bavila

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by bavila 3y ago
Are we not allowed to simply have academic conversations and raise points for the personal education and edification of others (and not necessarily limited to those who are the immediate parties to a conversation, but also with respect to t
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by bavila 3y ago
That's not necessarily true in all jurisdictions, as the elements defining degrees of murder are not universal. But, interestingly, in the case of Michigan (which applies here), you may be correct, insofar as a "premediated killin
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by bavila 3y ago
> Legally it is. If there was no signs of forced entry then you're not going to be compensated for your loss and the police aren't going to pursue any suspects. To the extent that common law is generally adopted in the United S
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by bavila 3y ago
Heh, that's awesome. And I thought my 20 was bad. I love these lights so much.
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by bavila 3y ago
What can I say? It's a dirty job. :)
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by bavila 3y ago
Perhaps the fact that I work exclusively on the front-end is why I also derive tremendous value from GPT-4, and I have been perplexed by others saying they find no value in GPT-4 for coding. There is so much boilerplate BS that GPT-4 just n
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by bavila 3y ago
"... violations of the heebeas [sic] corpus -- whatever..." Yikes.
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by bavila 3y ago
I'm doing frontend work (React/TypeScript), so that probably helps since I am working with relatively small components.
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by bavila 3y ago
I've got access to GPT-4 at work. There have been many times that I'll encounter a bug while programming, I'll paste my code to GPT, tell it what my code is currently doing, and tell it what I actually want the code to do. It
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by bavila 3y ago
What's groundless is this mentality. Please read Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (a rule that is also well-adopted in state courts as well). As fun as it is to hate on big tech, one should still be mindful of the fact t
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by bavila 3y ago
> particular And of course I would make a typo. That should say "particularly". :)
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by bavila 3y ago
I'm good now, thanks. :)
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by bavila 3y ago
Where do I find more people like you when I'm job hunting? :) I used to work as an attorney before getting into software engineering, and I clearly took for granted that other educated professionals (particular those in a field where p
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by bavila 3y ago
This "tell me X without telling me" meme is, frankly, quite snarky and unnecessary.
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by bavila 3y ago
> Can it explain its reasoning? Yes, actually, it can.
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by bavila 3y ago
> Weird. Being stuck for days with a bug is not that bad Haha, it is when you have a 24-hour turnaround deadline. This project was (and still is) a BFD at my company, and time is of the essence. My colleagues would not be impressed by my
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by bavila 3y ago
I was stuck on a bug for half a day. Even ChatGPT couldn't solve it. The next day, I get access to GPT-4. I put the code in, describe the expected behavior I want, and describe the actual buggy behavior I'm getting. GPT-4 gave me
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by bavila 4y ago
How exactly does Lo-Fi music "introduce you to new concepts & subjects in an engaging, informed, & intelligent way"?
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by bavila 4y ago
GPT-4 received a top 10% score on the Uniform Bar Exam. This does not only include multiple choice questions. This exam also requires writing essays analyzing a given fact pattern and applying legal principles to predict what the correct le
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by bavila 4y ago
> You mean the readability of "p-2 bg-red-500 text-lg font-medium" or "i-dont-remember-what-this-class-does" No, I'm pretty sure he means the readability of "absolute bottom-0 text-sm md:text-base text-white
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by bavila 4y ago
Thanks, just edited my post to link to the definition. Guess I'd fall under the generation that would have said "rock" instead (although the Amish most definitely do not rock).
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by bavila 4y ago
> The Amish kinda slap For anyone else who was confused by this: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/slap/
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by bavila 4y ago
> My conclusions after observing a ton of people in technical and nontechnical jobs is that beyond working 20-25 hours a week, having people do more is useless... I'm not so sure about this. I was working in a remote "full-stac
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by bavila 4y ago
The meaning of "vaporware" has evolved over time. It originally referred to software or hardware products that were announced or promised to be released, but never actually materialized or were significantly delayed. However, as t
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by bavila 4y ago
Twice. And each time was better off for it mentally, and ended up securing higher paying jobs afterwards. It's just a matter of courage -- or maybe just not giving a fuck. Might get me into trouble one day, but, frankly, I don't g
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by bavila 4y ago
> Pretty sure the whole reason why DoNotPay actually exists is because defending against parking tickets didn't actually require a strong defense. The tickets were flawed automation... I have some past experience working in the cour
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by bavila 4y ago
I am convinced the Tesla apologists in this thread are more concerned about the value of their TSLA stock than they are about human life. Clearly, the public has the right to expect that other vehicles on the road will be driving in a reaso
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by bavila 4y ago
Fortunately, the law follows a "reasonable person" standard, not a "the AI tried its best" standard. No reasonable person would have perceived any dangerous situation in these circumstances. Any person who suddenly slowe
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by bavila 4y ago
> 1. Coding schools / bootcamps are incentivized to churn out people branded as "senior" when they have a mere 6 months of practice. What boot camp is purporting to graduate "senior" developers after 6 months?
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by bavila 4y ago
I know someone who took a bootcamp after completing a college CS degree because he felt that the CS curriculum didn't actually give him enough practical programming experience. Some CS programs are terrible, so I'm not surprised h

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