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by onion2k 2y ago
What a miserable existence that must be. This ignores the fact that people are motivated by different things. If you're someone who thrives on the intrinsic 'do this for the love and joy of it' motivation then you should ab
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's always worth spending 30s verifying something like this by reversing what you're arguing - in this case, 5000 * 365 * 40 is obviously more than 82,000.
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by onion2k 2y ago
I'd argue that every billionaire has a talent for persuading capable people to join them on a journey. Having that skill alone isn't enough because you also need to pick the right journey at the right time, but not having that ski
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by onion2k 2y ago
f you're wildly successful at something with significant real world influence, why would you care so strongly about something as relatively inconsequential as a board game or a video game? Zuck 'earning' another billion pro
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by onion2k 2y ago
I think it's slightly more accurate to say people like attention, and choose not to spend much time thinking about whether it's from a person or a bot. The amount of time people spend talking to, or arguing with, bots on sites lik
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by onion2k 2y ago
This is interesting, but the implication of what it's saying overstates the upside of random conversations (you could get what you're looking for), and utterly ignores the huge downside that when you're lonely a rejection m
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by onion2k 2y ago
Would that actually matter if the result code ends up running a similar, working game?
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by onion2k 2y ago
Test what exactly? If your test is "The page renders how I expect when using the browser's default styling" then that's a terrible test, because that can change at any time without your control. You just have to accept w
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by onion2k 2y ago
Isn't the point that Google caches the site, and the visitor loads the caches SXG data from Google , and they never hit the server of the site itself. It's like AMP on steroids. It definitely doesn't count as a visit for the
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by onion2k 2y ago
The advantage of having a common API across thousands of web apps shouldn't be a point of discussion. We have one. It's called "the browser". The discussion is whether or not we need a higher level API than that. If we
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by onion2k 2y ago
Isn't this what CouchDB/PouchDB solves in quite a nice way?
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by onion2k 2y ago
More accurately, people who travelled to the US in recent years were fine. The assumption that will continue to be the case is something every traveller needs to consider for themselves. It's not unreasonable for people to choose not t
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by onion2k 2y ago
The upside is lower tax, but the downside is that you have to live in a boiling hot construction site where the main form of entertainment is going shopping. It's not a simple decision.
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by onion2k 2y ago
I say at the moment because they're all doing this kind of crap... Maybe they used AI to code their agent, and it's just not that good.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Or you can opt out. Both options are equally valid. I won't pay for YouTube because the consistency of YouTube is massively variable. Sometimes channels I watch skip 6 months between videos. When I do watch stuff its usually in the b
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by onion2k 2y ago
Hand-written code is required for fine craftsmanship. Unless you're building a code museum you shouldn't really treat any of your code as a rare artefact that you carefully crafted and honed to perfection. That way lies tech deb
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by onion2k 2y ago
From the article In the government’s schema, programmers do the grunt work while the much more numerous — and much faster-growing — software developers enjoy a broader remit. They figure out what clients need, design solutions and work wit
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by onion2k 2y ago
22% drop in programming jobs, but only a 0.3% drop in developer jobs. It's an interesting point of differentiation. I imagine there's a lot more developers than programmers when you're being pedantic about it.
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's up to YOU to implement basic data security. You definitely need to do this, but a platform should help where possible, and try to have users fall into a 'pit of success' where if a dev just goes with the defaults every
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by onion2k 2y ago
To use an analogy, it's a car but not a self-driving one -- it augments my natural ability to super-human levels; but it's not autonomous, I still have to steer it quite a lot or else it'll run into oncoming traffic. So like
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by onion2k 2y ago
I have no idea what you're even trying to say but this. Is this some kind of technoreligion that thinks AGI is worth the endeavor regardless of the harm that comes to people along the way? I'm saying there is a lot of value in t
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by onion2k 2y ago
AI code generation tools provide a dubious boost to short term productivity at the expense of extra work in the medium term and skill atrophy in the long term. At the moment, sure. They've only been available for about 5 minutes in t
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by onion2k 2y ago
Yes.
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by onion2k 2y ago
I think it's weakening junior engineers' reasoning and coding abilities as they become reliant on it without having lived for long, or at all, in the before times. As someone old enough to have built websites in Notepad.exe it&#
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by onion2k 2y ago
it rarely returns the right answer One of the biggest difficulties AI will face is getting developers to unlearn the idea that there's a right answer, and that of the many thousands of possible right answers, 'the code I would h
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by onion2k 2y ago
I have 25+ years of dev experience, and currently work as an engineering manager for teams who write code in a language I've never used (but in a domain I understand well). What do you think I'm missing?
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by onion2k 2y ago
I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do. Why would you put a limit on your own progress like that?
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by onion2k 2y ago
In the context of a discussion about websites becoming binary blobs of WASM code that make it essentially impossible to block ads on, the choice will be to use a site and see adverts or not to use that site. I'm saying that we should m
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by onion2k 2y ago
The most effective ad blocker is choosing not to use websites that display ads. That won't ever change.
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by onion2k 2y ago
In these roles, these tools won't apply. There will be companies that will apply them regardless, even in roles where they'll make things worse. The incentive for managers to show 'a bias for action' often results in m

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