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by scubbo 2y ago
It's too late to edit this comment, but, on the theme of "Make yourself a Tech Lead of a bunch of (AI) developers" - this article[0] is a good explanation [0] https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Honestly, I would suggest maybe talking to a therapist about these feelings OP, please do not flippantly write this off - this is excellent advice for anyone (mental health is chronically undervalued), but _especially_ for someone who
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by scubbo 2y ago
> A lot of common APIs and libraries simply don't exist, in ChatGPT's head. And, conversely, it assumes the existence of a lot of APIs or libraries that it would be nice if they _did_ exist, but they don't (though, as I&#x
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by scubbo 2y ago
> AI can do [intellectual work] well You are living in a radically different world than I am. AI-generated content is noticably shitty in almost every sphere. Improvement probably will come, but it's pretty damn far off from accepta
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by scubbo 2y ago
> This then suddenly explained why so much HTML code is written IN UPPERCASE LETTERS: On a US-ANSI keyboard, you can circumvent the pain of having to use angle brackets by simply enabling caps lock and then typing everything without pres
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by scubbo 2y ago
Amen. I've been living abroad in the US for 7 years, so have had to use it for a number of things (including setting up proxy voting), and it's always been clear, easy, direct, and reliable. My sister and I are currently handling
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by scubbo 2y ago
While I wholly agree with your prioritization - in fairness it is not impossible to take pragmatic helpful actions _while also_ ruminating on whether they are philosophically watertight.
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by scubbo 2y ago
It's been far too long since I've made a regular practice of meditation - thank _you_ for the reminder.
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by scubbo 2y ago
I suspect you have misinterpreted the meaning (a-ha :P ) of the word "negative", here. It was not (I claim) used to imply "pessimistic, depressing, upsetting", but rather - literally - to mean "an answer which is &#
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by scubbo 2y ago
This is very kind and encouraging, thank you!
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This is a helpful perspective, thank you!
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by scubbo 2y ago
That's a lovely idea - thank you for sharing!
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by scubbo 2y ago
Same. I love the idea of being involved in the software community, but find it intimidatingly difficult to know how to "break in". Plenty of the names dropped here are people I admire and follow on social media, but I would think
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by scubbo 2y ago
The data related to the object being returned. This sounds like a facetiously-simple answer, but it's entirely earnest. If the data properly belongs as a property of the object, return it in the object's representation. If the &qu
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by scubbo 2y ago
We are in complete agreement - I was criticizing the implication that it was impossible to ignore fields in a REST response.
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GraphQL "solves" the ability to ignore an unneeded field in a response? Revolutionary.
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Because "random human-language notes" are conceptually different from source code for me.
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(For myself) because 99% of my time is spent in an IDE or a browser, and there's less mental overhead for me to open a new tab and start typing than for me to open a new app and do so.
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. > Fred Brooks as usual stands the test of time.[...]I'd bring the argument against a Second-System I'm confused. The GP appears to be saying that one should plan to build two
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by scubbo 2y ago
I'm as AI-wary as they come, but - it's a completely factual, relevant, and helpful statement. To say that any relation or comparison with AI ruins the comparandum is as absurd as saying that anything coloured red is bad because t
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by scubbo 2y ago
Oh, fascinating! OK, yeah, I fully misunderstood your intent, then - I thought you were suggesting the LLMs should be summarizing the content in response to queries from students ("How do I find the determinant of a matrix?" &#x2F
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by scubbo 2y ago
We're very very very obviously not going to reach any form of consensus here, as I'm arguing from the perspective of practicality and you are arguing from one of philosophical purity (neither incorrect, in their own domains - but
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by scubbo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face supports your take - humans are hard-wired to recognize and parse faces, why wouldn't we make use of that shortcut!?
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by scubbo 2y ago
> "Fair" is culture, not science/logic Yep, this is true. I was speaking casually and using "fair" as slang for "helpful, reasonable, and widely-assumed". And yes, "widely-assumed" is also cul
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by scubbo 2y ago
Hmm - fair enough. By this (valid!) argument, _any_ statement about the world is misinformative, because there's always an implicit caveat of "...if my perceptions of the world are accurate reflections of its state, and if I'
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by scubbo 2y ago
> you both made valid points I'm not one of the two people who had previously made points (though HN's interface does not make it easy to notice that). Regardless - prompting someone to support or extrapolate on an otherwise-un
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> Physical space is only one way to measure things. > Humans might account for materially all of the conscious experience the universe has ever known. These are both true statements, that do not answer my question. For something to be
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by scubbo 2y ago
Go on, then, I'll bite - how is it misinformative to state that the scope of all human existence occupies only a vanishingly-small fraction of the physical space, or temporal lifespan, of the universe? > religion is technically also
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by scubbo 2y ago
(Not the person you replied to, but) I just re-read it, and the "canned retort" still looks completely accurate and relevant. Can you elaborate on why you think that AI's (known, admitted, and inherent) propensity for halluci
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by scubbo 2y ago
> given that ads have essentially no impact on me They do. You are just not aware of the impact they have.

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