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by ericmcer 1y ago
Cool of you to post here, and congrats on having an article blow up like this. Substack commenters are maybe not as in the trenches? I don't understand how an engineer could use AI every day and feel threatened. The leap that would hav
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Why does the chart stop at 2020. There are so many "reports" now that show from 2020-2025 and act like some insane change has occurred when using the insanity of 2020-2021 as a baseline. Extend the chart back to 2000ish so we can
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I was teaching my dog to bark less, and I worried a bit that it might make him sit silently when I actually want him to bark, like if a stranger was coming through the window. After a ton of training I realized he will never stop barking, h
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by ericmcer 1y ago
This is a rare case where the leak is so egregious he could actually reach out to all the users themselves to let them know. Especially the ones with passport info.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Yeah this article is dumb, it is asserting that: Interest rates will never come back down, and AI is the last VC funded tech craze that will happen. There is no way both of those are even remotely true.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Yeh that seems problematic because you no longer have access to the render loop, you are letting React manage your render loop which seems kinda problematic for a game where you want very granular control over what happens each iteration, f
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Sweet spot for me was cursor for autocomplete/editing and manually using Claude for more deep dive questions. I cant go back to a regular IDE after being able to tab my way through most boilerplate changes, but anytime I have Cursor do
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by ericmcer 1y ago
it isn't that hard, but also fiddling with python versions is something I don't mind sinking 2 hours into at work but can't tolerate doing for 10 minutes with my free time.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Seriously Cursor (using Claude 3.5) does this all the time. It ends up with a pile of junk because it will introduce errors while fixing something, then go in a loop trying to fix the errors it created and slap more garbage on those. Becaus
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by ericmcer 1y ago
That seems like the sensible take, offshoring all manufacturing does not seem smart long term, but Trump is recklessly smashing things while stretching the powers of the executive branch.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
People are willing to trade performance/size for convenience. Writing your application using Electron + React means it is going to probably ship a > 500mb app that will suck up 500mb ram while running, but you have a much easier dev
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by ericmcer 1y ago
The app itself is probably much bigger than 250mb. If it is using Electron and React/other JS library like a million other UIs just the dependencies will be almost that big.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
This is a great point, I was just using it understand various DMV procedures. It is invaluable for navigating bureaucracy so if your job is to ingest and regurgitate a bunch of documents and procedures you may be highly at risk here. That i
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by ericmcer 1y ago
that is what i said....
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by ericmcer 1y ago
Just add rate limiting, a single line in nginx and most server libraries would cover this. More sophisticated attackers (using multiple IP, hiding fingerprints) aren't going to bother with a site like this (probably lol) The code that
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by ericmcer 1y ago
He's surprised that essentially a while loop was all it took to skew his results? Of course that is all it takes to hammer an unprotected API. I would almost blame whoever abuses the API rather than him for not protecting something mad
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by ericmcer 1y ago
It depends on how you answer the question "why are we here?" Is the goal is to create an earthly utopia with minimum suffering and maximum happiness? Is it aggressive progress so that we can't be wiped out by a random cosmic
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by ericmcer 1y ago
We do seem to imbue the greek & roman writers with a more serious tone then they might have had. I was reading some of Ovid's Metamorphosis while waiting for someone else. I turned to a random page and it was an action packed descr
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by ericmcer 1y ago
I loaded calls this afternoon, two months out so I am not too scared. I figure regardless of tariffs and competition and other fluctuations the demand for computing power will endlessly trend upwards and as much as we can produce will be co
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by ericmcer 1y ago
If the procedures got so good that a trans woman/man was indistinguishable from one born that way who would still object to them claiming the gender they choose, most of the arguments fall apart at that point.
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by ericmcer 1y ago
It makes sense for our industry, a bad economy means vast layoffs and a terrible job market in tech. A tech worker who graduated and entered the market in 2012 could easily retire in their 40s with millions. One who graduated in 2022 is goi
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by ericmcer 1y ago
So should we let people under 18 legally buy cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana? We definitely shouldn't monitor kids school attendance either. The parents should be the ones who regulate all those things right? You probably don't
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by ericmcer 1y ago
That was way different. Finding a specific album from a specific band that you like and engaging with it is much different than being plugged into a nonstop 24/7 flood. People are listening to podcasts, audiobooks, or algorithm derived
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I agree, isn't most selling online nowadays? This also doesn't make sense because buying shoes from Nike.com costs roughly the same as Footlocker. Is Nike taking that 50% cut in this case? Article definitely hand waves away a ton
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Anecdotal also but I sometimes sleep alone in my office (have a futon) where it is very quiet. I usually feel fully rested after 6 hours in there versus 8 hours in bed with wife, dog and the cat occasionally coming through. I wish culturall
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Yeh use native inputs unless you absolutely need a custom one.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
What would you have done differently? They were dependent on SL (which is a facebook source control system written in C) but the user had overwritten the expected path with a shell script. That is not something most engineers would build ar
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't think LLMs can achieve "understanding" in that sense.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
There was a project posted here awhile ago with something similar, but the light was larger and he positioned it outside a fake window with a curtain across it.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I am inclined to agree, but I was saying a similar thing in 2023 when the job market started to tank. Now we are 2 years later and it is similar, maybe a little better but definitely not a return to pre-2022 levels. It might end up being a

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