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by jason-phillips 4y ago
My statement assumes parity, describing an ideal scenario. I believe that's what the parent described from his experience, today. Assuming subterfuge then my statement wouldn't apply, obviously, as the flow of information wouldn&#
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
The symmetric flow of information back and forth between yourself and the AI assistant is the key distinction here. It's a very beneficial, symbiotic relationship. The problem will be the asymmetric, uni-directional flow to those whose
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I love that feeling after successfully completing and handing off a project, the ebullient sense of elation. There's nothing else like it in the world. I'm a software engineer and solutions architect.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I think you actually just illustrated and proved his point for him, in fact. However, now I've just made myself a hypocrite and broken my own self-similar rule to never respond to or debate with stupid.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> When you see someone who doesn't know how to open a terminal, and log into a server at the command Maybe this person doesn't quite get how to properly not use a comma between dependent clauses. How could one trust this person
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> he didn't even know how to open a terminal and SSH into the box! You just described something which is trivial to learn in less than one minute. This lack of experience does not directly speak to their skills or abilities. Extendi
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> the degree of rot and malfeasance in systemically important institutions These "systemically important institutions", as you label them, are peopled by feckless children. My small-town sanitation department presents itself wi
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Having worked in both, I'll never work on a true monolith again.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I like to practice writing, so as to hone that skill. It's a purely selfish exercise, crafting something which I find clever. I then parlay that skill in professional communications to great effect. It's something of a superpower
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Amazing
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Recently I went through a phase where I volunteered extensively with the expressed goal of teaching others something to which I'm privy from which they should benefit. I learned more my students, specifically that the exercise was larg
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Or learn to ride motorcycles?
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> being truthful is often a privilege of the powerful I strongly disagree. Being truthful naturally follows when one stands on a foundation of principle. Do you live by a code? If the answer is no, then maybe you should figure out what t
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I still don't get it
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> are there any people, especially on HN, that identify as specialists? I specialize in solving problems. I've never found anyone with my capacity for researching, understanding and quickly putting together a plan to address some ex
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
1. Read the Elements of Style by E.B. White. It describes how to write in active voice for positive effect. 2. Practice converting your thoughts to the written word so that they're clearly understood by anyone. That is the exercise at
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
To add more data to the other comments, some federal agencies started pushing employees to use lastpass for work-related accounts a couple of years ago.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
I don't get it?
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
When I bar you from my house because your muddy boots will soil the floor, I have faith that you will somehow survive this terrible injustice.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> Dang thinks this basic feature that has existed in forums since the dawn of time promotes toxicity. It lowers the barrier to entry, coddling and inevitably inviting the lazy, thus nudging the needle towards the lowest common denominat
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> HN comments (laypeople in general) tend to make very confident and very wrong comments on {X} Yes, it's annoying. From conspiracy theorists to supposedly smart people with PhD's, I'll catch them in a fiction. "You j
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
You appear to me to be stuck in the academic world of arguing concepts that are detached from how the simplest of things work in the real world. > [W]hat will we do once Microsoft start bundling [GPT] into subscription packages? Pray tel
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
Come on then, no need to be coy.
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Not bad, apparently https://steamcommunity.com/app/975370/discussions/0/37093075...
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
The iPhone SoC was made by Samsung in Austin for many years, so this has already happened. At the time everyone assumed that Apple wanted to diversify away from Samsung for other reasons which were not necessarily financial.
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> I wonder how domestic the full supply chain is. The supply chain necessarily includes some Japanese and Dutch companies for their specialized tooling that cannot be sourced from American companies. Many of the spare parts and raw mater
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> To make wise decisions, you need to have the proper mindstate to make genuine "human" decisions, rather than using just your intelligence. I recognize this as empathy. It is something of a superpower when used to its full pot
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"Nuts."
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> I have decades of coding experience and seemed more familiar with the specific technologies being used than the existing team. Maybe that was part of the problem? I interviewed at SpaceX and their questions were illuminating. One quest
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by jason-phillips 4y ago
> I was looking for a new whetstone The King whetstone on the bottom right is legit if you want to freehand. However, I recommend something like an Edge Pro if you have quality chefs knives, etc.

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