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by ipsento606 7mo ago
LLMs are biased. Human interviewers are biased. Are LLMs more or less biased than human interviewers, on average? I have no idea.
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by ipsento606 7mo ago
Seeing as it's the A18, are there any concerns about third-party "desktop" software not running on this new platform?
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by ipsento606 7mo ago
Presumably you mean me, and every current and former team-member I've ever had? If so, you're talking about hundreds of engineers.
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by ipsento606 7mo ago
being fired and being made redundant are very different under UK law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_in_United_Kingdom_l...
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by ipsento606 7mo ago
I've been working on react and react native applications professionally for over ten years, and I have never worked on a project with any kind of meaningful test coverage
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by ipsento606 8mo ago
> Software engineers are scared of designing things themselves. When I use a framework, it's because I believe that the designers of that framework are i) probably better at software engineering than I am, and ii) have encountered a
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
Human relationships are not computer code Eliminating ambiguity from human relationships is neither possible not desirable
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
Credit cards are many products rolled into one. Despite the name, many people use "credit cards" simply for rewards and enhanced purchase protections, with only incidental use of the credit facility. In the US market, it is surpri
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
The problem with the housing issue is that real solutions to it are extremely unpopular, even amount people who agree with the scale and intensity of the problem. The regular voting public doesn't even agree that there's a connect
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
As property prices increase, developers are more incentivized to build new properties and increase density. The increase in supply then lowers prices. The problem comes when local laws and the planning permission system make it hard or impo
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
can anyone link to reporting on that?
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by ipsento606 9mo ago
> Some web searching suggests that only about 2% of home mortgages have prepayment penalty clauses. It's clear (to me) that you're talking about the US specifically, but it might not be clear to everyone. Residential mortgages
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by ipsento606 10mo ago
To me, writing in full, formally correct sentences, being careful to always use correct punctuation, starts to feel a little pretentious or tryhard in some contexts. It doesn't feel too much like that here on HN. But on reddit, I use l
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by ipsento606 10mo ago
> If your database goes down at 3 AM, you need to fix it. Of all the places I've worked that had the attitude "If this goes down at 3AM, we need to fix it immediately", there was only one where that was actually justifiabl
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by ipsento606 10mo ago
I would say something like 95% of the code I have been paid to write as a software engineer has 0% test coverage. Like, literally, not a single test on the entire project. Across many different companies and several countries, frontend and
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by ipsento606 11mo ago
the pricing page says it comes with "Always-on DDoS Protection" but not "Advanced DDoS Protection" I have no idea what these terms mean in practice
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by ipsento606 11mo ago
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/ says that the $15-per-month plan comes with 50TB of "data transfer" Does "data transfer" not mean CDN bandwidth here? Otherwise, that price seems two
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by ipsento606 11mo ago
you don't even need a degree to be a software engineer, let alone any professional accreditation the idea that all, or even most, "software engineering" is real engineering is laughable
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by ipsento606 11mo ago
Almond milk is not dairy milk, but it is absolutely "milk", in the sense of a white liquid derived from plants - a definition that has existed in English for hundreds of years. The name "almond milk" has been used since
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> they didn't have any way to scale beyond a single low spec VPS from a budget provider they couldn't redeploy to a high-spec VPS instead?
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by ipsento606 1y ago
13 pounds of potatoes is about 4600 kcals. That's in the range of what an NFL athlete consumes in a day.
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by ipsento606 1y ago
after reading more - you're right, I'm wrong
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by ipsento606 1y ago
Edit - this comment is incorrect --- The title should be edited. It sounds as if the test is 94% accurate at detecting long covid, but in fact it's 94% accurate at counting microclots > We estimated a 94% accuracy for the microclot
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by ipsento606 1y ago
August 4 is not solvable with the given wordlist. There is no way to get to a word below 3 letters ("set")
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by ipsento606 1y ago
I've been working on a nativewind [1] app for the last year or so, and all these complaints resonate with me, and then some. It feels like I have to have a mental model of CSS, tailwind, React Native stylesheets and nativewind-specif
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by ipsento606 1y ago
even if everyone only tried it for a week, that still means there will always be a certain number of cheaters in games, because new players are always joining
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by ipsento606 1y ago
I've been doing this professionally for over a decade and have basically never used a debugger I've often felt that I should, but never enough to actually learn how
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> It just doesn't seem to work with everyone Without a very precise definition of "work", these discussions quickly degrade to near uselessness. There is a very large difference between "telling patients to exercise m
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by ipsento606 1y ago
as a heads up https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html links to https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/idioms.html ("Oil Language Idioms") whic
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by ipsento606 1y ago
> the notion of Germans being intrinsically superior By "German drivers" I mean drivers who are trained, licensed and insured in Germany. There is nothing "intrinsic" about it, and it has nothing to do with genetics o

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