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timacles
3y ago
Having such a strong negative reaction to an innocent daytime TV bit just speaks volumes. Might want to look in the mirror before judging people so harshly. Especially since I guarantee shes more knowledgeable and capable in her field of wo
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3y ago
The goal of art is not to follow rules. That’s why you have all these books that are the “art and science” of this and this. When you follow strict rules you have science, but to make art you have to stop following rules. We’re several hund
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3y ago
It’s not even just obnoxious. It’s also just terrible advice even master chefs need to be exposed to a recipe to to know which ingredients to combine… to expect a home-cook to just come up with recipes at Homefr f is ridiculous. They’re jus
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3y ago
You're asking if a guy whos like the equivalent of Michael Jordan in his field, except that he writes text in a box, is a atypical? Who is even in the Carmack tier of programmers? Like maybe 3-4 other people ever?
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3y ago
You just click `Up` to go a level higher in the documentation and it explains everything. This is just intellectual laziness. Its like complaining your car manual doesn't say you have to open the hood of the car on the same page it exp
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3y ago
While titillating to think about, what you're describing is more than 20 years away for AI. The best it could do is that for generalized problems, to actually write new original code and complex code is not within the bounds of current
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3y ago
Check out the legendary Poc||GTFO articles: https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ they are a treasure trove for this sort of information. High level hacking requires assembly because you're trying to reverse engineer opaque APIs
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3y ago
Read the article waiting for some keen insight. Absolutely no coherent point made.
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3y ago
The thing that separates those guys from everyone else is simple. Its stamina. No there isn't some higher level of understanding or deep perception. Every one of the all time great programmers had 1 exact thing in common with no except
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3y ago
If anyone is using dynamic SQL in their application built using functions or stored procedures, I seriously doubt their competency. Dynamic SQL exists just because it can. It had absolutely no use case outside of I want to slap together som
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3y ago
SQL is just too old and too powerful to be replaced by something. There might be implementations that improve on some subset of it's functionality. But nothing can possibly cover everything it does without itself becoming kludgy feelin
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3y ago
Meaning is whatever you give it. If you truly care about nothing then sure it's all pointless. But I'm sure you have interests, desires, passions. The meaning is then how you spend your time relative to those
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4y ago
“The art of reading is to skip judiciously.” ― Alexander Hamilton