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by jonfw 4y ago
The entire point of idempotency is not to always respond the same every single time, it's that the user can always expect the same response every single time. If the user receives a response it does not expect (or no response, etc.) th
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I would argue that ISIS shouldn't be banned for their political views, but rather for their participation in a criminal organization. Punishing people for their political views pushes them towards extremism
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Credit cards are much easier to dispute charges on
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I work with two developers in that age ballpark who are experts in the field we work in (cloud). And what does “up to date” mean? Have you seen the kind of tech that insurance companies, etc. use? To most companies, go is still a verb and r
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If it costs 2k/mo just to insure, maintain, and pay taxes on your property, how is somebody renting something comparable for 3k? the landlords in your neighborhood are only taking 1000 a month to service their loans, their overhead, an
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For any high cost of living area where a senior developer works, there are plenty of non-developer workers doing the same 9-5s in the same office buildings on a fraction of their salary. Maybe try a longer commute or a roommate before whini
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Mentorship down the chain of command sounds nice, but for most juniors that's just going to cause anxiety. The most impactful mentors I've had personally were senior developer / tech lead types. My managers were great, but it
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It knows that the sentence structure is very similar to a class of sentences it has seen before and that the expected response is to take tokens from certain locations in that sentence and arrange it in a certain way, which resembles an alg
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It knows that this sentence structure closely resembles a simple algebra word problem, because it's read hundreds of thousands of simple algebra word problems. I think you could see how somebody could tokenize that request and generate
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Most of your 5K “expenses” are not really expenses, you’re buying equity in your home, which is worth money. When you die or move, somebody will sell your house and get a bunch of cash When the renter moves or dies, they’ll cross their fing
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Most orgs claim that they need X% more money to serve X% more users, and they use that money to hire X% more devs. Since the users and money are both there, they get it in the short term, and nobody looks at the big picture until money tigh
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Where is a better value? I’m not in the industry, but When I’ve looked, it seems like there’s an unserved gap between the really high end stuff and the Home Depot stuff
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I've been in a similar boat with ops/security responsibilities getting in the way of doing development. There's two pieces of advice I would offer you that have helped me- Being a developer just has more grunt work than I ini
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I typically do look at the commit history of a part of code if I'm not familiar with it and I'm going to make changes there
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It's hard to know what "tuned it" means, but they're using an AI model to detect harmful content. So it's very possible that the AI model was always trained on this biased data, but as they made that model more aggr
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I think most people would agree that a lot of the content on the internet is left-leaning. It seems obvious in hindsight, but I'd never considered it before, that training an AI model on that content would introduce a bit of a bias We
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This is not the very first iteration. Watson, an LLM, won jeopardy years ago. This stuff has been in progress for a very long time This is a great benchmark, in that it's widely available, user friendly, and competent enough that peopl
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Any insight into what orgs or roles are affected?
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Great thing about Git, is you can look at the code at the time when the comment was written, and still retain the original value of the comment. If there have been major structural changes that make the comment useless- that’d be pretty eas
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Kids are dumb
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We've been using Go to build CLI tools rather than writing scripts for certain tasks recently, and I've found that Golang is very well suited for that. we use the urfave/cli library, which works great, and gets you a ton of t
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I am starting to see some consistency these days. I mostly work in Go, so I'm not intimately familiar with the state of the art in other languages, but it looks like most ecosystems have a tool that support this flow. A declarative (go
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But if it cost you a bunch of money not to have a renter, you might lower your standards or your prices, making housing more available. The whole point is to screw you (not you personally, but you as in landlords) into making your property
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Nobody will try to avoid finding renters if it costs money to not have a renter
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I like moving parts, so I'd opt gasoline, but I'd probably end up doing heavy equipment or something like that that's not so commoditized
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I think you do have to have an idea of which soccer player is more valuable than another though, because when salary negotiations come you may have to pick which one you can keep. And you certainly have to know which is your best goalkeeper
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> The problem here is that Blizzard Entertainment and their performance management system mixes the two approaches,” Grote said by email. “They’re using absolute comparison terms to make a relative comparison judgement.” I think this is
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I'd probably get into mechanic work
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I've used openvpn to set up a tunnel into my network before, which worked great. I'd check out wireguard if I were to do that again from scratch, I like netmaker personally
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How much influence did franchisees have on the corporate decision making? I can definitely see how, as a franchisee, I would rather ride the brick and mortar video rental business into the ground rather than try and transition the business,

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