Kamq

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by Kamq 3d ago
This seems to be that there's just so many degrees of freedom, that there's a pretty reasonable chance on any day that you're in a situation where nobody has been before. Or as PG put it once, my job is to think thoughts nobo
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by Kamq 13d ago
> there's a whole quote about the 'arc of history bending towards justice' but it's not an inevitability I think it probably is inevitable, but it probably happens the reverse of the direction that the quote implies.
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by Kamq 17d ago
You're not wrong, but something can work well enough to still be useful despite falling short of the idea of a proof or any formal definition. Let's say that 95% of individual humans can pass it and only 2% of bots. For someone ma
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by Kamq 2mo ago
> Compare an early magic staple, "Demonic Tutor" with https://bossminis.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/881e5922-b464-4a1a ... with just the box of one of the latest sets: https://unicorncards.
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by Kamq 2mo ago
I don't think you're committing career suicide. I've seen people get serviceable results out of it, and it always involves reading the code in depth. Reading the code being slower than writing it, they're almost never ge
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by Kamq 3mo ago
Their post said that load growth had a mitigating effect on prices. Not letting the data centers come online would, presumably, result in higher prices. That seems slightly weird, but that sounds like there's some large fixed costs tha
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by Kamq 4mo ago
> I just read what it produces. I don't think that's average right now.
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by Kamq 5mo ago
> Let's not pretend Microsoft has a monopoly on idiocy in the software world. Entirely fair, but let's not pretend the situation is symmetrical. Canonical doesn't have monopoly on the linux or broader *nix world the same w
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by Kamq 5mo ago
The government. You'd have to prove that the CEO knew that it would hurt the company and still did it or that it's so ridiculously negligent that any sane person should have known.
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by Kamq 5mo ago
This is BS. A shareholder lawsuit against the CEO/board/executives for investing in the employees in the hope of long term profits would never succeed. The idea of a fiduciary duty doesn't mean that. It means the CEO can&#x27
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by Kamq 8mo ago
> This is true whether an AI wrote the code or a co-worker I agree. I just don't think code reviews are as load bearing as everyone seems to think. They're important, but not nearly enough.
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by Kamq 8mo ago
> My "actual job" isn't to write code, but to solve problems. Yes, and there's often a benefit to having a human have an understanding of the concrete details of the system when you're trying to solve problems. &
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by Kamq 11mo ago
Oh come on. They're obviously using the word "science" in this context as a shorthand for the institutions and processes we've set up to do research. Mostly because that's too many words for a title and nobody has c
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by Kamq 1y ago
> This should be the only entity that's approved to have nuclear weapons. This speaks like someone who has never been outside of a heavily bureaucratized regime. People don't get "approval" for things, they just do th
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Just because I'm a middle aged male I see trucks, and beer, and football advertisements all day long Well, yeah. Those companies will pay to send their ad to all middle aged men. Those companies could slice and dice more to get be
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Go's simplifications often introduce complexities elsewhere It does occasionally, although I'll push back on the "often". Go's simplifications allow most of the codebase to be... well... simple. This does come
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Equal in voting rights. Gerrymandering has been perfected by Republicans. Through that they manage to dilute votes of the opposition. This thread is talking about the Senate. The senate isn't gerrymandered. Both senators are state
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by Kamq 1y ago
> And yet so many of them kinda rule the world by running the biggest corporations in the world. Have you looked at the state of the world recently?
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Imagine not being able to get a shitty fast food job because ... Or just moved to the US and speak too weird and don't have anyone to vouch for you. You've obviously never worked food.
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by Kamq 1y ago
> That’s incredible! The capability of an AI model is approximately junior level in the fields I’ve tested it in (programming, law, philosophy, neuroscience). If you’d don’t see any possible uses for the technology, keep thinking about i
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Then your industry is atypical in the type of applicants that you are getting Based on the quality of candidates that get through at other companies, I'm guessing our problem isn't atypical. Or at least, good devs often are
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by Kamq 1y ago
> It’s absolutely fantastic at filtering the lower 95% of applicants because they will _never_ be able to pass. This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hack
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Leetcode is bad, but it’s bad in the sense that it errs too heavily on filtering out false negatives But, it doesn't. It filters for something orthogonal to development, which is ability to obsess over clever algorithmic solutions
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by Kamq 1y ago
So on one hand, you're kinda right. HN is filled with exaggeration (imo often justified) from people venting because they have to deal with the bad parts of this system all day. That seems natural in a dev filled space. But I don'
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by Kamq 1y ago
> Rust's ? operator - effective and ergonomic It is, but it's also subtle, and if you want branches (especially sad-path branches) to be explicit, that's not a good thing.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> I hear outright wrong arguments for why the USA has not moved to a modern filing system. The argument I always hear from the right about this is that they worry that making taxes more efficient will allow them (and government action in
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by Kamq 2y ago
Fair, but I'd prefer phone over a poorly done app. And given the state of most apps...
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by Kamq 2y ago
> This is at best specious reasoning, and to me reflects that the blogger completely misses the point of having tests. I mean, yeah. Most devs don't understand the point. It turns into a check-boxing exercise. And most devs are vagu
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by Kamq 2y ago
Horse archers had been a thing before him, though they were quite powerful. His great accomplishment was marrying that with the ability to besiege walled cities. Nobody expected barbarian horse archers to be able to do that.
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by Kamq 2y ago
> But absent that I think it's safe to say that this case doesn't raise the first amendment. I still think it does, but it's Apple and Google's right to propagate the app, not TikTok's right to be on the app stor

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