tenacious_tuna

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by tenacious_tuna 7mo ago
> These are exactly the kind of tasks that I ask an AI tool to perform. Very reasonable nowadays, but those were things I was doing back in 2018 as a junior engineer. > Some tasks will be given over entirely to agentic tools. Absolute
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by tenacious_tuna 7mo ago
Ultimately that's only an option if you can sustain the impact to your career (not getting promoted, or getting fired). My org (publicly traded, household name, <5k employees) is all-in on AI with the goal of having 100% of our code
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by tenacious_tuna 7mo ago
> Powertrain is not a concern. It's the load a bike can carry vs a car overall. Sure, an automobile will pretty much always win out in raw capacity, but I'd argue it's a policy problem that makes us reliant on automobiles
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by tenacious_tuna 7mo ago
> I have never seen one of these ridiculous looking bikes in any city or anywhere. > > Where do y'all live, a Dr. Suess book? I saw them every day in Chicago. I see them every day in southern Ontario. I saw them whenever I vis
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by tenacious_tuna 8mo ago
this is one of the core conceits behind why Strong Towns / Not Just Bikes / urbanism discourse in general makes the disctinction between a "street", which is meant for people to walk along, go to stores/restaurants&
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by tenacious_tuna 8mo ago
I'm not OP, but; Forgejo is much lighterweight than Gitlab for my usecase, and was cited as a more maintained version of Gitea, but that's just anecdote from my brain and I don't have sources, so take that with a truckload of
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by tenacious_tuna 8mo ago
> clueless suggesting Gitlab ad hominem isn't a very convincing argument, and as someone who also enjoys forgejo it doesn't make me feel good to see as the justification for another recommender.
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by tenacious_tuna 8mo ago
> Households have shared computers. I have about five Fedora desktops running in my house that I share with my partners. Domain-style logins are handled by FreeIPA. Basic login with the KDE Fedora spin works great. I've been meaning
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
That's not an explanation, that's a restatement of the claim.
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
This is really exciting! Discussions of our resource impact have come up a lot in my org's informal spaces, it's really exciting to see someone making a concerted effort to raise visibility into how much we spend in money or energ
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
> Now the ones to avoid move around and it's all too likely that a newcomer is such a person. This seems a wild generalization to make, though I guess "be suspicious of newcomers" is a little biologically hardwired. What&#
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
Inferring, an LLM
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
It's not just juniors. One of my partners carries a PhD in epidemiology and bimolecular science; they've been job searching for eight months with no bites, just silence. A friend of mine is a chemical engineering PhD, she's b
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by tenacious_tuna 9mo ago
Who else is going to run the models?
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
> the notion that it lacks nuance to describe the intricacies of text rendering I took this to mean that any non-domain-specific language may be bad at describing that domain, e.g. why physicists, mathematicians, chemists, etc. have a co
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
Agreed; Or they're using CG-NAT, or consumer grade NAT behind CG-NAT, or....
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
> You just asserted that without explanation. They linked a whole article detailing the complexities of specifically NAT traversal. I should think it obvious that by removing an entire leaky layer of abstraction the process would be much
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
This is a common function of uPnP, which I've seen as features in router config pages since the mid 2000s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#NAT_tr...
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
Anyone know if it's possible to bandwidth-limit the sync operations? I'd love to set up garage instances across my families' houses to act as a distributed backup, but I don't want to hose their (or my) down/uplink
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
+1 for harm reduction. it is a sad state of affairs, but it's better than nothing.
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
from the article: > Initially, we experimented by building this as an app on Pebble, since it has a mic and I’m always wearing one. But, I realized quickly that this was suboptimal - it required me to use my other hand to press the butto
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
> I'd much rather deal with some less stability and have a lot more resources This strategy works so long as you're in the group of people who do indeed have "more resources," but breaks down if you're marginaliz
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
> Well now you get to read it. Man, I wish this was true. I've given the same feedback on a colleague's clearly LLM-generated PRs. Initially I put effort into explaining why I was flagging the issues, now I just tag them with a
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
it is if that's all people do, but I think it is a necessary step to realize that we do live under a system that encourages an amoral allocation of resources. If people only ever shrug that off or treat it as intractable it will never
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
I learned recently our company has an informal policy to discourage hiring fresh grads, which would explain why I haven't seen any hires at the bottom of our grading scale. I'm one step above (though arguably I could be two up by
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
What a helpful take in a CoL crisis.
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by tenacious_tuna 10mo ago
I was talking to a friend of mine about a related topic when he quipped that he realized he started disliking therapy when he realized they effectively were just teaching him coping strategies for an economic system that is inherently amora
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
I don't buy this. Watching hi-res remasters of old films (Alien, Catch Me If You Can, Jurassic Park) you get incredible definition without damage to suspension of disbelief. I think this comment[1] above really highlights what bothers
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
> There's huge overuse shallow depth of field I've ranted about this so much to friends, it's so distracting to me. I have the hypothesis that some of it is due to how easy (or easier?) it is to quickly review footage to t
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by tenacious_tuna 11mo ago
> Lots of tips on how to do this out there but one thing I do is have it try, throw away everything it it did, and try again with a completely restated question This is the thing that worries me about AI/LLMs and how people "pr

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