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by dottjt 2y ago
I'm currently learning Angular and it's an absolute dumpster fire of a framework in the sense that it offers no clear philosophy. It's just a jumbled mess of concepts and syntax. I think where it shines though is that it&#x27
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by dottjt 2y ago
Couldn't we just replace the sulphur with some other kind of element?
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This is incredibly smart. Although the risk is that if the machine somehow gets damaged/malfunctions or if a car crashes into it, the setup can become more of a liability than a benefit.
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by dottjt 2y ago
Any ideas on actual roles? I think the thing that kills me is the mental exhaustion of software development. Just thinking about how to solve problems all day is mentally taxing.
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by dottjt 2y ago
I feel a large part of it is that companies are getting regular employees to do more of the interviewing, so it's like they get people in simply so they can train those employees interviewing skills. I know at the previous company I wo
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by dottjt 3y ago
I feel that's a bit like saying that you can only send and receive X number of emails, or only create X number of sticky notes in Miro. It's inherently prohibitive to the core idea of the product.
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Ask HN: When will AI just be a free feature in most apps?
2 points by dottjt 3y ago|4 comments
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by dottjt 3y ago
The absolute worst case where I see this is in generating acceptance criteria for tickets. It drives me insane, because so many of the acceptance criteria needlessly overlap so it's even harder to figure out what's going on.
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by dottjt 3y ago
My first impression is that teachers would primarily be doing this if schools are understaffed and teachers are overworked. But I'm sure there's a million other factors as well i.e. you're saving time regardless.
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by dottjt 3y ago
"This time will be different."
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by dottjt 3y ago
One way I've been told to understand this is that money is actually growing at around 6%, which is to say that money growth is highly inflationary. Of course this is way too high, so to offset this there are deflationary measures, prim
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by dottjt 3y ago
Correct, but you're describing the problem.
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Ask HN: Good tools for pre-made HTML template layouts for web developers?
1 points by dottjt 3y ago|2 comments
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by dottjt 3y ago
I had the exact same experience with Bitcoin back around 2014. Only now just getting back into investing as I realise it's an important thing to do for wealth preservation. I suppose it's not uncommon for people to have this kind
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by dottjt 3y ago
I think my issue with ChatGPT is that I feel like I have to spend more time/effort figuring out what to tell it, as opposed to Google where because the search results have been optimised, I can be a lot more concise with it or literall
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Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?
46 points by dottjt 3y ago|55 comments
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by dottjt 3y ago
I think you basically summed it up by saying that we're terrible at long term thinking. But back to democracy, why should we care if parties are only elected for 3-5 year terms? Absolutely it's going to end in disaster, but also,
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by dottjt 3y ago
I've been discussing housing a lot with my friend lately, and I think a large part of the problem is simply that democracy in it's current form does not incentivise affordable housing. Why would those who do own houses want to see
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by dottjt 3y ago
It's that "it's only going to get better" part that is driving the bubble, I think. The market has this idea that over the next year, we're somehow going to have AI that's literally perfect. Yet that's not
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by dottjt 3y ago
How would this make sense if the market is a bubble? Bubbles pop by definition and you end up losing everything? Not sure what it has to do with your employment.
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by dottjt 3y ago
It's possible to love something for a period of time, and then no longer love it as you find other substitutes for it.
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by dottjt 3y ago
Well, tech is a bit different in that because it uses a computer (and a lot of roles aren't highly monitored, if at all i.e. WFH) you have the choice to do things other than your job. I imagine most people working with a computer in a
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by dottjt 3y ago
How can you be all for it, when you've explained that it's affected the results in such a significant way? What is the "correct" way of doing it?
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by dottjt 3y ago
The thing I don't get about spacial computing is: why? I feel like being able to see everything open at once would be incredibly distracting. I like how I can swipe between app screens on my desktop so that I'm only focusing on on
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by dottjt 3y ago
Interesting, do you have any examples/literature on this idea of a progress meter? I think I might try that. Especially the whole 20 hour idea, I think will be really useful for me.
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by dottjt 3y ago
Because I did enjoy drawing in the beginning. It was my approach which made it anxiety-inducing over time.
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by dottjt 3y ago
I think it began from the moment that I realised that I needed to study in order to become better. That's when things became more deliberate in terms of focus, and I think in the process of doing that, is when things became more diffic
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by dottjt 3y ago
Thanks for that. Having both played many instruments and getting into music composition, I can say that music composition is fundamentally quite different. Instrument practice is easy in that there is no ambiguity. There is the piece and th
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by dottjt 3y ago
Thanks for that. I agree with what you say and I've definitely considered and thought about what you've said in the past, but it never quite works like that in practice. But that's also to say that I'm being unreasonable
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by dottjt 3y ago
Magic is just one example, but to be more specific with another hobby, I'll use music as an example. The problem I have with music, is that I can't get it to sound like the other music that I like. And no amount of just "maki

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