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by starbugs 3y ago
TLDR: * Profits: 45 percent * Import costs: 40 percent * Labour costs: 25 percent Somehow obviously arriving at 110%? "As the Chart of the Week shows, the higher inflation so far mainly reflects higher profits and import prices, with p
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by starbugs 3y ago
Yea nice article and all, but let's be honest: This is pretty much backed into the cake of how we handle things currently as a society. People are seen as a means to an end. You are disconnected from what you do and the positive effect
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by starbugs 3y ago
I'd argue that C++ and Java are way worse than Objective C.
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by starbugs 3y ago
What languages have you used?
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by starbugs 3y ago
Initially, it wasn't. Every new term is new only for a certain time. The way these terms are being used in the media can lead to semantic bleaching, which is why from time to time new terms are made up. In the end, this doesn't ch
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by starbugs 3y ago
In Apple MVC, the view controller is IMHO actually primarily a way of avoiding the need to subclass views. After about 25 years with one or the other form of MVC, I am convinced that most of it is just born out of a weird OOP mental model.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Ever worked on an open source project? Seems to work quite well without middle management.
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by starbugs 3y ago
I don't agree. Microsoft is obviously transitioning into user selling pretty quickly and apparently with great pleasure. It's on a completely different level than Apple. (To be fair, it's not looking very great there either r
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by starbugs 3y ago
Apple makes their money from selling products and services rather than selling the user. At least that's the perception. Apple also gets their share of this kind of criticism, but it invites much less of it in this way.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Climate crisis that could kill 100% of humans This wording is just a bait for clicks and taps and does nothing to improve anything. That's why people get tired and call it the new normal. Let them get emotional. It's part of
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by starbugs 3y ago
How about not calling something a crisis if it isn't? A crisis is usually short-lived, not a permanent state.
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macOS-wakatime: open-source native automatic time tracking(github.com)
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by starbugs 3y ago
Uhm.. Sorry? This is something that you do one time impulsively? This is something that you do once and then never again, because you're out unless your company has unhealthy ethics.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Couldn't you just create a project template for this? Don't get me wrong, I think you created a neat project there and it surely has some use, but the argument that this adds a lot of complexity without solving a problem that just
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by starbugs 3y ago
Looks really nice. Also, excellent name.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Just thinking this might be a possible avenue for it to be developed. If the reward is having a higher revenue margin than the competition, then it would be worth the (nearly any) investment. Reminds me of this ST Voyager episode: https:&#
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by starbugs 3y ago
I guess what really would make that lift off is if that system would be considerably better at that than the average CEO. It wouldn't even matter if it was cheaper then.
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by starbugs 3y ago
This. You need an AI that has a will to survive and is afraid enough of the board so that it will do anything (moral or immoral) to make the company successful. Seems doable.
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by starbugs 3y ago
It's not close and I also see no big difference between GPT 3.5 and 4. Don't get hyped. I am sure it will eventually happen, but calling it close is very optimistic.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> don't Just don't
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by starbugs 3y ago
> convince ChatGPT not to explain every choice it makes I assume this is a major issue, because it tends to be more talky than my ex which is a real feat.
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by starbugs 3y ago
Unless it leads you astray and that costs more time than coming up with the code on your own in the first place.
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by starbugs 3y ago
This seems to assume that GPT4 can actually generate the code of your repo. Good luck with that assumption.
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by starbugs 3y ago
You aren't misunderstanding it. This is not a valid way to calculate the cost of your code.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> Sure. I suppose we should also agree on the same understanding of "real understanding". I'm only proposing that LLMs pick up the same kind of "understanding" your unconscious/subconscious mind does, and pr
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by starbugs 3y ago
Again, my point is not about people (maybe wrongly) reciting sentences that they have picked up somewhere without any attempt at verification or understanding of the matter. My point is making up entire new entities (function names) that do
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by starbugs 3y ago
I am frequently talking to people outside the tech bubble. Could you give me an example? And maybe a hint how this would relate to my argument about intention and understanding? I have a hard time following your argument.
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by starbugs 3y ago
> str.cou <-- oh, there's no count() > str.size() <-- there we go! and > str.split <-- ?!? ah, it's C++, std::string > does not have a split() method. Both confuse two existing entities from
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by starbugs 3y ago
> My experience with other people is that plenty of them - arguably more than 50% I met in physical space and talked with at length - care little about being accurate. They don't track provenance of their information. They uncritica
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by starbugs 3y ago
To answer your question. Of course I have been in those situations. But nobody has ever tried to deceive me nor have I tried. I wonder what kind of software interviews you have been in? If somebody confuses functions from different language

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