skirmish

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by skirmish 4mo ago
> just to check how things are going If you work remotely, a certain fraction of managers always carry a suspicion: he is probably slacking off right now, maybe napping; let me call and check.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
If the company does not want you to work, just coast and enjoy. I feel zero guilt when I slack in an overcrowded noisy open plan office too.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
You would think arithmetic should be deterministic, but just days ago I received paper mail from IRS saying my tax software computed federal tax underpayment penalty incorrectly, and they are refunding me > $300.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
Software licenses usually explicitly disclaim all financial damages. I assume Intuit does too (I don't use Turbotax myself).
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> we can't explain why neurons firing results in us feeling/experiencing the world Feelings/experiences are specific patterns of specific neurons activating. Why is that hard?
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by skirmish 4mo ago
P-zombies cannot be argued about, if you reject their existence your opponent will call you a p-zombie (happened to Dennett).
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> It’s a subjective experience argument. "Earth is flat" is also a subjective experience argument. Yet mostly nobody takes it seriously anymore. I hope "qualia" will be like this soon too.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
At least mammals do show recognizable signs of pain and suffering. That is good enough for me; I don't know for sure other people can suffer, but I assume they do based on their behavior I see.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
Massive parallel processing.
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> If there's ever to be a "solution" to the dualism/materialism argument, it cannot possibly end in a "slam dunk" where it turns out that one side or the other was simply nonsensical. Huh, evolution vs. crea
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by skirmish 4mo ago
> Why some kinds of information processing and not others? Using Rovelli's example: why some clouds create a thunderstorm and not others? It is just a complex phenomenon that happens only under right conditions.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
Yes, it was.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
In my first job after graduation in a small company I was talking to the VP of engineering, and he mentioned offhand: "yeah, I wrote Scorch when I was in college". Mind blown.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> codebase is so large it’s going to break whatever tools your used to using anyway, no git There is Jujutsu (with Piper backend) officially supported, and that is better than git. But of course, you will not be grepping the source code
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> It can take weeks of work to produce a 500 word product vision document. Don't you get dinged as a slow performer? Management expects x5 speed on everything now that AI is available.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude" The dude is just acting like a manager with a technical employee (agent) who does the hands-on work. If you are upset about this you should be hopping mad about the whole
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by skirmish 5mo ago
So you just rubber-stamp the lazy work? What else can you do when this PR is assigned to you specifically for reviewing?
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> non-chat LLM interaction pattern "Deep research" is another interaction style that produces more official sounding texts, yet still leads to anthropomorphization. What you are looking for is perhaps an LLM flaunting all the o
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> is the product of evolution and thus by definition it has no “purpose” But as most things that appeared in evolution, it perhaps helped at least some individuals until sexual maturity and successful procreation.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
Lots of discussions on HN about it recently [1], [2], I heard of it right here. It works on git repositories, so it's very easy to try. For me, the killer feature is updating some commit deep inside some feature branch, and all child
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by skirmish 5mo ago
I am with you on UI updates, just moving things around and re-skinning the UI without useful functionality additions make me mad often. But then I grind my teeth and bear it.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
You are making it too hard on yourself. Most people would just paste the ticket URL and type "fix this", then spend the next 3 hours on social media. OTOH, I try hard to provide all possibly relevant context, manually copy/p
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> A place like Google has to be so much better off just training library concepts in They did that, there was a special version of Gemini fine-tuned on internal code. But then the main model moves so fast that it is hard to keep such fi
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by skirmish 5mo ago
> my reaction to systemd wasn't "oh wow, this is progress" but "ugh, I need to learn how to start, stop, or modify services again" I must be young at heart while >60 years old; my reaction was "why is eve
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by skirmish 5mo ago
So much preferable to people talking around you all day. The typing sound fades into background like waterfall noise; chatter never does for me.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
Probably this: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag...
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by skirmish 5mo ago
So will we have to do what image generation people have been doing for ages: generate 50 versions of output for the prompt, then pick the best manually? Anthropic must be licking its figurative chops hearing this.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
I would much rather talk to my family at random times over the working day than listen to the guy at the next desk who is always on the phone blabber on (and it always happens when there is a pressing deadline, and your boss is checking eve
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by skirmish 5mo ago
Last I heard in the news, Microsoft fired most of their testing teams, so no.
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by skirmish 5mo ago
But we don't pay for coding tools, we want them for free!

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