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by thunky 10mo ago
How do you expect this boost will appear? People start announcing that they're using AI to do their job for them? Devs put "AI generated" banners all over their apps? No, because people are incentivised to hide their use of
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by thunky 10mo ago
> It will never stop finding a list of errors! Not my experience. I find after a couple of rounds it tells me it's perfect.
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porn
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> This is a decent example of not buying, getting pulled, or being forced into any corporate pushed hype It seems that maybe they did get hyped into Rust, because it's not clear why they believed Rust would make their JavaScript t
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by thunky 10mo ago
Ok fine I'll agree call it "creating money" rather than "printing money", because it's not the same mechanism the central bank uses to "print" permanent money (technically not printed either but whate
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> Along with a "-$100" IOU on the books Which they can use as an asset to create (lend out) even more money that they don't have. Call it what you want, but the bank is adding money to the economy that wasn't there be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspan_put
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> If you borrow $100 USD from the bank, and pay it off immediately after, it's clear no money was "created" as such The bank "printed" money by handing out cash that it didn't have. It only had a fraction o
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by thunky 11mo ago
I am doing exactly as you say. I made a comment saying I disagree with the word police and I think it's dumb to cast people as being insensitive for using a longstanding word that makes sense to many people in the context it's use
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> the point is they don't have human level intelligence > If you want to ASSIGN a task to something/someone then you need a human or artificial human Maybe you haven't experienced it but a lot of junior devs don't
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by thunky 11mo ago
> Once the visual model is good enough to look at the screen pixels and understand, it will instantly replace junior devs Curious if you gave Antigravity a try yet? It auto-launches a browser and you can watch it move the mouse and clic
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> How are you going to be shamed? I thought there's nothing wrong with it? If you re-read my comments you will understand that I don't believe there's anything wrong with using the word "master" to name a branc
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by thunky 11mo ago
> What exactly is being de-valuated for a profession You're probably fine as a more senior dev...for now. But if I was a junior I'd be very worried about the longevity I can expect as a dev. It's already easier for many&#x
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by thunky 11mo ago
> Nobody is telling you what not to name your branches. > Nobody has said you can't use whatever name you want. This is reductionist. The git people didn't pull this idea out of their butt. It came about because a lot of peo
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by thunky 11mo ago
> If you're so upset, fork it, revert the default branch name and maintain it yourself infinitely. That's definitely worth it just to keep a default branch name you like, right? No idea how you got that impression from my comme
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> The main branch isn't master of anything It's master as in "master copy": A "master copy" is an original version of a work from which other copies are made, serving as the definitive or controlling versi
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by thunky 11mo ago
> I'm peering into the life of a private person, that feels like a violation. Even though they have passed, the people around them are very much alive. Absolutely. A person's right to privacy doesn't die with them.
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by thunky 11mo ago
> It is called "freeway" because "free-to-drive-on highway" would be too wordy. This is wrong. "Freeway" comes from free flow of traffic : https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/freewa
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by thunky 11mo ago
The only reason for going to Swindon was to walk there? If so then of course you still should go. But the point making of a computer program usually isn't for "the walk".
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by thunky 11mo ago
> I completely believe that trading is going to be saturated with ai traders in the future That's probably good news for us index fund investors. We need people to believe they're going to beat the market.
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by thunky 11mo ago
> If i had given them the answer months earlier, I would not have gotten any kind of bonus even in the unlikely event that I had been taken seriously. You guaranteed that you wouldn't get recognition by keeping the idea to yourself.
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by thunky 11mo ago
> realize that for the current administration the cruelty is the whole point I think cruelty is the method not the point. The point is to demonstrate power and get more of it.
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by thunky 11mo ago
If you're so confident that your discovery will be found by someone else soon why not just share it right here and get the credit you seem to want? Otherwise why even bring it up in the first place?
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by thunky 11mo ago
> These lunch ladies are the ones > getting ham strung Nice.
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by thunky 11mo ago
> The very fact that you merely see this as "a new productivity source" support my sense of the disconnect I mentioned. Help me understand since my "disconnect" seems to be ruffling your feathers... What is the correc
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> your comparative analysis (beyond its rather strange disconnect with your fellow Human beings) You seem to be having a different conversataion here. I'm comparing work output by two sources and saying this is why people are choos
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> Isn't it amazing that all our jobs are being gutted or retooled for relying on this tech No not really, if you examine what it's replacing. Humans have a lot of flaws too and often make the same mistakes repeatedly. And com
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> Instead, you've gotta find a way to ride the wave -- but wisely, so that you don't stand to lose too much if/when it slows or hits the breakers. Care to elaborate? Are you talking about stop losses? Options? The former i
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by thunky 11mo ago
> Ok but I'd argue Rust/Cargo shouldn't be an "unfamiliar language/build system" for most professional programmers these days. This isn't even close to true. The majority of programmers will be fine goi
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by thunky 11mo ago
Chromebook.

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