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by gregjor 2y ago
I hope no one calls him "pedo-guy" and puts his life at more risk. As usual he has a grossly inflated opinion about how much people actually care about him or what he says.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Every password manager I know of, including Apple's, requires a strong password to unlock the vault. FaceID or YubiKey allow me to bypass typing that so often, but anyone trying to get into my accounts or password manager would have to
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by gregjor 2y ago
I never adopted "developer" as a title because people who organize construction projects use that title. I never use "engineer" because real engineers have engineering degrees and have to pass standardized tests. "P
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by gregjor 2y ago
Programmer, developer, software engineer, etc. get used interchangeably, they don't indicate any real distinction except maybe within a single organization. Similarly "senior" doesn't mean anything other than "I got
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think people understand that "senior" can have different meanings depending on the context. As an actual senior (over 60 years old) I don't take offense -- give me the senior discount! As part of a job title "Senior&qu
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don't think this article describes a new thing. I got my first real job as a Programmer/Analyst (that was the entry-level title) back in 1979, at Nike. In less than two years I got promoted to Senior Programmer/Analyst. I c
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by gregjor 2y ago
I had the good fortune to have a Catholic upbringing and attend Jesuit school, and then to end up not believing in religion. The Church officially takes no position on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. I suppose the authorities have
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by gregjor 2y ago
My wife has no middle name. Not a thing in her culture. Many East Asian names have the family name first, given name last. Hard to overlook such a large percentage of global population, but that happens with slim anecdotal evidence.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Too few locations, only a tiny percent of global hotel inventory. I practically live in hotels. Generally I have a fairly specific location and date range in mind. Every booking site I use has most of the same filters HotelsWith offers. Doe
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FaceID or YubiKey
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by gregjor 2y ago
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... > I've worked at California based tech companies with global reach, and I've personally
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by gregjor 2y ago
I don’t use LLMs to write code. I don’t use them at all. As a freelancer specializing in fixing and maintaining software I welcome LLM-generated code. I look forward to a prosperous future with an even larger pile of bad code to work on. I
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think I gave the best answer I can with the information you offered. You won’t find any shortcut. If you have marketable skills already then you look for a job. If not I doubt three months trying to learn anything will help much. Not enou
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by gregjor 2y ago
I think you ask the wrong question. No technology you can pick up in three months will get you a job right away, much less a remote job. Coding bootcamps -- which have little credibility with hiring managers already -- last longer than that
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by gregjor 2y ago
Good explainer from How Money Works. Why do companies post jobs they don't plan to fill, then ghost candidates?
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The Broken Business of Finding a Job(youtube.com)
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by gregjor 2y ago
Nothing from the "rationalist" cult carries any weight with me. It seems more like a self-congratulatory circle jerk of nerds telling each other how smart they are than a serious intellectual group.
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by gregjor 2y ago
We can cherry-pick AI experts to pay attention to. Yann LeCun recently called current AI "dumber than a cat." Stephen Wolfram has written some very well thought-through articles about LLMs and doesn't find much to worry about
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by gregjor 2y ago
What’s the point? Next season of Doomsday Preppers .
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by gregjor 2y ago
So LLMs get better at what LLMs do, according to benchmarks that measure LLM performance. We have no idea if that leads to sentience. Most likely it doesn’t, because we don’t have a definition of sentience, much less a model that would let
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by gregjor 2y ago
What evidence do we have other than predictions from people who have an obvious financial interest, or just pump stock like Altman? Do you know how many people have predicted imminent AGI (and many other doomsday scenarios) in the last 100
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by gregjor 2y ago
No. I don’t plan for the future in any case because I can’t predict what might happen. And I certainly don’t make decisions because of what someone else predicts. Do you think people should alter their life plans because of predictions arou
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can you define and measure "code quality?" If not how can you say it improves? Even granting your point, the things you list that supposedly improve code quality -- discipline, taking risks -- come under the "skills" hea
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by gregjor 2y ago
I will state my conclusion first. Quality in code serves as a euphemism for skills issue . When we encounter code that we find hard to read or change, we might call the code unreadable or low-quality , but we actually mean "The p
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by gregjor 2y ago
Always personality and communication problems. You can find a fairly large body of writing on this topic. I’d start with Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month and Gerry Weinberg’s The Psychology of Computer Programming .
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Have you been to a modern airport lately? A distribution center (warehouse)? Autonomous robots move around in crowded places all the time. Not humanoid robots, because that’s a bad and unnecessary form factor. Disneyland had tele-operated “
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by gregjor 2y ago
I apologize for misunderstanding what the service does. I don't agree about escalating the arms race. To get a fighting chance against ATS systems you need to go around those systems, not try to trick them or get some small percentage
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by gregjor 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the systems big companies and recruiters use to initially filter/screen applications already do that, with "AI." If not their ATS provider is right now selling new AI features to them. I expect that compa
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by gregjor 2y ago
I feel sure you mean well, and probably learned a lot putting this together. But your tool, and the many similar "AI"-based tools like it, contribute to the hiring problem they attempt to solve. Clogging hiring pipelines with pile
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by gregjor 2y ago
LLCs have members, not shareholders. LLCs do not issue shares or stock. I think you can find online plenty of information on LLCs and corporations, how they differ, why you might choose one or the other business organization, etc. If you ca

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