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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I need to double and triple check the updated code Well, one the most important skills in AI generated code era is the ability to read code, and quickly. Another thing is, writing smaller functions helps.
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by kamaal 2y ago
No. That is because regular, and failing(even fatal failure) often is just how nearly everyones life works. You win by first learning where you are going to die, and not going there. Most college dropouts fail. You are better off finishing
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by kamaal 2y ago
If I do X I will get lucky != Lucky people can do X and win. Simply put the act of doing something doesn't make you lucky. However if you are lucky already, you can do most things and win.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy. The adult equivalent of this to quit your comfortable paying jobs to do a start-up. Fail bad, and realise you are
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by kamaal 2y ago
How is Perl 6/Rakudo coming along these days? I mean in terms of overall spec compliance and production use cases. Im guessing larger adoption would still be low unless Rakudo can run CPAN modules as is.
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by kamaal 2y ago
https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c-third-edition
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>How did beginners survive the previous REPL for 30 years? Mostly by not using it at all. REPL doesn't maintain a state, atleast not complex enough state to be relevant to most things. People only use it for hello world kind of
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Knowing how to use vi can be useful, but I absolutely cannot fathom how someone can prefer it over an actual IDE as their daily driver for writing code. Given Python has to be installed every where. A light weight editor like vi is
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by kamaal 2y ago
I think the ideas get stretched. But fasting is kind of used as a means to avoid gluttony. Fasting does keep you little alert and productive, compared to people who aren't doing it. Stay Hungry, Stay foolish. [Have enough enough appeti
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>he now spends almost all time with the family. I see this too, for some reason people who don't fast kind of find it rude if people around them are fasting. Families even more so.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Haven't almost 1Bn people intermittently fasted during Ramadan for centuries? As a Muslim, I can tell you we tend to over eat, generally after we break our fast. It kind of defeats the whole point of fasting. In most cases its
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by kamaal 2y ago
I have seen some people who decide to keep moving forward with whatever they have at the time. Sure what they produce is way less than perfect, but what they produce is way ahead of what everybody else is doing. Perhaps the key is to be rel
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by kamaal 2y ago
1. India has a low gdp per capita. What that means is quality of life for masses is low. That also means slum/ghetto like neighbourhoods. Even if you have the money you mostly stay in a gated community, sandwiched between those areas.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I added up all that time I was spending sitting in traffic and it totaled an entire month of my life just sitting in traffic. My year was essentially 11 months long, not 12. Even with people using WFH to drop/pick up kids from
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by kamaal 2y ago
May be a doctor can answer this. Will fasting slow down aging? Ideally it should cause the same effect?
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I will personally never use Copilot, or any other AI code generation tool, for the simple reason that I enjoy writing code. Im pretty sure I will enjoy riding horses. But if I have to deliver things to people, I think I will be usin
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by kamaal 2y ago
> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943 Given all computers in that era are literal super computers of their times, that quote seems to be mostly right even till date.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Why do I hate going to the gym / lifting weight & cardio so much? Seems pretty much the same case with thinking too. Thinking hard doesn't come naturally to people either. Though doing it often can not only save your l
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by kamaal 2y ago
The difference is you can't query or chat with a book. You can with a LLM. So if you are learning some thing new, you can keep poking and asking questions until you reach some level of understanding. Im guessing with a book a lot of th
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by kamaal 2y ago
This can also back fire. I remember the days when people said programmers who don't use the internet/Google while coding actually learn more than those who do. While that was true initially- Eventually internet was just the norm a
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by kamaal 2y ago
Its the standard narrative at every place "We always hire the best". No body knows where the not-best people work at. They have to pretend to like they are working on things so special and hard that only the absolutely best would
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by kamaal 2y ago
FAANGs are notoriously famous for having one bad feedback rule. That is, if even one interviewer feels you didn't answer their question they reject you. So it looks like all the top paying places interview this way.
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by kamaal 2y ago
I once had a colleague who had a favourite interview question, it had something to do with graph data structure and would always ask the question, many times candidate would reply and get rejected, strangely enough after a while all those c
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I'm amazed by people who can simply just..decide to sleep with some crisis hanging over their head. Not if crisis becomes routine. Then its just another working day. There is a also a non-personal crisis situation to this. Many
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by kamaal 2y ago
Im not able to see the context here. How is it a con?
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by kamaal 2y ago
At their heart LLMs are basically a mechanism to guess(predict based on probability) the next word based on what it has already done/seen so far. How it goes about guessing them, or how it gets the context is based on attention and
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>The solution is either correct or incorrect. Not even humans write 100% correct solutions. Everyday programming is not a theorem proving exercise. Programs are correct enough, to cover a agreeable amount of test cases. >>Anyti
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I tried getting Claude to help me model an event-based store with moderate type safety and it was a total disaster. That's just not how you work with a LLM. You don't give LLMs problems to solve. You do the thinking part a
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by kamaal 2y ago
Modern version of this is 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish' i.e Hungry enough to work harder and foolish enough to learn more.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>It's true that there are a lot of people who got into the industry just because of the comp though :( Lots of people are just tuned out. And just don't care. With or without the comp. >>It comes back to the work itse

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