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by ern 10mo ago
I firmly believe that the heuristics that teachers/lecturers/instructors worldwide use to avoid engaging with reams of mundane text have been successfully by LLMs, and that's why they were so hostile to them initially. They h
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by ern 10mo ago
The relief second officer basically pulled up when the stall protection had been disabled and by the time the other pilot and captain realized what was happening it was too late to save the plane. There is a design flaw though: the sidestic
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by ern 11mo ago
By "publicize" I meant making sure the consequences were well known within the fighter pilot community.
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by ern 11mo ago
Making sure that the consequences are well-publicized also has the useful side-effect of making sure that ejection is regarded as a last resort.
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by ern 11mo ago
This is the exact sort of performative garbage that LLMs are great for. I had to do an electrical install, but the installer felt that the code required additional work (I don't think he was trying to rip us off, he sincerely believed
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by ern 1y ago
I get a feeling that there are a lot of people trying to minimize this incident for some reason.
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by ern 1y ago
This “manager” vs “leader” thing is slightly overdone in general. A manager who doesn’t lead will end up the issues raised in the article. A leader who can’t manage will face administrative chaos.
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by ern 1y ago
Angular was bigger than react until 2018/19-ish in the enterprisey places I worked at.
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by ern 1y ago
Maybe I'm stupid, but as I recall, React hooks were quite complicated. It's been a few years since I wrote production front-end code, but it felt like some kind of high IQ/elitist barrier.
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by ern 1y ago
I've seen clips on Reddit where animals are harmed for engagement. Usually "nature is brutal" type clips, where one animal kills another. I mean nature is brutal, but typing down an animal to be consumed by another isn't
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by ern 1y ago
I have 4 cameras, a home security system, a remotely monitored smoke detector, a smart plug, 4 leak sensors, smart bulbs, a car whose location and state of charge I can track remotely, a smart garage door opener, a smart doorbell, and 7 sma
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by ern 1y ago
I don't know how the social engineering happened, beyond what's mentioned in the article as a possibility (calling helpdesks). But there's a ton of corporate information that's widely available for exploitation. LinkedIn
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by ern 1y ago
I think that's because it's been heavily monetized (YouTube, social media in general, books, products).
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by ern 1y ago
I liked Claude Code when I used it initially to document a legacy codebase. The developer who maintains the system reviewed the documentation, and said it was spot-on. But the other day I asked it to help add boundary logging to another leg
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by ern 1y ago
I think lead is nasty stuff, but if it was the single cause of high crime, surely we'd see a similar effect in other domains, like a rebound effect on IQs (another thing lead was blamed for)? Instead the Flynn Effect seems to have been
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by ern 1y ago
Good one....I put it into Claude with a prompt to not change the meaning but make it more normal
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by ern 1y ago
Frameworks can help in many cases, especially for complex or high-scale apps. But in simple CRUD apps, particularly in consulting environments, they often add more complexity than value. I've seen this play out repeatedly. A company ne
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by ern 1y ago
I agree. Having seem enormous amounts of effort wasted on implementing fancy web apps by Digital-first consultancies (they reject BAs, but substitute designers) in the B2B space, I think there does need to be more education for the people w
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by ern 1y ago
Australia effectively scrapped this sort of visa in 2024 because it wasn't bringing the expected benefits. The UK did a similar thing because of it being exploited by oligarchs. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-aust
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by ern 1y ago
If decent water testing kits were widely available...or even water analyzers on the outlets, more people might be more confident drinking tap water. But I suppose there isn't much incentive to push people in that direction.
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by ern 1y ago
I suspect it's that they build excellent ICE vehicles, and were quick to go to hybrids but missed the rise of EVs. Everything we're seeing is a rearguard action to protect their ICE business.
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by ern 1y ago
The use of latin doesn't help either. "Cytoplasmic net" (or better yet "plasma net") is a lot easier to understand, visualise and remember than "endplasmic reticulum".
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by ern 1y ago
Absolutely, I do appreciate that addition — I definitely had teachers like that. It’s probably why, when I got to university and tackled subjects like probability theory, discrete math, and theoretical CS, I did extremely well — they weren’
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by ern 1y ago
I can really relate to your experience, even though mine was from a parent's perspective rather than as a teacher. I found a similar thing when tutoring one of my children in trigonometry. The way the material was being presented in sc
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by ern 1y ago
Vogue, Metro, Cosmopolitan, the i newspaper, the Express, Hello!, the Telegraph, the Daily Star, the Daily Mail and the Sun Many of those media outlets are known for being low quality, with the exception possibly of the Telegraph. I fee
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by ern 1y ago
I think the crux of this post is spot-on: we’re nowhere near a “post-developer” era. LLMs are great accelerators, but they still need a competent human in the loop. That said, I do think he understates how much the value of certain develope
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by ern 1y ago
I see AI like the reading glasses I’ll soon need — not because I can’t think clearly, but because it helps cut through things faster when my brain’s juggling too much. A few years ago, I’d have quietly filed this kind of article under “too
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by ern 1y ago
Maybe I’m not smart enough, or too tired to decode these metaphors, so I plugged the essay into ChatGPT and got a clear explanation from 4o.
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by ern 1y ago
I tested that prompt with multiple chatGPT models, Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Deepseek and all mentioned the red queen. Just saying.
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by ern 1y ago
You’re assuming that the person interviewing you can distinguish between those eye movements. That’s a big assumption.

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