strix_varius

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by strix_varius 11mo ago
It does matter, because it's a worthwhile investment of my time to deeply review, understand, and provide feedback for the work of a junior engineer on my team. That human being can learn and grow. It is not a worthwhile use of my time
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
> I’ll take badly made software for free No, not if I have to maintain it. Code is liability. LLM written PRs often bring net negative value: they make the whole system larger, more brittle, and less integrated. They come at the cost of
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Totally agree. For me, the hard part has been figuring out the distinction with junior engineers... Is this poorly thought out, inefficient solution that is 3x as long as necessary due to AI, or inexperience?
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
I also use Brave on all my devices - it also works on Amazon Prime. Prime frequently made me offers to upgrade to an ad-free experience that I didn't understand... surely this is a bug, I already have an ad-free experience. Then I inst
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
> You can't just code the website, zip the code and mail it to the client. The suggestion that the only alternative to paying $96 million AUD ($62 million USD) for a website is getting one that was "coded, zipped, and mailed&qu
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
This sounds more like your personal journey, and less like some broad trend. A quick check of just one of your examples shows the term "3d printer" is googled for literally twice as frequently today as it was in 2016, for instance
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
E-Bikes are sold & regulated in "classes" (at least where I live in the US). A class 1 e-bike is pedal-assist and stops assisting beyond 20mph (mine, for instance, tapers off starting probably around 15 mph). A class 2 is the
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Sure, but "favor x over y" or, put another way, "use y only if x is unsuitable" is compatible with this. Nothing in "prefer composition over inheritance" says that composition is the only correct way.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
This gets me too. I generally agree that success is basically luck * effort, so I don't judge people who haven't been able to "make it." Similarly, I don't really admire people for having "made it"... If I
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
When I look up the actual release dates on viable head mounted displays, it turns out I'm wrong: not years, more like "year." You should check out the xreal one!
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
I copied the exact same sentence but of course someone already highlighted it! That's the worst, most tortured string of English I've read all month.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
I don't understand your comment. What you're describing has existed for years.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Apparently not.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Your example is not passive voice.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
...I guess you didn't read the article? Because the entire article is about how the artists intentionally skewed the digital colors so that they'd look as intended on film (and wrong / exaggerated on digital displays)
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
This is inherent in the architecture of chatgpt. It's a unified model: text, images, etc all become tokenized input. It's similar to re-encoding your image in a lossy format, the format is just the black box of chatgpt's late
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
"curl it" has been a common (tech) term for at least 15 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=5&prefix=true&que...
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
> No reason to use command line for them, ever. That hasn't been my experience. I suspect that most others who also daily drive linux would find it remarkable if someone used Linux every day for a year and never needed to open a t
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Found the guy who wears a fedora.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
While you don't have to use it much , if you spend a year daily driving Linux, it's a near certainty that you'll have to use the command line.
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by strix_varius 11mo ago
Progressive disclosure can be intensely annoying to actual power users. Definitionally, it means you're hiding (non-disclosing) features behind at least 1 secondary screen. Usually, it means hiding features behind several layers of dis
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by strix_varius 1y ago
The examples given are not what I would consider "tinkering." Changing editor configs? Tuning mouse sensitivity? Really?
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by strix_varius 1y ago
I agree, and I'm not sure why it feels off but I have a theory. AI is good at local coherence, but loses the plot over longer thoughts (paragraphs, pages). I don't think I could identify AI sentences but I'm totally confident
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by strix_varius 1y ago
This is what I'd like to know as well. $20k - $12k at "dumping stock" prices! - for a digital item for a video game is just incomprehensible to me. But clearly it's happening, so I'd like to understand better the ve
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by strix_varius 1y ago
...and now the site is down. Hope the cursors were worth it!
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by strix_varius 1y ago
To me, the most salient point was this: > Code reviewing coworkers are rapidly losing their minds as they come to the crushing realization that they are now the first layer of quality control instead of one of the last. Asked to review;
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by strix_varius 1y ago
Well no, the iPhone has niceties that Android lacks (as evidenced by its total market dominance for markets who can afford Apple devices). Lots of engineers use Android phones, but the C-suite invariably uses iPhones. So if the reason you&#
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by strix_varius 1y ago
Salesforce bought heroku 14 years ago.
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by strix_varius 1y ago
That misses the analogy. Such countries already have not only smoke alarms but also building codes and layers of safety systems. The analogy matches a person who goes to a place with high fire risk and no safety systems in place and through
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by strix_varius 1y ago
That isn't how LLMs work. They are probabilistic. Running them on even different hardware yields different results. And the deltas compound the longer your context and the more tokens you're using (like when writing code). But mor

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