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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> We also struggle to attract this kind of talent. i would go further and say, any kind of productive/disruptive talent - or experience. Plus the reek of office-politics is everywhere , and that does not help either. You know, af
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
> level 2 - becomes an immune system i'd bet that above some number there will be contradictions. Things that apply to different semantic contexts, but look same on syntax level (and maybe with various levels of "syntax" a
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
let me ask a stupid/still-ignorant question - about repeatability. If one asks this generator/assistant same request/thing, within same initial contexts, 10 times, would it generate same result ? in different sessions and
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
shape Up? waw! i am envious..
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
yeah. Long-experienced people (not just plain-old) have grown that feeling called "warm fuzzies" [1]. And although warm-fuzzies are not in the spec, mostly, it is what makes or breaks good product/service. anyone hiring such?
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
i had an original 7" eeepc from 2007, running archlinux-32 from ~2017, with Xfce and all that, and few months ago updated it.. took me almost a day, going through various rabbit-holes, like 1-2 static-built pacmans and python and manua
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
reminded me of: https://www.loosetooth.com/blog/can-t-help-myself-by-sun-yua...
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
especially if you include the total refusal of that caste to take responsibility - e.g. compliance - hence looking for any possibility to outsource that, be it M$ or AWS or (now new kid on da blok) "AI"
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
i have been programming for 40years.. but still have not dipped in this brave new world of shakespeare-taught coding-LLMs. IMO there's one basic difference with this new "generative" stuff.. it's not deterministic. Or no
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
all these thing are.. directions. Stuff that has emerged with practicing, empirical, not a stone-cut rules. Each may apply in 99% of cases but not at all in the other 1%.. different 1% for each one. Like, you hold a knife by the handle, not
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
so the universe is a revision control system? or only-last-revision system?
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
i am in this software making cauldron for 35years already. Seen/been lots of things. Still.. For the last 3 months, i have applied to ~150+ euro-places, and 20 non-euro. At various levels between senior-engineer and cto. 15-20% replied
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
it's in the spec. Since forever, like v 1.3? don't remember. And it is same in perl: from `man perlre`: ^ Match the beginning of the string (or line, if /m is used)
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
aaand, how to apply this technique to a CV? prepending a one-liner-about-some-feat that might interest that particular company, before the usual cv afterthat? hmm. made me think..
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
there's a lot written on the topic - e.g. [1] My ELIengineer take is that no bearing works without some slack - it gets stuck. But that still needs some understanding, and that is less and less available, esp. at management levels.
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
> because I didn't get my way if you cannot come with compromise, and if it's only about some code/architecture/software, let it go (and fail or whatever), esp. if you have not invested man-years actually building it
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
i wonder.. how much this maps into notion of cultural dimensions. https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-ho... it's not completely black-and-white, and it similarly depends on group-level - whole-cou
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
if anyone is interested to try their agent-fu, here's some more-real-world rabbit-hole i went optimizing in 2024. Note this is now dead project, noone's using it, and probably same for the original. i managed to get it 2x-4x faste
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
this seems ongoing. From yesterday: Lavrov: Russia is ready to communicate with the US on the Balkans https://www.balkanweb.com/en/lavrov-rusia-eshte-e-gatshme-te...
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
> uncovering corporate dysfunction better than any tool in history, i.e. garbage in garbage out in the times when Agile was still just a way of work (not a mantra), adopting it showed exactly the glaring troubles in the overall (human) p
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
loong time ago ~2000~ i worked for company making geological software.. most customers were "digging" for oil but quite a few of the customers were digging for water.. and someone then said "future Wars will be fought for wat
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
can't it generate a program that (generates a program that)+ does whatever? in different languages, and in increasing level of dereferencing.. industrially-making-exploits.. : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466760
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
one can vipe-code a plethora of "competing" softwares, under different names and brands and phase of usability/moon, and out-noise the signal of the competition. Any signal actually
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
go away for a while. 6 months. year. Whatever. Let the sliding car find its trajectory, then decide which way to turn the wheel. Or abandon the car.. here my answer on similar question from ~year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
intelligence/understanding is when one can postulate/predict/calculate/presume something correctly, from concepts about it, without that thing (or similar) ever been in the training/past (or even ever-known). Yeah,
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
"Stop" isn’t the way of the Concerns. "Stop" doesn’t meet quotas or hit targets. mmh. very appropriate
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
reverse engineering -everything-technological- was a national/state-funded (amateur and also professional) sport not so long ago, in quite a few countries around..
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
Doctorow's "civil war over general computing" comes to mind.. https://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html unless the general population somehow freaks into privacy and anonymity and indepen
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
Science is hated because its mastery requires too much hard work, and, by the same token, its practitioners, the scientists, are hated because of their power they derive from it. - Dijkstra '1989 https://www.cs.utexas.edu&
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by svilen_dobrev 9mo ago
There's quite some more of the kind, and of about that time.. 80ies-90-ies. Like the 3 levels of audience (known for milennia as shu-ha-ri): https://wiki.c2.com/?ThreeLevelsOfAudience and 4 levels of knowledge: https:

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