dystopiandevel

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by dystopiandevel 15d ago
With the priorities disconnect between the research and engineering side, and the executives, I wonder if things like this will make them care even more about real safety on their models. It's an arms race / prisoner's dilemm
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by dystopiandevel 2mo ago
This is a great strategy. It is something I do in code reviews as a senior developer. There has been observed longer code reviews for seniors and this kind of approach keeps it manageable.
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by dystopiandevel 8mo ago
Medullary sponge kidney
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by dystopiandevel 8mo ago
It's okay, I thought it was a drug cartel
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
Congratulations, well deserved. 100x impact.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
My favorite was If it has been mass maintained by some random person in Nebraska since 2003, that is battle-tested infrastructure.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
Be assertive and transparent and then use the app. Otherwise you are just being passive aggressive.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
Two words Flipper Zero
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
I can appreciate the reasons you have for wanting it. The only problem is when it affects my hiking experience. It annoys the crap out of me to hear it coming loudly from down the path when I just want to listen to nature. Like the other co
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
How's that? VLC, GIMP, Ubuntu search and settings. Terrible. Great products, awedul UX.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
I certainly didn't. Along with the oil is more distraction from the Epstein files. Call me jaded but he has done this several times as a distraction.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
It is early in the news but I also read about the US working on directly having the nation transition. Gives me bad vibes as someone who lived through the invasion of Iraq. TBH, I am not very knowledgeable but I assume there's less sec
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
Don't be rude. Provide a thoughtful response.
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by dystopiandevel 9mo ago
This is not my experience whatsoever and someone who works 50+ weeks for big tech. Especially with decreased value for the human element in favor of AI there are now more demands than ever. Engineers have become much more expendable.
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by dystopiandevel 10mo ago
Agricultural jobs accounted for more than 80% of the preindustrial workforce. Granted you still needed people to maintain the jobs and some roles weren't entirely replaced or replaceable. I wonder how the two compare. I will say that A
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by dystopiandevel 10mo ago
Also having explicit error handling is useful because it makes transparent the possibility of not getting the value (which is common in pure functional languages). With that said I have a Go project outside of work and it is very verbose. I