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by evantbyrne 1y ago
I see what you are saying, thank you. Personally, I would not rely on IQ scores for much, mainly because people have become increasingly specialized and I wouldn't expect specialized knowledge to translate well to a general intelligenc
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IQ scoring is routinely adjusted so that 100 represents the mean. It should be expected that IQ scores for college grads trend towards 100 as higher percentages of the population go to college. University is also not designed to maximize st
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Having a highly educated population is a major competitive advantage for a society that materializes itself in more ways than I could ever hope to enumerate. We need to bring tuition down closer to what the educational portion of it actuall
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Like I said, we can all read your comments. Needs no further elaboration. If I receive a second recommendation for Curtis then I might be inclined to check it out. Take it easy.
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You seem to be lost. While referencing a TV show may or may not be a rebuttal to a very specific kind of worldview, it is out of place as a response to my post to which you've failed to actually directly reference at all. I'm addr
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Before that quoted sentence you drew a line from the reformation to people believing that AI is inevitable, then went on to imply these people may even believe such a thing will happen without the involvement of people. These are generaliza
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To the contrary. I sped through my compsci capstone coursework first year of college and spent most of the rest of my time in philosophy, psychology, and sociology classrooms. The "hey if you squint this thing it looks like religion fo
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
I'm pretty bearish on the idea that AGI is going to take off anytime soon, but I read a significant amount of theology growing up and I would not describe the popular essays from e.g., LessWrong as religious in nature. I also would not
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There wasn't as much JS to test. I built a progressively-enhanced SQLite GUI not too long ago to refresh my memory on the methodology, and I wound up with 50-ish lines of JS not counting Turbo. Fifty. It was a simple app, but it had th
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by evantbyrne 1y ago
Public workers are more positively impactful to the operation of society than many engineers working in digital widget factories. Bureaucracy limits potential, for good reason, but doing something is still more than nothing.
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Ransomware-Resistant Backups with SQLite and GitHub Actions(evanbyrne.com)
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Sharing the backup strategy that I use for my personally website which I feel strikes a decent balance between simplicity and reliability. I'm curious what feedback that you all have, and what backup techniques that you use for SQLite.
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If you're going to be this superstitious, then you might as well lean into it and have a little fun. Better throw some herbs into the air and do a little jig for good measure. Personally, I'm going to accept that I won't be a
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The atomics are goofy, but reactor can often lead to messy code structure when you actually need sequential blocking behavior.
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> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs. The cost is a pretty obvious indication that it's nowhere near the capability of an engineer. A robotic worker that can produce code 24/7 without tiring
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Agency work seems to be a blind spot for individuals within the startup world, with many not realizing that it goes way beyond theme chop shops. The biggest companies on the planet not only contract with agencies all the time, external cont
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I grew up in a household with a professional fundraiser, so I always look up financials of nonprofits before giving or volunteering. It's shocking just how many are passive income schemes for the wealthy.
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How do you prefer to collect backups when self-hosting postgres?
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It says right on that linked page: > Aider’s polyglot benchmark tests LLMs on 225 challenging Exercism coding exercises across C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Rust. I looked up Exercism and they appear to be story problems that yo
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Are these just leetcode exercises? What I would like to see is an independent benchmark based on real tasks in codebases of varying size.
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It's worth noting this work came from a prominent internet extremist. A generous interpretation would be that it is a high-effort troll.
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It's just tooling. Costs nothing to wait for it to be better. It's not like you're going miss out on AGI. The cost of actually testing every slop code generator is non-trivial.
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Software engineering requires a fair amount of intelligence, so if these tools ever get to replacement levels of quality then it's not just developers that will be out of jobs. ARC-AGI-2, the countless anecdotes from professionals I&#x
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It makes sense that some kinds of schema optimizations are fairly esoteric, because the services most devs work on don't need them. An ORM is something you import on day one to speed up development; while rearranging tables to remove j
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I've been building one for Go in my free time, but it's not ready for general use. Historically, I've used Django despite being imperfect, because I can just install Wagtail and have a nice admin interface for free. It does h
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Could this be selection bias? I've never worked with a backend engineer that couldn't write SQL. I've worked on plenty of projects were there were bugs in hand written SQL though.
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These are important features for a database toolkit to consider. I don't think that it is fair to dismiss an entire category of libraries on the grounds of some implementations being less complete than desired though. If we applied tha
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Nah. The most prolific backend frameworks are all built on ORMs for good reason. The best ones can deserialize inputs, validate them, place those object directly into the db, retrieve them later as objects, and then serialize them again all
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And at least back when I tried it a long time ago, it wouldn't pull in updates from OSM in a timely manner. Like I updated something in OSM and a month later it still wasn't available in organic maps. Maybe it is better now?
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Sounds worthy of a blog post to me

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