necovek

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   by necovek 5mo ago

   I believe you are responding to a concern you are facing in your career with bad documentation (I would guess bad code too), but projecting that onto an unrelated topic: I believe both could be independently true or not.
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   Mentor 3 who need to mentor/"pair with" 3 each? ;-)
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   I'll bite: is education not about starting with theoretical summary of the knowledge in the domain, and then applying it in practice and really feeling it work, be challenging, or not work? The best educators I had had exactly that a
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   I am curious about that nit on list comprehensions in Python: what do you mean, why are they a "mistake" of language design?
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   You seem to be assuming a certain org structure with very clear, specialized roles. Many teams do not have this, and engineers are already Product Engineers. It sometimes even makes sense (whenever engineers dogfood their product, startup
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   I wonder if LLMs will actually kill Youtube for those who are like you (and me)? I am curious to see if anything happens to earnings from Youtube over the next few years as people increasingly do not need to sit through whole videos.
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   > That said, I don't get online clothes shopping. The fit is 80% of the product. Indeed it is, but when you are p95 (at least for height, but not overweight), you'll soon learn that you do not have any other option: common size
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   Thanks, yeah, I haven't heard of it before even though it seems to have existed forever. To your point, I guess that is an issue with WYSIWYG tools: if not discoverable, you assume it is not there.
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   by necovek 5mo ago

   But the point was if this holds true for Slavic languages: my claim was it does not, as supported by the discussion.
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    You are absolutely right that there are examples where Cyrillic as used by Slavic languages is not perfectly "clean" either, and it's certainly a lot more nuanced than my simplistic and absolutist claim. Perhaps people misund
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    Decoupling choice of script from "symbols representation" is a weird approach — this is how people type them out. Yes, problems are not unique to Slavic languages, but at least for _some_ Slavic languages, Cyrillic has been taken
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    What you are saying is that Canonical should have first updated the DNS to point at the attacker's web site IP (hosted by Cloudflare) for a few hours to let Cloudflare eat 3.5Tbps for a bit? :)
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    In a sense, one can argue IPFS can do it, provided the content is syndicated widely enough. It is not, though. Similarly, BitTorrent does roughly the same once the peer relationships are established.
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    If you are not referring to the use of exaggerated examples to more clearly show the point, I wonder what do you refer to?
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    I invite you for a walk through Belgrade streets, maybe even with Google Street View. There will be Cyrillic in official signage, but ads and shop names will be predominately in Latin script. If there are some in Cyrillic, they are likely t
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    It's less pronounced with diacritics, but enter Unicode normal forms: you can represent š either as š, or s followed by a diacritic. When you want to compare two strings, you have to normalize them to ensure you are comparing apples to
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    It seems that I was wrong only partially, and this was totally not the core of my point (they do call the country Germaniya). If making one mistake discredits the entire take, I'd hate to be your conversing partner ever.
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    Indeed: most notably, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrin are all unambiguous with Cyrillic, but Latin script dominates, even in officially Cyrillic-first Serbia. Again, it is seen as a political tool (pro-West or pro-Russ
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    Apologies, it was mostly from running across different Russian maps with Германия that I took it as such (in Serbian it is Немачка). I stand corrected! Nem/нем literally means "mute" in Serbian, perhaps it's a latter ev
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    This is an article with a long introduction and then jumps straight to the point in one, final paragraph: Russia is abusing it for political messaging again. While yes, any tool will be abused like this, it really is also a tool to best co
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    I still find it easier to align tables with numbers in TeX on the decimal point than in anything else. How is this even achieved with HTML or Word? Eg. variable width numbers like 4.53 13.98765 7 -1,000,2
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    It's no accident there is an adage from Aristotle in the vein of: "Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach." So yes, there is a level of mastery that is beyond being able to do a good job of designing and evolving comp
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    This presumes that most of this stays encoded as words in our brains: the effort to translate some of these into words might be similar to translating it into code (still words, just very precise). It's like talking legalese vs plain E
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    This is an unpopular take, but when I was in undergrad maths in an old-school two-semester courses with one exam (exercises + oral) to cover it at the end, I was able to get to 60-80% score on exercises when I did just theory as prep. I cou
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    I believe most codebases were "unmaintainable spaghetti" even before LLMs: depends on how you define it though. To be, it means expensive to evolve.
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    You seem to have missed OP's point: some things are only encoded in our brains when you are sufficiently experienced. Translating that into code can happen directly by you, or into prompt iterations that need to result in the same&#x2F
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    Beats getting a 0-hour work week for sure — it's becoming all too common now.
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    I believe that is tautologically true, and thus not a very useful framing. Security is obviously a continuum (eg. you can even have a bug in your IPMI FW, and a network packet could break in without any interaction with the OS; or there cou
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    I believe we are already seeing that this is not true with the LLM systems we have available today — perhaps it changes in the (near?) future. What happens in the above scenario is that software gets evolved to a point where LLM cannot make
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    by necovek 6mo ago

    Security scanners already support most container and VM image formats in widespread use. Does this increase complexity? Yes, it does. Is it worth the cost? Depends on each individual case IMO.