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by gedy 6d ago
Well, not exactly. Many, many companies and managers think that they can replace skilled people or have unskilled monitoring them.
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by gedy 6d ago
To generalize, LLMs are great at what you are not skilled at.
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by gedy 6d ago
Maybe it’s addressed here, but LLMS will not produce better quality new code/systems/products than the persons prompting are capable of. Either by specing out in detail up front, or by a lot of interactive back and forth steering
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by gedy 7d ago
I don't disagree with your details, but I am really not sure why the alternatives (Obama, Clinton, Biden) were somehow seen as tougher on Russia? All the invasions from Crimea in 2014, and 2023 were not under Trump administrations and
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by gedy 8d ago
This is absolutely the reality. Previous company my first project was on team "improving reporting", and chasing all kinds of gnarly performance tuning to make queries and sorting faster, etc. Once we did all this after a few mo
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by gedy 12d ago
> “We made meaningful structural improvements to lay the groundwork for our Sport Offense across our team culture, innovative product, brand strength, and how we serve consumers in our countries and cities,” Hill said in the report. “Whi
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by gedy 13d ago
It's been some years but when visiting Quebec there seemed to be a noticable push to have Quebec align with the EU. I remember the Quebec and EU flags hanging on buildings, etc.
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by gedy 14d ago
> people who are non-technical can compete with those who have spent decades of time and effort to learning the crafts of their trade. I say this often, but in 25 years I have not worked with non-technical people who can design a complet
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by gedy 14d ago
I feel like this identical pitch could have been made 25 or 40 years ago talking about Internet technologies or personal computing, with very very similar warnings and suggestions. And had these been adopted then, it would have been more
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by gedy 15d ago
"Coding" is just a poor term for this, as there's so much room to weasel different meanings out of it. At every company I've worked in past 20+ years the "coders" were engineering a product from wrong or uncl
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by gedy 16d ago
Sure, but it is really interesting to think that the 50s arts and 60s youth movements as top-down "soft power" countermeasures to the USSR and communist revolutions, and that it's not so spontaneous as it's typically tho
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by gedy 17d ago
The dimensions closed seems like a weird form factor. I'd be interested in a folding iPhone (horizontal or vertical), but this seems off.
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by gedy 17d ago
It's a cultural thing, but you can do incremental PRs towards a large goal. Giant PRs that are expected to be reviewed never really seemed worth it imho.
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by gedy 18d ago
Then if you are lucky, the telescreen is in an unusual position. By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, you might be able to remain outside the range of the telescreen.
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by gedy 19d ago
Unfortunately he was a registered Democrat.
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by gedy 20d ago
Finder is really limited in many ways but it's one of the only FM that supports Miller columns, which I use quite a bit.
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by gedy 21d ago
Same here, but there’s something to be said for an advertisement that you remember clearly for 41 years ha: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan...
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by gedy 22d ago
Agreed, but reminds me of the unfortunate usage of English as the de facto global standard. Ironically funny to see computers chattering in this odd piecemeal of a language. (I am a native speaker of English) Would be interesting to see L
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by gedy 22d ago
Maybe I'm an outlier here but I moved into front end to steer products and the resultant architecture into making sense from the incomplete or contradictory "requirements" we got from product and even UX. I've been doin
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by gedy 23d ago
For the founders maybe, rarely the employees. (No not employee #2, etc)
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by gedy 24d ago
Nice post, and the only sort of 'advertising' that works for me, ha. They are out of stock unfortunately, though perhaps the pro is worth the higher price.
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by gedy 26d ago
Looks like: macOS window chrome with Windows 95 GUI controls.
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by gedy 27d ago
Sure, but it does spook some people like me where I frequently mention context in session like: "it would be better to fix this on the backend, but that is a separate team that moves VERY slowly", etc. And I don't want that
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by gedy 1mo ago
Yes I that was in reply to OP making similar point about AI
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by gedy 1mo ago
Yes exactly the same as during the Dot com bubble.
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by gedy 1mo ago
I'm not rah rah AI but this type of thing is what interests me about AI video generation. Adding a scene like this for answering a personal "what if?" is really cool.
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by gedy 1mo ago
Are you serious? That's not much to be able to live there. And for the top end no less?
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by gedy 1mo ago
https://theonion.com/laid-back-company-allows-employees-to-w...
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by gedy 1mo ago
It was the newness and surprise that the quality was as good as it was, just like images from Stable Diffusion, etc. Now that we are used to it, we notice the uncanny valley speak.
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by gedy 1mo ago
I hear this a lot, and for decades - yet during this time US debt and spending has exploded, including things like covid stimulus, great recession QE, etc. We happily printed/borrowed/etc but when it comes to social security - ge

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