joquarky

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by joquarky 7mo ago
Yep, despite 30 years of professional programming experience, I can't live code. And it seems like everyone wants a live coding interview now. I gave up my job search after 2 years of failure. When I write code, I have to be in a sta
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by joquarky 7mo ago
No problem. 30+ years of experience isn't going to disappear any time soon.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
> The value of a company is tied to how much value it provides society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by joquarky 7mo ago
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Materializing thoughts takes a concept out of "superposition"
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PCU (1994)
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by joquarky 7mo ago
I think that the type of people who can easily pick up subtext have come to rely on that channel of communication and don't realize they need to be more direct and verbose when chatting with language models.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
State the idea comes from a third party. Ask for pros/cons. Just have to find a way to counter its nature.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
I noticed when I ask it to find something to improve in a project, that certain frivolous topics would arise regularly. I now use their appearance as a sign that there is nothing meaningful to improve.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Play against its sycophanty by saying the idea was from your ex.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
This is probably why these models can't say "I don't know". If they could, then that would be the only response they would give for everything.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Electric cars are mechanically simpler.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
That depends on how wealthy you are.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
It was like sweetened emulsified chalk. I kind of miss it.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
And none of them are actually hiring.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Don't think of a pink elephant.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
In my experience, I have observed that roughly a third of the population prefer to outsource their thinking to others.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
It would have to desire something in order for it to suffer.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Anyone who lets the word "cringe" affect their thoughts or behavior needs to learn to think for themselves.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
I've wondered what happens with these when a forest fire is bearing down.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
This advice is not as useful if you have a high ACE score and have been severely conditioned to not trust people. The tech industry used to be a refuge for analytical people who have severe social anxiety, but now it has been completely ove
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Nearly everything targeting consumers is a snake pit now. Everything has one or more upsells. Dark patterns are now nominal practice. Quality has gone to shit.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Progress isn't always a goal. In fact, I could speculate that humanity might benefit from slowing down progress on most non-medical industries right now.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
They need to have more ads so that they can afford to pay for the bandwidth used by all of the ads.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
Am I an idiot or is it not glaringly obvious to everyone that the cause is our individualistic hyper competitive culture?
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by joquarky 7mo ago
If you had to hold on for dear life during the ~2014-2017 JavaScript framework chaos, then 3-6 months is peanuts. This is an industry that requires continuous learning.
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by joquarky 7mo ago
On top of the drop from the past 10 years?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> an an enormous amount of useless activity is slaved to providing it in companies that need to Curious why the word "slaved" was used here instead of the much more nominal "employed".
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Something is coming so it's all smash and grab.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Chuck Palahniuk has a few words on this.

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