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by koonsolo 3y ago
Have you ever talked to real average people? I would say an LLM is more intelligent than at least some people I know. And in the domain of programming, most people I know. Simply by the fact that most people don't know programming.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
The distinction is how much a mistake gets punished. In chess, a tiny oversight might lose you the game ("Oops I didn't saw you could take my queen"). In poker, a huge mistake like "whoops I dropped my cards accidently o
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Once he started talking about chess, I knew it was going to be a limited view on things. There are 2 kinds of games: those that punish mistakes very badly, and those that reward exploited opportunities very richly. I was never good at games
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by koonsolo 3y ago
When you own a company, the question is always how to get money out. Renting out personal things to the company is one way of doing that. If you are the sole owner, that's all fine. If there are co-owners, that shouldn't be done u
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by koonsolo 3y ago
There is also another thing that comes into play: rich people go to rich places and come into contact with other rich people. Not all those rich people are honest business men, so to speak. So connections into shady things is not that diffi
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Wow, thanks for linking to my old article!
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I think the big difference is information. My grandparents were born around 1920. There was no radio, no TV. It would surprise me if they had any form of newspaper (I need to ask my dad). Their world was very small, situated under the churc
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I'm from Belgium, born in 1979, so I'll give you some insight since you're interested :). My grandparents (farmers) went to church every Sunday. In those days it was kind of like a central meeting place to meet your neighbors
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Right when I'm thinking about switching from Linux to Mac. Not for the software but for the hardware. I just can't find any laptop that can even get near the quality of a MacBook (excellent touchpad, sound, battery life).
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Let's face reality here: In the end, AI and robots will be able to do anything better than what we humans can do. That is the harsh reality that everyone will need to accept. What happens in the mean time will be unclear, but I think m
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Dictatorships should be starved out so they don't pose a threat to the rest of us. Expecting them to behave by sending them money is a failed theory. EU here, not US. I don't want my money to fund the killings of our Ukrainian fri
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by koonsolo 3y ago
This basically works for any project that has a final release data, and only bug fixes after. When you have a product that you keep on improving, that last 20% will come and haunt you :D.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Since you seem to understand how it works, can you explain the following to me: Let's say I pay $10 to listen to my favorite indie band, for 1 hour each week. Let's say another user listens to Taylor Swift 24/7. Does my favor
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by koonsolo 3y ago
That's funny, because I switched from VSCodeVim to NeoVim for a similar reason. I guess both have issues. But still, the power of VSCode with vim keybindings is still my best setup.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
UK is pretty special indeed. On a holiday I passed by 2 UK boys, maybe one 6 and the other 8. The 8 year old slapped the younger one (I guess brother). The younger boy was almost in tears, while the other asked "Are you crying? Haha yo
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Sure, but the valuation doesn't buy you any food. In the end you need cashflow.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Yesterday I was watching a movie on Netflix and thought to myself, what if Netflix generated a movie based on what I want to see and what I like. Plus, it could generate it in real time and take my responses into account. I look bored? Spic
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by koonsolo 3y ago
My feeling is that the git interface is a leaky abstraction. I also don't want to learn git tricks, but unfortunately I learned more about it than I wanted to.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
For me, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is still the best management book out there for 2 reasons: 1. It clearly explains the difference between a leader and a manager, and how those are 2 different roles 2. "Stewar
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Here is the number 1 thing you need to realize about web development: it goes from simple article websites to ecommerce to full blown applications like Photopea or Figma. People act as if it's all 'web development'. And then
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> but frankly it is so unrealistic as to border on untrue. It’s a lot to remember. 12 words is enough. For example: witch collapse practice feed shame open despair creek road again ice least. If you can make a story that incorporates tho
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like I'm not hiring at the level of day to day work, I'm hiring at the level of when things go complex or bad. To give an example, I'm not going to
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by koonsolo 3y ago
You can literally store it in your mind. A lot of people buy gold for when "Shit hits the fan". But in the end, it's better to flee a horrible place (think Russia or Hong Kong) with a bottle of water and $1M worth of bitcoin
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I was responding to another comment, so my conclusion was not fully stated in my comment alone.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
> We've been eating it for a couple of millions of years. My grandparents were farmers before farming became industrialized. If you look at how much meat they ate, it's very little compared to current generations. Plus, what th
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by koonsolo 3y ago
So basically, OOP is still the best for big iterative projects?
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by koonsolo 3y ago
So can you tell me which programming paradigm actually solves these problems that OOP has? And also, can you give me a huge non-OOP codebase that shows in practice how it is better than the potential OOP implementation?
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Sure, living under an autocratic invasion and having your internet access tightened is very "fortunate". Ah sorry, maybe I should clarify: the above is sarcasm.
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by koonsolo 3y ago
Retro's are at the core of agile, since they empower the team to finetune their own process. I don't agree on the manager not being present. The manager must be present in my opinion, but I think you are facing a different problem
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by koonsolo 3y ago
I always wonder if they have retrospectives in those situations. And if so, what they actually do there. In my opinion, retrospectives give the power to the team to improve their own process. Without self-organizing teams, you have no agile

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