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by ern 2y ago
I decided to throw in the towel on frontend dev when I was forced to translate wireframes from a UX designer into pixel-perfect CSS (on a safety and time-critical project where the site was going to be used by back-office staff only, you&#x
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Corporate values. Drew the short straw, but had to present something.
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I consider myself to be fairly senior, and use it all the time for learning new things. I work with some brilliant senior developers who lean on it heavily, but I do think it doesn't mesh with the cognitive styles of many.
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The difference is that with a chat interface you can ask it questions, you can brainstorm with it, you can drill down into specific concepts and you can do it any language/framework, without waiting for a tutorial to be written for it.
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I think that one of the reasons there's a surprising amount of pushback because a lot of developers don't like the sort of collaborative, unstructured workflow that chat-oriented tools push onto you. I once worked with someone who
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Can it do meaningful PowerPoint work Yes, it absolutely can. I threw together a PowerPoint presentation with a script for a low-value, high visibility meeting a couple of weeks ago with ChatGPT 4.0 and a PowerPoint plugin. Everyone loved
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I recently needed to help a downstream team with a problem with an Android app. I never did mobile app dev before, but I was able to spin up a POC (having not coded in Java for 22 years) and solve the problem with the help of ChatGPT 4.0. S
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by ern 2y ago
The "tiny island" schtick is part of the British mythos, I believe.
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It's one of the many reasons we have the saying, "Don't roll your own crypto. I remember when this saying referred to people rolling their own cryptography algorithms. When did it become about not doing your own auth? (I ag
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I’ve generally gotten that vibe from most of these threads. No I haven’t used it, but I can say that ChatGPT 4.0 has been a huge helping me tutoring one of my children in math. We previously had college students tutoring him, and it turned
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This is mostly because mid-level dev needs to justify their existence in order to not get laid off or PIP and is worried about losing their H1B and having to uproot their entire family in 60 days notice. Hyper-optimized, hard-to-read code
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You make an interesting point. I once worked with someone who was brilliant, but had gotten into the field via a math degree, and we were building an enterprise-software product. We tried pair-programming, and he cracked within a few minute
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What we do know is that ev sales have taken a dive "A record 1.2 million U.S. vehicle buyers chose to go electric last year, according to estimates from Kelley Blue Book, a Cox Automotive company. More specifically, 1,189,051 new ele
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Article reads as overly dismissive of safety measures as well. Seems to be implying that measures to prevent construction workplace accidents are driving the cost up, for example.
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Spoiler alert: it was a shelter for people moving herds between oases, and doesn’t seem to have had a permanent population.
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Microsoft decided to release .NET 8 without support for InProcess Function Apps. After a few months of radio silence, they have finally acknowledged that they were working towards support at some point before .NET 6 hits end of life later t
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When did HN turn nasty?
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This is the law in many parts of the world, and their economies seem to have not collapsed. Haney thinks the bill is already being misconstrued and said that it would only require that companies be transparent about their expectations for
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FTA: Haney thinks the bill is already being misconstrued and said that it would only require that companies be transparent about their expectations for working hours. Employers would still have the freedom to dictate their policy, which co
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(2020)
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Maybe that was the case pre-pandemic, but I shelled out for Business Class on a long-haul international flight, and it was worth it, and I'm not the only one: https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/travel/pointy-
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by ern 3y ago
Wikipedia seems to have a growing contingent of editors from countries like India, the Phillipines and Sri Lanka who edit topics that seemingly have little to do with those countries. To establish their credentials, they get involved in arc
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For practical purposes in this case it’s immediate right?
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There is a shocking percent of internet users -- I'd estimate 20% -- that cannot reliably tell you their email address (5% that literally can't, and another 15 that can't reliably). My email address is firstname.midddlename
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the difference hasn’t been significant so far for the low-scoring recruits brought in last year. Overall, 11.4% of those recruits didn’t finish boot camp, compared to less than 6.5% of the high-scoring sailors. I was watching a documentar
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As much as many people want alternatives to JavaScript, there are also people who consider themselves JavaScript experts (or the various related languages like TypeScript). They’ve invested a ton of time and effort into getting to where the
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To be fair, in much of the world, American and European cars (Peugeot, Renault, BMW, Audi, modern Mercedes Benz, VW, Volvo etc) don't have a great reputation either.
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Most serious nasal congestion sufferers would have been wary of phenylephrine for some years. I feel uncomfortable asking for pseudoephedrine by name, but I do so anyway, because my doctor told me that phenylephrine was hopeless 15 years ag
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He seems to punch down on airline staff. In this video he picks on a deadheading crewmember presumably because she was sitting next to him and didn’t want him to record: https://youtu.be/gJPtwy7gAgM?si=j6xsLJVley7hYllA
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I found a similar video from the same creator on an airline called Vistara: https://youtu.be/gJPtwy7gAgM?si=j6xsLJVley7hYllA The same sort of “they tried take my video down” and “the staff emailed me”. It seems to be his s

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