rhines

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by rhines 10mo ago
I see tests as more of a test of the programmer's understanding of their project than anything. If you deeply understand the project requirements, API surface, failure modes, etc. you will write tests that enforce correct behaviour. If
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by rhines 10mo ago
Well Wang used to live with Altman. What value that actually provides, I don't know. But it seems to be why he's worth this much.
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by rhines 10mo ago
Or upvotes might be a better example, at least for Reddit/Hackernews. But the idea being that the comments are sorted based on some algorithm, whether than be popularity or something else, and commenters are trying to optimize for that
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by rhines 10mo ago
ToS didn't stop the companies that built those models and it won't stop the companies that bootstrap off them. Until an AI company eats a multi billion dollar lawsuit for unlawful data use they will continue to operate this way.
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by rhines 10mo ago
Social media is no longer social - it's just media. At least for most people anyway. The average user, and probably kids even more so, are just scrolling through. If you're posting as well, or at least commenting on stuff and havi
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by rhines 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing this, looks like a useful overview of the field. I wish the first edition had come out a year or two earlier - this would have been a great resource for my undergrad research work. Back then there were no books covering C
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by rhines 11mo ago
I could see it building habits that persist even when no longer using the drugs. They've found other things to fill their time instead of eating, and things which would previously trigger them to start eating now trigger them to do oth
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by rhines 11mo ago
I watched this interview when I first heard about Alexandr Wang. I'd seen he was the youngest self made billionaire, which is a pretty impressive credential to have under your belt, and I wanted to see if I could get a read on what set
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by rhines 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree. If I go to a photography forum, there will be one thread for photos taken with a specific camera. Those threads are easily found and I can browse them to get huge amounts of relevant info if I'm interested in
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by rhines 1y ago
I strongly disagree. But maybe because of a difference of perspective. If you're imagining a Reddit-scale forum, with millions of people with no sense of community and no knowledge of the content they're consuming, then yeah a tra
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by rhines 1y ago
It's also IMO valid. CRUD isn't derogatory. It's also not particularly illuminating though. Almost everything is a CRUD app. If you get the fundamental data structures, access patterns, and control flow right for those CRUD
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by rhines 1y ago
I could be mistaken, but my read is that years of dealing with cat turds day in day out has numbed the author to their stench. His once prized chocolates now have become themselves cat turds, and he lacks the senses to even realize it. Note
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by rhines 1y ago
We've reached the point where people without devices or common online services are so rare that society no longer accommodates them. It's similar to how we need legislation to ensure that disabled people have accessible infrastruc
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by rhines 1y ago
Experienced that today with 2.5 Pro. Though I was amused that all the links were links to Google searches for the source, rather than direct links.
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by rhines 1y ago
The comparison to art is apt. Generated art gets the job done for most people. It's good enough. Maybe it's derivative, maybe there are small inaccuracies, but it is available instantly for free and that's what matters most.
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by rhines 1y ago
100% agreed with games being designed for online aids. Some of the quests in Oldschool Runescape make me wonder if I'd ever have completed them without guides - it's like they're designed to be a challenge for the whole commu
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by rhines 1y ago
Location: Halifax, NS, Canada Remote: Yes (also open to hybrid/on-site in Halifax) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, C#, SQL, more on resume Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12trs6PGW
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by rhines 1y ago
I wonder if we need teams generating dozens of UIs or whatever every day though. There may (or may not) be a limit to how much value-adding work is available to do, or at least diminishing returns that no longer justify high salaries.
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by rhines 1y ago
Depends on your perspective I guess, personally I find YT far more valuable than any streaming platform. University lectures from hundreds of professors, conference recordings, music videos, millions of independent creators covering nearly
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by rhines 1y ago
Plenty of university students around me who will order a $8 boba tea and be disappointed that the boba is cooked poorly or the milk ratio isn't good, and then do it again a couple days later. But the difference is that food elicits cra
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by rhines 1y ago
Yeah I remember binging his blog while between classes in university - he wrote well and had interesting thoughts on marketability, mastery, business, etc., all things that I was interested in as someone learning to be an adult and find his
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by rhines 1y ago
When I looked at working in America several years ago, many people I spoke to and people commenting about it on Reddit/HN/Blind emphasized that it's TN status, not TN visa. They even suggested that calling it a visa when tryi
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by rhines 1y ago
It is an unfortunate side-effect of spending too much time online I think. Or online in the wrong spaces. Everyone has a different tolerance for dealing with unreasonable people, but there is a breaking point for each of us. And if you hit
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by rhines 1y ago
I have changed my mind on things in online discussions. Usually in the form of them saying something I disagree with, me trying to articulate why they're wrong or searching for evidence that they're wrong, and then coming up short
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by rhines 1y ago
Personally I see the "validation" as not so much trying to validate the person's feelings, but rather establishing that I understand and agree with their goals. Otherwise any disagreement with them comes across as hostility a
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by rhines 2y ago
I think there is some inherent value to PhDs in general. Even the ones commonly looked down upon as frivolous here, even the ones with little to no economic benefit. The value is that obtaining a PhD involves deep research into something be
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by rhines 2y ago
I can't speak for other fields, but this does seem true of computer science. I worked in a university lab for a couple years and knew many PhD students, and most of them were most interested in leveraging the PhD to make more money in
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by rhines 2y ago
You can create BMP files like that - I wrote some image generators that do that and they render fine in all image viewers. But the spec also supports much more, so if you're writing a BMP viewer then things get hairy.
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by rhines 2y ago
My phone could not handle it at all, it started dropping widgets after the slime (like subway surfers and hydraulic press disappeared) and then it started to lag before finally my whole phone became unresponsive for a couple minutes even af
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by rhines 4y ago
No, but it does assume you already save a large portion of your paycheque. Suppose you make $400k as a senior SWE at FAANG, or maybe $250k after taxes. Now you move to a lower CoL area and make 30% less - so $280k (for argument's sake

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