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by spicyusername 7d ago
They are a blight on every new little town, stealing land that could go to literally anything else that would benefit the community more. In nearly 100% of cases, they are owned by some rich schmuck somewhere that's just trying to &quo
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by spicyusername 8d ago
All is possible with good blackbox testing.
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by spicyusername 10d ago
Should the father have been more involved to prevent this kind of thing? Sure. Should tech companies make this kind of thing this easy? No. Everyone in here defending our corporate overlords has had the Overton window moved so far on them t
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by spicyusername 12d ago
This has definitely not been my experience.
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by spicyusername 12d ago
Too much immediate gratification at home. It used to be that there was nothing to do at home. And so the entire outside world was filled with people looking for something to do. You could leave and go anywhere and you'd find all the ot
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by spicyusername 13d ago
We're in the AI era now, every job is a supporting role.
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by spicyusername 14d ago
Yeah, the industry will quickly shed all of the people who needed it to be one way and will grow with all the people who are capable of it being a different way. So the wheel of the market turns.
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by spicyusername 14d ago
There didn't use to be a "workforce". Then there was a time when the "workforce" was mostly actual slaves. There was a time when entire cities all died of sickness, 100% mortality. Yes, more change has happened. And
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by spicyusername 14d ago
Still, every day, I say to myself out loud, "this is crazy". It's one of those platitudes that everyone knows, "the only constant is change", but everything feels like it's going be forever anyways. Your parent
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by spicyusername 14d ago
Love to see C# love. It's a great language. Super underrated in my opinion. Unions coming in .NET 11 / C# 15 are going to be great.
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by spicyusername 18d ago
How can anyone say anything at all...? That generalizes all the way. Everyone's just working off what they've experienced or what they think is true, for mental health or where to find good lunch. There is no universal truth. Ever
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by spicyusername 18d ago
No doubt. When you have it, ADHD is such a dominant factor in the way your life is organized and experienced, its not surprising that it can become a core part of your identity. I do think it's easy for those with it to over romantici
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by spicyusername 18d ago
I mean... like most spectrum disorders, most people experience and can relate to at least some of the core symptoms, even if they don't express the full spectrum or severity. So when someone says they feel like they have ADHD, they are
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by spicyusername 21d ago
That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.
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by spicyusername 21d ago
That's what everyone's learning to do now, that is the skill that people will be improving.
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by spicyusername 21d ago
Its true we will lose the skills, but so far the LLMs are more than picking up the slack when wielded competently. They _regularly_ go above and beyond when troubleshooting and frequently in 1/2 - 1/1000th of the time. I remember
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by spicyusername 22d ago
The process was for you, the product was for the world. Now it's just the product for the world, which was where most of the value was anyways. It's a big paradigm shift and the industry is quickly going to shed people who needed
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by spicyusername 26d ago
I mean, to be fair, local owners of buildings also neglect them sometimes. So, even if this is a problem, fixing it doesn't immediately make neighborhoods beautiful.
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by spicyusername 26d ago
My favorite theory is that nomadic civilizations during that period were known to congregate together temporarily throughout the year. Stonehenge was one of the places they would do this. Makes sense to make the meeting spot nice.
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by spicyusername 27d ago
If you start with architecture docs that outline the high level goals and what the core abstractions should be for a greenfield project and refine it as you fill in the actual code, you can get pretty good results. That gives the first few
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by spicyusername 28d ago
I just... are we sure everyone needs to be on anti-depressants? I get that life can be unpleasant, but it just feels like it's so many people. I really have a hard time believing it needs to be so many. It's normal to feel bad.
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
The AI handles The AI handles The AI does That's what I'm saying... in the new era these things are more important than ever to better keep agentic programming on track...
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
Great link, thanks for sharing
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
Now that we're seeing the quality of software we use worsening Are we seeing that though? Or do we want to be seeing that?
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
One thing I keep discovering about the agentic era of programming is that all of the old lessons and bits of wisdom about programming are still valid. They're just 10 to 100x more important now that you can generate 10,000 lines in an
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
You pick when you choose them back.
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
Do the things for the things in themselves. Don't do the things to be able to say you were someone who did the things.
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
Focusing on your passion for writing is more likely to produce the book than focusing on your desire to be able to say you were someone who finished a book. And who is being able to say you were someone who finished a book for? You? Or is i
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by spicyusername 1mo ago
The older I get the more I realize ambition and "being ambitious" is a completely misplaced way to orient your life. The chance of validation from others is not a good reason for making one choice or another and a life made of cho

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