iainctduncan

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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Man, same boat. If I weren't only looking for another 10 years of working, I'd be doing the same.
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
typosquatting is shaping up to be a serious problem again.
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
exactly
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Hi, yup on Vancouver Island. They have a combined music + CS undergrad, a Masters in Music Technology (which is an MMus), and a roll-your-own interdisciplinary Masters and PhD. The INTD is the grad ticket for people who want to do CS heavy
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Definitely agree. I guess I should have specified I meant "real programmer who wants a career". ;-)
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
As part of my work in technical diligence, I create medium-long form content marketing material on topics germane to PE investment in tech. In the last six months I did a series (not yet published) on the state of security in the age of gen
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
why yes, yes I am. ;-)
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
I adore those albums with Paul Desmond and Jim Hall. So killer.
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Hi, University of Victoria in Canada.
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Lol I have to admit, I do play "uptight bass". The Freudian thumb slip got me, ha Relaxing on that thing is hard! :)
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
I play electric and uptight jazz bass. While what you describe is possible for some genres, not knowing keys and the fretboard the same way you know keys on the piano is a non starter for jazz. All the competent jazz guitarists and bassists
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
I recently searched for information on a potential pet poisoning. The google overview had the decimal spot in the wrong place.... confusing a lethal amount for a trivial amount. My pet was fine, but had it actually eaten more, and had I use
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
Listening and transcribing is an excellent thing to do. But it would be terrible advice to say it's the only thing to do. Also, I would argue that if you really want the benefit of transcribing, don't write it down until you have
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
One has only to compare blogs and "thought leadership" posts from now and five years ago to see this is already happening, and big time.
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
And if you want a fantastic read that is both a gripping mystery and so-on-point satire of startup culture, Ruth Ware's "One By One" is fucking awesome. It's an homage to the Agatha Christie novel, but at a startup'
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by iainctduncan 6mo ago
It is astonishing to me how many people here are defending "not actually knowing what the hell you are doing", on the basis that LLMs will "keep getting better". The bit they are missing, IMHO, is that if LLMs keep getti
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
And this is better how exactly? If you're running a business, do you not want to catch employees mistakes as early as possible ? Most ideas are crap. I'd way rather they get elimated after someone spent an hour making slides than
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
he exited!!!
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
... "so far."
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
Programmers are kidding themselves if they think they are not susceptible to this. It may be more subtle, but interacting with a human-sounding echo chamber IS going to screw with your judgement.
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
There are an awful lot of programmers here essentially mocking this person for being naive and gullible, and yet the things I read programmers who are all in on vibe coding say are not that different, just a little less extreme. I'm
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
You know they are burning money dangerously when they decide to focus on the area in which they are getting their asses kicked...
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
It's definitely a broader thing you see not unfrequently in academia too (I'm a very mature phd student right now in fact!), but man, programmers seem to have it real bad.
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
To me me he's just another example of a very smart programmer being really bad at seeing big pictures, imagining from other perspectives, and generally having people/systems/economics/philosophy wisdom. Unfortunately it
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
And yet ... all the software I use online still sucks. Honestly, the only stuff in my daily drive that I truly admire are the desktop apps that were years or decades in the making. If everyone is hella productive and 10xing it why are the
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
My money is on a lot more than 1 to 2!
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
Everytime I read articles here describing the LLM prompt engineering workflow, all I can think is, "This sounds like such a fucking awful job". I imagine I will greatly reduce my job prospects as a hold out, but honestly, from wha
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
And we haven't even started to see the security ramifications... my money is on the black hats in this race.
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
I can't take anyone seriously who says an AI edge will be a "superpower". Which part of "commodity" is confusing???
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by iainctduncan 7mo ago
Every blue tooth audio thing I've had sucked... and then stopped working altogether.

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