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by pydry 7mo ago
Why would AI increase coding productivity for everything except utilities and libraries? I think it's probably one of the better ways to measure productivity, actually. Software packages are unencumbered by non coding related bottl
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by pydry 7mo ago
These days conflating criticism of israel with anti semitism is a very clear, very obvious and very reliable racist calling card. Mitch McConnell (adherent of the great replacement theory) accusing Joe Kent of anti semitism gave the accusat
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by pydry 7mo ago
Look for the Tucker Carlson interview with Joe Kent. (Tucker Carlson is weirdly intelligent and thoughtful in that interview in a way i did not expect, but Joe said the most eye opening stuff... I have a lot of respect for him)
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by pydry 7mo ago
>After five or six cycles it does become a bit fatiguing. Use the tool sanely. That's increasingly not possible. This is the first time for me in 20 years where I've had a programming tool rammed down my throat. There's a
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by pydry 7mo ago
When you listen to the director of counterterrorism explain what happened in the run up to him resigning it fits pretty well the theory that Trump is compromised (possibly with kompromat) by a certain Middle Eastern country.
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by pydry 7mo ago
I imagine if they tried to replace typists with keyboards that produced plausible looking words that were entirely wrong half the time then we'd probably still have plenty of typists. I tend to find that the volume of automation pred
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by pydry 7mo ago
Of the companies that I've worked with that made significant use of call centres they generally fall into three groups: * Customer wants the human touch * The company's systems were broken and the customer wouldnt have called at a
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by pydry 7mo ago
It's not a first experiment it's experiment 50 or 60 and, a reaction to AI gaslighting. Most people dont really understand coding but shopping is a far simpler task and so it's easier to see how and where it fails (i.e. wit
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by pydry 7mo ago
It's interesting that the people IRL I encounter who "get the most value" tend to be the devs who couldnt distinguish well written code from slop in the first place. People online with identical views to them all assure me th
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by pydry 7mo ago
Been hearing that said repeatedly since 1989. I've never once heard it from somebody who correctly anticipated China's rise though. The imminent collapse story just quietly changes every 5 years or so. If the US has an imperial ri
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by pydry 7mo ago
The only real difference between Obama's foreign adventures in Libya and Trump's in Iran was that Obama lied to the security council to get their approval first. Trump isnt all that different in character to previous administratio
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by pydry 7mo ago
American exceptionalism is a law unto itself.
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by pydry 7mo ago
Actual users are less important to Microsoft than execs who actually purchase the licenses.
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by pydry 7mo ago
Of course. they have enormous mortgages and anything which drags down the absurd value of their home is an ominous threat. Blaming "fake socialists" or "nimbyism" doesnt change the fact that they are entirely rational ac
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by pydry 7mo ago
It's very costly compared to normal gas but it's still marginally cheaper to use solar and roundtrip p2g to use on a cold, windless night than it is to use nuclear power produced on any day of the year. There's just zero econ
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by pydry 7mo ago
Neither could French nuclear plants when they were turned off for weeks at a time for emergency maintenance. So, France fired up the gas. 5x cheaper electricity, on the other hand, makes power-to-gas economic, which can smooth out seasonal
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by pydry 7mo ago
An absurd conspiracy theory. Nuclear power has an LCOE that is 5x the cost of solar and wind. Nobody would build it on cost alone. The only reason countries build and run nuclear power plants is because it shares supply chain and a skills
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by pydry 7mo ago
It's already pretty bad for mullvad. 3/4 of the websites I visit do bot checks it used to just be a few.
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by pydry 7mo ago
The problem with saying "one must validate that speed is a problem before doing something about it" is that some people hear "one must ignore speed". Users not being up front about their desires and needs is an argument
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by pydry 7mo ago
Rent control doesnt change the underlying fundamentals but it inhibits the ability of the ownership class from exploiting the working class based upon those fundamentals. It will also provide immediate relief for struggling citizens, wherea
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by pydry 7mo ago
No, you need a government agency which will build social housing. Not once has the private sector ever been "encouraged" to build social housing with deregulation. The only reason it keeps getting touted as The Solution in the med
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by pydry 7mo ago
Going "what if?" and then validating a customer requirement that exists NOW is NOT the same thing as trying to pre-empt a customer's requirement which might exist in the future. Audit trails are commonly neglected coz someb
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by pydry 7mo ago
In exchange for two brutal wars they got 9 years of de facto independence. That's not even very long. You dont need counterfactuals to ask if it was worth it or compare 9 years to the age of the universe. Armed revolutions are often
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by pydry 7mo ago
It didn't exactly matter in the end. Russia eventually encircled them with artillery and pounded them until they gave up and brokered a deal. Their fighting skills and spirit have since been added as an asset on the Russian military&#x
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by pydry 7mo ago
You've inadvertently made an argument for deprecation, not ignoring rob's rule. When building interfaces you are bound to make mistakes which end users will end up depending on (not just regarding optimization). The correct lesson
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by pydry 7mo ago
I dunno, Ive seen people try to violate "dont prematurely optimize" probably a thousand times (no exaggeration) and never ONCE seen this happen: 1. Somebody verifies with the users that speed is actually one of the most burning pr
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by pydry 7mo ago
I usually defer this until a PM does the research to highlight that speed is a burning issue. I find 98% of the time that users are clamoring to get something implemented or fixed which isnt speed related so I work on that instead. When I d
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by pydry 7mo ago
I interpreted what they meant as "pairing doesnt work with non coders doing non coding design/architecture/requirements". Not "pair programming doesnt work with non programmers doing pure programming" coz it do
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by pydry 7mo ago
The number 1 issue Ive experienced with poor programmers is a belief that theyre special snowflakes who can anticipate the future. It's the same thing with programmers who believe in BDUF or disbelieve YAGNI - they design architectures
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by pydry 7mo ago
Nonsense. I pair all the time with stakeholders. If you strip out all of the cucumber nonsense this is essentially what BDD is - fleshing out and refining specs by guiding people through concrete, written example scenarios. I also often pa

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