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by prinny_ 1y ago
What exactly did you try with GitHub copilot? It’s not an LLM itself, just in interface for an LLM. I have copilot in my professional GitHub account and I can choose between chat-gpt and Claude.
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by prinny_ 1y ago
I checked some videos and it looks astonishing. And this is a 34 year old anime?
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by prinny_ 1y ago
Most of the time it’s not with memoising anything because as it’s pointed out it’s easy to create a component that tries to be performant but its consumer breaks it because it passes a non memoized prop. And it is weird that a library that
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by prinny_ 1y ago
MDN is an essential site and I am so glad it's maintained, updated and introducing new functionality.
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by prinny_ 1y ago
> Yeah they can complain, but you have zero obligation to fix. True, but if you want people to use your software you can't ignore the issues they raised, especially if they are valid and not some niche use cases, otherwise the proje
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by prinny_ 1y ago
A lot of people join this profession because they like building stuff. They enjoy thinking about a problem and coming up with a solution and then implementing and testing it. Prompting is not the same thing and it doesn't scratch the s
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by prinny_ 1y ago
There is no inexplicably heavy front end code and SPA is not to blame here. This is a matter of non existent optimization and code pilled on top of code.
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by prinny_ 1y ago
I have worked as an engineer on a product that didn't have a dedicated product lead and it was extremely hard to deliver new features without understanding the complex business side of things. Working without a dedicated product person
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by prinny_ 1y ago
2 reasons. First, the ratio of salary to expenses is so high that they don't have a meaningful amount to save towards retirement. Savings go towards rainy days and when those come they drain what little you have amassed. Second, if you
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by prinny_ 1y ago
“I was basically going from room to room just pouring out this stream-of-consciousness manifesto, like Jack Kerouac writing On the Road,” he says, referring to the frenetically produced single roll of teletype paper that catalyzed the beat
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by prinny_ 1y ago
I have stopped asking questions there. The moderation is so heavy handed it astonished me. I asked a question about some typescript types of an external library, the very author of those types replied and answered my question and I replied
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by prinny_ 1y ago
If they pushed the update by valuing user feedback over the expert testers that indicated the model felt off what is the value of the expert testers in the first place? They raised the issue and were promptly ignored.
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by prinny_ 1y ago
I don't have more than 5-6 tabs in my personal life, but in my professional life I regularly have 15-20 open. By all means a low number compared to some maniacs rocking hundreds or even thousands of open tabs. My case is like: 3-5 tabs
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by prinny_ 1y ago
I tried Kagi for 3 months, both for personal and work related queries and honestly I didn't find that many differences with Google. The top results were the same. There was a time I was interested in finding results from the small web
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by prinny_ 1y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher
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by prinny_ 2y ago
Honestly I wonder the same. App stores have big % cuts for the provider, I believe Apple has a 30% cut? Surely this number is big enough to justify spending the resources for a mobile first site?
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by prinny_ 2y ago
«Math.abs() is returning negative values for negative inputs.», man I would have reached for the bible if that happened to me. Fascinating in hindsight.
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by prinny_ 2y ago
I have a MacBook Pro for my professional life and a high end PC for gaming and I can definitely say if it wasn’t for gaming I would have bought a mac for my personal usage as well. It’s not only the quality and portability that offer a good
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by prinny_ 2y ago
What would make for a better impact? A marketing event to increase outreach or not announcing a change in the terms of use that allows Firefox to sell user data?
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by prinny_ 2y ago
I am still lowkey mad about how Microsoft handled Skype. They acquired a great piece of tech that was widely popular and used and they straight up butchered it. I was unable to fathom why version 7.2 dropped lists, when up at this point I w
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by prinny_ 2y ago
But it was a good idea! The interviewer just didn't expect a rock solid idea on the OP's part. It seems the interviewer was more interested in creating a hard interview rather than finding a good engineer. And while we're on
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by prinny_ 2y ago
Isn’t this a weak argument? OpenAI could also say their goal is to learn everything, feed it to AI, advance humanity etc etc.
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by prinny_ 2y ago
I should had clarified my case a bit better. I am a writer. People that I don't know (or know very little about) contact me to invite me to book festivals, propose collaboration on some presentation, reach out to ask stuff about what I
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by prinny_ 2y ago
The answer is network effect and friction . It is hard to communicate to everyone on your friends list that moving forward they can reach you via email or text only. It’s going to work with close friends and family but other people that wan
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by prinny_ 2y ago
Is that similar to webstorm's remote development?
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by prinny_ 2y ago
The thing is that in this scenario there is no control over the conversation so some participants may feel uncomfortable. My 10% can vary greatly from someone else's. The writer admitted so themselves "I decided to go for more tha
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by prinny_ 2y ago
I have been paying for Kagi for the past five or six months and apart from the truly niche cases where I need top of the shelf search results the majority of the time the top results are not that much different from, say, duck duck go. My o
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by prinny_ 2y ago
The one in my previous job, which was an admin board for a market intelligence application. Ultimately, the reason it was good was because the engineers had zero ego on top of having excellent skills. The team that set the codebase were bas
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by prinny_ 2y ago
“We care a lot about SPAs, team misjudged how many people rely on this today”. This comment worries me because I was under the impression that RSCs are an option for a specific use case and not the one approach to rule them all. SPAs should