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by prerok 5mo ago
Exactly. To be fair, there would be people in both camps (all-in and no-go) and they would be the vocal ones. Those are the minority. The majority will find the middle ground.
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by prerok 5mo ago
I've always felt we somewhat failed as engineers (I included, of course) when I was doing boilerplate by hand. We should have taken the time to get those autogenerated. But... it takes time and the generator is always more complex than
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by prerok 5mo ago
Same for me. I have not yet successfully used an LLM to generate code to produce a feature, though to be fair, it might just be because I don't have the patience to go back and forth with it (will readily admit that I am using it wrong
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by prerok 5mo ago
Even if the jury is still out, I would still say you are both right already. The amount of slop produced even in company setting is staggering and I don't like it one bit that neither the submitter nor the reviewer of the PR paid due d
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by prerok 5mo ago
Ok, so an edit to the parent post cites my comment as an incorrect citation needed as if it's incorrect. Another statement also claims that genocide was performed because it also includes religious groups. None of that is wrong. What i
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by prerok 5mo ago
Hah, that's not the norm? In my country it was. To be fair, the professors were required to give the students learning material in our native language and while some fields do contain other experts, the software field is different, so
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by prerok 5mo ago
Citation needed. Since year 1300 or for 1300 years? The former is closer to the truth than the latter, AFAIK.
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by prerok 5mo ago
Don't forget the crusades.
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by prerok 5mo ago
Historians are nowadays equivocal in saying that the "dark ages" is really a misnomer. It's the middle ages and it was more marred (in Europe) by several powers warring with each other than by any religious "darkening&qu
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by prerok 5mo ago
It's a bit disingenius to equate spread of a religion to a disease.
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by prerok 5mo ago
Coops usually wouldn't be, but they almost all went under some time back where I live.
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by prerok 5mo ago
This. They will call up a high rank and tell them about it and then it would trickle down. It would not happen through regular support channels.
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by prerok 5mo ago
Why would it be a mistake? It's efficient for the target platform. The same code can be compiled for different platforms, yes, but the assembly and machine code will vary significantly, so it could behave differently. Porting to a new
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by prerok 5mo ago
Somewhat true, but C is pretty close to translating directly to machine code, even if most compilers now do so many complex things the assembly can be pretty far off. My point being is that if you have a type int in your program, it's
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by prerok 5mo ago
> crash in a C program that turned out to be due to the compiler removing a null check. The what now? Though not lately, I did program in C for 15 years and never seen something like this. I did see some compiler bugs on obscure platform
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by prerok 5mo ago
Yeah, it's a shame we never got something like boost for C. Every company I ever worked for had its own common C library solving these problems.
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by prerok 5mo ago
His point of origin is immaterial to my point. I was not commenting specifically for Mr. Karpathy. My point was generic.
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by prerok 5mo ago
I would not say that this is because of this point. It's because investors in Europe are more conservative. Employees are as well, it's true, so it's strange to have someone out of the norm. It's not a red flag per se, b
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by prerok 5mo ago
At startups? Sure. Several stints at non-startups? Well, how much of that time was spent learning the domain? Is that knowledge transferrable (probably not because of non-competition clause)? Why were you not happy at the previous employer?
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by prerok 5mo ago
Hmm, interesting point, I did not know that. But, aside from that, while they cannot tell you that the candidate would not be ok, I did get hints on what to look out for. I mean, you always have to take the previous employers' statemen
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by prerok 5mo ago
Depends, but definitely not pointless. Though, I do have the benefit of working in a small country, so chances are that I will know of the company and perchance know folks that work there. Even if not, employers will still see fit to help e
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by prerok 5mo ago
Depends on the country, I guess. In Europe, it would definitely not be the norm and I would definitely call previous employers if it was several 2 year stints.
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by prerok 5mo ago
... and if you get it to work please tell us the prompt you used.
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by prerok 5mo ago
Indeed it is. I always wanted to chat with my clippy. Finally, after 20-25 years I now have the opportunity to do so /s
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by prerok 5mo ago
Indeed. Don't worry, ads will be back, just give it some time /s
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by prerok 5mo ago
Yeah, your work was so great that we are gonna fire just 3999 of you.
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by prerok 5mo ago
I did not see your talk but this summary somehow seems wrong. I would say there are two types of software debt. Dead code/useless features not providing value, which is in my experience easy to excise and rarely really causes issues, a
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by prerok 5mo ago
I think they meant all the security holes that have been popping up and that there is no interest from Microsoft to fix them.
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by prerok 5mo ago
I think you are both right and it really depends on the leap that has to be done during the time constraints of the exam and how much practise was included in the curriculum. Off-topic, I know, but I always disliked the time pressure of exa
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by prerok 5mo ago
If it's early enough, they would have to. And in case it's a false positive, they would be liable. All this to say, I actually find the thing hillarious, though. If there's an actual apocalypse a plane will not save you.

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