tarkin2

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by tarkin2 3y ago
I was against this previously. But it simplifies things. You need never wonder if you should write 'people_id' or 'person_id' if you consistently use singular nouns. Reducing the mental load slightly is reason enough.
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by tarkin2 3y ago
The British public liked, in broad terms, not the monarchy, but The Queen. Now we have a King who's said his job is to prepare things for the King-in-waiting and few have strong feelings towards William either--and neither of them seem
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by tarkin2 3y ago
It's annoying and sometimes demeaning and often tactical when managers use it. In docs it can be annoying when there's assumed knowledge and skills. And it adds nothing except to indicate how another may find the activity--why bot
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by tarkin2 3y ago
You can inspect, alter and debug any website too. (Minification makes this annoying but there are ways around this) The refresh button does delete all your modifications though.
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by tarkin2 3y ago
Yeah. The article is confused. In its example deciding spontaneously is fine since you're not deciding what to decide but you're deciding that you will decide and then later you'll suddenly decide what to decide. The decision
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by tarkin2 3y ago
The Germans even plan being spontaneous ;)
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by tarkin2 3y ago
How many times have you just deleted the build folder to fix things? I use bash for my personal projects now. Thankfully I need none of the advanced features gradle provides/inflicts upon you.
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by tarkin2 3y ago
The RAM usage of the daemon, the fact there are two programming language you can write it in, and you’re often reading documentation based on the other language, with the newer language slowing down already slow, slow build times, the ever
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Since I've learnt vimscript and am relatively happy using it, what's the advantage of writing plugins in lua for neovim?
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by tarkin2 4y ago
I stopped a while back. And now I'm unsure what I think given the AI revelations. On the hand MS gave a great product to programmers for free, and on the other they've used the code therein to do a lot of junior programmers out of
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by tarkin2 4y ago
It's already replacing junior programmers. Seniors etc will see their wages slashed through labour competition. App and website clones will abound. It won't replace programmers entirely, although it will diminish numbers significa
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by tarkin2 4y ago
The organisational politics is because the organisation is full of humans. The AI will get better at requirements capture, I'd wager.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
You still have the write the code, write the report, etc, after looking at google. Now you won't need to.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
One currently incorrect answer doesn't render the technology useless for all domains. You'll still need experts to check the output. But this will be their job--checking, refining, regenerating--rather than creating. And jobs unde
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by tarkin2 4y ago
It'll decimate a lot of the service sector, that is white collar workers, and that includes us; it'll decimate it in the same way industrialisation decimated a lot of blue collar jobs; and control of a centralised AI will give com
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by tarkin2 4y ago
The only argument I've heard against our impending doom is: The productivity gains will not leave people unemployed, but will give managers the opportunity to start more projects. The role of a developer will change. We'll be look
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by tarkin2 4y ago
You won't need this to-and-fro. GPT-X will generate both sides for you.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
But that thinking, in future, may not need a developer as we know the term
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by tarkin2 4y ago
This is the only comment that has made me less worried about AI. If AI gets to the point where an end user can easily describe the app or website they want, however, then it won't just be the programmers who are in trouble.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Fair, though sadly sarky, argument. Those languages came about during the boom of websites and apps, however. And more code was being written, rewritten and maintained by coders--now, instead, it's looking like it'll be generated,
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Watson wasn't pumping out code in response to non technical input though.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Unionisation, I'd wager, will come to the tech world a lot more. No one cared about unions when they could easily find new jobs. Now that's not so certain with the rise of AI. (Edit: and all these redundancies, yes)
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Indeed. A very niche market, of course.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
It won't only be error messages people will use AI for, but the generation and regeneration of whole applications; that is, your job.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
I imagine there'll be a lot more talk of the soul from a lot of techies from now on. Or at the least talk of the human touch from people who were erstwhile trying to get machines to automate everything.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Isn't there a similar problem with Spotify? That's not been solved via political means. The artists are getting shafted. Hard to think the same won't be true for the unpaid feeders of ChatGPT.
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Most of the raw material used is available for free with no copyright on the internet, though. I have no desire to charge for my posts that are mainly for my own reference. Nor do the people who are answering on stackoverflow. But when all
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by tarkin2 4y ago
I've been thinking the same. I'm still tempted to post things online for my own reference. And I believe we benefit from increasing the common wealth of information online. But the fact my own posts are feeding the thing that will
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Why not do this in Spain? Spain should be politically more reliable... unless Gibraltar flares up again, which I guess it might post Brexit
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by tarkin2 4y ago
Or seek out if you're a sado-masochist. There's a free bot idea for you.

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