drw85

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by drw85 3y ago
Web dev and software dev haven't been about "what you need" for quite a while now. Most devs out there use overengineered and overcomplicated frameworks/tooling in the name of a perceived short-term boost in developer sp
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by drw85 3y ago
I think all those big corps do a lot of change for the sake of change. That's why we have so much churn in frameworks, etc. If you're not "innovating" somewhere, you're not good enough to work there. Traditional com
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by drw85 4y ago
How familiar does the following sound to you? "I've had some back pain and got prescribed opiates, now i'm addicted" We're not talking about getting some opiates after surgery or severe and mostly rare things. Ameri
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by drw85 4y ago
nice AI text.
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by drw85 4y ago
nice AI text.
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by drw85 4y ago
I think all the talk about aligning AI (which doesn't exist yet) with humans is hilarious. We can't even align ourselves in any way. Humans are all over the place, hating, fighting, killing each other and here we are babbling abo
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by drw85 4y ago
In its current state, you would be more likely to blow yourself up, due to the instructions being partially hallucinated or made up. Language models predict what to say in a way that makes sense, but a lot of the actual content can be made
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by drw85 4y ago
I think this is more semantics than useful discussion at this point. Spellcheckers for the msot part act on what you made. ChatGPT in this case is used to generate stuff, so you don't have to make it. That's a huge difference and
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by drw85 4y ago
This is exactly why those things are dangerous. You get used to them and your brain starts needing the distraction and constant empty entertainment. It's only when you stop using it for a few days/weeks, that you notice how much y
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by drw85 4y ago
I don't think so. Pictures of destroyed lungs on cigarette boxes didn't make a huge impact on smokers either, since it's not their lungs pictured. Most people are already aware of those things, but choose to ignore it.
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by drw85 4y ago
I think besides the already mentioned lack of interest from the business side to produce decent software, there is also a established UX trend of developing by metrics. I've seen a lot of software pivot away from things and remove feat
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by drw85 4y ago
I find this pursuit of a not-biased "AI" hilarious. We're all biased in many ways, so what is 'not-biased' in the first place? It depends on who you ask and that makes it impossible to achieve. The world and society
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by drw85 4y ago
I liked the earlier movies, but to me the biggest problem is that they are now all connected and thus all required to watch. I skipped a bunch of them and had no idea what was happening in the latest Avengers. There were so many charact
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by drw85 4y ago
This is just nonsense, there is tons of performance critical software. A lot that hasn't been ported to native still doesn't run properly or at all. DAWs that run on rosetta have many problems with VST plugins and performance. Jus
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by drw85 4y ago
Isn't this kind of a "point of view" thing? Backspace does add a space backwards. If there was a character there, it gets replaced with a space. :D
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by drw85 4y ago
The problem is that none of these things are actually of a high priority. So customers wanting some chips or ice cream will not pay a high enough price to actually be profitable without heavy subsidizing.
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by drw85 4y ago
That's most likely due to monitor headphones not being made for an enjoyable listening experience, but for transparency while mixing/mastering.
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by drw85 4y ago
> I agree with you and they have a right to do this; issue is; they will lose a lot of members because of this because they were so lax. That’s why it’s is common to think; it is easier to start high and discount than start low and incr
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by drw85 4y ago
I was stuck in this avoidance cycle for a while and it slowly extended to pretty much everything i was doing. From going to the supermarket, to making a phone call. Most things seemed pretty much impossible for me to do and caused anxiety
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by drw85 5y ago
To this day i haven't met a security consultant or data protection person that had any idea what they were talking about. I'm not talking about experts, but people that were appointed and got the title "Security something&quo
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by drw85 5y ago
This is exactly the problem with modern software. They don't stick to their tasks anymore, but implement all kinds of "utility"-things. The complexity and quality suffers big time, because instead of being a good piece of sof
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by drw85 5y ago
The store brand coffee at Aldi is 3.99 if i remember correctly and that's 500g. So that's definitely realistic.
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by drw85 5y ago
I agree, i also found the writing to be very "try hard" and pretty unpleasant to read. That might be because i'm not a native english speaker, though.
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by drw85 5y ago
In my case it also messes with many internal devices like webcam, USB etc. Half the time i have to reboot to make those work again.
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by drw85 5y ago
Someone that actually manages things and takes away a lot of the communication between devs and users/customers. Someone that has a broad overview of things and keeps things in line between devs in different teams, QA etc. Someone that
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by drw85 5y ago
I don't think that's true. You're a freelancer, that works for a US company. A consultant is an advisor, that should have some specific technical or domain knowledge to advise people with. In reality, everyone can call themse
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by drw85 5y ago
Love this saying and from my experience, a lot of people actually do exactly this. I've worked with many managers that used to be bad developers. Most of them were bad managers aswell. I've also worked with a few managers that wer
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by drw85 5y ago
You had fun because of a little bit of stupid jokes during loading? Did that define your experience, or was you experience defined by what you did inside of discord after the loading screen had passed? Why is all this bullshit important to
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by drw85 5y ago
They are 100% unrelated. One is a twitter thread about a Roccat Mouse driver. This one is about a security vulnerability in Razer software.
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by drw85 5y ago
I was actually shocked that a note taking app is running 15 processes in the background at all times. Wunderlist had the same problem. A todo list app that runs 10+ processes when it's not even open? WTF? I noticed the same about disco

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