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by ericmcer 1y ago
That sounds similar to what it was doing here. It basically took a function like `thing = getThing(); id = thing.id` and created `id = getThingId()` and replaced hundreds of lines and made a new API endpoint. Not a huge deal because it work
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Lol the biggest single person "company" he can think of is a newsletter. By that rational the first one-person billion dollar company will probably be a social media influencer or something.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Agreed, daily Cursor user. Just got out of a 15m huddle with someone trying to understand what they were doing in a PR before they admitted Claude generated everything and it worked but they weren't sure why... Ended up ripping about 2
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I agree that seeing the executive branch's authority continue to swell is not good for our democracy, but corporations (and specifically Apple) offshoring all their labor to developing nations has been viewed as a huge negative for ~30
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by ericmcer 1y ago
There was a guy in the sauna a few years ago bragging about how he had killed a ton of rats in his yards using poison. He said "the hawks love it they are feasting!". 0 ability to connect the full consequences of adding a bunch of
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by ericmcer 1y ago
What is this article, she answers her own question in the first paragraph. "Since I moved to Kenya why am I not still friends with people who are now 10,000 miles and 12 hours behind me." Uhhh does that required 5,000 words to fig
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I haven't lived in another country, but I have never had an issue with healthcare in the USA. It does seem like you can step on a landmine if you are negligent, but I have employer paid healthcare now and it works great. When I was low
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I had a similar situation in my early 20s. My conclusion was that past a certain point you need to use liquid sugar (soda especially) to get your body to put on weight past a certain point. Even with absurd amounts of fat, carbs and protein
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by ericmcer 1y ago
The huge SVGs are probably a side effect of Figmas export to svg and people not knowing what to look for. I have seen some crazy inefficient exports from that.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Seriously my job is relatively relaxed, but I am still losing my mind because it is just an endless stretch of 5 day weeks for... 20 years? The only version of reality where I could accept that is if I had kids and family all dependent on m
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by ericmcer 1y ago
That is one of the scariest parts of humanity. I want to cheer for Google/Windows/Apple because if they succeed in huge ways it means we cracked the formula for progress. It means if we take resources and highly educated people an
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Seriously watching Cursor (backed by Claude) go off the rails sometimes can be... frustrating. If it misses the intention behind a fix it can spin out and all of a sudden you have hundreds of lines of changes across 10 different files when
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by ericmcer 1y ago
This made me think how I constantly rethink my approach to coding and learning how to do it “right” over and over. I wonder if someone like a John Carmack is just like… yeah I got it or he also is constantly feeling like he was bad 5 years
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by ericmcer 1y ago
arent they complete trash as a database? "Show me people who have googled 'Homemade Bomb' in the last 30 days". For returning bulk data in a sane format it is terrible. If their job was to process incoming data into a st
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Looking at the example tasks in the pdf ("Sentencize wrongly splits sentence with multiple...") these look like really discrete and well defined bug fixes. AI should smash tasks like that so this is even less hopeful.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
no one in this thread is calling the tracking in this innovative. Additionally the government doesn't do anything for "free", if you make 200k a year you are paying $8k/mo or $10/hour just to live in the USA.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
WoW was amazing back when it first launched, I tried it again a year ago and everything felt on guardrails now. There was a linear set of quests that led you down an unmissable road to level up and get gear. You never were stuck with missin
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Your method is how I treated pain and it served me well for many years (including broken ankle, countless elbow/wrist/finger injuries), as soon as I could I started movement again, and for tendon injuries even decent intensity see
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Its great when they use AI to write a small app “without coding at all” over the weekend and then come in on Monday to brag about it and act baffled that tasks take engineers any time at all.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I always thought the 2 mins was to make sure fluoridated toothpaste sits on your teeth for long enough to work. Number of brushes is only one angle of why you brush.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I have been on the other end of this. I have a few Spanish tutors I pay ~$10 to chat with for 30m sessions. It is nice creating a dynamic where you can shamelessly talk about yourself without worry, because you are paying. In the rest of li
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by ericmcer 1y ago
It is insane to just confidently assert that the only factor in the decrease in crime is Lead. Treating an insanely nuanced issue as an absolute doesn't make your argument more compelling, it is actually kind of baffling.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
uhhh I can pick out a person shaped icon from a column of icons faster than the word person from a column of words
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Yeah assuming you have a billion encrypted passwords what are you even gonna do? You could try to brute force and maybe get a bunch of common/weak ones but as long as your password is like 8+ chars and fairly unique you probably wont b
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by ericmcer 1y ago
The brain is better with images once it has been trained to recognize them. Just sucks for the people that never got the training.
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Standardization is the most important feature a technology can have. Look at JS.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Thanks for mentioning voice, I prefer that to photos. Photos seems like the most complex technically. AI seems to be going heavy into text/chat and images but voice is really the perfect UI to me. I would be totally fine if I could tri
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by ericmcer 1y ago
you should probably give the article a read, my main takeaway from your post is that people love to talk about what they eat. I will remember it next time I have an awkward pause when conversing with a stranger.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
yeah this is a good point, just adjust coursework from multiple choice tests and fill in the blank homework to larger scale projects. Putting together a project using the AI help will be a very close mimicry of what real work will be like a
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I wonder if the heavy ageism was more a one time thing. The entire tech industry blew up in the late 90s early 2000s and all of a sudden 20 year olds were handed endless VC money, of course they biased towards people their age when hiring.

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