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by channel_t 1mo ago
While I managed to avoid it for a long time, using generative AI to drive my day to day work life while resisting the pressure to become a meat proxy, I will admit that since joining an "AI native" startup I have become one. Whene
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by channel_t 2mo ago
I had one of these and loved it, taking it everywhere. I vaguely remember it running some flavor of Linux that was pretty usable at the time. Sometime in 2012 the display started having issues and then it stopped powering on shortly thereaf
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by channel_t 3mo ago
Yes, and possibly a constellation of little cuts and bruises on your shins.
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by channel_t 3mo ago
Yes, very much so, although I've come believe that the corporate jobs outside of SWE might be even more performative. It also seems like something that has become way worse since the late 2010s, in tech specifically at least.
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by channel_t 3mo ago
I also feel like giving a shout out to the PDF version of the official PostgreSQL manual. It was one of the most enjoyable and engaging tech books I've ever read, and seems like pretty much the gold standard in what official documentat
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by channel_t 9mo ago
100%. I would also say that this broadly applies to pretty much all of the AI subreddits, and much of AI Twitter as well. Very little nuanced or thoughtful discussions to be found. Looks more like a bunch of people arguing about their favor
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by channel_t 9mo ago
Almost every single post on the ClaudeAI subreddit is like this. I use Opus 4.5 in my day to day work life and it has quickly become my main axe for agentic stuff but its output is not a world-shattering divergence from Anthropic's pre
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by channel_t 1y ago
Yes, as far as I can tell infinite scroll + 2010s era social media recommendation algorithms alone have already decimated the wider human collective's ability to think for themselves, and has subsequently eroded sane discourse and demo
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by channel_t 1y ago
I agree, I think it makes most sense to add them up to be the true #2.
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by channel_t 1y ago
I also find them very developer-centric — testers get forced into upfront design work that doesn’t fit how they naturally test, and many struggle with it. I’ve had better results by expressing behavior directly and keeping UI concerns thin
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by channel_t 1y ago
Not me. More than half of my 20s were mostly defined by working service industry jobs, hanging around with party kids, staying awake until the sun came up, and basically getting by doing the bare minimum for everything. It was probably the
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by channel_t 1y ago
Yup. I think programmers are giving themselves too much credit here. I love programming, but let's not kid ourselves, at most organizations at least 75% of the code needed to make something a working product is BS. I'd rather pr
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by channel_t 1y ago
Yes, can confirm that as a senior developer who has needed to spend huge amounts of time reviewing junior code from off-shore contractors with very detailed and explicit instructions, dabbling in agentic LLM coding tools like Claude Code ha
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by channel_t 1y ago
This is definitely a useful exercise worth going through for the educational value before eventually surrendering and just using the big models owned by "unprofitable companies."
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by channel_t 1y ago
Good simple nootropic, but I like the cup of coffee even better with a 200mg capsule of a high quality L-Theanine to give a zen-like calm to the stimulation of the caffeine. Underrated as heck IMHO.
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by channel_t 1y ago
Thanks for the reply. I think I mostly follow your elaboration. Topics like DEI have definitely become a much more touchy subject in the last 2 years or so, and that they are not discussed as much in "official" channels as they pr
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by channel_t 1y ago
Yes. I would be curious to hear what formed your impression that it is now considered an offensive bad thing. I have some ideas of course, but none are reflective of the reality of the worldviews of most city or even suburb-dwelling US peop
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by channel_t 1y ago
I have PSVT. I think it started for me around the age of 17 and was always pretty short-lived and infrequent, often with years between episodes. A couple years ago, chronic stress and lifestyle stuff began to catch up with me and the epis
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by channel_t 2y ago
I will say that it can definitely very much be a bullshit job if your org structure is optimized for bullshit. Like 80% of QA jobs are the result of hierarchical bullshit pipelines, and certainly no small percentage of dev roles too.
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by channel_t 2y ago
It really is great, and something that can be ordered at just about any bar anywhere. Excellent as a stand-in between alcoholic beverages to avoid getting too plastered, or if rolling completely alcohol-free, enough to feed the oral fixatio
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by channel_t 2y ago
Sounds like a lot of the adults in my world lol, although there is more subtlety in the ways that they will kick you in the head and ask for a sandwich.
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by channel_t 2y ago
Table of contents is definitely broken right now.
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by channel_t 2y ago
Portlander here since the late 90s. Downtown for much of it. I think most people are very aware, but just aren't really too concerned about it. Well, about drugs anyway. A certain degree of "live and let live" and just genera
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by channel_t 2y ago
These kinds of experiments get even more interesting when you also pipe the IPs into Shodan and find out that a lot of the malicious login attempts are coming from pwned DVRs and other devices.
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by channel_t 3y ago
This is awesome. I would love to see a whole ass social network (or a webring?) that was just a directory of man pages that I could get lost in.
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by channel_t 3y ago
While I can't say that I have noticed anything out of the ordinary yet on my Pixel 7, I will say that I have been a diehard Google phone user since the Nexus 4 days and have been really disappointed with how things have turned out with
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by channel_t 3y ago
I was about to say, I've brought friends from the US to Mexico City on a few occasions and it seems like the altitude (and maybe the pollution) has had strange and unpleasant effects on most people during the first couple days. A verti
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by channel_t 3y ago
Haven't poked my head in there in a while, but in my experience it was more the opposite where much of the discourse is dominated by tech-left influencer types and their followers who migrated from Twitter. Choose your echo chamber I g
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by channel_t 3y ago
This article was somewhat revelatory to me in that I can now see that the source of my frustration with the direction my career has gone in recent years is that I spent much of it cutting my teeth at a SV-style company during the 2010s befo
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by channel_t 3y ago
I haven't done a ton of Scrum in my career, but my observation of it, in concept at least, is that it's supposed to be sort of like training wheels for agile, which seems innocuous enough. What I have found particularly horrifying

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