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by huygens6363 2y ago
I am using a special keyboard that outputs these sequences automatically. Must my keyboard driver send the keypresses to the EU? Fine, here are they: AFC628BCF627. I understand Signal is handicapped now, but I couldn’t care less about Signa
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by huygens6363 2y ago
What do they do if I send: AFBC67CEDA7AD? Ban all “non-intelligible” content? Who can stop me from hiding information in very normal looking sentences? If you want privacy, there will always be a way.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
How to think like a programmer*
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Forest, trees. Keep it simple. Mediocrity is most definitely not subjective. It is context-dependent, sure, but subjectivity is something else entirely. I did not bring it in, the parent did and with good reason. It’s one of the causes of p
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by huygens6363 2y ago
No offense, but if producing a result within a time frame is causing severe anxiety I think a more.. holistic approach is warranted. It’s not fear, it’s being real: can you do this, with the parameters given or not? If not, great, no proble
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I emphasize, because I share your tendencies. This is all personal btw, nothing to you personally. I have to admit that failing to produce a required result in time using the right abstractions and without “overthinking” is actually just th
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by huygens6363 2y ago
For people with a long and rich history of procrastination, half-assing and missing deadlines - like 90% of devs I hang around with - consider doing the opposite: do something with care and focus. Make it perfect to the best of your abiliti
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I agree, but that’s an argument against cars in general. Turns out cars are a bit too bulky and pricey to repurpose as shanks.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
This enables everyone to be great programmers like how easily available power tools enables everyone to be a great carpenter and general craftsman. You’ll get a lot of shitty stuff and the profession will get hollowed out losing attraction
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by huygens6363 2y ago
People in America: 336m People not in America: 7714m
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by huygens6363 2y ago
It's an organizational pattern. I've seen it being used at very small companies to good effect. It matched their (dysfunctional) culture: islands, little communication, etc. Working on a monolith together is a nightmare if you hat
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Exactly! It's this huge elephant in the room and all we want to talk about is our editors and how Java is faster than Go or whatever. I'm sitting in this meetings thinking "Guys, using XML or JSON truly, truly does not matter
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Microservices are not solving a technical problem. This is related to another issue: many technical people think tech is the hard part. Technology is the easy part. If you think the tech is hard, you have no idea how hard The Rest is. I kno
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by huygens6363 2y ago
1) Your income depends on a physical quality you have. 2) Your ability to mine cash off this physical quality depends on the inability of this quality to be reproduced. 3) This quality can now be reproduced. I would think very hard and very
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Bah. You're right. I'm being obtuse and need more coffee. Nerding out on things is fun, my whole life is based on it. I guess I feel some rivalry with the artistic world. Maybe it's jealousy.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I hate myself for saying it, but this feels like an artistic variation on "we spent 500 hours manually perfecting React button animations" or "I built a Lisp so we can have more interesting configuration files for our ... tod
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by huygens6363 2y ago
nah i dontt hnk so Sent from my iPhone
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Modern (proprietary) tooling comes really close to that experience, but I can see how it is liberating compared to editing text files, waiting for compilation and preying it works. I guess modern tools learned from the best.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I love the concept of the REPL and live editing and such, but my everyday work experience using a debugger sounds like it’s about 80% of the way there? I can break, inspect, run expressions and generally figure out what’s going on by experi
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Not to detract from your main point, but there are various shades of “happiness” and quite a few of these are available and are indeed enjoyed by the poorest of the poor. It can be vacuous rich people speak, but there is definitely somethin
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Ok, given that restrictions I can see how you can arrive at a pragmatic solution, so long as we don’t have the illusion this is actually a solution. For example, giving it a small corpus of my previous handwritten work and asking it to resp
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by huygens6363 2y ago
You think you can reliably identify AI text?
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Same chance each game or over time?
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by huygens6363 2y ago
It in fact is. The artists "just" created the works. No different from your work if you work for your employer. It is OpenAI's GPT, not Ilya's.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
When I code for my employer, who owns the code?
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Kind of missing the forest for the trees, but TIL the actual application called ping was written in 1983.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
You and your family and friends were online in 1983? That’s quite remarkable.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
I don’t know what “sysadmin” is today anymore, but we don’t need AGI to get rid of that.
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by huygens6363 2y ago
Fear of AGI is not based on Altman’s latest brews. Look at the progress curve of AI in general is one way to get a feeling for it. The other one, which I prefer, is looking at existing AIs for which we thought human ingenuity was top notch
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by huygens6363 2y ago
To make the 2000s possible, decades of relatively uninteresting progress was made. It quickly takes off from there.

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