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by scubbo 4y ago
> Write about Cryptocurrency in the style of Twitter user jacksquaredson < "Just made a killing on crypto! #HODL #Bitcoin #Ethereum" < "Crypto is the future of money. Ditch those outdated fiat currencies and join the
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by scubbo 4y ago
Seems pretty middle-of-the-road? I tried "Write about Python in the style of Reddit user <my reddit ID>" and it just gave a generic description. OK, fair enough - I haven't written much about Python on that account, so
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by scubbo 4y ago
Yeah, absolutely. My position on AGIs for a long long time has been that they're great tools for a) generating insights into a large amount of data very quickly, and b) generating new instances of <thing> from examples of <thi
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by scubbo 4y ago
> If its working code and indistinguishable from a human answer to anyone reading it These are extremely stringent conditions, though. Convincing-looking-but-wrong answers would arguably be even more damaging than a lack of answers. (I s
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by scubbo 4y ago
Obligatory Krazam links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubbVvKbUfY // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp2-EUKQAI
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by scubbo 4y ago
Ah yes, buyers benefit from paying a higher price they otherwise would have done. This is very smart and sensible and obvious. (If you're claiming that buyers benefit from being able to buy a ticket that was purchased but then was not
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by scubbo 4y ago
Ditto. Just beginning to ramp back up to interviewing again. I'm happy to report that I _am_ excited and eager to return to working (I was pretty worried that I would discover that all I wanted to do was live the life of leisure - whic
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by scubbo 4y ago
Location: Berkeley CA Remote: Preferably fully remote, though willing to do 2-3d/w (or, preferably, 1w/mo) in a Bay Area office Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Java, AWS, Git, Docker/Kubernetes/Helm, SQL, L
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by scubbo 4y ago
Unfortunately, that is sometimes optimal. Regardless: I suggest you check the sibling thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805016 ), where we explore more relevant considerations - not just "what group are you
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by scubbo 4y ago
More concisely - there is correlation, but not necessarily causation. Someone who uses these phrases will _probably_ also be someone who doesn't put much thought into their communication; but merely removing those phrases will not auto
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by scubbo 4y ago
What if your readers are those same corporate drones? Not everyone has the luxury of only ever interacting with Real Developers(tm).
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by scubbo 4y ago
I agree with almost all of what you're saying, but I still stand by the point that _simply_ advising someone to "ban those words" is not helpful, especially when that guidance is delivered without the (correct and insightful!
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by scubbo 4y ago
"unhelpfully" was deliberately chosen, to indicate that signalling disdain isn't helpful to the goal of teaching OP how to help their team. One could argue that it's redundant ("Focus on X, rather than Y" does
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by scubbo 4y ago
I'm not a fan of those words either, but this is not helpful advice. Corporate argot, while it does signal a particular style, isn't inherently inferior at communication. A sentence will be just as clear, meaningful, and useful if
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by scubbo 4y ago
> You should be suicidal to try and cross the street outside of crossing in cities like London and Paris I spent 3 years living in London, and this is utter tosh.
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by scubbo 4y ago
I'm sorry to inform you that, by hovering over the video, you have Engaged with the Algorithm and thus demonstrated that the auto-play is Good, Actually. Short-sighted optimization for engagement is the cause of an overwhelming majorit
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by scubbo 4y ago
> I don't think that the pain of resolving conflicts scales super-linearly and that idea doesn't make sense to me. In fact, I think the opposite is true. I admit, that could be a taste issue. Then we'll have to agree to di
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by scubbo 4y ago
> long-lived branches are _bad_? Merging in partially-done features is _good_? ...uhhh, yes? I've never heard anything to the contrary. Can you explain why you think the opposite? For long-lived branches: The longer a branch exists
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by scubbo 4y ago
(Not the person you replied to, but a passionate rebase-preferred) For me there are two reasons - one aesthetic, one practical. The aesthetic reason is that it tells a more coherent story. The codebase is a single entity, with a linear hist
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by scubbo 4y ago
My reading is that the very fact that it's so abstract and general is itself the point. What could the cult be? Politics? Religion? A particular professional mindset or focus? Many could fit. Apart from the reference to "promise o
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by scubbo 4y ago
Holy shit. Forget counting the hours (which are easily into the tens, if not hundreds) you saved me and my teams - more importantly, RediFork was a great "on-ramp" for easily introducing observability in existing services without
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by scubbo 4y ago
> Cloud "Barrett, be careful!" > "Attack while it's tail's up!" > "It's gonna counterattack with its laser."
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by scubbo 4y ago
Both of which are totally reasonable desires - but you should be the one that gets to decide which "mode" you're operating in. If you want only (and all) followees tweets - go to that view. If you want just the "greatest
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by scubbo 4y ago
To restate my point - I'm not advocating for banning speech. I'm _certainly_ not advocating for banning the discussion of sensitive topics. I'm asking people to recognize that, by using certain forms of speech _that they have
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by scubbo 4y ago
It's entirely obvious to me! As I wrote at greater length here[0] - I am not advocating for banning words! I am asking for a recognition that certain forms of speech have certain impacts on the listener, and that by using them you are
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by scubbo 4y ago
> To put a fine point on it, equating "discomfort" and "harm" is flawed. That's fair! Negative impacts certainly exist on a continuum! I felt like "harm" was a reasonable synonym for "negatively im
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by scubbo 4y ago
Right!? The observability on OSS CI/CD pipelines seems to be pretty lacking. Maybe I'll look for an opportunity there for my next position... :) In fairness, I guess this is the tradeoff you get for being forced into "one and
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by scubbo 4y ago
Fair enough! I only have a single development machine, so that advantage was invisible for me - but that makes sense! You could theoretically get the benefits of both approaches, though: have your own personal repo to which you push "i
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by scubbo 4y ago
Fair enough! I thought I remembered it being a (likewise invisible) branch on the upstream repo, not a separate repo entirely - but I've been out for a while and might be misremembering. Regardless, as you say, it's immaterial - s
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by scubbo 4y ago
I was an L6 and, at the time, my RSUs certainly gave me pause for leaving, but in the end the urgency of my mental health won out. My timescale was dictated by getting my Green Card, not (primarily) by finances.

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