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by jmfldn 4y ago
> Religions would face a huge obstacle in bridging their creation myths Counter point. Religions with a very rigid view of highly sentient life being unique to earth and humans would have a hard time. Others would say that the universe p
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Yeah this is the point. If I was writing production grade software, I wouldn't have used Processing for the client. But for the purposes of an academic project, where a backend-type like me wanted to draw some pixels without too much f
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Wow. These animations are incredible. Inspiring! I love Processing. I actually used it to make a GUI and some data visualisation tools for my Comp Sci MSc. The bulk of the project was a Java program to do with time series analysis, but I&#x
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by jmfldn 4y ago
The older I get, the more I appreciate the wisdom of religions, especially (but not exclusively) Buddhism. Versions of this can be found in many wisdom traditions. Strive for tranquility and peace of mind by living simply, deeply caring for
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by jmfldn 4y ago
"- They're brilliant, I mean very smart people (in an almost academic way?) - They have a big appetite for adding complexity to systems - They also have a big appetite for adding work to their own plates - Their code has no consis
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Hard disagree with this.. "Elegant code, best practices, smart solutions, design patterns — these are done for the sake of your fellow software engineers who will work on the codebase after you rather than helping you fulfill the purpo
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CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack(techcrunch.com)
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Follow up question. Did backend development explode in complexity? What's your source?
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ChatGPT does not understand, I don't think there is any such thing as machine understanding nor will there ever be. At least not within the current paradigm of computing. My guess is that our kind of understanding requires a biological
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Wikipedia is a rare living embodiment of everything the web can be at its best. I consider my recurring payment to them a form of public duty.
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Argentina fan here. I was too young to really remember their victory in 1986. Saw them lose in the 1990 and 2014 finals. Can't tell you what it means to win today. I went through hell but I feel like I watched a truly extraordinary mat
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ChatGPT is dumber than you think(theatlantic.com)
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Oh man! You've nailed it with this comment. I am that senior corpo SWE you describe, and I confess that I push a lot of these ideas. I have to ensure my teams stick to business critical paths but I do encourage things like... - If you
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Sorry to hear all this. Honestly, given what you've gone through, I'd just avoid the start ups and go for 'boring tech', in an unambiguously useful and established industry. Maybe energy, telecoms, banking etc. Go for a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Compared to recent years it's a bit of volte face for a Chancellor to say something like this, I'm not really thinking about the pre-Boris purge era where of course, things were different. Anyway, I don't want to get stuck on
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by jmfldn 4y ago
My point is that, as Chancellor of a government which accepts Brexit as a done deal, it is interesting for him to do anything other than shower Brexit with praise. Criticism from within the ranks of the Tory government is significant and a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Why mention Jeremy Hunt? Just the small matter of him being the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK govt with a track record of good analysis. Believe what you want at the end of the day. I would love to have to been proven wrong, but Bre
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Is the OBR's own analysis of Brexit evidence enough for you? Even Jeremy Hunt has conceded Brexit is causing problems! https://www.politico.eu/article/brexit-had-significant-adver...
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It works. Try it.
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Ditto more or less. Dad was a mechanical engineering academic. Learned fortran programming in the late 1960s on punch cards.
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I didn't say they shouldn't have access, re-read what I wrote. I was responding to the specific claim that AI-driven art generation is essentially the same as pencil drawing. Your point about photography is also comparing apples a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
The key difference with pencil and paper being that I can't produce photoreal deep fakes at the speed of processing. That's not a valid comparison. You might be right in the second paragraph about the motivations for slowing this
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Sorry to hear, I've been there. First things first, do see a medical professional. Secondly. I find I have to take quite a holistic approach to my life to keep on an even keel. Regular moderate exercise (whatever you enjoy and are like
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I don't have it that bad compared to you but I do suffer from v complicated days. * Several meetings including standup. These vary massively from low level tech discussions, planning sprint work at more of a 'product' level,
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As a Scala dev I agree.
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This was pretty much my take too until I played with GPT 3. I suspect that you're still basically right, but the code it was writing, whilst a bit quirky and sometimes full of errors, showed a simulacra of creativity. I use this term a
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by jmfldn 4y ago
This keeps me awake at night I must admit. How do I best future proof my career? I was sceptical about this until I started playing with GPT 3 and has it not only writen code for me, but also "explained" code to me. Sure, it'
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by jmfldn 4y ago
Yep. This is also true. Hopefully WFH helps there. In my niche Scala it does. We can hire more broadly. We also hire ppl with an aptitude for Scala and keep our style simple. That helps.
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Counterpoint X 3 True. But if you have a good well-enforced, sane style guide, then expressive powerful languages can be a good thing. If you hire devs who care more about playing with the language than delivering value then you're hir
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I suppose it depends on how people use sites like this, but I discover such a wealth of fascinating information here, the most interesting of which is often nothing to do with tech. I really do think that spending time on HN vs TikTok looki

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