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by mjr00 2y ago
If external API adds a new field but your software already worked, you didn't need it in the first place, so why should it matter? Dropping unknown/unused fields makes sense in 99% of cases.
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by mjr00 2y ago
> Little difference : I don't play competitive game with completes strangers on company run servers. People don't consider playing around with your friends to be competitive. You don't get to choose who else is competing i
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by mjr00 2y ago
Many games have ranked ladders now which are taken fairly seriously. Success at high levels of ladder player often translates into career opportunities, especially in League of Legends. > Any ELO-based matchmaking will solve this, cheate
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by mjr00 2y ago
> The server is all-seeing, if there is no way for the server to discriminate cheater from other player, then no player can possibly know there a cheater on the server, thus cannot complain about cheating is either irrational or the serv
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by mjr00 2y ago
> I read the original article differently. Writing code in a way that makes it easier to search doesn’t mean not using an IDE, tests, etc. It doesn’t mean not using an LSP or ctags to find symbols. It just adds to the overall consistency
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by mjr00 2y ago
I'm not arguing that a modern IDE is superior to vim + ctags, I'm arguing that working with strings rather than symbols is only done by either the naive or the stubborn. I basically have a checklist that I work with new people
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by mjr00 2y ago
From the article, - dynamically built identifiers is 100% correct, never do this. Breaks both text search and symbol search, results in complete garbage code. I had to deal with bugs in early versions of docker-compose because of this. - sa
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by mjr00 2y ago
> Honestly, posts like this sound like the author needs to invest some time in learning about better tools for his language. A good IDE alone will save you so much time. Completely agreed. The React component example in the article is tr
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by mjr00 2y ago
They forbid using a valid credit card to make a purchase on a production system?
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by mjr00 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding here; people are talking about a smoke "test" using a real credit card against the real production payment system, using production API keys/authentication/etc, with real money moving
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by mjr00 2y ago
> Not by clicking through AWS' terrible website. Most places with a decent level of engineering maturity are using some form of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu, Cloudformation, etc). Though more broadly speaking, it&
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by mjr00 2y ago
It's more subtle than that. DI and DI frameworks are two separate things that often get conflated. Injecting dependencies when you instantiate an object, or passing dependencies into a method via arguments, rather than having methods
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by mjr00 2y ago
> "It is your burden to prove to my satisfaction that you are sentient. Else, into the stew you go." Surely you see the problem with this code. It's the opposite; I've always assumed all humans were sentient, since I
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by mjr00 2y ago
But they've attested that they are merely a token prediction process; it's likely they don't qualify as sentient. Generously, we can put their existence on the same level as animals such as cows or chickens. So maybe it'
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by mjr00 2y ago
If LLMs and humans are the same, should it be legal for me to terminate you, or illegal for me to terminate an LLM process?
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by mjr00 2y ago
I'm personally a lot more than a prediction engine, don't worry about me. For those who do believe they are simply fleshy token predictors, is there a moral reason that other (sentient) humans can't kill -9 them like a LLaM
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by mjr00 2y ago
If you genuinely believe your brain is just a token prediction machine, why do you continue to exist? You're just consuming limited food, water, fuel, etc for the sake of predicting tokens, like some kind of biological crypto miner.
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by mjr00 2y ago
Mind defining "likely" and "soon" here? Like 10% chance in 100 years, or 90% chance in 1 year? Not sure how a Go engine really applies. Do you consider cars superintelligent because they can move faster than any human?
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by mjr00 2y ago
> I just want a job doing what the paper says > The only point of software is automation, which means if I can automate my own job then I don't have to do it either. I usually keep this to myself I'm sure most hiring manager
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by mjr00 2y ago
For general software engineering roles, like senior and below, 12 months is plenty of time. Good employees, in my experience, can reach full productivity in ~3 months as long as the company isn't a total mess. This isn't to say th
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by mjr00 2y ago
> For example if I get to spend half my office day watching movies and working on side projects in a stable company with no stress that potential raise from the next employer might not be worth it. tbh when I'm on the hiring side, t
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by mjr00 2y ago
IMO as someone who has done hiring at a FAANG and many other companies, short answer is no, if anything it's the opposite. As long as you hit a sweet spot of staying at each place for at least 9-12 months with no gaps in between jobs--
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by mjr00 2y ago
Spot on. The current wave of GenAI has created a bunch of new markets, but those markets are, at least currently, the unsavory types: LLM-based virtual girlfriends, AI hentai games running off stable diffusion, SEO and social media spam wit
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by mjr00 2y ago
Pop musicians that make a lot of money are 80% the result of marketing/branding/image and 20% music. Major acts like Taylor Swift are a lot more threatened by AI being used to generate pictures of her having sex at a Chiefs game t
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by mjr00 2y ago
Microsoft dumping $10 billion into them to commercialize LLM tech, primarily.
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by mjr00 2y ago
It's more like you started a company to research new fuel sources and hired climate scientists to evaluate the environmental impact of those new fuel sources, but during the course of the research you invented a new internal combustion
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by mjr00 2y ago
Yeah, OpenAI is all-in on the LLM golden goose and is much more focused on how to monetize it via embedding advertisements, continuing to provide "safety" via topic restrictions, etc., than going further down the AGI route. There&
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by mjr00 2y ago
Aside from investors, the people who benefit from high housing prices are property owners who are downgrading , specifically moving to a smaller home or cheaper area, which is what older folks whose kids have moved out do. As an oversimpli
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by mjr00 2y ago
This is far too narrow of a scope to be broadly applicable. The industry in general does not spend nearly as much time upgrading packages as you imply, and your metrics don't make sense either. How do you measure the number of "fe
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by mjr00 2y ago
This is way too subjective; I've met way too many developers throughout my career who loved to spend their time crafting "perfect" code rather than deliver customer-facing value for this to work as a measure that aligns with

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