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by kamaal 2y ago
>>When your business is cost control on human life, it's not surprising that decency goes out the door. Bingo! Not sure why many people are missing this point. Beneath all this. The healthcare industry, doctors, pharma companies
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by kamaal 2y ago
My general point is about the concept of DCA. Not BTC. Im sure you can invest $30/day in Index funds too. Given its basically 2 hours of minimum wage/day.
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>>you can't just wreck people's lives for a living and expect no consequences. Just wondering how will people react to mass unemployment resulting from AI/Automation. There better be lots of affluence going around. Food
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Congrats to the people who held through thick and thin, I speculate (my own opinion) that we will likely not see 80% drawdowns anymore due to all the institutional money that flew in, just “standard” 40-50% dips. Fantastic to witnes
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How does one learn game design? Any pointers for absolute noobs?
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>>since all the young seem to know Python 'I know Perl' people != 'I know Python' people Perl was/is just so powerful, people have used to do all kinds of things that most people probably don't even have
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by kamaal 2y ago
Part of the reasons why developers are so common is because starting is easy thanks to these 'free' tools. They better pay, or some body 15 years from now will have to spend $10,000 just to being learning how to code. That not onl
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by kamaal 2y ago
Its crazy how individuals can't decide if they just want to be left alone to live in peace. I hope someday if life becomes multi planetary, there will be a way to just step away from any fight and just go live wherever you want to.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Through all of this, don't get me wrong, the rigorous application of rationality Much of this is just talking to oneself and testing it to see if our idea holds under test conditions. I was once watching a video on how chess gr
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>It also has only glancing similarities to anything that the author would recognise as mathematics. Nah, these are the same things. Trying to make Math look like is for people who are 'geniuses' i.e people with massive capa
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by kamaal 2y ago
I wrote 50K lines of Perl last month using co-pilot+vscode in a single day. Perl+LLM is a match made in heaven.
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>>It's like an imagination sport. Honestly speaking I think this is a wrong way to teach people to think about Math. Math is just one of those things which feels hard because people struggle to hold long trials of manipulations i
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Its strange people of every generation, almost everyday keeps discovering the need for Perl. Perl was made to solve precisely these kind of problems. Just use Perl. Its fast, matured, has CPAN and is dedicated to maintaining backwards compa
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>He told me he was amazed by the quality of our roads compared to those in his homeland If you are from any other countries apart from the first world, the US even with all its problems is a super massive upgrade over anything back h
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>This happens in other countries too. This is everyday life in India. A big budget is sanctioned to build a road. Road gets built, then a month or two later, some body forgets they didn't do the sanitary/sewage pipes well e
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason. >>Has that changed? 'that' 'reason' for any government is to ensure its own survival till eternity. Though eternity might not be possible. Its rea
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by kamaal 2y ago
I wonder how long they could go on with something like this. There are a fair bit of features that are done better today than they were done decades back. Developer tooling has been getting better. In fact today auto complete doesn't e
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by kamaal 2y ago
Deleting other people's code/features is always a point of friction in any code base, not just open source. People deeply care about watching their work survive and be used for eternity, and when they watch their work get deleted,
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Well its entirely an individual choice to make. But I don't generally view the world in terms of ORs I view them in terms of ANDs. One can do pick and use multiple good things at a time. Using vim doesn't mean, I won't use vs
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>>How do you know if it’s correct when you never learned the “correct” way and you’re just blindly believing the tool? This is just splitting hairs. People who use calculators interpret it in only one way. You are making a different a
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by kamaal 2y ago
Yes, editor proficiency is something that beats these things any day. In fact if you are familiar with keyboard macros, in both vim and emacs you can do a lot of text heavy lifting tasks. I don't see these as opposing traits. One can u
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by kamaal 2y ago
These days you can TMTOWTDI in Python as well though. The TMTOWTDI argument was valid in very early stages of Perl vs Python debate, like some what between 2000 - 2006 etc. These days Python is just Perl with mandatory tab indentation. Pyth
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Prior knowledge part becomes important as you realise, verifying the output of an LLM to be right requires the same too. In fact you can only ask the smallest possible increment so that the answer can be verified to be true with least possi
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>>The difference is that you can trust a good calculator. You currently can't trust AI to be right. Well that is because you ask a calculator to divide numbers. Which is a question that can be interpreted in only one way. And don
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>>I wonder if my coding skill will deteriorate in the years to come... Well that's not how LLMs work. Don't use an LLM to do thinking for you. You use LLMs to work for you, while you tell(after thinking) it what's to
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Its strange that people are saying the same about maintaining code bases written using AI assistance. Im guessing its going to be a generational thing now. A whole older generation of programmers will just find themselves out of place in wh
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by kamaal 2y ago
In the intent department, I have had more troubles with AbstractClassFactorySingletonDispatcher type Java code, add to that dependency injection magic/madness. I'd rather maintain Perl any day than 30 classes of Java code just to
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>>Feels like they just need someone to blame for losing the plane. Its always hard to be a the last man in the hierarchy of a big budget project run by idiots. They always need somebody to fire to 'cya'.
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This competing offer thing is relatively new and restricted to the top internet and wall street kind of companies. Where there is too much money and they just want people at the top of the ladder all the time, even if they don't need t
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by kamaal 2y ago
There is a young/old divide. There was a similar divide in the 2000s when Google Search got ubiquitous and writing code got easier than ever. I know a lot of people quit to become 'managers' because they didn't want to f

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