nottheengineer

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by nottheengineer 3y ago
"My software crashes so often that it's worth the time to automate restarting it" is what I'd expect of a windows user. Has macOS really gotten that bad over the last few years? I remember being forced to use it a long t
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
It does seem hacky, but then again the whole concept of conversational LLMs is. You're just asking it to add an extra word to a given conversation and after a bit, it spits out an end token that tells your application to hand control b
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
As an ABAP developer looking to get back into the normal world I'm a little scared about how debugging will be like. After playing around with a bit of C and trying gdb, I asked myself if this is really what people use. The display con
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Maybe governments should hire actual red teams to look for those loopholes.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The fact that phones eavesdrop on conversations and turn those into relevant ads within minutes is reason enough for me to believe that they will use the data regardless of what their privacy policy says.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
> Writing on paper even more-so than typing on a keyboard. How do you get to that conclusion? I find that if I have a text editor, I can write my thoughts down and then visually put them in order or encase them in a more general concept
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I think this is more appropriate when talking to people that are on your level or below you. The post is about compliments to managers and I think it's valid to ask in that case, especially in large companies where you might not know t
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Maybe a counterexample to it, not sure if it can be applied: I write software in ABAP, which is a weird and ridiculously complicated language that has inline SQL and type checking against the database and has never had a major version that
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Good point about not hitting limits individually. I think microsoft has a huge problem with this. Even 3000$ laptops from 5 years ago struggle with running a teams call, some office instances and a browser with 30 tabs at the same time with
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
> That Klingon Empire thing was a joke, right? That made me laugh out loud. It's a great reminder why being conscious of the assumptions you make is an important part of development and one that LLMs can't really do.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Telling them to fuck off means using linux. It's a hard step at first, but I highly recommend giving it a shot. After learning the basics, I can't go back to windows anymore because I know how a proper OS works and can see how ter
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Yes (looking at it from mobile), I think it's because of the fact that the images sit below the tags and there are no separator lines. My brain just doesn't get the connection between the title/text/tags block and the im
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Because germany is on a very slippery slope. Our politicians are occupied with idiotic things like tearing down nuclear power plants before the coal ones and the economy is going downhill. If nothing changes and the job market stays as bad
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
If I had an easily replacable battery and updates on my phone for that long, I would. Right now mine is 3 years old and still perfectly adequate in terms of hardware, but I can't because it will stop getting security updates soon.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I don't get what's wrong with foglights. They don't blind nearly as much as a low beam in a corner (or a slightly misaligned one), but make it easier for others to see you.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Yes. Most implementations of matrix high beams are bad. The VW Passat for example (and most derivatives of it) is straight up dangerous because the camera system doesn't work properly. The only way to make it detect my car is to blast
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I try to do that, but there are a lot of times where I find myself thinking "I don't care, I just want this to work" and blindly copy anything that's not super fishy. Especially after nvidia updates.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
At SAP, you get to use all the latest features and are free to change basically anything. On the customer/consulting side, we get to work around terrible ancient standard implementations and our products need to work on old systems, so
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
As an ABAP developer, I thought "that doesn't sound too bad". I definitely need to get out of there before my brain rots further. And for anyone curious: https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_751_index_htm&#x
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Finally! I hate having to regularly clear my browser data or navigating those horrible consent UIs when I don't have cookieautodelete.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
People often forget an important part of investing into trains instead of cars: It makes it so the people who don't want to drive don't have to. And since the people who just drive because they have to are usually not the best dri
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
There's a third option: Just stop paying for stuff that uses this.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Thanks, I'm currently trying to guide two students through the hell of setting up ML on CUDA without doing everything from scratch and they use chatGPT a lot. This will probably come in handy for all the weird cryptic errors that they
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Probably, but LLMs seem to gain more understanding from seeing lots of different examples than they do from a few examples of good code so people won't stop scraping stackoverflow.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Agreed, stack overflow is the place where we stop to find an answer to a question. They should stay focused on that instead of adding useless features. But I don't entirely agree on LLMs being useless. An LLM could help with avoiding d
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
It's been a while since an article managed to make me laugh out loud. It's some great writing.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The "GPL but just for me" apparently. Not sure how they're going to monetize the monopoly they are trying to secure.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Holy shit, I've never seen an AI go schizophrenic this hard. That's my first try: https://gist.github.com/miguel7501/983f794e13cc762eb6274c9b2...
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I let it write some machine learning quote and tried to make it guess good hyperparameters, then it crashed and just kept repeating the word "Based".
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Fairphone is great, but expensive for the hardware and not available everywhere. A pixel with grapheneOS, calyxOS or /e/OS would be the next best thing.

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