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by taurath 1y ago
> In the repo where we're building the agent, the agent itself is actually the #5 contributor - so we really are using Copilot coding agent to build Copilot coding agent ;) Thats a fun stat! Are humans in the #1-4 slots? Its hard to
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by taurath 1y ago
> Copilot excels at low-to-medium complexity tasks in well-tested codebases, from adding features and fixing bugs to extending tests, refactoring, and improving documentation. Bounds bounds bounds bounds. The important part for humans se
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by taurath 1y ago
I did this and hooo does Apple make it difficult to sync files without iCloud. I felt like it was too janky for my liking, and paid for obsidian sync, but I felt like it was really silly how an official app could do it no problem, but you c
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by taurath 1y ago
It’s more like.. project ideas you actually want to pick up, projects in progress, notes while learning something, journals, writing. It can definitely get heavy, but like a personal knowledge base can really be helpful. I store my measurem
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by taurath 1y ago
> I will take a mediocre but steady, agreeable, and trustworthy developer I don't ever have to think about over a "rockstar" who is making life hell for the team every time. It seems to me from experience interviewing that
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by taurath 1y ago
The following is less mask-on comment directed at neurodivergent people, as I'm neurodivergent and have people as a special interest, and often am in the position of helping people with social skills. I'm code switching, which is
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by taurath 1y ago
I've made solutions before that a product can have many permissions, a product can have many prices, and a product can also be a bundle of products. The products service does the heavy lifting by having systems to determine things like
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by taurath 1y ago
Give yourself some credit here, I'm a web developer who works on billing systems and I also have no idea what it is that they mean. My best guess is that they're making a marketing message that they do not have a very particularly
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by taurath 1y ago
This is about the myth of meritocracy, or at least, the myth that skills matter more than anything. While its /more/ true in software than anywhere else (where what is valued more is social signals, diplomas, other signifiers of p
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by taurath 1y ago
I'm rather confused by this article - I've made products and pricing services, and just on the first line its said that billing requires webhooks and state syncing.. but why? Is it a way to utilize payments in an otherwise static
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by taurath 1y ago
I think your statements belie a sense of honor in both trying to find enjoyment and in developing master with what you do. But I also don't think the underlying dichotomy is the how the GP phrased their characterization of others as &q
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by taurath 1y ago
Agree - initiative is not innate, it is trained and built with experience (of rewards for taking initiative), just as waiting for direction is trained and built with experience (of micromanagement and threats to safety). The worst of the wo
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by taurath 1y ago
I leetcode until my eyes bleed and I can't think anymore. I forget almost everything I know about building software and instead focus on memorizing tricks and optimizations and processes for solving leetcode algorithm questions. In my
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by taurath 1y ago
This worked well for me, until I couldn't work for 3 years. Then, it was an automatic rejection even for companies I got refered to. Go without paper at your own peril.
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by taurath 1y ago
A friend is dropping out of IT to pursue welding - but knows the money just isn’t there. She’s starting a 5:30am 10 hour shift at a manufacturer to be able to move onto welding and CNC. She’s autistic so can struggle sometimes but is also o
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by taurath 1y ago
Expand your definition of "responsible". Not all stories are the Heroes Journey. Its just the one that gets people to accept the most exploitation and work the hardest.
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by taurath 1y ago
During our RTO mandates, and after a huge layoff, we had an executive who was broadcasting in front of her glass wine cellar. The head of technology would address entire rooms full of people from his $5m mansion’s custom engraved kitchen an
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by taurath 1y ago
Don’t drop out of college to work, even if you have to go into debt. People value the social signal more than you think. If you’re ever up against someone with a degree, even if you’re amazing, they’ll choose the degree 9 times out of 10. I
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by taurath 1y ago
Fuck that guy, whoever did that. Also, yes this is a basic “society falling down” post, but i have a thought: People are not only desperate, they’re feeling hopeless. In LA, in places all over. It’s not about drugs (though they accelerate i
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It very interesting because vagus nerve theory has been seen as unproven and is often cast upon with doubt as we don’t understand the underlying mechanism - a lot of PTSD treatments are along those lines. I think they just don’t work univer
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by taurath 1y ago
If you’ve ever considered going on disability, or needed to, you’d be very quickly enlightened. It’s hard. You have to have documentation, you will get denied. Even then the benefits are pretty shit. It’s not a thing that you can just accid
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by taurath 1y ago
What gets me the most about this is how certain you are that because you have some data about people’s browser history you can make these conclusions. I hope age and experience avails you of these notions - there is no master database that
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by taurath 1y ago
That’s why therapists have to be licensed. They decide what a “bad” therapist is, and delicense those who’ve caused significant harm to their clients - it’s a difficult process though, but it also should be. Once you get into it, you find t
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These therapists exist. There also exists therapists who certain people gain a ton of help from that another would go running for the hills. Not all therapists are meant to treat all clients - not just in terms of methodology, experience wi
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by taurath 1y ago
Most human intelligence is within a fairly narrow band. Most people I’ve ever met have their own unique intelligences. Perhaps it might be good to meet more people without holding the self-looping dichotomy of “smart people” vs “normal peo
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ChatGPT can’t be in the room with you. Can’t evoke psychological mirroring. Is AI going to cure loneliness? Will the AI be empathetic? Will it be capable of showing love? Can it give you the acceptance of another human being? Do these thing
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I would want to bet against it but then we’d have to agree on what “performance” means. Also agree there are horrible therapists. The funny part about horrible therapists is that sometimes they can actually be extremely good for one populat
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I think that most smart people underestimate the complexity of fields they aren’t in. ChatGPT may be able to replace a psychology listicle, but it has no affect or ability to read, respond, and intervene or redirect like a human can.
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by taurath 1y ago
I can’t stand libreoffice - between tons of bugs (waiting for printers on startup is a default..), extremely janky UI from 20 years ago, poor performance, exceptionally slow load times, and bad formatting issues and incompatibilities.. it’s
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As someone who was a child with autism whose parents followed these guidelines, fuck you. You don’t know what you’re talking about. It wasn’t just the hitting. It was the threat of being hit for anything. It was the contradictory internal r

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