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by parpfish 10mo ago
It doesn’t require any major improvement to the underlying model. As long they tinker with system prompts and builtin tools/settings, the coding agent will evolve in unpredictable ways out of my control
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by parpfish 10mo ago
I refuse to learn all the complicated configuration because none of it will matter when they drop the next model. Things that need special settings now won’t in the future and vice versa. It’s not worth investing a bunch of time into learni
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by parpfish 10mo ago
I think the heart of the problem is that we’ve somehow conflated the highest paying Eng jobs with being the most prestigious. People feel like if they want to climb the prestige ladder, they need some way of justifying the business practice
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by parpfish 10mo ago
The problem with zork is that you don’t have a list of all the options in front of you so you have to guess. You could have a menu that lists all the valid options, but that changes the game. It doesn’t require you to use imagination and op
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by parpfish 10mo ago
For a good slow pan, you don’t need 3d reconstruction but you DO need “Ashokan Farewell”
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by parpfish 10mo ago
this might be bait, but i'll bite. this example isn't a great example for the academic situation given the way "getting credit" works and how important it is in academia. getting credit for your work in academia isn&#x27
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by parpfish 10mo ago
you're right. i'm clearly morally deficient because i've let my own (not at all idiosyncratic) personal experience color my opinions.
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by parpfish 10mo ago
yeah, the hard part about this issue is that the kids that do the project are generally super smart. this situation ends up hurting three groups: - postdocs that are in a precarious career position are being forced to give up a bunch of w
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Other than personal experience of having my PI tell me to hand over my own almost-done experiments to his friends kids?
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Maybe I’m cynical, but whenever I read about a high school kid making a science breakthrough I assume this is what happened (based partially on personal experience): - the lab PI has a friend who’s kid needs to put together a college applic
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Not to mention that their notifications are useless. How do they know when new emails arrive?! It’s more work if you have to constantly go in and monitor instead of waiting for a push that says “here are three new messages”
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by parpfish 10mo ago
> Many people have suggested strategies for dealing with this. One popular technique is Inbox Zero. The jokes about it suggests virtually nobody attains it, but I’m not even convinced it’s a virtue I have inbox zero for personal and work
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Jetbrainz needs to give up on Junie and their in house ai and focus on integrating with the established tools. If they don’t, VS code will consume them.
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Wouldnt it be easier to just give everybody $1000/mo but then use the yearly tax bill to get high earners to pay it back rather than having graduated payouts? That ensures that everybody gets prompt payouts and feels that there’s a saf
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by parpfish 10mo ago
For tech folks that are making comfortable salaries, a raise won’t help. But if you’re in a position where there is difficulty affording your living expenses, a raise can make a huge quality of life change. It can remove enough stress from
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by parpfish 10mo ago
One thing that I always try to bring up in these discussions is that “burnout” and “overwork” are two different problems, and I think this author would agree with me. If your problem could be fixed with a raise or a nice vacation, that’s ov
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Regardless, it seems like they used the Ctrl-a key to speed up redacting
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by parpfish 10mo ago
My mind went… elsewhere. Specifically, the gutter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
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by parpfish 10mo ago
I’ll chime in to say that this happened to me as well. My project would start good, but eventually end up in a state where nothing could be fixed and the agent would burn tokens going in circles to fix little bugs. So I’d tell the agent to
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by parpfish 10mo ago
The small sample sizes is rational response from scientists in the face of a) funding levels and b) unreasonable expectations from hiring/promotion committees. cog neuro labs need to start organizing their research programs more like g
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Fmri doesn’t measure blood flow, it measures the oxygen level in the blood. Hemoglobin molecules change shape when they carry oxygen and the different shapes react differently to magnets, which is a real stroke of luck
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by parpfish 10mo ago
The point of the salmon paper is to demonstrate to people “if you do your stats wrong, you’re going to think noise is real” and not “fmri is bs”
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by parpfish 10mo ago
Two things I don’t like about big-int indexes: - If you use uuids as foreign keys to another table, it’s obvious when you screw up a join condition by specifying the wrong indices. With int indices you can easily get plausible looking resul
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by parpfish 10mo ago
I love going out of my way to help people, but hate when people help me or give me gifts. I don’t know how to experience “pure” gratitude that isn’t overwhelmed by guilt. I should probably talk to somebody about that…
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by parpfish 10mo ago
After seeing the pic of it, it’s less of a “handheld” camera and more of a “handsheld” camera
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by parpfish 10mo ago
It’s also important to have some line of communication that isn’t owned/monitored by management
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by parpfish 10mo ago
No, I’d love to see it! The first one lends itself to a revenue model really naturally, but I think it’d be hard to make number two into a business. It’s not clear how to monetize it while also maintaining a really high degree of trust
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by parpfish 10mo ago
as much as i hate tech bros that think the solution to every social problem is a new saas app, there are two pieces of tech that would be great for workers: 1) for people that aren't in a union, make labor lawyers easy to use. there co
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by parpfish 10mo ago
oh yeah, definitely. for variables its best to exclusively use obscure unicode.
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by parpfish 10mo ago
I’ve been told multiple times in multiple jobs that I’m good at naming things, and I love whimsical names. A couple rules I’ve internalized are: - if it’s hard to name, that’s a good sign that you haven’t clearly delineated use case or set

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