whyowhy3484939

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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Very strange if you ask me and disturbing. I don't know if I'd let such a dev touch a database. Of course nowadays we just vibe code and YOLO everything, but still. This is making me feel old.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I'm shocked, shocked to find out capitalism's tricks are going on here. Yet we keep praying at its altars. Delta are just playing the game. It might not be the nicest thing to do, but it is honest at least. All entrepreneurs are
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
That's assuming there is a substrate that can be disturbed. That's where the parent's analogy breaks down. As an example of an alternative analogy: think of how many bombs need to explode in your dreams before the "subst
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Ah, I met my match it seems. I confess I might be showing signs of unlawful thought patterns. I will correct that, fellowniusmonk. Thanks for pointing that out. I am in the "code is not an asset, it's a liability"-camp and ou
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Once they start making deals with the relevant organizations, book rooms, handle insurance, replacement hotels, etc, then they'll replace travel agents. These guys don't just Google a bunch of tickets you know.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
There is this interesting thing called the Paradox of Automation where increasing automation increases the importance of human intervention. We are trying this out on a societal level. It will be.. interesting, to say the least. Also, congr
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I realize I came across as harsh and I surely don't want to judge you personally on your skills as A) that's not necessary for my point to make sense and B) uncalled for. I'm sure you are a capable C developer and I'm so
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
You did not and you are not proficient. LLMs and AI in general cater to your insecurities. An actual good human mentor will wipe the floor with your arrogance and you'll be better for it.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Yes, this is definitely missing a /s, I hope. Please for the love of god tell me this is a joke.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I'm nearing forty and I have a sneaky suspicion it's a weird cultural thing. A bit like the Romans lamenting the fall of their culture right at the start of their golden age and they never stopped doing that. Always looking back s
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
By experiencing the sheer existential horror that Nietzsche and others spoke of and coming out of it knowing the only way out is through. There is nothing to lean on. You decide you start caring and it will happen.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I think this is reasonable. Came to the same conclusion. I need to at least pretend to myself that I care, but I will not allow it to bleed into my PL. If it does I check out and chill for a bit.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I find there is middle ground between "who the fuck cares" and "I got to fight for what is righteous". Do the job best you can. Accept resources, including skilled human beings, are what they are and unless you own the p
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Notice I included interaction with people, but you're right. I think just using books is about equal to just using apps. Both won't get you there but books will get you further along the way.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
False. Those are all things books will give and people as well and often better. Can it be a tutor? Sure, if you squint. But "tutoring" you on some question you have is not the same as "learning a language".
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
That's bad news for the millions that had to do just that and learned fine in fact better. I'm not saying you should read the Upanishads in the original, I'm saying a proper intro textbook is fine and some teacher-figure (&qu
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
The heavy, thick irony of these people running their own platform on as little technology as possible and depending heavily on human input. It's like they know somewhere deep inside that "mo tech" is not helping anyone.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Oh, right. I think whatever works best for your personality but in general doing some exercises and/or interacting with people has been working for a couple .. ten thousands years at least. Hard to go wrong. I never heard someone make
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
What introductory German class does not use books and does not talk to people?
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
> Thoughts? On what? If I understand you correctly you learned through people and practice and community.
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
Ah, Duolingo. What lengths people go just to avoid reading a book and talking to people. All this tech and I wonder how many people are now fluent in multiple languages compared to say a few decades ago. This is not academic. All signs are
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
LLMs cannot "teach you a language". They make for cool demos to show off. They can perhaps be a building block of a proper language learning experience. Then again, the only languages I actually learned - besides my mother tongue
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
> My sisters played around with Dall-E and are now able to do simiiliar things. This is no way shape or form in any actual productive way similar to being skilled at Photoshop. There is absolutely no way these people can mask, crop, twea
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
You can read in Kernighans History of Unix that really good managers - "enlightened management" IIRC - were involved and not just involved, some of them were absolutely crucial or Unix won't have existed. It's not like y
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
> We finally have a system which encodes not just basic things but high level concepts That's the thing I'm trying to convey: it's in fact not encoding anything you'll recognize and if it is, it's certainly not &
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
I get the idea, but I'm not quite sold on it. Being intelligent on vast scales is something an individual cannot do, but I'm not sure the "species" is more intelligent than any individual agent. I'm actually a bit m
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
> Just last week i asked for a script to do image segmentation with a basic UI and claude just generated that for me in under 1 Minute. Thing is we just see that it's copy pasting stack overflow, but now in a fancy way so this is so
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
It's high paying?
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
It's actually not. My job description does not say "deliver value" and nobody talks about my work like that so I'm not quite sure what to make of that. > without sacrificing quality Right.. > it's your respons
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by whyowhy3484939 1y ago
> build much larger castles, much faster See that never was the purpose.. going bigger and faster, towards what exactly? Chaos? By the way we never managed to fully tackle manual software development by trained professionals and we now e

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