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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Personally, I think I'd rather be unemployed at that point.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Please pardon my cynicism for a moment. No doubt AI will be able to replace a majority of software engineers at some unspecified point in the future. However, I suspect an embarrassingly large number of companies will jump the gun and attem
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
It amuses me that this would be not unlike teaching an LLM with picture books.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
That has me wondering now. It's absolutely true that children learn (and even generate) language grammar from a ridiculously small number of samples compared to LLMs. But could the availability of a world model, in the form of other se
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Furthermore on the matter of being irreplaceable, having been there at times, I've found it to be incredibly stressful bearing such responsibility and knowing it confers no actual job security makes it feel even worse.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
It's arguable. No one is so valuable that they could never be let go, laid off, or fired, regardless of circumstance. That much is true, sure. But I have certainly seen projects veer off course, wither and die, or else crash and burn d
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Would it be anywhere near as contentious if folks weren't either constantly misinterpreting the scale of the original study involved or else going No True Scotsman to death on the definition? Would anyone care as much if the job interv
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Competent management would know the language of those they're managing. Given incompetent management, you're already playing a losing game.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
"What is the Matrix?"
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
On a good day, I'd say we do it because it can be fun and rewarding. It's an escape from the regular daily grind; something beyond the drudgery of say React, CRUD, the frequent silliness of business logic requirements, or whatever
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
> A side observation here is that usually the original author (sometimes long-departed or departing) understands very well the limitations/flaws of the original system/implementation, but can be excluded from the design of the
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Yes, the term "Mixed Reality" had some academic use going back that far, but I'd interpret that article and its citations quite differently. These early MR references use the term to mean a spectrum from "Augmented Reali
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Personally, I actively reject this distinction between AR & MR. For as long as I've been aware of the concept, the term "Augmented Reality" covered both use cases, including virtual objects embedded into the real world. T
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
> It tests for that generic and general ability to estimate anything, and to break down any problem. Ability to BS and multiply, more or less. Feels like a waste of a question even for the one asking it! > Yet some people get flabberg
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
I usually find myself being accused of making things over-complicated while I'm explicitly trying to simplify an already over-complicated system. Quite often there's some elegant unifying concept, one capable of expressing all the
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
More specifically, certain works featuring Mickey Mouse may actually be hitting the public domain. Mickey Mouse himself is trademarked, and there's no limited duration on trademarks.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
> I don't think there's anything inconsistent about this. It amounts to saying that anything that benefits me is good and anything to my detriment is bad. Sure, there's a consistency to that. However, if that's the fo
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Communities that generate and/or profit off of "intellectual property" ought to have a rudimentary understanding of the laws involved. Doubly so if they're protesting what they see as violations of those laws. It honestl
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
> Would you mind if AI starts creating art like yours? The law isn't there to protect my feelings, so whether I mind or not is irrelevant. Artists have had to deal with shifting art markets for as long as art has been a profession.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
So they're protesting alleged copyright violations in the form of AI copying artistic styles (presuming an artistic style alone rises to the level of copyright protection) by committing trademark violations? Yeah, I don't get
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Does anyone have examples of "good" OKRs for a developer / individual contributor worth sharing? Typical guidance I've seen is either generic to the point of uselessness or else involves numbers that are just completely
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
They're fine enough for aligning the work of few related teams, but OKRs suck when forced on individuals as the focus for regularly scheduled performance evaluations.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
My experience matches yours, and I wanted to call that out with more than just an up-vote. The ticketing system is where rework goes to die. In an engineer-led environment without a project management class calling the shots, maybe I'd
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Unless you're in a Scrum team and "The Product Owner is responsible for the Product Backlog, including its content, availability, and ordering." is taken to mean that the PO has the final say on what's prioritized. If yo
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
No one's trying to hide anything. The target users of project management systems, product owners and anyone with with a project manager title, typically neither care about nor understand the value of rework. In their view, the dev team
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
> instead track work on a ticket Where it will never be picked up, because rework tickets never get prioritized over feature work until something breaks. And when some future engineer comes along and asks themselves why the hell this cod
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Really wanted a 2nd set of Robot Inventor, and now it's both discontinued and sold out everywhere. Ugh.
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
It gets tiring playing word games to avoid the suggestion that certain natural pressures have personal agency. Water "wants" to flow downhill. Gasses "want" to expand to fill their container. Genes "wanting" to
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
We'll just call what the construction workers are already doing a "stand-up" and have them estimate work while they're standing there. Then we'll ask them to report on progress every morning, while holding them to t
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by sdiupIGPWEfh 4y ago
Granted, I suppose "orangutans in suits" would have made for a more accurately-inaccurate analogy. Though perhaps to drive it home further, if you squint, orangutans are just fuzzier people who don't reproduce uncontrollably

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