frankie_t

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by frankie_t 2mo ago
For CS, as in "fundamentals that are behind what a typical programmer deals with every day" there is a good resource: https://teachyourselfcs.com/ .
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by frankie_t 2mo ago
Yes, all that and more. It doesn't feel to me like cheats are available, it feels like a cheater has entered the game and there is no point in taking the game seriously anymore. I heavily invested into dream of learning throughout all
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by frankie_t 2mo ago
Same here. FWIW, you can still absolutely do it, just like you can weave your own fabric. You probably won't be able to monetize it though, as it won't give you as much edge in the workspace anymore. It's just a thing to do i
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
It isn't always just phone. If you are in a "bad" state, you'll find something else to ease it. And it's often hardly more productive than doomscrolling: just brooding, switching between activities rapidly, or drows
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
Overall, I agree, especially the unplugging part. It's just optimizing for time doesn't really apply in my case. I can carve some time in the evening, but if I spent energy at work, I can hardly learn much. But, some things like d
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
It's a very common thing to blame the lack of time and "finding" the extra time by suggesting to give up phone or some other form of procrastination. But in my experience, time is almost never a problem. It's usually: -
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
Do you (or anyone else) have a good resource for learning systems thinking? I might have some from working in SE and just observing the world, but I've never studied it
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
I think AI backlash has less to do with the tech itself and more with its broader impact on society in the current system, if it delivers a quarter of its promises. Those doing the backlashing feel that they are going to lose much more than
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by frankie_t 3mo ago
I quit news from around 2015 to around 2019 and it was the best period of my life in terms of productivity, clarity of mind. Of course, other things also were a factor, like I routinely would go offline for days or even weeks, only using my
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by frankie_t 4mo ago
> AI empowers people with less to do more I could accept this, although it's not the hard truth yet. But doing is not equal to earning money. If you do more while being employed by someone else, the benefits are reaped by your emplo
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by frankie_t 4mo ago
First of all, I expect to be a loser in the socioeconomical effect the AI brings. This isn't really about the technology itself but about the political systems we have now. From the pure job perspective, I will either lose my job, or w
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by frankie_t 8mo ago
If slop doesn't get better, it would mean that at least I get to keep my job. In the areas where the remaining 10% don't matter, maybe I won't. I'm struggling to come up with an example of such software outside of one-of
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by frankie_t 8mo ago
I'm not sure what 'most apps' constituted in their case, but I've been playing all my games on Linux for the last 3 years and can't be happier. I wonder, what prevents better support for 'regular' apps? Ar
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by frankie_t 9mo ago
Just like the pro-AI articles, it reads to me like a sales pitch. And the ending only adds to it: the author invites to hire companies to contract him for training. I would only be happy if in the end the author turns out to be right. But a
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by frankie_t 1y ago
It is true, but it's also not the case. The steep learning curve is flattened quite a bit by available "starter pack" configs and the amount of fresh articles. So you can get a functional editor and then gradually bend it to
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by frankie_t 1y ago
> lags behind in features of modern editors I have been using emacs for around 7 years, but it never worked for me as the main editor, it just sucked too bad compared to IDE-like features of other editors and actual IDEs. So I only used
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by frankie_t 1y ago
My morale is extremely low. But I have different circumstances: I live under war, with my future life perspectives unknown. Software engineering, apart from being enjoyable, provided the sense of security. I felt that I could at least eithe
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by frankie_t 1y ago
Sorry for writing something a bit tangential, I'm mostly replying to the heading not the content. I keep seeing the same point that argues against how "not fun, depressing, worse a <thing> has gotten these days". The mo
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by frankie_t 1y ago
There is a parallel to this Celtic imitations that is found primarily in modern Ukraine[1], attribute to Cherniakhov culture[2]. The theory for them is that once the trade with Roman Empire ceased, the locals needed bigger supply of coins a
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by frankie_t 1y ago
Maybe it's my learning limitations, but I find it hard to follow explanations like these. I had similar feelings about encapsulation explanations: it would say I can hide information without going into much detail. Why, from whom? How
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I wonder if doing classical processing of real-time data as a pre-phase before you feed into NN could be beneficial?
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by frankie_t 2y ago
If you use a type like `map[string]any` then yes, it's going to be the same as Context. However, you can make a struct with fields of exactly the types you want. It won't propagate to the third-party libraries, yes. But then again
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by frankie_t 2y ago
The author gave a pretty good reasoning why is it a bad idea, in the same section. However, for the demonstration purposes I think the they should have included their vision on how the request scoped data should be passed. As I understand t
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by frankie_t 2y ago
can you elaborate on typing out for didactic purposes, please?
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by frankie_t 2y ago
Sounds like a good advice. Unfortunately, my feelings tell me otherwise. What is it that we humans are better at? Is it a chore of managing people, sitting on meetings and aligning stakeholders' interests? Feels to me more like a polit
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by frankie_t 2y ago
Frankly, HN has moderate with the amount of AI spam compared to other technical sources I happen to brief through. And comments often are refreshing in keeping the hype mood somewhat down.
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I bought a used one, the battery life is quite sorry. It can live for maybe 2h using their linux with powertop improvements. Maybe linux is part of the problem and windows would perform better (heard an argument that linux driver writers ar
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I've used both of the languages previously for my own fun and private mini-projects. From a perspective of an clueless outsider, OCaml was so, so much better to start with than Haskell. I've always been fascinated with Haskell, bu
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I had to buy an Ecoflow river 2 max because of outages, it was quite good for some time. But as it turned out you have to fully discharge and charge it back every 6 months (if you don't do it, you lose the warranty). I didn't do i
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by frankie_t 2y ago
I guess it's a matter of taste, for me reading the generics and big picture first is more important than the details. Maybe it's my programming skills, but my files start with some five or ten string manipulation utilities and hel

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