clates

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by clates 3mo ago
Our team tends to prefix all our comments with one of * thought: Maybe foo'ing is more common in the future - we can refactor if that happens. * change: This is a leaky abstraction, would prefer to see this modeled like bar instead. *
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by clates 3mo ago
Man, once you start picking up on the LLM style you can't stop seeing it everywhere. > It's not just the foo, it's the bar. Short sentence. Every sentence attempting to be profound, but isn't. I quietly put adverbs in
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by clates 3mo ago
> I'll say - it also wouldn't kill us to have slightly fewer people on the planet. We're already taxing much of our systems/ecosystems past their breaking points. Smarter people than me, entire groups of scientists, a
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by clates 3mo ago
> is the only known working solution to a decreasing population. Which it obviously isn't a working solution in any nature of the word. Using arbitrary countries to avoid common mousetraps. Hypothetically all women in Estonia sud
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by clates 3mo ago
Agree with the entire article - but if I knew Pam, I'd coach her on > Pam sees this and wonders, "What is considered a large project?" The first interaction when getting hit with artificially introduced friction _SHOULD NO
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by clates 3mo ago
...... what? This isn't your home with open stairwells and loose venting doorjams. This is a thirteen story office building with elevators and badged access easements.
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by clates 3mo ago
virtue signaling of the highest degree.
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by clates 3mo ago
> They turned the english language into enterprise java .... tell them not to do that if you don't like it? "PR Descriptions must explain the entirety of the PR's contents in 300 characters or less and be written at no gre
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by clates 3mo ago
> The solution to uncertain information isn't more information, which the AI can certainly provide, it's better information, and AI cannot currently provide that. Aside from the LLM-ism (it isn't foo, it's bar) - this
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by clates 3mo ago
> Then again, many people don’t want the burden of caring for bytes for the rest of their lives and prefer to download on demand. Agree that people want this - but this is an undue burden on the provider side. You have to perpetually mai
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by clates 3mo ago
Depends on what you mean, LLMs can probably _make_ pretty good AIs. It'll have all the AI scripts in the base game, including the three iterations (base, FE, DE) all the user generated ones ( including barbarian ) and then able to cons
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by clates 3mo ago
Not necessarily saying that you are doing this right now but I find when people use "fascist" as a snarl word and not an actual word with a definition and qualifiers. Maybe your LLM interactions are picking up on the actual word
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by clates 3mo ago
I mean this with no disrespect, but > Every time I get past the green field stage, I just end up throwing out what it writes half the time since its trash. Is a skill/PEBKAC issue. You still need to exercise engineering best-practic
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by clates 3mo ago
Notably this does nothing to "solve" the attack vector. You've got a live bomb in front of you and you're adding 10s to the countdown hoping that _others_* find it and defuse it in that time period. I would challenge any
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by clates 3mo ago
I've almost always gotten everything I want from security teams over my career. Usually a quick and honest chat with them gets you pretty far. I always lead with some flavor of "In my perfect world, I have 100% access and ability
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by clates 3mo ago
> Yup. I'm extremely unconvinced that a non-distributionary constraint (ex: limiting the money supply one way or another, i.e. the gold standard, bitcoin, etc.) fixes a distributionary problem. Well, that's good because that&#x
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by clates 3mo ago
> Is there evidence for this? A simple and logical pattern. 1) Unconstrained spending without commensurate taxation leads to a required inflation of the money supply 2) An inflation of the money supply with increase the price of assets r
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by clates 3mo ago
> Currently we’ve switched to a short (15-30m) technical problem that we hand grade before candidates get a call. Funny because I do the same; I don't commit to doing any work/assessments before at least an honest interview rou
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by clates 3mo ago
> that is pure noise from a Git standpoint It shouldn't be noise. Don't update it if you're not intentionally trying to, otherwise you're exposing yourself to supply-chain risk for no reason. If you are regularly gett
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by clates 3mo ago
> "What is Yacht Club's stance on AI and has AI been used in the production of Mina the Hollower at all?" to which their reply was "We all got caught up in AI fever like the rest of the world, but we didn't find
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by clates 8mo ago
When people complain about housing prices being too high, this is what I usually point them to. There are _a lot_ of boxes to tick, some of those boxes are critical, some are not so much. Some are severely punished, some are not so much. So
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by clates 8mo ago
For a layman, that's a catastrophic entire OS-loss right? Especially if your issue is somewhat novel or stack specific. *Most people* (not us) just lost their only desktop computer and are now trying to debug by googling random OS word
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by clates 8mo ago
Wouldn't that lend it credibility if your concern was privacy?
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by clates 8mo ago
Yeah, but that's conflating that a key labeled "control" for a Windows machine and a key labeled "control" for a Mac refer to different concepts.