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by sidlls 3y ago
I've seen plenty of engineers try to turn trivial functionality like that into a microservice "to avoid version upgrade hell" (quote from one person in a previous job), or bundle what should be a simple self-contained (i.e. n
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by sidlls 3y ago
If the code is included in the service, it's not a library. If it's packaged as a library and the service code is a (minimal) wrapper around it, it's a pointless additional complexity.
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by sidlls 3y ago
There's plenty of evidence that humans reason differently than ML models; namely basically any human intellectual discovery in history versus the (approximately) zero randomly generated ones by ML. We don't know exactly how huma
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by sidlls 3y ago
We don't?
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by sidlls 3y ago
Libraries and services both have maintenance costs and upgrade impedance from clients. The costs might differ, but in my experience work out to about the same overall. The correct way to determine whether a piece of software should be a lib
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by sidlls 3y ago
Many engineering organizations have "platform teams"--teams that have as their sole responsibility maintaining shared libraries and "core" services for the entire platform.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Probabilistically serializing tokens in a fashion that isn't 100% identical to training set data is not creative in the context of novel reasoning. If all it did was reproduce its training set it would be the grossest example of over
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by sidlls 3y ago
If the knowledge was obtained by genuine reasoning, that implies that it could also derive/develop a novel solution to an unsolved problem that is not achieved by random guesses. For example, the conception of a complex number in the f
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by sidlls 3y ago
It depends on the complexity of the program/problem being solved. I think it’s conceptually simpler, for example, to demonstrate how a function that can’t have side-effects works than one that doesn’t by pure “accident”. The real t
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by sidlls 3y ago
I'd argue if you have "getters and setters" you're already doing it wrong, because you're employing OOP. Just use a raw data structure and write functions that accept it as a parameter. Other things being equal, the
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by sidlls 3y ago
I want to see a study of what contribution to collision rates exists from slow, (overly) cautious drivers.
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by sidlls 3y ago
This has never made any sense to me. "People are dumb, panicky animals" because "people" is made up of "persons" who (in aggregate) dumb stuff down. The individuals in the "people" are also "du
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by sidlls 3y ago
Real estate sales is an industry rife with anti-competitive and corrupt practices. Appraisals, home inspections, lending, and sales are all in it together on this. I absolutely loathe them.
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by sidlls 3y ago
And that's the one--and only--reasonable use of rebasing, to squash commits from a branch before merging into main. If engineers find themselves using rebase in any other context than squashing a merge, it's time to re-evaluate th
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by sidlls 3y ago
That's more about the contents of the merged commits than anything else. Modifying the commit message(s) fixes that, as long as that's what the commits actually did. Aside from that, how are "a fix for a bug" style commi
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by sidlls 3y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see how your comment answers my questions. Do you mean that a "clean history" is one without "fix 1", "fix 2" and "fix 3"? Or is that a "seman
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by sidlls 3y ago
What is a "semantically delineated commit"? What is a "clean history"? Why are these two things important?
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by sidlls 3y ago
I agree with you on that point about the gigles, as that's always (in my lifetime) been a risk. It's the other stuff--the "canceling" effect of social media posts--that has changed things. Risking laughter from the perso
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by sidlls 3y ago
The character/modes of rejection have gone from maybe mortifying titters/giggles amongst the friends of the person being hit on to the potential of literally having one's shame splayed across the internet for all to see. Perh
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by sidlls 3y ago
How do you infer such a generalization when the OP was referring to something very specific? It's possible for them to believe that the techno/rave/DJ scene is worse now, and that other similar culture/social activities
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by sidlls 3y ago
Even if your scenario were accurate, it's unlikely their data processing algorithms would pin the conversation down to within the hour of it happening, given that the schedules I keep are not fixed or typical in any way. Also, in my ca
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by sidlls 3y ago
I was responding to the parent comment, not addressing contents of the article (except insofar as there is overlap).
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by sidlls 3y ago
That depends on the extent of the harm. Some bullying is “mild” and recoverable. Assault is another matter. Reaching for the law as the first step is not a good idea, but excluding the possibility simply because they’re minors would be a mi
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by sidlls 3y ago
I don’t know how, I haven’t looked at or reverse engineered the code. What I do know is that topics I discuss with friends and family suddenly appear in the form of ads and user generated content in my FYP, when none of us has done a search
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by sidlls 3y ago
At least TikTok definitely uses data somehow from microphones, without any (explicit) consent.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Rate limit it by ip address (and/or combination of other request/header data), and be transparent about the limits. Have a blurb asking users not to abuse it by keeping requests to a minimum. Captcha every n th request. I could g
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by sidlls 3y ago
My experience with the average programmer is...different from yours. The software development field is exceptionally bad in this regard. Physicists are mathematically sloppy sometimes (why, yes, I will just multiply both sides by `dy` and t
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by sidlls 3y ago
Is it not possible there are multiple extremes at work here? The boomer example you provided is something I think is generally agreeable: it's not acceptable to go around slapping asses (man or woman) in the way you describe. However,
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by sidlls 3y ago
The vast majority of it is, unfortunately. That's starting to change, though, as we are hitting some pretty severe maintenance and performance issues, as well as being bottlenecks to making changes, that all the abstraction is obviousl
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by sidlls 3y ago
Almost as many as those of us with stairs in our house.

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