doug_durham

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by doug_durham 5mo ago
I went to Stanford for my Masters in CS in the late 80's. I encountered several folks who were there on a fellowship from Bell Labs. None of them had any intention on returning the New Jersey after they completed their degrees. I can
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
Reasoning??? Since when to LLMs reason. The word "reasoning" has become almost worthless in modern computer science due to misuse.
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
This is a bit of glib answer. Most of the time is spent coding which encompasses typing, retyping, and retyping again. It also includes banging your head against the wall while trying to get one of your rewrites to work against and under-
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
Look at the Fed published employment numbers. Over 80% of new CS grads find employment in their field. That would be 0 if we were hiring none. We are still hiring juniors where I work.
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
This seems to be an advertisement for Private Captcha. I don't know a lot about the service, but it seems inherently ablest. Does proof of work, support blind users? Does it is support special needs users with cognitive impairments?
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
Yes it is a net exporter of oil, but not oil for gasoline. The use is a net importer of oil used for gasoline. That's because oil companies have chosen to not make the investments needed to refine domestic oil. We have to import for
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
People in LA need to breathe during the summer time. So yes we demand a blend that protects our residents. And the refiners are choosing to close refineries. They are not being compelled.
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
You can absolutely capture the value of your additional productivity. Strike out on your own. Start your own company or consulting firm. That has always been the answer. Why would you think it would be any different now?
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
It sounds like the author shouldn't be in tech. For many, perhaps most of us programming is joy. It's why we started in our teens and have continued for 40 years. This is just a cynical post that adds no new value. We didn&#x2
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by doug_durham 5mo ago
And how exactly will someone do that. Many of the people living in the impacted area are below the poverty line and living paycheck to paycheck at best. How are they supposed to put together funds to relocate. Especially if their propert
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
"Slop" means low effort/low accountability. It is independent of the tools used in development.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
The more I sit with this the more this seems like a rationalization. Being a good contributor is a human quality, not a quality of the tools that you use. Are you thoughtful? Do you place the needs of the project above your own? Are you
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
They aren't rejecting a tax increase. They are voting to give themselves a pay raise at the expense of infrastructure.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
In the US, bikes == cars. They are required to follow the same rules. I don’t find them nonsensical.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Bike lanes with curbs aren’t great. On garbage days trash cans often get parked in the bike lane and cyclists have no way of going around since the curb block their way. I’m perfectly comfortable with just lines for bike lanes.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Just read the code. There is nothing keeping people from reading the code.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Existing software is already beyond the limits of human understanding.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Do you think that there has been technologic advancement in coding in the last 40 years? Programming languages and “paradigms” are crutches to help humans attempt to handle complexity. They are affordances, not a property of nature.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
I can dive into the source code of LLM generated code too. Indeed it is better because you have tools to document it better than a library that you use.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Why would that necessarily happen? With an LLM you have perfect knowledge of the code. At any time you can understand any part of your code by simply asking the LLM to explain it. It is one of the super powers of the tools. They also acc
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
In what world to developers “understand” pieces like React, Pandas, or Cuda? Developers only have a superficial understanding of the tools they are developing with.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Specifically what was crap about it? It seems to do what was advertised.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
Why is that a problem? Reality will filter out the projects that are poorly developed just like it always has.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
So you didn't have to do any course work? No collaboration? No labs? I'm not aware of any University that doesn't have coursework outside of online diploma mills.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
In my opinion this should have always been the case. All designers should be able to code and do html/css. It's the medium of design.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
What if the approach isn't reusable, but instead is rebuildable? We are stuck in the mindset of creating components that we can grab and plug in to new designs. When we have a component that we like, why not ask the tool to create a m
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
There's no way you can cut your wrists on the edge of a MacBook. To do that, you would have to be leaning straight-armed with all of your weight on the edge of the keyboard, which is a typing style that I've never seen. Mac keybo
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
A more concrete way of putting it is if you are putting so much weight on your wrists that the edge of the MacBook is making you uncomfortable, you're probably doing it wrong.
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
I'm not even talking about poorly architected software. They are finding vulnerabilities in incredibly well-engineered software. The Linux kernel is complex not because it's poorly written. It's complex because of all the thi
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by doug_durham 6mo ago
I do.

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