flimsypremise

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by flimsypremise 3y ago
It is quite literally copying and pasting from StackOverflow, and any other code that it has been trained on. I think you're underestimating exactly how much code there is out there, and the degree to which most of it is boilerplate. H
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
Its not reasoning and solving problems. It's a statistical model. It gives the appearance of reasoning and solving problems, but the second you start asking it to solve problems that aren't in its training database it gives you no
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
You could just copy this and paste it for any "no-code" solution. Beyond a certain degree of complexity and customizability, engineers are always required. You can't just create configurable automation for everything, because
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by flimsypremise 3y ago
I keep seeing people claim that no one offers alternatives to live coding in interviews, but not only does the author provide an alternative (take home coding test/project), there are obviously many alternatives to live coding. I'
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
I'd say one of the big annoyances I've encountered while building applications with the last few versions of NextJS is the increasingly tight integration with the built-in server. The world of Node servers is pretty well-establish
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
My sense of Vercel (mostly from working with NextJS) is that they are more interested in appearing to support an open source framework while making their product as difficult to interoperate with other technologies as possible in an attempt
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
The big benefit of something like a pi is that it offers the flexibility of a linux-bootable computer with the IO pin interface of an MCU. That being said, maybe there's a cheap, easy way to get a GPIO interface on a NUC? I know there
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
You do realize that the bulk of the US population lives in the top 100 metropolitan areas? That's probably why it was chosen as a metric.
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
pretty much all of these seem very normal and i'm actually shocked starbucks doesn't already have them in place. you can work 32 hours at a starbucks and not be considered full time? starbucks doesn't supply fresh aprons to e
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
there is absolutely no way that these guys are 100x as valuable as the people how actually build the product. if larry page and sergei brin's search engine hadn't won out, someone else's would have. these guys are all just av
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
I wonder if this would work on the A versions of these machines with the monochrome displays.
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by flimsypremise 4y ago
What you are describing is a smart, but very junior engineer. As smart engineers gain experience they stop doing this sort of thing.