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by umvi 1y ago
To me this sounds like the path of "smart guns", i.e. "people are using our guns for evil purposes so now there is a camera attached to the gun which will cause the gun to refuse to fire if it detects it is being used for an
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by umvi 1y ago
Note this is "coding" as in "encoding" and "decoding" (i.e. information theory) and not as in "programming"
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by umvi 1y ago
I used to love Python, back when it was basically just an alternative to perl for scripting. Now it strikes fear into my heart when I encounter something largish written in Python because it usually means "super slow bloated researchy
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by umvi 1y ago
Too bad Claude Code doesn't have a fixed cost plan for teams. The API is super expensive (I can easily spend $6-10 in a single sitting in tokens)
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by umvi 1y ago
Do you usually update in place or do a fresh install whenever a new major version comes out?
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by umvi 1y ago
Ha, yeah right, hospitals are still running IE11 in some places in the US
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by umvi 1y ago
Job-seekers are also guilty of this type of thing. I interviewed a candidate for a cyber security position, and it became painfully clear by the end that I was just talking to a ChatGPT proxy the entire time. He wouldn't remember key c
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by umvi 1y ago
> Frontend is HTML5 hosted on github pages, backend is Node.JS on GCP. So this means it's doing CORS? Why not just have GCP serve everything?
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by umvi 1y ago
> How does a policy like that look in practice? Presumably it doesn’t read “we want to hire underqualified people.” For example, HR hands this decree down from on high to hiring managers: "At least X% of your hires need to be women&
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by umvi 1y ago
> The solar panels installed in China during the past 2 years produce as much electricity as all of their nuclear plants combined. Because it doesn't have very many nuclear power plants relative to its size? France has the same numb
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by umvi 1y ago
> The fight against DEI, policies meant to maximize corporate success by taking the best talent no matter race or gender, is clear indication of that. That's not how DEI looked to me. In the places I've worked, DEI consisted of
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by umvi 1y ago
My experience is that there is an AI war going on right now. Employers are deluged with AI-augmented/generated resumes that make candidate seem perfect (but then they flop in an in-person interview), so employers are now filtering said
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by umvi 1y ago
Also, in my limited experience the 30% also goes towards lots of other valuable features like access to the automatic marketing/recommendation engine. By launching your title on Steam, people will see your title in the "More like
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by umvi 1y ago
Vote with your wallet, there are thousands of games that don't do shady stuff.
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by umvi 1y ago
I thought Israel was a parliamentary democracy?
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by umvi 1y ago
If the food is slightly acidic though wouldn't that leech metals into your food?
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by umvi 1y ago
Dang, I think my favorite brand of sugar free ice cream uses erythritol (Rebel)
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by umvi 1y ago
Get a keyboard with a usb port on the side. Insert yubikey nano. Now instead of annoying 2FA you just reach your finger over and touch.
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by umvi 1y ago
> the people whose work has been stolen to create it "Stolen" is kind of a loaded word. It implies the content was for sale and was taken without payment. I don't think anyone would accuse a person of stealing if they purc
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by umvi 1y ago
In my case I am very skinny (150 lbs, 6'0") which is the main reason that I thought I might have LADA and not T2 - my own research suggested that T2 was rare in skinny patients and that LADA might explain my elevated blood sugars
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by umvi 1y ago
Not true in my experience. Just because a doctor has gone to medical school doesn't mean they are good at debugging/troubleshooting. I've had many doctors try to diagnose my chronic issues with guesswork and hunches instead o
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by umvi 1y ago
Binary is too easy, but hex can be tricky. I made a hex-based wordle puzzle for my programming game where you have to guess an 8-digit hex string in as few as 6-12 guesses using wordle mechanics... called the level "dwordle" :) (v
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by umvi 1y ago
Pretty sure WebGL2 doesn't have true compute shader support. It's more a jack where you can write to a texture buffer with a fragment shader to imitate a compute shader. True compute shader support is supposedly in WebGPU
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by umvi 1y ago
I'm working on a programming game called "Pragma Twice". As in, playing the game involves programming. I just put up a steam page for it ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3528840/Pragma_Twice/
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by umvi 1y ago
I kind of don't want iron clad llms that are perfect jails, i.e. keep me perfectly "safe" because the definition of "safe" is very subjective (and in the case of China very politically charged)
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by umvi 1y ago
> But the point is that it's worth it for society as a whole. Who decided/determined this? You state it as if positive discrimination is a proven social good, yet I don't think it's so clear. There's still a ton
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by umvi 1y ago
System76 seems janky though if you use anything but PopOS
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by umvi 1y ago
> and to slow the predatory opening of Japan that had begun with American warships’ arrival in 1854. Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o&t=282s
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by umvi 1y ago
Even if you were paid to make high quality answers?
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by umvi 1y ago
I suspect there will always be a place for SO-esque sites, but it will shift to be primarily for creating high quality data for ingestion by LLMs.

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