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by spooneybarger 1y ago
lol. Thank you for this.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
O ya, when I was at Microsoft, everything varied widely by team and organization. I can imagine there are groups where it is true. I mostly want to push back on the idea that there's one monolithic culture that is Microsoft.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
This is insanely cool.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
I know a lot of devs at MSFT, none of them are required to use AI.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
Mkdocs
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
I would guess a lot as the best LLM coding answers I get often can be found on SO when I start searching for similar language. But I have not been methodical about looking into it as "when does this random token machine spit out useful
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
I don't find that interesting.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
I personally bisect regularly to find when issues were introduced.
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
What's the definition of resilient in this context?
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by spooneybarger 1y ago
There's no such thing as too late.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
I use both. I only pay for Kagi because I have many models I can use and I can set up different contexts to use them in. I rarely use Kagi search anymore and instead search via assistant. Both it and perplexity give me much better results t
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Yes. I still use them.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Defer only defers to the end of the scope so, "no" if the handle is one that needs to survive the function it was opened in.
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Data Race Freedom à la Mode(dl.acm.org)
3 points by spooneybarger 2y ago|0 comments
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
https://marginalrevolution.com/ If you can get past the current obsession with all things "AI".
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
It was for me.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
I study things that I'm interested in that would be useful for my job all the time. I sometimes study things specifically for my job. Yes. It has continually had an impact.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
For "less experienced" developers, I don't look at their experience when hiring. I look at "knowledge to experience ratio". I look for people who can demonstrate far more knowledge than one would expect based on the
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Yes
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Assuming you can get a decent education at a school, the deciding factor should be if the reputation of going there is beneficial to you. If it isn't, go purely with cost. But credentialism is real and saying you did comp sci at CMU or
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Because you think the Kagi boosters are shills?
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
I second the "be sure to get Windows Pro" if you are getting windows primarily for WSL usage.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Yup
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
And people said Twitter was a bad investment
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
There's a couple "left leaning" media sources in the boost list and 3 "right leaning" in the lower list. There's none going to the other way for sources and their generally acknowledged "lean". I inte
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
I left several years ago and moved to Windows with WSL. It has worked well for me. I have tried using Linux as a daily driver but can't. Years ago I used BeOS and then Linux as drivers but my needs expanded. Issues with Linux... there&
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
The incredibly partisan tone of this leads me to be dubious of all the claims. That said, it would be very unfortunate if even the most basic of them was true. The Texas legislature shouldn't be interfering in the ERCOT market.
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
They were stopping development. https://www.howtogeek.com/arc-browser-creator-moving-on-to-n...
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Zero
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by spooneybarger 2y ago
Mine in a deeply rural area did not. Going to a library as an urban dweller would imagine was an all day affair. We generally did it a few times a year but that was part of a larger trip to go to "the better hospital" or what not.

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