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by harrall 2y ago
I feel that the real problem is a lot of people don’t care about collecting requirements. It’s one of my favorite parts of the process. People just want to build the app that they want to build. I’ve talked to engineers who just say “I don’
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by harrall 2y ago
When I read OP’s list of wants for an API, I don’t read it so literally. I read it as an example of the complexity required to implement something like an API. I agree that it’s also a people problem but I disagree that many of these failed
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by harrall 2y ago
Not with the same depth. I might ask a friend to drop off a letter and I might verify that they did it, but I don’t have to verify that they didn’t mistake a Taco Bell or a dumpster as the post office. It’s very scary to ask a friend to dro
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by harrall 2y ago
It’s not like you currently go to a webpage and save all the images onto deep storage for archival… I’m not sure what relevance things being digital has on identifying noise. If the ancestor before you is hoarding anything that comes across
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by harrall 2y ago
Right now I can ask an (experienced) human to do something for me and they will either just get it done or tell me that they can’t do it. Right now when I ask an LLM… I have to sit there and verify everything. It may have done some helpful
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by harrall 2y ago
A cinema camera is $50 to $100k (Sony Venice or ARRI ALEXA 35). That cinema camera is much better to use for a film crew and puts out a higher quality. WITHOUT the cost of additional lenses. Then you add in sets, lighting, generators, cast,
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by harrall 2y ago
That's not amazing code but that's not that bad. In the grand scheme of things, that's not code debt that would ever seriously make my life any harder.
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by harrall 2y ago
Wi-Fi is battle tested but the network stacks on a lot of these devices are not. Not a lot of these devices seem to understand the complexities of IP addressing (ARP, IP, etc.) very well so I’ve noticed they can lose connection easily. I’m
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by harrall 2y ago
I’ll tell you why this happens. You might use ChatGPT for a bit and your initial impressions will be great. It does what I ask of it! You might be aware that it makes mistakes sometimes, but when you use it, you don’t notice it because you’
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by harrall 2y ago
Don’t pay much particular attention to AI but I’m not seeing the knock on him saying “no.” What human in the world could be trusted with AI? Only delusional people could say yes to that question.
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by harrall 2y ago
Trademarks are categorical so just because Blender is an English word does not make it generic. Two entirely different companies can even have the same trademark in two different areas of business.
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by harrall 2y ago
Definitely not even close to fully there yet but getting the VoIP providers to do it is an important step. Rolling this out is like when the world first rolled out DKIM/SPF for email. You need to reach a critical mass of adoption befor
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by harrall 2y ago
Phone calls now produce JSON Web Tokens that identify users with cryptographic signatures. This was codified around 2018 by the IETF, SIP Forum, and ATIS. So the public phone system now supports it, but the problem is that not all providers
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by harrall 2y ago
Musicians choose to sign under a label because it helps them. It’s like paying for a plumber… it’s so they do the boring work for you. There are hundreds of thousands of record labels. Your uncle could be running a record label in his garag
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by harrall 2y ago
I’ve also seen many hobbyists do cuts on table saws that seem to encourage danger and then they stand right in the way too. Then they complain that “no one could have predicted this.” The worst one I’ve seen is someone cutting circles on a
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by harrall 2y ago
I own a Soundcore Motion+ and can attest to it to be terribly sounding, even for a Bluetooth speaker.
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by harrall 2y ago
I think this is cool but it’s a more of a statistical correlation than an AI-related paper. What I’m saying is that if you were to replace ‘AI’ with “ask humans to draw an image based on these sounds,” you’ll probably get somewhat similar r
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by harrall 2y ago
This is some major myth. Crack open your insurance policy — it’s not going to say “UL listed appliances only” or anything like that. Insurance also covers mistakes. But you should get a good power supply anyway because the hassle is not wor
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by harrall 2y ago
US debt has been this high before. You lend someone money based on whether you think they can pay you back. People still buy US debt because the US is good with its promises. It’s the same reason the US dollar is the reserve currency… the U
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by harrall 2y ago
I don’t think SmartGit will elevate you that much but JetBrains IDEs and SmartGit are the only two tools I pay for and have for 8 years with no regrets. I already posted in this thread but I just love these two tools and wish more people kn
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by harrall 2y ago
IntelliJ and SmartGit are my two favorite tools. SmartGit has had drag and drop for a long time. I actually rarely use it but there is almost no Git problem I can’t fix in like 2 clicks.
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by harrall 2y ago
I remember an ambitious project that spent more time on mechanics and infrastructure than content… Starbound. And in the end, there was no game.
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by harrall 2y ago
I've been building sites since the 2000s and I'll let you know why React or jQuery "won." It's because when you write code using these libraries, your code looks nice . I cannot say that for a LOT of libraries, esp
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by harrall 2y ago
Reading a book is like a mechanic learning how to work on cars without ever touching a car. Is reading helpful? Absolutely. Does it mean you would trust them to work on your car? Absolutely not. Would you trust a mechanic who didn’t read an
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by harrall 2y ago
I think there is another overlooked factor: some languages’ type systems suck and your opinion of types depends more on your first experience rather than a true comparison.
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by harrall 2y ago
It’s not creating a new problem that didn’t already exist. In many situations at work, trying to follow SemVer would be a technical solution to a non-technical problem. You know who your users are. Before you make any breaking change, you a
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by harrall 2y ago
People gravely miss-understand containerization and Docker. All it lets you do is put shell commands into a text file and be able to run it self-contained anywhere. What is there to hate? You still use the same local filesystem, the same
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by harrall 2y ago
Personally I don’t think it has anything to do with normalcy. I don’t consume AI media because it’s not very good. I watched a lot a bad movies and read a lot of bad books as a kid that I can’t stomach now because I’ve read better books and
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by harrall 2y ago
~60 airplane hijackings per year in the 70s. We’ve significantly reduced it down to <4 per year. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/airliner-hijackings-and-f...
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by harrall 2y ago
A bootcamp can be someone’s best entry into the field if they’re later in their life where a 4-year institution would be difficult to swing. The average lower bound for the quality of a bootcamp graduate is likely lower but the upper bound

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