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by sublinear 1mo ago
The impatience you have for planning work that doesn't immediately "do the thing" is precisely the same attitude that got us into this mess. I'm more convinced by the day that there's a significant amount of undiagn
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by sublinear 1mo ago
What?! I'm surprised those are the things you complain about regarding guitar sheet music. The only real problem is guitar always has several different ways to play the same notes all over the neck and instrument tuning isn't al
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Border patrol, law enforcement, FBI, etc. There's a few military bases as well. I'm not sure what else you're expecting in Texas. If you look at google maps, the "secrets" will become a lot less mysterious.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Totally agree. The story is similar for all the dots in the middle of nowhere and small towns. That's half the map! If people are so curious, they should head on out there and see what the fuss is about. They're going to find a lo
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by sublinear 1mo ago
At the risk of sounding rude, ignorant, and insensitive... did you all get married young? That all sounds a bit narcissistic. Life is too short to be miserable, and we don't celebrate divorce enough. I'm happy for you both, and ho
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Wait, are you accusing the wealthy of being actual humans who value things besides money?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> My question is: why are we waiting until code review to do all of those things? I’ve never particularly liked pull requests as the centre of the software development process. This is a strawman. Who is writing code professionally witho
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> We could not read theyfell.com. It blocked us, or it needs JavaScript to show anything. Copy the words off the page and paste those instead, and we will bury those. Where's the obituary for this?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Why is it always the ones with the highest karma giving the most hollow defense? How's retirement treating you?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Explain to the rest of us how far along those problems were before AI.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Doesn't that say more about the massive crumb tray nobody ever bothered to empty at the bottom of mathematics? I'm sure someone will point out something like the 4-color theorem as a counterargument. Where is that kind of theorem
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Yes. It's worth pointing out that anything with n distinct parameters is just a point in n-dimensional space. We're so used to handling so many dimensions that nobody ever bats an eye until someone brings up the magic word "d
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Too shallow of a dismissal, and you don't determine what everyone else takes seriously. It's been several years now of LLMs only appeasing those with low expectations and inexperience. Unless the only goal was generating boilerpla
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Promotion into management isn't so different. They still experience similar thrashing and have to learn or be fired. My point was not only that so much human learning happens out-of-band, but that it has to be fundamentally different f
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> I have a degree in linguistics, so I understand the power of immersion. This seems to be the thrust of the whole post. I just don't think immersion has the same influence on mature people with a stable worldview. Why would you hav
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I think this is fine as long as the success criteria are strict enough that they are forced to learn something in the end. Any significant testing will inevitably create that situation. The LLM won't have enough context to handle the m
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by sublinear 1mo ago
I'm fairly certain that at least half of the people commenting (and all of the people who downvoted you) have over a decade of git muscle memory in their fingers. That's far faster than asking AI, and sometimes probably even faste
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by sublinear 1mo ago
What makes knowledge "specialized" to you? Most devs use git. Even better than ChatGPT is just doing the thing on reflex. Not every manual step is necessarily a tedious chore nor even slower when you actually know what you'
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by sublinear 1mo ago
How many more face eggs until we pop the AI yolk?
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by sublinear 1mo ago
The "best engineers" we have right now started their careers when the startup era was hot and they now have 15-20+ years of experience. They wore all the hats while everyone else stunted themselves straight out of school by going
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> The best engineers know how our systems work down to more levels, but for average developers producing average software with average impact, average output is acceptable. What if I told you the "best engineers" pretty much al
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by sublinear 1mo ago
> You could make software that doesn’t require your users to work around its shortcomings. If the users are missing the mark so bad that they're wiping their asses with suede, I'd argue the documentation and examples are at fau
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by sublinear 1mo ago
What does that have to do with productivity? Bugs and security flaws are just oversights. Those oversights are caused by inattention either through fatigue or acting too quickly. An inexperienced person delegating what they don't under
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Can we finally just admit that using AI for coding is equivalent (or maybe even slightly inferior) to web search? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Giving junior devs or non-devs what is essentially automated stackoverflow copypa
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by sublinear 1mo ago
TUIs are an abomination and most GUIs should just be web. CLIs should be preferred when available. Learning them pays you back when it's time to write a script or pipe massive amounts of data.
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Most places that must do things on-prem also have strict requirements and long deadlines. LLMs can be nice sometimes, but not necessary. Internal teams with "not invented here" syndrome currently working on that stuff are ultimate
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Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)(philrees.co.uk)
49 points by sublinear 1mo ago|21 comments
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Is high-level behavior the only criteria for diagnosis? I think the majority of the public would like to better understand how we came into this position. There's nothing wrong with the topic of autism as research, but it's been a
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by sublinear 1mo ago
This is exactly correct. The whole point of software is to precisely build what is intended . The perception of the quality of the result is relative to the original requirements and expectations. It shouldn't be surprising that peopl
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by sublinear 1mo ago
Metabolism, and the endocrine system in general, is very responsive to physical activity. Even in athletes, glucose can have significant ups and downs when it gets intense. It would be interesting to see this technology branch out into moni

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