whaleidk

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by whaleidk 7mo ago
Everyone knows internet points make someone more of an expert. Especially on websites that have the most inane political discussions frequently and has tanked in quality to only marginally better than Reddit
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
They are objectively similar in that both are a big multi-decade commitment to a living being that you chose for yourself (yes, you did choose to have the kid unless you live in a country with no birth control access) but saying something i
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
What are you asking? Nchagnet is just acknowledging the existence of people who regret having kids, not making a value comparison
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
Tell us you know nothing about embedded without telling us
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
I work with ESP32 devices and 600k lines of code is insane.
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
600k lines of code for anything on the ESP32 sounds like the absolute polar opposite of “good”
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
Counterpoint: my handwriting is way harder to read and my hand tired faster than when I was in high school. And I am worse at spelling and my vocabulary has stopped expanding much since I started typing more and reading less
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
People who want to be childless usually champion the importance of building strong community through friends and neighbors, just because they don’t want kids doesn’t mean they don’t want to contribute to others’ happiness lol. People wantin
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
Getting the girl as a reward is more about misogyny than a the bullying lesson. I haven’t seen grease so I can’t talk about that but I really can’t think of any media examples of where the geeks become jocks and that’s seen as morally corre
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by whaleidk 7mo ago
We used to teach kids to be themselves and stand up for what they believe in and their own authenticity and uniqueness even in the face of bullying. That having less or other doesn’t mean your value is lesser or that you should be left out.
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
It’s weird that you equate time spent thinking with intelligence and egotism. Plenty of “normal people” jobs require lots of time spent thinking like art, writing, product and ad design. The only one implying taking time to think equals big
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
The author thinks that it’s fine to do this for code, which I find strange. I have big time ai:dr; when a commit comes in for me to review and it’s 300 lines for something that is already built into a single function of the framework we use
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
All I’m saying is that by ‘I don’t read code,’ I mean: I don’t do line-by-line review as my primary verification method for most product code. I do read specs, tests, diffs selectively, and production signals - and I would advocate escalat
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
You claim you don’t read the code. People believe you. Later you reveal that actually you do read the code, as well as metrics about the code. You just don’t read line by line and scrutinize them individually. Then you want to say their opi
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Well, when you clickbait/lie about your own premise you can’t really expect a decent conversation lol
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Doing the god’s work. Now if only my team members would care about the data…
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Anecdotally, I never feel more awake when having coffee. I can drink coffee at night and sleep great. On the other hand, if I try to sleep too soon after tea I feel very mentally awake and can’t sleep for restlessness. Maybe Qi is real!
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
If you don't want to, and you don't have to... why do it? If it becomes a necessary thing to keep your job you can learn it then. It will take like a week max. And you will save yourself relearning the newest "correct way to
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
I didn't learn phonics in school, while my only 2-year younger sibling did (not sure why, maybe related to the school being super low income?) yet I always had a much higher grade reading level. Obviously that's just one point of
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Your perspective is quite thoughtful, thank you. I do agree that if you are just fixing a bug or updating function internals, +20/-20 is certainty good enough and I wouldn’t oppose AI used there. I am going to have to agree to disagree
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
See a lot of people on this site doing it willingly. I think a lot of people will always choose perceived convenience over anything
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
It may also have to do with the domain and language to some extent. Yes, the code archaeology is the time consuming part. I could use an LLM to do that for me in my co-workers generated code, but I don’t want to because when I have worked w
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Here’s the thing, they say all the same things you just said in this comment. Yet, the code I end up having to work in is still bad. It’s 5x longer than it needs to be and the naming is usually bad so it takes way longer to read than human
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Thought we learned this lesson with attention span/ADHD-mimicking symptoms from phone addiction but apparently not!
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Ah yes, slightly abstracted mathematical concepts compiling down to mathematical logic is totally the same as trying to unpredictably guess which mathematical concepts your massive, complex, non-mathematical natural language might possibly
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
I am one of the ones who reviews code and pushes projects to the finish line for people who use AI like you. I hate it. The code is slop. You don’t realize because you aren’t looking close enough, but we do and it’s annoying
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
IME it’s actually really terrible at discussing architecture. It’s incredibly unimaginative and will just confirmation-bias whichever way you are leaning slightly more towards
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
No, there can’t be. Code keywords are tied to concrete mathematical concepts. Human languages are not. and even if you tried, the more languages you add to the LLM’s pool, misinterpretation chances increase exponentially. You can’t just cho
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
I wish this was true. My experience is co-workers who do lip service as to treating LLM like a baby junior dev, only to near-vibe every feature and entire projects, without spending so much as 10 mins to think on their own first.
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by whaleidk 8mo ago
Hopefully this does not count as being uncivil, I just want to cut through what feels like insanity to put my (and at least a few others’) feelings plainly: If you are one of those devs who heavily uses LLMs at work and you are in a positio

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