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by lbrito 1y ago
There's over a dozen posts about this, most recent one from 19 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44811905
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by lbrito 1y ago
Is the US going to sanction Intel for being a SOE now?
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by lbrito 1y ago
That's true, however, not so great of an issue because there's a kind of natural selection happening: if the package is popular, other people will eventually read (parts of, at least) the code and catch the most egregious problems
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by lbrito 1y ago
This is an excellent point. Sure in an ideal world we should care very much about every line of code committed, but in the real world pushing garbage might be a valid compromise given things like crunch, sales pitches due tomorrow etc.
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by lbrito 1y ago
It's one of those you get what you put in kind of deals. If you spend a lot of time thinking about what you want, describing the inner workings, edge cases, architecture and library choices, and put that into a thoughtful markdown, the
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by lbrito 1y ago
>teach “how do you think and how do you decompose problems” That's rich coming from AWS! I think he meant "how do you think about adding unnecessary complexity to problems such that it can enable the maximum amount of meetings,
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by lbrito 1y ago
But who's to say humans are any different than simple databases with probability and statistics firing neurons?? /s
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by lbrito 1y ago
>That said, what is with Android phones and their back cameras? They look silly. Isn't it a market thing though? Doesn't Apple have a phone with horrendous, trypophobia-inducing camera nests?
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by lbrito 1y ago
Yeah. So basically the trend now is to stop actually improving things and have AI make shit up to fill the gaps and pretend we're improving things.
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by lbrito 1y ago
The background video looks like an AI video for "generate a video of Counter Strike 1.4 gameplay" Fond memories of 1.4 and 1.5, when it was still a Half-Life mod.
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by lbrito 1y ago
If there were an expensive but good service that aggregated the major networks - sorry, I mean, streaming services - then I'd pay for it. But managing 3-4 subscriptions is dumb. Also the Linux experience for every streaming service typ
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by lbrito 1y ago
Something like 80% of blind posters are Indians on h1b. Absolutely no judgements here, just saying (source: polls asking some variation of Are you Indian? appear all the time there)
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by lbrito 1y ago
I wouldn't focus on trying to tune your personality as that's not really sustainable. What if you get the job, are you going to continue living a second personality during working hours? You'll never know the real reason you
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by lbrito 1y ago
That's a lot of assumptions for someone supposedly not wanting to hand out psychological diagnoses based on a single comment on a online forum. I can online imagine the theses that would come out if you _were_ trying! You can ad homine
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by lbrito 1y ago
>The most high-flying executives you can name from the Valley to the Street… I would bet that most have a family they would describe as being meaningfully engaged with. They can describe all they want, but they have the same 24 hours a d
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by lbrito 1y ago
Next up: Tech bros are actually traditional family men. Here's why 10 reasons why RTO mandates are pro-family
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by lbrito 1y ago
I run a service that does transcriptions as part of the pipeline, and I use ffmpeg for other parts (such as speeding up audio). Having it all on a single command might make sense for some people if the costs work out.
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by lbrito 1y ago
Wasn't JRuby an option? Anyway, obviously Ruby (or any other dynamic language for that matter) isn't the solution to every problem. I was once tasked to refurbish an old Delphi desktop application that did some thermal simulations
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by lbrito 1y ago
>I haven't used Ruby in a decade but I do recall it being frustratingly slow. I've been using for more than a decade and have never found it to be "frustratingly slow", whatever that means in practice. Except when run
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by lbrito 1y ago
All of their prompts start with "Please ...". Gotta be polite with our future overlords!
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by lbrito 1y ago
I suspect sarcasm
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by lbrito 1y ago
There will likely be another agent to review the PRs and make questionable choices :D
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by lbrito 1y ago
I feel exactly this but I'm in my mid 30s. You're lucky in the sense that you probably have a longer career and may be able to retire.
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by lbrito 1y ago
>And how you are supposed to pay for that, if all work is automated? How economics of that is supposed to work? With UBI, probably. With a central government formed by our robot overlords. But why even pay us at that point?
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by lbrito 1y ago
>No most people are testing skills in video games You must be young. As people get older they (usually) care less about that.
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by lbrito 1y ago
The answer can and certainly will fill many books, dissertations, PhD thesis etc. Without going too philosophical, although one is not unjustified in going there, and just focusing on my own small professional corner (software engineering):
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by lbrito 1y ago
It's less that I'm a skeptic, but more that I'm finding I intensely abhor the world we're building for ourselves with these tools (which I admittedly use a lot).
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by lbrito 1y ago
Have you considered there are alternative modes of transportation other than personal vehicles? Some of them are even - gasp - public transportation, and quite efficient at what you want (fast travel).
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by lbrito 1y ago
This is very cool. I tested it with a specific linkedin post and it was pretty much spot-on (the reaction estimate, that is). Can't wait to try the optimized versions in the future.
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by lbrito 1y ago
Meh. I thought the Golden Age would be something pre web 2.0, and big tech killing it meaning walled gardens and then LLMs. The short rant in the article is really nearsighted.

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