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by thefaux 2y ago
I'm not sure of this. The jury is still out on most ai tools. Even if it is true, it may be in a kind of strange reverse way: people innovating by asking what ai can't do and directing their attention there.
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by thefaux 2y ago
You are creating a false dichotomy. Very few people are saying there are no benefits, but many have reasonable concerns both about the current efficacy of these tools as well as the expectation of continued exponential growth which is drivi
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by thefaux 2y ago
I'm not saying he's wrong, but that is a rather convenient position for him to take.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Plus Wagner's ring cycle.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The problem with a doctor making an extravagant living is that it calls into question their motivation for working as a healer. How can I feel good about my patients if I know that they can barely afford to pay for my cafe? Or conversely, w
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by thefaux 2y ago
I am sort of surprised that there isn't a widely used tool that uses codegen to generate jni bindings sort of like what the jna does but at build time. You could go meta and bundle a builder in a jar that looks for the shared library i
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Apple's Vision Pro Portends a Dark Future(commonwealmagazine.org)
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by thefaux 2y ago
> A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead. Perhaps, but if that is true I highly doubt that you can actually absorb the informatio
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by thefaux 2y ago
All of this feels like a side effect of a low trust environment. I respect the author's creativity, but the environment described sounds highly dysfunctional. In my opinion, if the ceo is demanding an arbitrary metric from his subordin
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by thefaux 2y ago
I think it also has hurt a lot of software engineers in a number of different ways. AI assisted programming tools are an experiment and the jury is still very much out.
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by thefaux 2y ago
> FORTRAN was provided for the IBM 1401 by an innovative 63-pass compiler Must have been fantastic to debug when there was an unexpected interaction between pass 37 and 51.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The real Blub paradox to me is that the most powerful and expressive language is best characterized by minimalism at the language level.
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by thefaux 2y ago
> Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks? I read the OP as constructive feedback not an attack. I also think that their advice is practically bog standard writing advice n
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by thefaux 2y ago
The funny thing is that I just plucked 5MM out of a hat for my number 5 or so years ago when asked and I guess this analysis supports my intuition. The one big problem with renting is instability. If the owner decides to sell the property,
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yes, it is surprising initially but I can imagine that hft java coding conventions are very different from enterprise java.
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by thefaux 2y ago
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
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by thefaux 2y ago
I don't really understand this statement. Do you genuinely think that there is no difference in QOL between a 30 minute drive on a packed freeway vs a 40 minute walk on pleasant streets? Personally, I'd leave 10 minutes earlier an
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by thefaux 2y ago
This is one thing that really needs to be legislated and enforced into oblivion.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Not OP, but I do. In principle it shouldn't really matter what the size of the binary is, but a large binary relative to peers in the program's category usually reflects complexity and bloat. Powershell feels sluggish and unrespon
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by thefaux 2y ago
Lua is by far the most under-appreciated programming tool that I am aware of. Mastering Lua is one of the best ways to level up your programming skills. Of course it can be misused, but it is almost shocking how small and efficient Lua prog
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by thefaux 2y ago
I just want to shout out WalkSF which is a small organization punching well above its weight fighting for increased safety for pedestrians (which by proxy will mean increased safety for everyone). Voters in San Francisco overwhelmingly chos
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by thefaux 2y ago
My favorite thing about rust is when rust devs say that the slow compile things aren't a big deal and then show how that just by dropping a few dependencies you can get hello world down from 90 seconds to 30 seconds.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I bet humans are pretty good at this too.
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by thefaux 2y ago
> Loosening the constraints always makes a problem easier to solve. In a vacuum, I disagree quite strongly with this although I understand what the author is getting at. It is easy to get stuck with arbitrary and unnecessary constraints.
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by thefaux 2y ago
The author seems to be describing what happens when one's primary relationship with music is one of consumption. It is easy (for me at least) to find new music when you are looking for inspiration in your own practice of making music.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Yeah, that is particularly egregious but I have a friend who worked for years in the education bureaucracy and specifically moved to a particular neighborhood for the schools. It's slightly more subtle but the same indictment.
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by thefaux 2y ago
I agree with your point about tracking but I also see why it is a third rail. Some parents of average students will raise hell and accuse you of discrimination if you give anyone special treatment. Of course, the irony is I remember that wh
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by thefaux 2y ago
Definitely a both and. We have seen an infantilization of the academy that I believe is in no small part due to the increased economic necessity of a college degree. I think quality education should be available to all who want it. Forcing
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by thefaux 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that wasteful library budgets is not a significant factor causing hunger or homelessness.
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by thefaux 2y ago
Saying lua is bad is another way of saying "I don't understand lua." It could be better in many ways (especially syntactically), but it has no serious competition in the embeddable scripting language category.

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