mangamadaiyan

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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Are you writing this from experience? If so, is this from experience as a boss, as a low (maybe even average) performer, or a high performer? How do you know that your statement is true?
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Sure, as long as one has some means of predicting the probability of false positives as well as false negatives. Until then, colour me unconvinced of the (f)utility of this approach :)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
How would we know that the AI didn't hallucinate when it translated a tablet? In other words, how could one trust the translation? A human translator can still provide some justification for their interpretation. Also, "acquired&q
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
It should be possible to achieve the same end by forcing management to use the "hardware of the people", getting them to do nontrivial on-call duty frequently, and making them dogfood what they make. The real fucking assholes are
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Isn't that precisely the point that the GP was trying to make, about the accessibility of the article? Edit: Eytzinger layout, Cache lines, SIMD, et cetera are independent of the particular language used in the article. They're ju
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Erm, the concepts that you're referring to are independent of the language being used. The author is free to use whatever language they want. The GP (I think) was merely trying to make a point about making the article accessible to a w
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I think you mean "a lot of people in the USA" :) In most of the other parts of the world, people would either see the wisdom of this approach because they understand good government, or not bat an eyelid because they're used
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
As a corollary to your last point, neither should it be allowed to become Skynet.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Any system can, and will, be abused by the powers that be. Any system that can be abused, will be abused by people with power. There is a clear disparity in power between an IC and a manager. The "oh, I totally deserved my PIP, so all
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
> Musk can be many bad things, but he is also right in some things Indeed. A broken clock also tells the time correctly twice a day.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Ah, I didn't know about aniline-based inks being used with dip pens back then. Thank you for that nugget of information!
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Yes, that was likely the handwriting in vogue at the time. It is beautiful, however! I don't know what kind of ink they would've used if not iron gall. Also, modern IG formulations differ from older ones, I think. As far as the ha
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
It was written by hand, in a rather poetic, inspiring, and exciting handwriting! At least, I find it so. The bottle likely helped preserve the paper and the writing. In addition, I'd guess that they used good quality paper, because Iro
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Nitpick: s/Columbia/Colombia/
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Pry my treasured Conway Stewarts (made on your side of the pond), my Sheaffers (made on the other side), Rangas, and Sailors from my cold dead hands. Art or otherwise, I take joy in writing with them, as do you, I suspect, with your writing
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
For those I'd recommend Rohrer & Klingner Alt Goldgrün or Montblanc Irish Green instead :)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
On a tangential note, for the fountain pen enthusiasts on HN: Diamine Eau de Nil is an ink worth trying. It shades well (with a juicy nib on good paper like Midori or Tomoe River), and in general looks like a darker shade of the colour desc
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Not really. GH advertises that its Copilot can go through documentation and fetch relevant results. I don't see anything wrong in asking the copilot to fetch any kind of results from its own documentation.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
An example would help me understand this better, if it's not too much to ask :)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
What are these long-term benefits? Also, Vim (and Emacs) and notepad are not even in the same class of editor.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
If you knew what to do, why would you consult a Copilot in the first place? It's not like GH tells you to use Copilot exclusively for writing boilerplate code. What the OP tried to do was a legitimate use case, wasn't it?
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Yes indeed. Management almost always bastardizes good ideas and makes them terrible; and then they take it a notch further by finding and nurturing kool-aid connoisseurs in the levels below. (Edit: grammar)
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, or words suchlike (from Santayana, I guess?). I don't know if I'll ever see things like devops and agile die the horrible deaths that they deserve - but I do wish engineers wo
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I used "royal blood" to mean that she was in some sense privileged -- nothing more. Bad turn of phrase, I guess.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
> regular citizen Almost, but not quite. She had royal blood on both sides of her father's family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan Not that this takes away anything from what you wrote, I just ha
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Ah, yes. The difference between theory and practice doesn't matter when it is one's pet theory being discussed.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvotes, this is indeed a fact. (Edit: you don't have to be a bad performer to get shunted out by stack ranking. In a rotten enough organization, it is possible for a manager to write a perform
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
The first eight-thousander that was summitted, as well as the name of the book that Maurice Herzog wrote. Which book is well worth reading.
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
It's more to do with your immediate boss and teammates than BigCo or Startup. Culture and Bullshit flow from the top, as the old jungle saying goes. The icing on the cake is your immediate boss being a certain kind of bodily orifice, a
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by mangamadaiyan 2y ago
I agree. I'd go further and say that the modern attitude is to discard everything "old", regardless of whether it is understood or not.

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