kamaal

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by kamaal 2y ago
Code that you can understand and fix later, is acceptable quality per my definition. Either way, LLMs are actually high up the quality spectrum as they generate a very consistent style of code for everyone. Which gives it uniformity, that i
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>>A skilled assembly worker makes closer to $30 or $40 an hour than $25. And that doesn't account for overtime. A skilled tradesman can make $40+. In theory. In practice the numbers are way lower. As some one who has done quite a
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by kamaal 2y ago
Would interesting to know what percentage themselves or their own children wanted to work at a factory. Can tell with a huge degree of confidence for all practical purposes thats 0. Its always easy to expect other people to make sacrifi
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>You cannot import something without exporting something else. That something else, in almost 100% of the situations, is dollars. If you want the world to trade using your currency. You have to give them dollars. That is buy some
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by kamaal 2y ago
>> Foreign countries buy US dollars so they can trade with other people. That guarantees the deficit since they give us something in exchange for USD, which they do not then spend on goods we make. This is called Triffin Dilemma- And
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>The most frustrating thing about dipping in to the FE is that it seems like literally everything is deprecated. I build a lot of FE stuff for internal company tooling. Production, monitoring, dashboards etc. Its crazy how the React
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by kamaal 2y ago
So the layoffs make sense? If you are not responsible for whatever decisions you make, and you don't even make any decisions that amount to anything at all, plus you don't do anything(code, SRE etc) why should you have a job?
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>you'd think the universal experience is 1% good, 9% benign, 90% actively seeking the downfall of civilization It might not be a grand conspiracy or might not come from meticulous planning, but what happens is they just work for
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by kamaal 2y ago
I don't get this idea that to build a stable product you must make your life hard as much as possible. One can use ai AND build stable products at the same time. These are not exactly opposing goals, and even above that assuming that a
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>Experienced developers develop fluency in their tools >>You can see that right? I get it, but this as big a paradigm shift as much as Google and Internet was to people in the 90s. Some times how you do things changes, and that
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by kamaal 2y ago
You mean logic programming? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming Its been around for decades. In fact this was the first approach to doing AI. In logic programming you basically write concrete set of test ca
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by kamaal 2y ago
It writes blocks of 50 - 100 lines fairly fast in one go, and I work in such block chunks one at a time. And I keep going as I already have a good enough idea of how a program could look like. I can write some thing like a 10,000(100 such i
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by kamaal 2y ago
Exactly my point, you don't ask the LLM to give you the whole function. That would be too much English work, because that means you need to write down the contract of the function in concrete and/or list(list of lists). You ask it
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>In one case, one might be committing to the repository slightly more frequently. But in all cases, they still aren't completing assignments on time. Most people are using it to finish work soon, rather than use it to do more wo
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by kamaal 2y ago
English to Code translation. Albeit they are fairly context aware as to what you are asking. So they can save a lot of RTFM and code/test cycles. At times they can look at the functions that are already built, and write new ones for yo
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by kamaal 2y ago
Thats not how apex productivity folks have used any IDE productivity leap including this one. You dont outsource your thinking to the tool, You do the thinking and let the tool type it for you.
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>but it falls down with anything heavy. If you are using LLMs to write anything more than a if(else)/for block at a time you are doing it wrong. >>I think it's weakening junior engineers' reasoning and coding abi
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>>so there's no incentive for Karnataka's politicians to invest in it. Do you seriously stay in Bangalore man? Because you don't sound real. Nearly every major politician has real estate and small industries stake in Ba
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>The party that got voted out was mired in corruption scams Thats basically every single political party. And thats actually baked into core assumptions before even going to vote. Regardless of who you put in power will steal. The ed
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>>For starters the toilets actually don't dump directly between the tracks. That's still there :) You don't cross(on a two wheeler) below a bridge on which a train is passing for the obvious reasons(Golden shower).
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by kamaal 2y ago
India did a fork in its flavor of politics in the 1980s. The goals went from making a industrial state, with a big middle class, with health care, housing, decent working hours and retirement -to- making politics whose goals were restoring
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>It’s hard to believe today but South Korea in the 1960’s was the poorest nation on Earth. In % GDP terms S.Korea is a top spender on research, development and education. To give you a contrast in the recent Delhi elections, the part
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>>urban Bangalore only has around 20 seats in Karnataka's Legislative Assembly out of 224 total. This means that state governments have little to no incentive to care about providing urban services and goods, when they can better
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Nearly all of India is poor. If you step out of major metros, that is as little as 30 - 40 kms from major metros you will see never ending poverty. Job options are non existent. Farming and some local trade is all you have. There is also to
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by kamaal 2y ago
>>We were solidly middle class in india that never went hungry. Not being hungry is not the same as getting good nutrition. Middle class in India doesn't eat enough meat, fish, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Middle class meal in S
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>>One issue is the unfortunate deep level of corruption in Indian society. Blame every thing on "Corruption". This is such cope. All you have to do is ensure you do your part in keeping things around you clean. You can ghost
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>>I know China liberalized in the 80’s and India in the 90’s. So you could say that’s a 10 year difference. India never really liberalized. It was more like one trick pony with affluence and progress centered around IT industry. You
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>>I don't know why the momentum stopped. There was no momentum. People never started, it was more of a marketing campaign. Almost everyday I see people throw garbage around street corners, if you ask them not to, they gang up and
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>>please please prioritize financial freedom if you don't have a clear objective in mind This. To Infinity. Please prioritise financial freedom. I missed a few steps, but as I get old, I realise this is the biggest blocker to alm
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>>Both my parents were in a huge rush to retire early, and now they just sit at home and scroll Facebook. I don't see the appeal. My retirement plans look somewhat similar to how Knuth spends his time. Long hours of deep intellec

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