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by suzzer99 6mo ago
This is the new world. Go viral? Get human customer service. Otherwise, piss off.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
This is the way imo, at least for now.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
ChatGPT Fail > It sounds like you’re thinking of Kwisatz Haderach from Dune. > The spelling/pronunciation gets mangled a lot (“quiz-atz haderach,” “kwitzatteracht,” etc.), but the original term is Kwisatz Haderach. I asked it if
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
YES! Qwitzatteracht the fun golf game for for the whole family! I'm putting this in my notes. Qwitzatteracht, play today!
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
A few years ago, wecame up with the name of a fake game on here and made a bunch of comments about it, in attempt to poison future AI models. I can't remember the name of the game of course, and I'm too lazy to click the More link
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
* Concert lasers just got a lot cooler.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
It doesn't necessarily mean they lie or suppress results, it can just mean they don't pursue areas of study where the outcome is either a) nothing happens or b) bad actors use your results to "other" a whole group of peo
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
There are a few scientific topics that are too easily manipulated by bad actors who ignore all the nuance. You have to tread very, very carefully on those and ask yourself what good vs. what harm can come from it. We know from history that
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
It seems like the big companies they're providing Mythos to are their only concern right now.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
I've never seen "double press esc" as a control pattern.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
This just in: suzzer99 is pivoting to AI. Get in early.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
This reminds me of when a coworker left to go help develop Technicolor's (yes, that Technicolor) new social media platform.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Yeah this. If I don't buy the new iPhone XX.0 but instead wait for XX.1, which could include software and hardware fixes, does that make me a free rider?
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
I've exercised from 6am to 9pm and everywhere in between. At least for me, it's just about getting into a habit and letting your body know this is the time of day we're going to be active. I never felt like I had more energy
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Yes, notoriously tech-averse software developers who hate tools that make their jobs easier.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
How about we just let nature take its course and rely on developers' laziness, one of the virtues of a good programmer? I go to ChatGPT for basically any annoying code snippet and even functions now. I'm done ever having to guess
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Yeah, I can't say for sure it's going to happen, but I can clearly see a path where AI ends the middle class in developed countries, which has really only existed in its current form since WWII. Most people can't imagine that
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
How many is a legion?
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Yeah it feels like a lot of this could still be shakeout from FAANG and FAANG wannabes hiring 10x more engineers than needed. I realize Square is a more complicated business than OnlyFans. But OnlyFans isn't a trivial app and it runs o
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
My general observation is that people tend to underestimate the likelihood of black swan events (covid, financial crisis) even as it's pretty obvious they're happening. And then when they do accept it, they react too far the other
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
> mainly so that if I want to change it later there is one place to change, not many But what happens when new requirements come in for just one of the things? If you left them separate, it's an easy change of a few lines. If you cr
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Yeah you don't walk into the job doing it. But once your position is secure and you've built some stuff to where you can make changes in 5 minutes that might take someone else a day, then you can start pushing back on craziness. T
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
And adding an abstraction later is much easier than removing an unneeded one, which can be very hard or even impossible depending on the complexity of the app.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
I don't think it's a hard rule, more of an ethos. If you know there are going to be a bunch of something, write the abstraction out of the gate. If you have three code entities with a lot of similar properties, but the app is new
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
I think Apple does stuff like this because a) they can get away with it and b) they know countless competitors who can't get away with it will blindly follow their shitty new design paradigm.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
I like how it became uncool about 10 years ago for buttons to provide any feedback that they've been pressed. Thanks Tim Apple!
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Input type=date also just saves the day, month and year with no timezone information, which makes sense since the widget doesn't show any and context determines if the date should be in the user's timezone or a fixed timezone (lik
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
Date pickers are the absolute worst. It blows my mind we don't have a clean standard by now. The best is when a site uses the exact same date picker for birthdate as for some date in the future. Yes, I'd love to click backward 50
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
An underrated senior engineer skill is saving stakeholders from their own worst impulses.
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by suzzer99 6mo ago
> Generally, though, most of us need to think about using more abstraction rather than less. Maybe this was true when Programming Perl was written, but I see the opposite much more often now. I'm a big fan of WET - Write Everything

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