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by rowanseymour 1y ago
If you forced me to put a number on how much more productive having copilot makes me I think I would say < 5%, so I'm struggling to see how anyone can just assert that "the rational argument right now" is that I can be 200
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by rowanseymour 1y ago
Yes there are businesses (game companies?) which just want to get a thing out the door, sell it, and move on to the next thing. But I don't think that's how most software businesses function. Usually software is iterated on and ma
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Right, and projects that are millions lines of code usually aren't even one codebase or one app or service.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I'm sure there are lots of engineers who don't want to change but I don't feel I'm one of those. I use copilot every day. I'm leading integrating our product with different LLMs and playing with those regularly. And
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Calculators, abacuses etc are tools that let you do math easier than in your head. People have done original math on all sorts of things. Generative AI forces us to reconsider what original means because it's producing a "remix&
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
> Programming is getting democratized I have no idea what that is supposed to mean but I keep hearing the same about art, music and other creative fields and it sure sounds like contempt for creative people. I personally don't lose
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Ok but where is the product? Aren't most people just using ChatGPT from a chat prompt like they can do with any other LLM?
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I use copilot every day and every day I'm more and more convinced that LLMs aren't going to rule the world but will continue to be "just" neat autocomplete tools whose utility degrades the more you expect from them.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Your government is certainly compromised but is it Russia? A lobby group for a certain settler colony in the Middle East spent money on 80% of the seats up for election last year, and boasts of its ability to interfere with US elections. Je
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I really wish they'd update the default config once there's consensus that something new is optimal. I'm wary of even adding the config settings in this article in case things change in the future and I continue oblivious wit
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Just finished playing through HL1 and HL2 again.. as I do every 3-5 years. Maybe it's all nostalgia at this point but I just love being in that universe. The familiar sounds of a crowbar on metal, a sliding door etc. I was never very g
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I've nudged a few people who've asked me how to learn computer programming toward go - I think the simplicity of the tooling and language itself make it a good place to start. But I do think go mostly lends itself to multithreaded
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I setup a couple of HomePods recently and smart switches despite warnings from friends that Siri wasn't as good as the other options.. and it's been frustrating. Maybe it's our accents but just basic stuff like asking for a t
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Was Nelson Mandela a terrorist?
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Hope to see this as an option in Elasticache soon. Feels like Valkey has the momentum over Redis now. Less sure about OpenSearch vs Elasticsearch...
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Hezbollah is the government in southern Lebanon so when you throw around "combatant" you're including a lot of civil servants, doctors, teachers etc.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I assume by "many countries" you mean the US and its allies? Is that it then? Your definition of "terrorist" is whoever the West designates a terrorist? Ergo Nelson Mandela was a terrorist.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I think there's a few 3rd party solutions like https://github.com/charettes/django-seal but I don't love the idea of using something that I assume is monkey patching Django code.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Hmm I would call lazy loading the opposite of a sharp knife that requires skill.. you're not being explicit about database work. You're relying on the framework to bail you out where you've forgotten a fetch. And by default D
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Not sure you understand my complaint because forcing the user to track down N+1 queries to know where they're missing .prefetch_related is the problem. I don't want to fix something 99% of the time. I want my ORM to enforce corr
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
The Django ORM makes migrating database state (a hard problem) super easy. It also makes GROUP BY queries (a relatively easy problem) oddly difficult. Use an ORM where it helps, use SQL where it doesn't.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
If it were up to me there'd be a way to completely disable it globally for all models. Let me explicitly enable it when I'm just shelling around or checking results in unit tests. It is not a feature for production environments.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I adore the Django ORM but as listed under cons... it makes it very hard to avoid accidental N+1 queries, and they don't seem interested in addressing this ( https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30874 ). Yes lazy l
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
I've been writing go for about 7 years and still occasionally footgun myself with nil interfaces. Drives me insane that they try so hard everywhere else to protect devs from themselves but that still exists.
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
maybe but isn't there a performance cost of searching by prefix
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by rowanseymour 2y ago
Sigh append would be such game changer for us. Pulling a big S3 object over the wire to append to it and send it back is far from ideal.
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by rowanseymour 3y ago
The IDF is headquartered in the middle of Tel Aviv. Unlike them, the Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza don't have a lot of options. It's effectively a concentration camp and it's one of the most densely populated areas on
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by rowanseymour 3y ago
As bad as this story makes the Israelis sound, it still reads like ass-covering to make it sound like they were at least trying to kill militants. It's been clear from the start that they've been targeting journalists, medical sta
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How do you use Google Chat's new inline threading?
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by rowanseymour 3y ago
Frustrating to see this story flagged already. Can we not even talk about censorship of pro-Palestinian voices in the tech world? Is this story not news worthy?

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