moron4hire

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by moron4hire 4mo ago
We don't need the caveat that it's sometimes useful on every post about the problems of AI.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
When I mentor new developers, I frequently caution them (with caveats about my experience being only one) against going to work for tech companied. My favorite jobs have all been at companies that were not selling software in some way, but
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
> I've visited many doctors over the years, as a patient, and pretty much all of them treated me well, practiced their jobs professionally and gave me good advice and treatments. I never had a doctor give me advice that turned out t
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
My answer to every food authenticity Nazi is the same: "call a cop." I will do whatever I want and call it whatever I want. I will call sandwiches "European tacos" and there is nothing you can do to stop me. I will call
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Any claims that Python has a huge backwards compat mission go right out the window when you consider Python 3. 3 was a perfect chance to fix all of the major problems with Python, problems other languages have solved so there isn't eve
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
It's this sort of stuff that leaves me scratching my head why people like Python so much. I hear them say they prefer the syntax and personally I feel like that's such a small part of the holistic experience of working with any pa
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
I think the big difference between the Republicans and Democrats is that the R-electorate votes for R-candidates because they want what the R-candidates are promising, while the D-electorare votes for D-candidates because they don't w
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
As much as I loathe to side with the current administration and as much as I also loathe to admit the "too dangerous to release" narrative (it's clearly been pushed by these companies as a brag not a real concern), this actua
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
Post reads as English as a second language.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
There really is no point in leaning into avoidable pain. Pain does not "make you stronger". Pain is not "beauty". These are all bullshit tropes invented by abusers to keep people from questioning things.
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by moron4hire 4mo ago
It's an anti-reproductive rights argument. You have to first accept the premise that a fetus is a person. Once you've done that, then the premise that a fetus is a person seems obvious.
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
As it absorbs more or less moisture from the air due to ambient humidity changes, yes. The same reason your wooden furniture will also significantly change in dimensions such that there's no point in being more than 1/16th of an i
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
Flour is always the canonical example and I flat out reject it. It's not true. If you think it's true, you've convinced yourself it's true to avoid addressing other problems in process you have. Here's a thing: a gi
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
The baking industry isn't really measuring by weight, they are measuring by bag, which happens to be delineated in weight. Look, this is arm chair, YouTube cooking. There is so much variation in recipes that 10% here and there is not g
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
> the use of imprecise cup measurements rather than weights It really does not matter. Both because variation doesn't matter and because weights vs volumes are not going to give a big enough variation to really be detectable.
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
The same year Linux wins the desktop market.
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
Isn't this only a concern for yolocoding? All the AI-advocates tell me that "good" use of AI should include human review. Of course, they never seem able to explain why the boss that makes you use coding agents to go fast wou
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I mean, if I'm in a situation in which I need more powerful debugging tools than what I already have available, then I kind of want to know those tools have been built with care. If I'm deep in the weeds of trying to deliver and I
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
What does that have to do with LLMs? There's morev to delivering value to the customer than just shipping code. We used to understand that technical debt was an existential risk to a project. I can't see how "code nobody unde
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I will meet your question with another: why is it so important to you that LLM-driven coding succeed? You made some good points about users only caring that something works. Perhaps folks who are reluctant to hand everything over to some of
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
Yeah, I actually don't care how other people program in the languages I'm using. Give me all the ways to do things. I'll make my own choices, thank you.
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I'm sorry, I'm sure you've considered this, but why couldn't you create a bare VM with Postgres vCurrent installed?
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I don't like the framing of calling it academic dishonesty. If it were one or two students doing it, sure. But there is no reason to believe that 2026 Berkeley freshmen are fundamentally more dishonest than 2025 Berkeley students. When
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I don't think any of this comports with how chat completion systems work, even if I were to accept Metzinger's framing. Everything an LLM "knows" had to be told to it. It does not have a process for understanding itself
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I don't think it really matters all that much if the restaurant's success can be attributable to skill at a 2% or 4% rate or whatever. For all practical purposes, since you only get one or two shots at doing that kind of thing in
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
I very much doubt they are thinking that deep. I think you're bending over backwards to give the AI an out based off of an incomplete picture. You can't have a complete picture because you haven't been here in this project. B
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
They can't talk about it during the code review. Basically, "no excuses." We talk about what we're doing otherwise.
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
Gambling addicts make all kinds of post-hoc rationalizations for why they are actually up, if you think about it. "Well, if you consider my entertainment, I'm actually up." "Well, if you think of all the drinks I got com
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
All of these Gen AI tools where you pay a subscription fee are basically Software-as-a-Casino. You spin the wheel and hope it doesn't come up 00, then chase good money after bad when it does. Add in the parasocial relationship that som
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by moron4hire 5mo ago
> We're figuring out in real time where the rough edges are This is a frustrating thing to see someone write because this is the kind of stuff that people have been warning about for years. If you needed this incident to figure out

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