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by scubbo 1y ago
...OK, I wasn't 100% sure before, but this is _totally_ a bot. That's kinda gross.
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by scubbo 1y ago
Timestamping's irrelevant to my purposes - I just need the text of the speech.
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by scubbo 1y ago
How coincidental - I needed exactly this just a couple days ago. I ended up vibecoding a script to feed an individual URL into yt-dlp then pipe the downloaded audio through Whisper - not quite the same thing as it's not downloading the
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by scubbo 1y ago
That's on me - I over-focused on the leading sentences/paragraphs of the replies ("Please don't follow this advice [that examples are the best documentation]"), and missed that the first comment had "Also havin
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by scubbo 1y ago
> You optimize for power users not amateurs. Sure, but you can optimize for one without excluding the other. Adding examples _allows_ amateurs to gain experience and _become_ power user, and imposes near-zero cost on power users who can
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by scubbo 1y ago
Reading the article would have been inefficient.
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by scubbo 1y ago
> After all, where were they when AI algorithms were being developed back in the 50s and 60s? ...living in a world where AI wasn't an enabler for abuse? What a bafflingly weird take - "you didn't object to <thing> wh
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by scubbo 1y ago
...wait, you and I are using "KVM" in different ways, then. To me, it means a switch that lets you use the same Keyboard, Monitor ("Video"), and Mouse for two different machines. Sounds like you're talking instead a
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by scubbo 1y ago
Not everyone has spare hardware lying around!
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by scubbo 1y ago
Can you help me out with an expansion of "TFA", when used to refer to the original post in comments? I simply don't believe that every commenter is using it to mean "The Fucking Article" in comments that are otherwi
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by scubbo 1y ago
100% this. I'm increasingly of the opinion that "ability to evaluate how often/extensively a chunk of logic may need to be changed in the future; and to design accordingly" is one of the most underrated skills in softwar
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by scubbo 1y ago
It is baffling and concerning that anyone disagrees with you. The blind faith of so many that companies will magically and selflessly act in the best interest of anyone but their shareholders is, perhaps, the most damaging social ill we fac
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by scubbo 1y ago
> > When writing code you have the motto "don't make me think" in mind > I disagree with this phrasing. We’re engineering after all. The entire job is thinking. Well, sure. The implied full phrase - more technically-
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by scubbo 1y ago
It's been years, and I still remember the infamous ticket `CONNECTIONS-3303`. A pox on everyone involved with that clusterfuck.
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by scubbo 1y ago
Because of Primacy Bias.
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by scubbo 1y ago
TIL the word "arrant", thank you!
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by scubbo 1y ago
You said it before I could. Amen.
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by scubbo 1y ago
(Copied from[0] when this was posted to lobste.rs) Longhorn was nothing but trouble for me. Issues with mount paths, uneven allocation of volumes, orphaned undeletable data taking up space. It’s entirely possible that this was a skill issue
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by scubbo 1y ago
> Do you live in Socal, like the person is implying? Apologies, I saw "A West Coast software engineering career [...and...] a house from which you could reasonably commute to it" and assumed they meant San Francisco, which is a
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by scubbo 1y ago
This is just straight-up false? My current home - not the land, the home entire - cost just under 3 years of my salary, or under 2 years of my total comp, and I can go door-to-door in 35 minutes on public transit or 20 by car. (and I'm
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by scubbo 1y ago
> do the exact same thing a few months later > one-in-a-million opportunity
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by scubbo 1y ago
I did. Didn't you?
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by scubbo 1y ago
No, the people who made it so that there was no way for humans to enjoy those reasonable comforts without contributing to pollution. > Are you posting these comments from a computer powered by solar panels? That's precisely the poin
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by scubbo 1y ago
Genuinely astonishing - and I mean that literally, not pejoratively. Thanks for this perspective. I do know myself to be very risk-averse and pessimistic, and undoing that mindset is a personal project at the moment. Thanks for these anecda
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by scubbo 1y ago
I disagree with almost every choice made by the Go language designers, but `Gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite` is solid. Pick a not-unreasonable standard, enforce it, and move on to more imp
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by scubbo 1y ago
> paying yourself a salary From what?
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by scubbo 1y ago
> regular employees are already taking the risk of being jobless some time in the future when joining startups. Never said they weren't. But they're taking _less_ risk because they are at least taking a salary the whole time.
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by scubbo 1y ago
> pulling a salary from someone else's bank account for a couple years We have a difference of understanding of what "startup" and "failure" mean. I'm not just saying "most startups don't have an e
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by scubbo 1y ago
> and take all the upside And all of the risk. Encouraging anyone to start their own company is deeply irresponsible. Most startups fail. If you're needing encouragement to do it - if you're not already fully deluded that you&#
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by scubbo 1y ago
> corporations [...a]re indistinguishable from any other large org Presumably a Freudian slip for "governments"?

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