lordnacho

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by lordnacho 9mo ago
It seems the criticism is indeed Berkson's Paradox, but the example is different to the canonical example of Berkson's paradox. In the canonical example, you have uncorrelated attributes, eg skill and attractiveness in actors, for
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
I have similar observations. The time saved is things like going to some library I wrote to find the exact order of parameters, or looking up some API on the internet and adjusting my code to it. Inevitably if I did that the old way, I woul
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
I dunno, I went to a high school reunion last year, and a dude seemed to know people's phone numbers from 30 years ago. If he could remember that sort of thing, I can believe there are people who can remember steps of a proof, which is
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
Yes, I have. I do it too, even some basic functions, I would look up on SO. You really just need to know that there's a way to open files in C. I don't think you can reach any sort of scale of breadth or depth if you try to memori
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
No, you have to be fluent in the domain. That is ultimately where the program is acting. You can be confident it works if it passes domain level tests. You save all the time that was wasted forcing the language into the shape you intended.
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
You no longer have to be very specific about syntax. There's now an AI that can translate your idea into whatever language you want. Previously, if you had an idea of what the program needed to do, you needed to learn a new language. T
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
I don't think it has ever been the case that you could neglect soft skills. You will hear this over and over, in every area of every business: people become successful by adjusting their behaviour to what works for the business. Someti
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
This is artisans vs industry. You can get a hand-crafted, beautiful, solid, chair made by a guy who knows all the tricks of carpentry. He's spent his whole life perfecting the technique of how to drill the holes, how to fit everything
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
I have a similar background, and I largely agree. What's dying is the programmer-first job. That guy whose main use is that he knows how computers work, and secondly that he is a human who can understand how some business works, and ca
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
> I'm curious: what have you actually learned from using LLMs to generate code for you? I learn whether my design works. Some of the things I plan would take hours to type out and test. Now I can just ask the LLM, it throws out a wo
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
By and large, I agree with the article. Claude is great and fast at doing low level dev work. Getting the syntax right in some complicated mechanism, executing an edit-execute-readlog loop, making multi file edits. This is exactly why I lov
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
No, you are spending less time on fixing little things, so you have more time on things like making sure all the potential errors are checked.
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by lordnacho 9mo ago
But the benefit might not be speed, it might be economy of attention. I can code with Claude when my mind isn't fresh. That adds several hours of time I can schedule, where previously I had to do fiddly things when I was fresh. What I
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
The bit about why not OOP seems a bit old. I think we're past a point where people are going for OOP as the default shape of code. Overall, it makes sense. C is a systems language, and a DB is a system abstraction. You shouldn't n
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
I'm almost there. I also have tailclscale/SSH/Claude sessions on a VM. The thing I'm missing is a phone that makes it comfy. I could just SSH feom my standard S23, but what I've got my eye on is one of those foldabl
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
I also work from home, together with my wife. So even though we have kids, there is no necessity of leaving the house, save for 15 minutes a day on weekdays to drop off and pick up. The main thing people have to get over is passivity. You w
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
I think there's something to this idea in the article. I remember my childhood well, perhaps because the cast is still somewhat intact, and we all had a good time. The time after finishing school is more blocky: a few years working in
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
The cynic in me thinks that people on their deathbed are about as well considered as people are in general: if you ask most people about some ordinary thing, and life regrets are indeed such a thing, they will give you a canned response tha
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
Probably more to do with HN being a tech community, and the US is the largest highly developed country where a lot of kids can learn tech stuff. So you get a disproportionate number of programmers and related professionals who are American.
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
Is it the one by Magdalen/Hilda's?
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
> I wanted the feature more than I wanted to know how to build the feature This is exactly what LLMs are great for. For instance, I'm looking at trading models. I want to think about buying and selling. I need some charts to look at
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
Even in my lifetime, it seems like growing up has become increasingly a sort of highwire-walking. Especially in the educated segment that I find myself in, it seems like you HAVE to do certain things to grow up "successfully". Whe
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
As long as you understand it's security by obscurity, rather than by cryptography. I don't think it's wrong, it's just not the same as eg using a yubikey.
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
It always bothered me that certain things are not marked to market. It's pretty much the point of financializing the economy, that you can then get a current value for things, instead of being able to pretend everything is fine. The pr
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by lordnacho 10mo ago
I've had American colleagues ask me about the London crime wave. They seem to have some sort of alternative news source that doesn't tell them murders have halved from the high point around the millennium. https://www.t
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by lordnacho 11mo ago
I think it really did. It went from "how nice, I can read the FT and the Economist on a screen now" to "Earth is flat, here is the research" in a few years at most. Newspapers themselves were already in the old game of s
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by lordnacho 11mo ago
I think when you learn to code, and I mean coding "real" programs, you forget how powerful Excel actually is. Yes, it's awful in many ways, but it is very accessible to people who don't consider themselves programmers. &
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by lordnacho 11mo ago
No, people who are older than 40 still grew up in newspaper world. Yes, the internet existed, but it didn't have the deluge of terrible content until well into the new millennium, and you couldn't get that content portable until r
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by lordnacho 11mo ago
I don't know how old your mom is, but my pet theory of authority is that people older than about 40 accept printed text as authoritative. As in, non-handwritten letters that look regular. When we were kids, you had either direct speech
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by lordnacho 11mo ago
Is this a question of the GPU chips dying due to be being warm semiconductors, or of them becoming outdated in relation to new chips?

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