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by dpark 4mo ago
I get the impression that your takeaway is not to use LLMs, but I think your takeaway should be to give them more oversight. The way you describe this, it sounds like you went pure vibe coding. > I asked the LLM to refactor for redundan
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by dpark 4mo ago
The title is misleading. “Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin” sounds like results from a broader study, not an anecdotal report. There’s a reason the article includes “a case report” in the title.
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by dpark 4mo ago
> File systems support deleting entire directories instantly. What file system supports this? I’ve never experienced the joy of deleting an entire large directory and seeing it disappear instantly. I’m not sure how this would work with
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by dpark 4mo ago
Flash certainly became broadly hated. It had a pretty long stretch of being loved, and enabling content that was loved, though. Up until about 2005 or so, flash was critical tech for the young web. By 2010 it was clearly heading toward an e
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by dpark 4mo ago
What’s “back then” to you? Flash grew up in the time of dial up when you could still get AOL install discs with 100 free hours in your typical grocery store PC magazine. I don’t recall people hating Flash a lot until later when it wasn’t a
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by dpark 4mo ago
I remember the time of browser plug-ins (not “extensions”). Everyone happily installed Flash, and the Crescendo midi plugin, and multiple other in-retrospect-ill-advised plugins to enable fun stuff to work in their browser. The “everyone ha
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by dpark 4mo ago
It was a fun and experimental time for sure. Way more stuff was weird in a good way. Standards hadn’t settled. All kinds of fun stuff was created in Flash that could not have been built with the standardized web tech of the day. I don’t rea
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by dpark 4mo ago
Oncologists are actually way more specific than even that. Because there are many forms of breast cancer and different treatments depending on the type. But yeah, oncologists aren’t telling people “you have cancer” the way they might say “y
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by dpark 4mo ago
I agree with you about the media. Cancer is often presented as a monolithic thing by the media. I don’t agree at all about experts. Doctors and scientists who research cancers do not lack nuance.
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by dpark 4mo ago
It seems relevant here because the question was “How will this potentially help me if I get cancer?” and the answer is “Not at all unless you get a particular form of cancer that this applies to”. > Bacteria are also all different, but
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by dpark 4mo ago
> By the end of the project, we wrote nearly four times as many lines of test code as we wrote for the Swift interpreter itself. This is the most interesting bit to me. Engineers consistently underestimate the amount of effort that tes
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by dpark 4mo ago
If you start with a fire hose of literal sewage and install a series of filters culminating in a reverse osmosis step that pours clean drinking water out, the product is not shit even if the original input was. I don’t believe that you can’
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by dpark 4mo ago
A human child is born with no ability to speak intelligibly. All they can do is babble. Through years of training they gain the ability to speak intelligibly and communicate in advanced ways. The act of successful training means it’s not ga
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by dpark 4mo ago
> but neither would I have kept him in my team Let’s be honest, though. That’s firing from your team.
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by dpark 4mo ago
> trained over time So not random. > acceptable outcome to humans And not garbage. It’s real weird to see people argue that LLM output is no different than random gibberish and then handwave over the fact that it’s clearly not wit
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by dpark 4mo ago
> The point is that it's the same process Except it’s not at all the same process. The fact that LLM are non deterministic is not the same as churning out random garbage.
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by dpark 4mo ago
I disagree with you in principle. I think a town that accepts a donation of land for a specific purpose should be as bound as anyone else to the terms of the deed. In practical terms, it’s not clear that an entity with the power of imminent
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by dpark 4mo ago
You call this a rumor at the top of your comment. It’s all hearsay and you can’t really criticize people for assuming something different than you assume. There’s no factual information here to discuss.
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by dpark 4mo ago
1. void * is a type 2. The functions in question here operate on raw memory. void * conveys the same information as byte *. It’s not untyped vs typed. It’s two different types that convey the same information but require slightly differen
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by dpark 4mo ago
> later on it's not that easy to understand which shape it should have in the specific conditional branch you're trying to fix This is not idiomatic C. I have no doubt that someone (likely many someones) have written a functi
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by dpark 4mo ago
All pointers in C/C++ can point to “nothing”. Swapping “void *” for “byte *” is basically an aesthetic choice.
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by dpark 4mo ago
> whereas with std::span you get more of a hint what's going on just based on the type You don’t if it’s a span of bytes (or equivalent). Encoding the length in a span is a meaningful thing. But the fact that it holds a random mem
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by dpark 4mo ago
> instead of no type, as is normal in Ruby, or `void `, which is the C equivalent* “void *” is not the equivalent of “no type” from Ruby. “void *” says “I operate on raw memory”. It says exactly the same thing as “byte *”. For sure you
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by dpark 4mo ago
You’re really citing a mess in a Ruby code base caused by lack of typing as evidence for why void * is problematic in C/C++? These are so wildly different cases that the comparison isn’t meaningful. This is like saying you should wear
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by dpark 4mo ago
You ended up getting a fresh grad because you asked for 4+ years of experience both broad and deep. 150-200k is probably reasonable for a new grad in the bay (not certain what starting salaries there are now) but not for what you actually a
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by dpark 4mo ago
> Some people genuinely go online just to complain. This is literally you in this thread.
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by dpark 4mo ago
I don’t know why you’re so uncharitable toward someone who holds a different opinion than you. The idea that someone needs to research device dimensions in order to share their personal experience with foldables is a bit much. Instead of ac
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by dpark 4mo ago
People beat the hell out of cables. People yank on cables to unplug instead of the connectors, wad them up in the bottom of a bag and drop books on them, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever had an Apple cable fail, all the way back to the 30 pin.
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by dpark 4mo ago
Or maybe they haven’t held the very latest. The 6 was notably thicker.
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by dpark 4mo ago
You don’t see an excess of workers because the compensation was too low. Your requirements were such that you were realistically competing with Meta and Google offers for $400k+ and $200k was your max possible compensation.

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