esalman

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by esalman 2mo ago
Recently watched a podcast featuring Bob Martin. He uses coding agents to measure and reduce cyclomatic complexity of the generated code. Not something I tried myself yet.
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by esalman 2mo ago
I was skeptical at first but these days I use Gemini on Android phone and Android Auto, search AI summary, and lately Gemma 4 a lot. Skepticism is still needed though. The other day I asked Gemini while driving if there's a HoV lane go
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by esalman 2mo ago
GTA 5 online, probably.
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by esalman 2mo ago
I've heard people promoting LLM to use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English with some improvement.
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by esalman 2mo ago
While you're at it, give AI to the 3 employees and they will do the work of 30 /s
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by esalman 2mo ago
Football world cups are always entertaining. There are always big upsets, big fairy tales, and big controversies. I have been watching them live since 1994 when I was in 4th grade. This world cup was also entertaining. But it also left some
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by esalman 2mo ago
Americans (Kushner et al.) looked at an opportunity to make money and found a willing ally in Infantino, and they took it. I am Asian. Our country FA is corrupt as hell too. The way I read this, FIFA needs a yes from roughly half of the mem
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by esalman 2mo ago
It just means AI does not share the ethics or values that we have. It knows that many people cheat, take shortcuts, and become successful by doing so, so it's just doing that.
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by esalman 3mo ago
I think you're vastly overestimating Anthropic. After they switched tooling from Microsoft to Anthropic at work, I switched to Gemma 4 and Opencode. I've been in this industry for two decades now, I think I understand the risk of
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by esalman 3mo ago
> have only an enthusiast's understanding of rockets and physics, so I'm genuinely open-minded to the possibility. I used to be open minded too but lost all sense of credibility in anything Elon Musk touches when he called nan
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by esalman 3mo ago
This. If I didn't pirate movies and games and Windows and apps when I was young, I probably wouldn't be in a position to pay for multiple streaming and Xbox subscription now.
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by esalman 3mo ago
It's such a shame. OnePlus have been developer-unfriendly for a while and alienated their most loyal customers. I still think their phones provide best bang for the buck performance- even at $700-800 considering the current smartphone
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by esalman 3mo ago
I have used click/typer packages to build some python-based CLI programs. It's easy and user-friendly way to build, but the amount of time it takes for python to start the environment followed by the actual program to do anything
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by esalman 3mo ago
I think flying apache helicopters to salute a musician at his home or beachgoers on 4th of July counts as waste, and are not really important to anybody. So are the remodeling of reflecting pool and ballroom construction.
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by esalman 3mo ago
Thanks to Facebook I am finding out that those people I grew up with and had connections have become assholes and would behave like one in public forums, even at the matured age of 40+. No thank you.
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by esalman 3mo ago
I went to our pediatric ophthalmologist's office yesterday. There was another young person in the room, and our doctor asked if we mind if she's scribing. When leaving I commented that I like that the doctor is using a human scrib
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by esalman 4mo ago
For deriving work/energy, yes. Once you factor in time rate, you're deriving power.
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by esalman 4mo ago
W=F.s
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by esalman 4mo ago
This. And it's not just the Russian oligarchs. In 2024 a corrupt government was toppled in Bangladesh. In subsequent investigations it was revealed that just one member of the cabinet had bought more than 200 luxury properties across U
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by esalman 4mo ago
Original comment is correct, it's not momentum. Work (hence, energy) is integral of force over distance, momentum is integral over time. There's not "sorta" about high school physics.
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by esalman 4mo ago
Is this why you're in the minority?
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by esalman 4mo ago
Unrelated but the animated photo of the magician performing a shuffle really shows how advanced, efficient, and deliberate our limbs are. I randomly came across a 1979 bbc documentary on "Word Processors" on YouTube yesterday. Eve
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by esalman 4mo ago
Indeed, according to Cursor leaderboard there were folks committing 200k-300k lines of code every month. And here I am intentionally slowing myself down manually approving every AI generated code change and terminal command.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I work at a 20k-employee company with footprint in tech. A couple of weeks ago a decision was made to not renew Cursor license. This week it was made public and has been greeted with groans. Some employees have been publicly saying how inef
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by esalman 4mo ago
Mainly they admitted that they lost substantial amount of subscribers when they hiked game pass prices last year. They also gave away free Xbox consoles to attendees at Xbox fanfest.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I didn't create an Apple ID. The MacBook is from work and I use AD account to access it.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I have used a Windows OS almost every day of my life since 1999 or so. Last December I had a choice and switched to MacOS for work laptop. Since then I seldom use Windows and I don't really regret. I still use an Xbox almost every day
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by esalman 4mo ago
For me, investing in hardware seems to be the way to go. I learned coding nearly 24 years ago and still learning new stuff all the time. At no point in time I had to rely on a subscription model to learn and do new stuff. If LLM and agents
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by esalman 4mo ago
150k-200k base offered to a fresh grad for some python and low-level, data intensive work. Really shocking.
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by esalman 4mo ago
I did not post the full job description word for word to not doxx myself. But the job description explicitly mentioned that anyone with the right aptitude should apply, don't have to qualify for every requirement. We hired a recent gra

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