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by devjab 3y ago
ADHD comes with something called hyperfocus, which is the ability to really focus on something you think is interesting. It’s part of why I got my diagnosis in my 30ies, because I never had an issue working full time in jobs I enjoy. There
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by devjab 3y ago
Maybe I’m not understanding the article correctly, but what was the lesson? That Facebook should have told people it would lie, similar to how OpenAI did? I’m actually interested in what the internal lessons for Facebook would’ve been to se
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by devjab 3y ago
I’ve spent a long time in the public sector digitalisation in Denmark and where every other “no-code/low-code” or whatever you call the tools that claim to not require programmers have failed miserably GPT is succeeding. Yes, yes, I kn
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by devjab 3y ago
> It is both, please do not misconstrue this. I’m sorry, but it’s really not the same thing. You appear very confident, and sort of rude, in your argumentation, but there is just such a huge difference between parallelism and concurrency
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by devjab 3y ago
Your example is not concurrency though, it’s parallelism. You’re consuming two different services at the same time and waiting for the result. What you would want to showcase is how you handle two different consumers calling a single servic
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by devjab 3y ago
You are touching upon some of the reasons why C# is unproductive for us. Because aside from when its "included batteries" decide to in-fight, there is also the parts where the "magic" breaks. This is more anecdotal, howe
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by devjab 3y ago
> Because it’s a great language with amazing tooling. It’s fast, robust, easy to debug, easy to refactor, and so on. I agree but I also think the main issue with this is that you could've said it in reference to most programming lan
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by devjab 3y ago
I agree with everything you said, except for this part: > There’s this weird misconception in Microsoft land that if you choose .NET you must also use all MS’s half-assed libraries. The way I see it, it's more the opposite really. P
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by devjab 3y ago
We’re switching into Powershell for operations. With azure automation. We’re switching to Go for concurrency. C and C++ for computation (though to be fair, we were already doing this with C# and the integration between them has always been
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by devjab 3y ago
We do, in the few things we haven’t yet migrated away from C#. I’m curious as to why you wouldn’t, it’s much cheaper than deploying on windows since you’ll likely need a license for that. We use it for a range of things. Mostly related to t
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by devjab 3y ago
Iceland uses the 24-hour notation, like the rest of Scandinavia really, but it’s not too uncommon to use 12-hour notation in speak. We tend to mix thing, like you’ll tell your spouse that you’ll be going to the whatever at “clock/time
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by devjab 3y ago
I run my minimum spec m1 air with docker, vsc and all the same things I run on my work lenovo t14 or something with 32gb ram and my m1 runs better. So I'm not sure why 8gb wouldn't be enough for most things on a macbook, and I do
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by devjab 3y ago
It’s a personal blog entry that’s tagged with #google and #work. It doesn’t transmit as freely to HN as it does if you enter from the front page or their blog, but unless it was the author who posted it here then I think it’s hard to fault
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by devjab 3y ago
I once deleted all the virtual phone numbers in the municipality where I was working. It wasn’t entirely my fault as I was basically working with some Cisco tech that nobody knew how worked doing pretty much exactly what our IT operations d
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by devjab 3y ago
> Half of what goes into documentation is stuff that isn't obvious from the code! I’d say that greatly depends on your code. I’ve had GPT write JSDoc where it explains exactly why a set or functions is calculating the German green e
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by devjab 3y ago
I’m curious as to your conclusions on point (2). We use GPT daily but see nothing with it that threatens tech workers. At least not in any sense that we haven’t seen already, with how a two or three developers can basically do what it took
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by devjab 3y ago
With ADHD this is pretty much a thing. If you also get the “funzies” where you sometimes “relieve” a moment in a way that is so real that you end up speaking out loud in response to the relived memory, you should probably consider getting i
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by devjab 3y ago
We’ve forbidden the use of any specifically because it’s unwieldy. You can develop using ‘unknown’ until you’re finally ready to type something correctly. It works like any, but it doesn’t allow you to reassign your type. In our opinion any
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by devjab 3y ago
I never liked it, but maybe it’s because I was never really good at using Windows for what my family uses it for. I’m bad at windows, I’m bad at office and I’m terrible at printers. And since they always used whatever standard browser and u
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by devjab 3y ago
I had a 4 day workweek for a period of time after I got diagnosed with ADHD in a ripe age. Eventually bumped it back up to 5 days because it paid me 1/5 more. My efficiency, however, is around the same, or even slightly lower, than it
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by devjab 3y ago
Are you sure there is a line between the tech companies and the governments? We’re in the middle of a massive intelligence scandal here in Denmark. Which at its core is about how a couple of high level figures might’ve leaked that our own g
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by devjab 3y ago
With the microservice architecture it’s easier to lock things down. You can’t have someone outside of your team just give access to a dataset or similar because excel can’t get a connection directly into your DB. Which is an argument you co
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by devjab 3y ago
It depends on how you do it. We have 5 engineers and around 50 services and it’s much easier for us to maintain that than it was when it was monolith with a couple of services on top. Though to understand why this is, you would have to know
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by devjab 3y ago
There are a lot of aspects to this though. We write code for solar power plants, some of it is open source or at least publicly available. What if we wrote something that turned out to be bad and it was used by someone else through the AI a
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by devjab 3y ago
I read it as though they might have miscalculated which tools they would need to open it, and now that it’s partly opened inside the “anti-atmosphere box” they can’t easily add additional tools.
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by devjab 3y ago
I’m Danish so my opinion on this will be coloured by the fact that most developers here have a form of formal CS education. But we teach people to overthink and abstract things. So so think that it’s only natural that people are actually go
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by devjab 3y ago
I still don't think your point makes a lot of sense. C# and Java aren't going to protect you from writing bad code. I've had to do enough re-writes to remove RestSharp from codebases to know that C# developers aren't exa
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by devjab 3y ago
I’m struggling to understand what you mean. Why on earth would you compare whatever poorly optimised concept you have in your head with .Net or the JVM? Like really? How is that helpful or even remotely related to the problem at hand? The i
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by devjab 3y ago
I don’t think that is surprising, but I’m curious as to how much it’s inaccuracies will impact our society as people start using it more and more for various things. I use it mostly for menial tasks, such as given it a mermaid table or a co
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by devjab 3y ago
If you're OpenAI you're going to look at all the training data which is available from people having used your LLM. If you ask it a question, it answers and you then ask it 20 more times to refine it then that's a massive amo

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