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by suzzer99 4mo ago
There's a sweet spot between AI slop and 144 characters. I can tell within a few sentences whether there's a human on the other end getting to the point, or an AI dancing around the point and finding 3 different ways to say the sa
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I can't imagine working for a place that has a big bucket of PRs that either get reviewed or languish for some amount of time based on who feels like reviewing them. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that ev
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Ice yachts get well over 100 mph. I'm not sure how much they were used in pre-industrial times.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
> You just drug its food and wait till it passes out. Human zoo keepers are actually smarter than that. For months, they train the tiger to go into the carrier to get food. Then on transport day, they shut the door behind it. Unclear if
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Peter Attia is a crap human being for being buddies with Epstein after most of his crimes were already known. But I still trust his analysis more than anyone else at dissecting this kind of stuff and separating the wheat from the chaff. I&#
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
The CCC and WPA produced a lot of valuable stuff that still stands today.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I think most humans have some intrinsic desire to feel useful to their tribe, to feel like they earn their keep. I know people on the equivalent of UBI, and they're all miserable. I don't think we're wired to do nothing all d
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
The false disability claims are completely out of control.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
But nothing like showing off a Monet to visitors.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
This has been largely true for the history of tech. The most-hyped technology usually wins out over the best technology.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
The billionaires building doomsday bunkers get it.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I still get spam emails on the one-off email address I used to sign up for Bearshare.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I come here for the comments first, then decide if it's worth reading the article.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I feel like this is very possible eventually, but under 5 years seems unrealistic to me. The compute power is already running into limits. And a few more major problems need to be solved before agents can have that kind of autonomy to creat
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I'm 57 and have no desire to retire. I know plenty of other programmers in their 50s who aren't itching to retire. Programming, at least for me, isn't like some factory job where you can't wait to get out at your 30 year
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Seriously. I've been programming almost 30 years and I feel like I could easily have another 10 in me. I'm sure many reading this will assume my skills are deteriorating at an atrocious rate. But I'm still the lead developer
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
At every place I've ever worked that hired juniors, the juniors always have to leave by about 2 years, because the company will never (roughly) double their salary to what they can get on the open market. That first year, the juniors a
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Those critic skills are great. I see a real business opportunity for someone who can bundle everything you describe into a turnkey solution for a programmer like me who doesn't want to take months coming up with their own system and ex
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
> Some shame is good and other shame is bad. Yeah, like most human emotions. The right amount of fear keeps you alive. Too much fear debilitates you.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
According to ChatGPT, researchers are working on models that remember personal directives across sessions. IE - an actual personal assistant that gets to know you and your proclivities. So it's definitely on their radar. No idea how fa
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
If a junior developer makes a dumb mistake that causes a mini-disaster, their brain makes it a priority to never make that same mistake again. They physically feel anxiety the next time they get into a similar situation, which serves as a v
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
> How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet? The problem is LLMs have no capacity for shame. My Dad got taken in by a Target gift card scam. He felt so terrible, he almost didn't even tell me abo
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
*County taxpayers. The people who actually work for the country won't face any consequences.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
In the US, we just pay out a lot of taxpayer money to the victim, and the authority abuser gets some time off with pay.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
> These same "ideas people" have been contracting human software developers to "make them a Facebook clone" (and other requests of similar quality) for decades now. I was doing an exercise boot camp when mobile apps s
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Here's my question: Is our consciousness fundamentally different than a gorilla's? If the answer is no, then I'd ask if a gorilla's consciousness is fundamentally different than a baboon's? I think that answer has t
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
I’ve had to do a ton of SQL stuff lately, which I haven’t really worked with since the late 90s. ChatGPT has been a godsend, not just for me, but for our only coworker who knows SQL well, whom I’d probably be bugging several times a day at
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
AI LOVES defensive coding. I asked you for code to filter and reduce an array. I didn't ask you for a method that makes sure the array exists and is an array before it does anything else.
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
Yeah I'm working on one of those now that a 3rd-party vendor cranked out for us. I spent all day ripping out an endpoint that did 98% of what another endpoint did and should never have existed. I also ripped out 80 lines of code that l
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by suzzer99 4mo ago
It's so beautiful.

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