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by the_af 1y ago
A valid perspective. I don't mind influencing people in the areas I know, but I resent the politicking and being forced to do it outside my area of expertise (and I don't believe about Principal IC can really know enough about eve
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by the_af 1y ago
Oh, I use YouTube for my hobbies, which are very visual. Using YouTube (or any video thing) for programming topics drives me nuts, the presenter never goes at my pace.
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by the_af 1y ago
Agreed. YouTube shines with personalized feed, and is unusable without it.
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by the_af 1y ago
The way the author describes it (in contradicting terms; see the point where he claims if you're a Principal IC, you were promoted because you already acted like one, making the ~30 items of advice redundant) it's the most stressf
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by the_af 1y ago
To me, in a way, it reads like Principal IC is the worst possible job. You're doing all the politicking and influencing stuff many of us presumably don't like and associate with management roles, while also being expected to be &q
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by the_af 1y ago
Hm, interesting. In my career, some have and some haven't. In my current job, there's a screening by non-tech recruiters, then managers, then me and possibly others for the real tech interview. My EM is technical but cannot go in-
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by the_af 1y ago
I dunno, I find non-technical screening helpful. Otherwise way too many candidates reach the tech interview stage that shouldn't, and are a waste of my time... (I agree screening by non-programmers is flawed, but there's always a
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by the_af 1y ago
Yes, but the comment I was replying to and disagreeing with was this: > Recruiters should not recruit programmers if they, the recruiters, have not worked in a programming context. The best software development recruiter is another prog
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by the_af 1y ago
In my experience, recruiters seldom recruit programmers, they just find them and do a screening, but there's a technical interview done by technical people. Are there companies that skip the tech interview step?
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by the_af 1y ago
This tracks with my experience with architects (for home renovations): they use what they know, sometimes stubbornly so and even when I must point out it won't work out (e.g. materials inappropriate for the climate, inappropriate due t
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by the_af 1y ago
I don't agree with this. I think that while it's true that in many cases opposing ideological sides optimize for different goals , and that these goals are not always clearly and openly stated, it's not true they never under
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by the_af 1y ago
From TFA (note: I didn't test it) Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded Dana smirks. “Well, yeah. JavaScript is an eager language. Can’t use the Y combinator.” You saw this coming. You paste your code in
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by the_af 1y ago
I was so sure I was reading a post by Aphyr, I had to do a double take.
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by the_af 1y ago
They claim a way to interview is pair programming to solve a bug in a codebase unknown to the interviewee. They also claim to allow AI. I get what they are aiming for, but I foresee trouble: For one, this kind of interview is way harder to
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by the_af 1y ago
Yeah, it was hard . Then again, many C64 games were hard, but I remember my brother and I really struggling with Blood Money.
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by the_af 1y ago
I think the critique is fundamentally different from saying "it's soft science". It's saying "it's bad research, misquoting experts and references, drawing sloppy conclusions aimed at a lay audience". You
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by the_af 1y ago
> Arguably, different responses would increase replayability. Yes, but I don't think we're talking about the same kind of replayability. Certainly, not the kind I care about. To me, replayability is a carefully constructed ex
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by the_af 1y ago
I guess I'm skeptical you can steer current LLMs in this way, or at least, this hasn't been my experience. I also worry not only about the loss of a shared experience among players, but also about the authorial voice... I find LLM
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by the_af 1y ago
Hm, thanks for making me aware of this game, but that's not the game I meant. The one I mean is probably at least 10 years old.
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by the_af 1y ago
> Here are responses that gemma 3 27b just came up with I think nobody doubts an LLM can come up with responses. But can it understand when it should NOT respond? Can it reign in its baked-in impulse to be "helpful"? Most of
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by the_af 1y ago
This game predates LLMs by far, so that's not it. It's enjoyable to read the responses when you cannot do something. It's part of the game, baked into it. More importantly, you and me will get the same shared experience we ca
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by the_af 1y ago
Please don't take this to be dismissive of your comment, because that's not my intention, but... I think people like Ray Kurzweil are essentially religious. Instead of a messiah and heaven, they think of salvation in terms of a si
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by the_af 1y ago
> One part that's kind of boring when playing a text adventure is trying things the original authors did not anticipate and getting a boring standard response. This happens mostly with old text adventures. Modern Interactive Ficti
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by the_af 1y ago
But can you reign it in? LLMs are frustrating, they tend to go off the rails.
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by the_af 1y ago
Heh, I was just browsing Exalted Funeral for unrelated reasons! Re: TTRPGs... I think that's difference. There's no expectation that when two groups play a D&D session, even with the same module, that the story will play out
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by the_af 1y ago
Defense in depth is still valuable.
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by the_af 1y ago
If you use an LLM for your text adventure, how can you make sure two people experience the same game? "Hey, remember when you had to use the pick axe in that maze of twisty little passages, all alike?" "Nope, there was no maz
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by the_af 1y ago
Off-topic: was this article at least partly generated using an LLM? I ask not as a snark, since the content is genuinely interesting, but out of curiosity. The style seems very LLM: lots of bullet points, titles with sections typical of LLM
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by the_af 1y ago
I'd say YT recommendations are more than 90% right for me. It almost always recommends me stuff I'm interested in, related to things I've watched. It seems to have the best recommendation engine of all the social media I us
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by the_af 1y ago
What do you get instead of recommendations? Random junk or just nothing? I find YouTube recommendations very useful. I only get what I'm interested in or adjacent topics, no junk, no ragebait.

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