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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
It has some value when you want to do sketchy things -- oh my AI ate my commit. /s BTW I'm glad MSFT is aggressively pushing AI into VSCode. Maybe they will destroy VSCode in the process, just like Windows -- or at least give othe
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
If you want to make money, IT is still one of the best fields out there for people without much of a connection. It is also one of the fields that does have very complex systems. OS kernels, distributed database engines, AAA game engines, y
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
You can do the same with so many clients.
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
Are we already in the time, or close to the time, that well-trained LLMs are more efficient in finding security holes than all but the best developers out there, even for OS kernel code? Can someone educate me on this?
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
Oh I do agree with that. It's just my interest is on another field so I can be confident to say that I didn't write it.
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
This genuinely looks like that I wrote it...until I saw that LISP line, definitely not me. But do agree with a lot of items in the list, and I happen to be a DE, too.
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
Everyone eventually wants to be a landlord and a banker (essentially a debt landlord).
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
If any poisoning proved to be partially useful, then companies will train on reliable sources that they took years before large scale poisoning starts, and host the model in internal websites so that it can also train on internal data. This
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by ferguess_k 6mo ago
I used to do some fossil digging in an abandoned brick factory, where people have open access to layers and layers of shale rock rich of invertebrate animals. I thought it could be a useful hobby to teach my son about Geology in general and
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Databricks Outage(status.databricks.com)
2 points by ferguess_k 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
What a surprise! I guess they didn't pay enough protection money. Still, better than nothing.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Nowadays I think grinding is just a big part of the project. Like the ancient Chinese wisdom that says half of the road is the first 90% and the other half is the last 10%. I guess by saying grinding you also meant 1) how the engineers were
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, and especially the "So What" from the professor. I guess a lot of the engineers (described in the book) did feel "So What" at the end of a big project, especially one as grinding as the Eagle, bu
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Looking at the things he needs to juggle at the same time, is it really reasonable? Any standard we are referring here? Sure such cases are rare but that's why we have redundancies for critical positions.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
It is just like anything in the world, that has a path to complete. I'm just saying that no one can stop it from completing its path. I don't know what the end consists of, or what exactly the path consists of, but nothing too goo
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Can say the same for control characters in terminals. I even think maybe it's just easier to ditch them all and use QT to build a "terminal" with clickable urls, something similar to what TempleOS does.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
These are just made up numbers. In our team, PR review is always 1 minute -- we never review, just approve, and let production reviews. /s
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
I don't really think it (late Capitalism) is reversible in anyway. It is better to just let it completes its path, turn a new page and maybe we can start from scratch. A lot of people (you and me) are going to suffer and die. But human
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Same reason I always wonder whether I should go for an electrician/mechanic/avion mechanic education if I'm laid off (and cannot find a job). I'm really not a handyman -- quite the opposite -- it took me and my father 30
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
For young people out there, it is better to build a desktop gig instead of a laptop. You can't change much in a laptop, unless it is some legacy laptops, but definitely not a Mac. Parents should help their kids to build a 16GB Linux gi
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Why are we eliminating our own job and maybe hobby so eagerly? Whatever. It is done.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
The problem of the current situation is that even 5% is considered as a high interest for many people, if not most of them. Inflation already pushes up the base price, and if the interest rate keeps on 5% and above many people simply won&#
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
I think that's the purpose of that "flag" button. And that's good enough.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
I do. But I haven't found a use of it, yet. I don't even have a ham radio. I guess I just impulsively got a license and that was it. For people who don't use radio for communication (chat), what do you do? I guess it's u
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
What do you mean that Cursor is dead? We are using it, and I see more companies jumping to use it.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
However, the shape is there. And no one knows how good the thing is going to be after X months. We are measuring months here, not even years. I believe there is a theoretical cap about the capability of LLM. I'm wondering what does it
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Other than it brings food to the table and pays back debts, no. I would rather losing sleep hacking ancient Linux kernel with the help of ChatGPT, knowing that exactly one person is going to use what I code.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
I kinda feel the year 2027 is going to be self-fulfilling.
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Yeah I think there are a couple of advantages of a Macbook versus a Dell mobile workstation. it is definitely lighter and more pleasant got general use. I'm only concerned that modern apps usually take amount of RAMs that are close to
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by ferguess_k 7mo ago
Do you think the RAM is too weak while the CPU is too strong for the use case? Like, with just 8GB RAM it can't do much that needs that kind of CPU. And with the same price point I can easily get a refurbished 16/32GB Dell mobile

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