TheSoftwareGuy

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by TheSoftwareGuy 2mo ago
In order to successfully sue for emotional damages, you have to prove quantifiable damages. Usually that means if you ended up having to get therapy to deal with it, you can sue for the cost of the therapy.
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by TheSoftwareGuy 3mo ago
If you read the whole thing, the answer is plainly no: > It's worth pausing on what this means. LLMs identify roles from an insecure feature (style). This is like identifying a stranger's profession from how they talk and dress
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by TheSoftwareGuy 3mo ago
Its not a bad comparison because pistachios are a cash crop, not a staple crop. That is to say, pistachios aren't grown to keep people fed, they are grown for economic profit
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by TheSoftwareGuy 4mo ago
Sounds like he pays for AI himself. He said he bills by the feature/bug. So he keeps all the productivity gains from using AI
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by TheSoftwareGuy 4mo ago
Is mail fraud really taken seriously? after I bought my house I got dozens of letters every few days that appeared (or tried to appear) from my lender warning of "FINAL NOTICE call this number about your mortgage!!!!!". The phenom
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by TheSoftwareGuy 5mo ago
The trailing return type pattern was added to the standard, IIRC, to make it easier for templated functions to have return types that depend on the types of the arguments, such as in this example: template <typename A, typename B&g
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by TheSoftwareGuy 8mo ago
I'm interested, as I've never been in an org with QA specialists. What does that look like?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 9mo ago
Honestly I think micro mobility is an undervalued topic. It has the potential to really change the viability of transit in a ton of major cities, where transit infrastructure has poor coverage. And honestly anything at all that helps people
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by TheSoftwareGuy 10mo ago
IIRC those are basically hash tables, which are first-class citizens in many languages already
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by TheSoftwareGuy 11mo ago
Yeah, this is one of my favorite things about LLMs right now: they haven't gone through any enshittification. Its like how google search used to be so much better
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by TheSoftwareGuy 11mo ago
That's awful. I hope you were able to recover damages from the builders
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by TheSoftwareGuy 11mo ago
Huh. I'm pleasantly surprised about this. Maybe there will be a long-lasting positive outcome from all this AI stuff after all
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by TheSoftwareGuy 11mo ago
For those interested, this blog post also has a part 2 and 3: https://hackeryarn.com/post/rust-macros-2/ https://hackeryarn.com/post/rust-macros-3/
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by TheSoftwareGuy 11mo ago
Not necessarily. If $x is enough to get you 10x more Software engineering effort, people may be willing to increase their spending on software engineering, rather than decrease it
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
>Hard-code some logic to identify cranes and always assume there's a cable dangling from the end. Probably this one. Even if the drone sees the crane, there's no guarantee the cable won't move faster than the drone can rea
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
You're right, people absolutely do rely on internal behavior intentionally and sometimes even unintentionally. And we tried our hardest not to break any of those customers either. but the point is that putting something in the docs is
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
>It's not like there's some secret sauce here in most of these implementation details. If there was, I'd understand not telling us. This is probably less an Apple-style culture of secrecy and more laziness and a belief tha
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
Sounds like your organization isn’t learning from these periods of high bill. What lead to the bill creeping up, and what mechanisms could be put in place to prevent them in the first place?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
I'd be wary of draining the battery while the car is off. You don't want to prevent the car from starting
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
Your lack of empathy is obvious when you say the benefit of these services is that "people are lazy". Many many people simply don't have extra time, and taking one thing off of their plate makes life easier. For many decade
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
If you really wanted to look like Amazon codex you would write Java :)
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
Is this meant to be used in production systems, or is it just a learning exercise?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
Plotting is one task I find such huge benefits to AI coding assistants. I can ask "make a plot with such and such data, one line per <blank>" etc. Since its so east to validate the code (just run the program and look at the
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
Technology: Noun 1. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
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by TheSoftwareGuy 1y ago
On the other hand, I can imagine that banning that banning one form of advertising drives those would-be advertisers to other mediums, such as the ones that drive addictive apps and such. This would in turn increase the revenue of those app
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by TheSoftwareGuy 2y ago
It already applies to real people, doesn't it? I.e. if you read a book, you're not allowed to start printing and selling copies of that book without permission of the copyright owner, but if you learn something from that book you
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by TheSoftwareGuy 2y ago
Huh. How long until GenAi Can create 3D printable files?
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by TheSoftwareGuy 2y ago
This is one area where a BDD style framework like catch2[0] really shines, IMO. The way tests are written in this style naturally lends itself to self-documenting each branch [0]: https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2
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by TheSoftwareGuy 2y ago
That's the nature of war. One country develops a new weapon, another develops a counter for that weapon. And on and on
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by TheSoftwareGuy 2y ago
I think us engineers have an inherent desire to try to innovate, and I think that is a good thing. Some problems will require a lot of wrong turns before finding the right path, but that is simply the nature of innovation

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