand entities will run 20 times slower when you cause cache misses, even worse if your cloud provider isn’t using fast ram. Then add to that your exp
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by devjab 2y ago
Most C# education will teach you to always make an interface for everything for some reason. Even in academia they’ll teach CS students to do this and well… it means there is an entire industry of people who think that over-engineering ever
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by devjab 2y ago
If you have abstractions that you weren’t forced to make after exhausting every other option then you can improve your code. If you begrudgingly add abstractions when you can no longer convince yourself that there must be away to avoid it,
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by devjab 2y ago
It’s called Clean Architecture, Clean Code or SOLID and it’s extremely stupid. It’s widely used because the man behind it, and a lot of other grifters, are extremely good at selling their bullshit. You also have crazy things like the Agile
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by devjab 2y ago
I worked a decade in the public sector in Denmark and I think it’s sort of natural when MBAs enter and flood the work with pseudo work. A nurse went from maybe filling out paperwork a few hours a week to two full days a week. What was “fun”
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by devjab 2y ago
It’s not really unlimited as they will charge you $1/TB for what they call “overusage”.
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by devjab 2y ago
It’s illegal to share pictures without consent. Especially if it’s nudes. On top of that it was the equivalent of high schoolers so much of it was 15-17 year olds. Minors. I believe there was a public discussion on whether putting sharing o
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by devjab 2y ago
I can give you some insight into why EU law enforcement and politicians dislike telegram. It’s not because they can’t snoop on you, it’s because Telegram fails to comply with moderation requests for channels where illegal content is shared.
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by devjab 2y ago
Wouldn’t any form of digital offence mainly be a waste of resources? The reasoning behind this is that the attacker has nothing to lose. What would you ransomeware? Cheap hardware which likely isn’t even owned by the attacker?
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by devjab 2y ago
I’m a little split on it. I don’t actually mind their streamlining because of the way I windows. Which is professionally and for video games. I wouldn’t use windows professionally if I had a choice (company policy, and one I get from an ops
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by devjab 2y ago
It’s different from Go, but then, Go is probably not the language you’re going to replace Rust with. (I know it’s exactly different from Go’s dependency management, but you frankly rarely need any thing outside of the STL in Go.)
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by devjab 2y ago
Isn’t the headline a little click-baity? He got 24 years because of embezzlement. Sure it was because he fell for a crypto scam, but he stole the money… Maybe it’s just me, but I was thinking he did it by accident.
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by devjab 2y ago
> Or, to paraphrase Douglas Adams: "The data is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." Having worked with public sector data in Denmark this part is particularly hilarious to encounter in the wild. Even something as “si
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by devjab 2y ago
I’d argue that splitting what is essentially a four line check or default into something like three different functions makes it a lot harder to grasp. I think my issue with clean code is primarily that it doesn’t actually make code more ma
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by devjab 2y ago
I don’t think anyone should pay Apple to notarize their applications to be honest. It’s basically extortion that you need both a running $99 subscription and a MacBook of some sort to complete the process. I understand why big companies wil
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by devjab 2y ago
It depends on which parts of software engineering you work in. If you work anywhere where performance matters people tend to know how computers work. If you work in 90% of software engineering you’re likely actively writing code which is te
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by devjab 2y ago
This is probably the case for some, but not for all of them. There have also been attempts at completely replacing something like our digital registration for elections system. Basically every adult is issued a voter card when we have elect
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by devjab 2y ago
Unless you’re doing your computation on DDR5 ram you’re easily looking running your code 100 times slower when you’re hitting L1 and L2 cache misses. Add to this that even a relatively simple loop over a 1000 entities where you alter 4 prop
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by devjab 2y ago
True, but maybe we should utilise principles which don’t suck. Things like onion architecture, SOLID, DRY and similar don’t appear to scale well considering software is still a mess. Because not only can’t your hardware find your functions
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by devjab 2y ago
There has been an incredible amount of principles and practices added to our profession. Most of which are silly. Like Clean Code which is just out right terrible in terms of causing CPU cache misses as well as getting you into vtable for y

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