frde_me

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by frde_me 9mo ago
> He had a son with severe Autism and Microsoft's health benefits were very important to him. This really sucks for him. Through should Microsoft _not_ layoff specific people due to health conditions? Is that something we require fr
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by frde_me 10mo ago
He quite literally has designed puzzles live on stream, yet you conclude he hasn't.
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by frde_me 11mo ago
Okay what we're saying is slightly different, you mean to reach a certain bar. I kind of agree to that Through the marginal improvement is still pretty high to knowing how the tools work and how to use them more effectively, in a way t
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by frde_me 11mo ago
I would argue that for all of these there's still a skill element evolved. If I give an accountant an electronic calculator and a problem to solve, they'll be more efficient than me If I give someone who spent thousands of hours o
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by frde_me 11mo ago
Has this been true for any technology, ever? In that the curve of skill to output quality will be completely flat? I would be suspicious of this claim.
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by frde_me 11mo ago
I don't think dropping a random software developer into a random project to do their open source duty would end well It takes a _lot_ of time for someone to meaningfully contribute to a project, and would just result in maintainers hav
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by frde_me 1y ago
People spent half their job figuring out self hosted infrastructure until they realized they rather just have some other company deploy their website when they make a commit.
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by frde_me 1y ago
And they do not link out to anything that even remotely validates this > Various recently published COBOL articles state the following… For all we know those articles could be LLM written blogpost spam that just happens to support what t
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by frde_me 1y ago
On the other hand, I know a lot of people who spend more time / salary messing around with their infra than the couple hundred bucks they've saved from not pressing a couple of buttons on vercel / cloudfare There's a tim
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by frde_me 1y ago
You could make this same argument about a lot of work that fall onto "engineering" teams. There's an implicit assumption that anything an engineer does is engineering (and a deeper assumption that software as a whole is worth
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by frde_me 1y ago
Then the purpose of those videos is to challenge the value of non AI generated "art" (half sarcastic, but you could make the argument that most art has no benefit besides to the person that made the art)
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by frde_me 1y ago
I know we have a lot of workloads at my company on older models no one has bothered to upgrade yet
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by frde_me 1y ago
I'm would be curious to see a summary of that conversation, since it does seem interesting
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by frde_me 1y ago
I don't know, companies investing in AI in the goal of AGI is now allowing me to effortlessly automate a whole suite of small tasks that weren't feasible before. (after all I pinged a bot on slack using my phone to add a field to
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by frde_me 1y ago
Couldn't you extend this line of thinking to any language-specific syntax on any programming language? Don't use `match`, macros, lifetimes, ... in rust, someone coming from another language without them might not get what it mean
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by frde_me 2y ago
In my opinion the tooling like sbt, scalafmt, ... is actually semi decent, but the LSP is a pain to use. The only way I'm productive on scala is on Intellij, as soon as I have to even glance at the metals LSP implementation my product
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by frde_me 2y ago
I'm confused, do you mean the animal origin had no evidence either, but was favoured? But not having evidence for 5 years suddenly makes the other theory favoured instead? So basically neither had real evidence, but one was favoured?
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by frde_me 2y ago
But the point here is not that you need to realize you typed something wrong and then cancel (in that case just don't enable the setting if you always want to abort). The point is that you need to decide if the autocorrect suggestion w
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by frde_me 2y ago
I would be curious why you think the idea of a podcast is coupled to a specific distribution technology
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by frde_me 2y ago
If every time I watched a movie with my SO they said "you do know this is completely fake, why do you even like movies?", I would probably get a bit annoyed
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by frde_me 2y ago
To be fair, it's not an unfair response. Being able to hire for a technology, and having a large community around the tech stack you use has tangible value. HTMX might not be something that will vanish in a week, but it's also now
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by frde_me 2y ago
If I follow through what you said, paper has obvious positive impact in schools, or we can at least imagine that positive impact. And so banning paper would be very likely not to result in an improvement if studied. And like any smartphone
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by frde_me 2y ago
I'm going to go to an extreme, but if we had solid research that said banning phones at school resulted in some extreme, lets say 50%, improvement in their ability to learn, would you support the ban of phones during school time? Would
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by frde_me 2y ago
You just went to where 99% of parents don't even know how to get to. Do you think it should be expected of parents to figure out how to use whatever "PiHole" is to protect their kids? I admire your personal dedication to maki
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by frde_me 2y ago
Quite honestly, as long as the UX is _actually_ improving, I'm completely fine with having to adapt. I don't want to live in a world where things stay the same just because it's comfortable. Having said that, at least 50% of
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by frde_me 2y ago
I disagree with this. The touchscreen on my phone allows for so much versatile applications than is possible with physical buttons. I really don't miss the days where applications had to retrofit their controls onto a fixed physical se
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by frde_me 2y ago
Having no kind of gatekeeping or moderation whatsoever before changes are published seems like a fantasy of another age. Nowadays, the wiki would be co-opted by some type of spam or malicious activity basically instantly.
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by frde_me 2y ago
Ya, even claude artifacts have replaced scripting for me to some extent. For example, if I need some data transformation thing "Create a web app that takes text input and does X, Y, and Z". It's correct for me 99% of the time
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by frde_me 2y ago
I'll be honest, I've never had the command line tool to setup a React / NextJS / Solid / Astro / Svelt / any framework app fail to make something that runs, ever
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by frde_me 2y ago
We had to encode a lot of videos at work once to play back to users. The resulting FFMPEG commands ended up being so complicated, every argument had about a one paragraph comment explaining it Had to try and fix a bug with that script and i

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