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by pnathan 2y ago
I have always found the :pistol: -> water gun thing to be a great example of corporate NewSpeak in the service of some ideology. If you mean a pistol, it should be a pistol. If you mean a water gun, it should be a water gun. Having both
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by pnathan 2y ago
Some regulations are written in blood. I wish that there was a much stronger enforcement culture in the US around dangerous work.
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by pnathan 2y ago
no proposal any political side wants will get anywhere without accountable police. less beating of black men? accountability. more convictions of thieves? accountability. more presence in disorderly areas? accountability. equality before th
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by pnathan 2y ago
conda works really well for local hacking. Whatever it does, it sidesteps almost all the other footguns I have encountered with local pythons. on the other hand, I've found Go to be meaningfully superior for many things, and Rust to be
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by pnathan 2y ago
I was in a similar boat last fall - I was looking for work, and it was a really rough go. I know my resume, and I've point for hiring off and on for years - like yours, my experience is _pretty good_. It was close to murder getting a j
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by pnathan 2y ago
As soon as I got a few lines in I was like, "So, a trombone... with extra steps" (Also if you want to slide, any fretless instrument is good! )
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by pnathan 2y ago
At this point, I am surprised that LLMs _can_ do code, given the volume of incorrect information they give on specific topics.
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by pnathan 2y ago
> wasting their time producing nothing much of a value. they lived. that is not nil. it enriched their lives. But, eh, I wouldn't say they lived and thrived there. Some other people have done the very far out life. Here's one
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by pnathan 2y ago
That is how I'd read it. I would actually say that OP got played, successfully.
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by pnathan 2y ago
> (whose main skill was mainly to get all the SVPs to stop shivving each other in the quest to grow revenue) Having once been on an engineering team where we all wound up shivving each other's ideas in a quest to, idk, do good wor
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by pnathan 2y ago
Competence and promotions are two different skillsets, sometimes they intersect. I've been swept up into some of the promo-optimized guys' orbits, and it was deeply unpleasant. Lots of smoke and mirrors to execs... Good leadership
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by pnathan 3y ago
How well does AutoCodeRover work in relation to compiled languages such as Java, Go, or Rust? The local code search idea to get around context limits is cool. Have you experimented with Anthropic's models for the larger context limit a
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by pnathan 3y ago
Yes. I wanted to be a UPS driver as a little boy. Because I loved getting packages. Being a cake shop worker seems entirely aligned with five year old me. I just had never been to a cake shop at that time. :)
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by pnathan 3y ago
That is my take, after having written in many languages over many years. I also think this is more of a Zeitgeist thing, to be honest.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Quality readable code does not depend on these sorts of styles. As a matter of fact, you can write totally opaque code, in perfect style. I have seen this. If using getOrElse in one function and using an if in another is confusing, I am ver
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by pnathan 3y ago
Oral texts aren't written texts. Different rhythm. Different style. Note, the Torah is at least as old as the described texts, and has separations between words. Audiobooks don't count as book in any modern sense. But the sense of
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by pnathan 3y ago
Isn't this normally required when getting a US state business license as it is?
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by pnathan 3y ago
One my basic design philosophies is I learn key things deeply, and fit them together, without layers of "make it easy" tools that introduce incessant XY problems and integration issues. If something is "magically" easy,
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by pnathan 3y ago
I will just dab some orange or red acrylic paint on and call it good. No IR needs though. A little hax but it works Adequately.
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by pnathan 3y ago
The idea that vendors should be responsible under the law for all of what they release is good. I concur that the long term likely outcome for the late adopter crowd is "certified lts editions, supported by BlahCorp" and the long
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by pnathan 3y ago
Eh. I think that's just of how emacs IS and the tutorials I remember all dealt with it. I also don't think they were jackasses by default...
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by pnathan 3y ago
I have very rarely encountered a PM(any title) who lucidly communicated their value-add to the company. It is certain that, e.g., someone needs to assess the pricing of a product and how to position it in the market. But it's unclear t
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by pnathan 3y ago
High switching costs internally in terms of tooling and processes. Also businesses recognize, broadly, that when vendors offer something for nothing, the value is commensurate with the price.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Pollan said once: > Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants And as near as I can tell, that is basically the way forward, plus remembering to eat enough protein. There's a steady drip of how this additive or that replacement has a kno
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by pnathan 3y ago
Location: Spokane, WA Remote: YES Willing to relocate: For a lifechanging opportunity. Technologies: Golang, Kubernetes, Rust, Python, GCP, AWS, Linux, (and more, but I hate to yammer on) Résumé/CV: http://pnatha
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by pnathan 3y ago
Worth noting that Neil Gaiman is quite possibly the most active human user of Bluesky on the entire platform. He has absolutely stupendous output, and it's all kind and decent.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Again? Third major hack in two years? Yikes.
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by pnathan 3y ago
I am finding Bard almost comparable. Gpt quality is declining I think. Wouldn't surprise me if bard permanently surpasses gpt in the next quarter. Particularly if openai is dialing down quality...
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by pnathan 3y ago
Dang. I owe Mr. Altman an apology. I didn't think a startup board would be so mindexplodingly stupid and figured some toxic skeleton fell out of his closet. Well, I'm sorry. Its a lesson to not speculate in public.
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by pnathan 3y ago
Extremely shocking. The only thing that comes to mind is criminal conduct. Nothing else seems to demand a sudden firing. OpenAI has clearly been the rocket ship startup - a revolutionary tool and product clearly driving the next decade?+ of

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