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by gitgud 1y ago
There are so many closed source frameworks developed internally at large companies, for AI to be useful to those enormous customers, it needs to work on systems it wasn’t trained on…
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by gitgud 1y ago
This is a bit of an overreaction. The OP didn’t mention they were depressed, just unfulfilled. Manual labour can be quite fulfilling compared to white collar work, as progress is much clearer and it can be a nice mental break compared to an
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by gitgud 1y ago
An old fact about StackOverflow is that there’s a disproportionate amount of views compared to questions asked. Something like 1000x more views than posts/comments… I wonder if that statistic has changed over the years?…
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by gitgud 2y ago
Just used it, I thought this response was hilarious https://i.imgur.com/UqA7eHy_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=gra...
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by gitgud 2y ago
Interesting, but it seems ridiculous to disambiguate “Programmer” vs “Coder”. They’re synonymous words and mean the same thing right? Person who writes logic for machines
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by gitgud 2y ago
Yes, however there’s circumstances for when it’s most effective. For example: Large systems benefit from clear architectural patterns, whereas small systems see little benefit Performant code is often obscure and messy, it shouldn’t be forc
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by gitgud 2y ago
I don’t think that analogy works well, a subdomain that is not published is more like hiding the key to the front door in the garden somewhere… does a fine job of keeping the house secure until someone finds it…
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by gitgud 2y ago
There’s no correct way in FOSS… that’s kinda the point
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by gitgud 2y ago
> The next generation of programmers will grow up expecting AI to do the hard parts for them. This is the opposite of what I’ve seen. AI does the easy parts, only the hard parts are left…
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by gitgud 2y ago
That's why it should be the browsers & OS's that enforce such privacy measures... it shouldn't be an option that my Grandma needs to enable...
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by gitgud 2y ago
It actually happened… I guess Instagram and YouTube will be getting a tonne more traffic then
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by gitgud 2y ago
Really? That means you basically want to know what profit margins they’re running at… which no business would want to (or should need to) reveal
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by gitgud 2y ago
7:30AM wake up in bed 7:31AM open Hacker News, begin absorbing news 8:15AM open YouTube, begin scrolling shortform content 8:45AM open Reddit, begins scrolling content 9:00AM get out of bed 9:01AM make a coffee 9:03AM walk to home office 9:
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by gitgud 2y ago
I also think the myth of “winners lose everything eventually” is a specific instance of general hate against gambling… AKA “the house always wins” philosophy
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by gitgud 2y ago
GitHub Stars are just one of many signals that describe the quality of a project. If a project has 10,000 stars but 1 commit and a terrible README… then the star count doesn’t have as much weight… You can’t trust any signal in isolation (li
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Trumpkin's Notes on Saunas(localmile.org)
3 points by gitgud 2y ago|0 comments
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by gitgud 2y ago
This is a fork of VScode, which means people can’t use the extension store anymore right?
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by gitgud 2y ago
Okay that’s a pretty good point actually. I guess I wrongly assume regular API’s are more reliable, but you’re right they’re basically black boxes too…
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by gitgud 2y ago
It's impressive, but to me it seems like the saddest development experience... agent = Agent( task='Go to hackernews on show hn and give me top 10 post titels, their points and hours. Calculate for each the ratio of
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by gitgud 2y ago
> meaning how to verify genuine authors and genuine repos, and block fake authors and fake repos? Signed commits maybe… In my opinion, you’re thinking about this wrong. GitHub is the same as any other online platform… It doesn’t matter
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by gitgud 2y ago
Agreed, all it takes is another site to copy the content, then an LLM could just scrape that… An open web that block scraping… is likely “not an open web”
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Preferring Public Method Isolation(blog.benwinding.com)
2 points by gitgud 2y ago|0 comments
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Underground delivery startup Pipedream raises $13M(restaurantbusinessonline.com)
2 points by gitgud 2y ago|0 comments
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Simulate Spending Elon Musk's Fortune(spend-elon-fortune.com)
2 points by gitgud 2y ago|3 comments
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by gitgud 2y ago
Breaking down a large goal into smaller milestones could be a good “change of process” for you. With smaller milestones you get the gratification of reaching goals often, projects are easier to start and you can retain the goal-driven minds
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by gitgud 2y ago
I think gmail is definitely worth it. They have the best spam filtering, interface is pretty clean and it’s ubiquitously trusted The main disadvantage though is the privacy you give up, and the expensive premium tier… if you ever need it
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by gitgud 2y ago
> then just learning these things once and building an appropriate abstraction layer for them pays for itself very quickly No point building an abstraction, if none of your projects make money… it’s wiser to focus on building something
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by gitgud 2y ago
All company's are "bad" in some way... does that mean all employees are bad? > No.
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Locusts rebranded as 'sky prawns' (2004)(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by gitgud 2y ago|3 comments
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by gitgud 2y ago
> Public transportation isn't exactly cheap when used every day. Then factor in your time and frustration. Nothing is as expensive as your time. Public transport is cheap for an individual, and when many people use it, it reduces

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