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by gregjor 2y ago
Is it Friday already?
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by gregjor 2y ago
I'd like to know what "advanced AI" means. Did you make your own LLM? How much more advanced did you get to, compared to ChatGPT? Can I get a podcast about ancient aliens or ketogenic diets in the style of Joe Rogan?
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by gregjor 2y ago
I know it’s a joke, but if real it could cause businesses to stop offering senior discounts once they get wise to the scam.
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by gregjor 2y ago
The tools have a lot of overlap. No need to choose one over the other, you can learn both. I don't write Perl but knowing how to read it comes in handy. AWK usually does what I need.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not clear why I would use this over grep/ripgrep + sed or awk. Or grep/ripgrep + clist then cfdo/cdo in vim/nvim (which can confirm each substitution). Sometimes a more specific tool makes a job easier, but I prefer usin
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by gregjor 2y ago
We write the migrations in SQL, committed as part of the pull request. Migrations tested on copies of production database along with the code changes. Automatically applied by a script when a pull request gets merged/deployed. No speci
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by gregjor 2y ago
You wrote that you "joined" the company, not clear what relationship you had. If you got hired as a W-2 employee (usually called full-time) you should contact the California Labor Commissioner's Office. Employers must pay wag
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by gregjor 2y ago
I tried to get all of my kids interested in programming. All three of them had their own computers growing up (they all grew up and moved out some time ago). They all did things we might call programming, mainly in the context of games (my
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by gregjor 2y ago
Let's pretend we ever had a meritocracy in hiring, or in any important part of life. Let's also pretend that "merit" and "excellence" and "intelligence" mean something, and mean the same thing for eve
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have a vague understanding of how Google search works, so I set my expectations accordingly. I probably don't want to get dumped into source code when looking up error messages, I want to find posts by other people who got the same e
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by gregjor 2y ago
I've seen complaints about Google search but haven't experienced the problems, and I use Google search fairly often. For example I just searched for "how to reduce an array in golang" and got a page of relevant results,
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Japanese billionaire cancels private flight around moon on SpaceX's Starship(space.com)
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not much to admire about the mom's rationalizations, but Meta has a large-scale problem with promoting child porn on Instagram. It goes way beyond this one example. Look at the WSJ articles linked from this one.
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by gregjor 2y ago
The parents rationalizing exposing their children to predators online seem almost as bad as the mealy-mouthed execs at Meta blaming their own software, as if they have no idea how to filter hashtags or block encrypted uploads. I'd like
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by gregjor 2y ago
https://archive.is/Myagt Start prosecuting and jailing some execs at Meta and let's see how fast they can fix "the algorithm."
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by gregjor 2y ago
I’m represented by an agency that handles marketing, customer vetting, legal/contract, billing and payments, etc. I communicate with my customers by email or phone call unless they have a system they ask me to use (Slack, Jira et al).
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by gregjor 2y ago
Agree. MEI vaguely defined and not objectively measurable, so it serves as a rationalization rather than hiring criteria.
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by gregjor 2y ago
That's what I wrote -- sanitize before passing to the PHP password_hash function, which obviously happens on the server.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Presumably you don't allow curl requests to your application to set passwords. In practice the password probably comes from an HTML form input, which doesn't allow entering a null byte. And you could sanitize the input before pass
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by gregjor 2y ago
Because it doesn't work that way. I was suggesting ways you may get what you need now, because lobbying on HN for Apple to change their hardware and software probably won't accomplish much. We could all think of things that would
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by gregjor 2y ago
You should explore the display, sound, and accessibility settings in MacOS. Look at third-party keyboards. https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fine-tune-volume-brightness...
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by gregjor 2y ago
Previous deep insights on technology from Pope Francis: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-02/pope-francis... I think we should push back on the imminent AI overlords, and stick with the Iron A
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by gregjor 2y ago
Can you define what you mean by "value?" Do you have a way to measure that? Plenty of so-called AI tools already generate blog articles, marketing gibberish, email spam, social media posts. Do they work and offer value in the sens
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by gregjor 2y ago
It's about as secret as Wikipedia. How did you not know about it?
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by gregjor 2y ago
Here's an idea: learn both. Maybe learn C first, then you will know 75% of C++ and 90% of Go. All Algol-family languages, or C-family if you prefer to start with a language still widely-used, have more in common than not.
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by gregjor 2y ago
About a decade ago most of the hackers moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, and set up a colony there centered around a maker space and some tolerant coffee shops. You can find them there, easy to identify by the Macbooks covered with stickers pr
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by gregjor 2y ago
Already a thing.
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by gregjor 2y ago
The worst way to find a job, as a service. If your job-hunting strategy centers around LinkedIn and submitting as many applications as possible you have placed yourself at the lowest end of the candidate pool, and competition is most fierce
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by gregjor 2y ago
Collection agencies don’t have special powers. They will send letters and make phone calls trying to collect, but they can’t force the customer to pay. You will have to pay them a percentage of what they collect, and they may want payment f
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by gregjor 2y ago
Your friend will have to hire an attorney. They can expect a drawn-out lawsuit for breach of contract. That may go to mandatory arbitration depending on jurisdiction and amount. Contracts only document the original agreement. In case of dis

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