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Don't Let AI Dull Your Software Engineering Edge(awongcm.io)
2 points by conwy 24d ago|0 comments
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by conwy 2mo ago
Awesome, thanks so much for open-sourcing! Will use it to generate my C.V. in Word format.
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by conwy 2mo ago
Finally someone put my thought on this topic into words! (Hopefully the author used a suitably invisible tool to write this.)
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by conwy 3mo ago
Well I've had more mixed experiences with other kinds of professions. Real estate agents have fibbed to me about the condition of the property, recruitment agents have misrepresented the role, financial advisors have given me sub-optim
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by conwy 3mo ago
But it's good that being virtuous is the "easy path" for them. That's how I want it to be. Why would I want to make it difficult or put impediments in the way of my doctors doing their job well? My point is that, when th
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by conwy 3mo ago
Admittedly this is anecdotal, but I've visited many doctors over the years, as a patient, and pretty much all of them treated me well, practiced their jobs professionally and gave me good advice and treatments. I never had a doctor giv
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by conwy 6mo ago
FWIW, I've been using AI, but instead of "max # of lines/commits", I'm optimising for "min # of pr comments/iterations/bugs". My goal is to end up with less/simpler code and more/bigger
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by conwy 6mo ago
Can you provide a link to this app? Or alternately, share a few of the prompts by which you built it? I only ask because, if it's really that easy/simple, I'd like to do the same thing!
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by conwy 9mo ago
No, it’s just getting started!
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How I built my designerly CV(conwy.co)
1 points by conwy 9mo ago|1 comments
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by conwy 9mo ago
Using LibreOffice with embedded open-source fonts to create a nicely formatted and portable CV
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The School for Moral Ambition(moralambition.org)
1 points by conwy 9mo ago|0 comments
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Profitability Matters More Than You Think(alphaarchitect.com)
2 points by conwy 9mo ago|0 comments
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How to lose weight (without getting lucky)(conwy.co)
3 points by conwy 2y ago|1 comments
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by conwy 2y ago
TL;DR: To lose unwanted fat in a healthy, sustainable, frugal and environmentally-friendly way, follow a whole-food plant-based diet and maintain a calorie deficit over a long period of time by exercising vigorously on a daily basis and sti
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The Diffusion Deficit in Scientific and Technological Power: Re-Assessing China [pdf](jeffreyjding.github.io)
1 points by conwy 2y ago|0 comments
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by conwy 2y ago
I think this skill could save time in a very rushed business environment. A while back I wrote a prompt to build a script that runs git-reflog to get a the list of distinct authors. After a few small tweaks I got it roughly working. This to
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by conwy 2y ago
If you're looking to maximise employability / pay scale, maybe you can do some small side projects, just enough to showcase curiosity/open-mindedness. Examples: - Build a useful bash script using ChatGPT prompts and blog abou
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by conwy 2y ago
Why to complain? Seems like heaven to me.
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by conwy 2y ago
> For most people—who won't solve complex math problems daily at work—the takeaway from learning math is not their mechanical ability at solving math problems. The takeaway is their understanding of math concepts and ideas, which wi
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by conwy 2y ago
I know what you mean, in fact I remember earlier on when I started the course, I had wanted to use these kinds of substitution techniques, etc. and thought I could finish the course in a few days. Boy was I wrong! These techniques definitel
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by conwy 2y ago
Ok well thanks for the Algebra book recommendations, will see about working through those first.
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by conwy 2y ago
> this is one big hurdle in learning math backwards. You discover new missing pieces at every corner. Each missing piece leading to another missing piece. Yes this is exactly what happening to me. E.g. I got up to Week 2 of the course an
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by conwy 2y ago
> My guess is that most people hit a wall of abstraction at certain point. I don't think it's a limit to their abstraction, I think it's that they didn't work properly on the fundamentals, so they had a superficial un
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by conwy 2y ago
It serves a need just not my need! (As someone who's surprisingly bad at math and trying to undertake a Calculus pre-req to get into university!)
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by conwy 2y ago
> Yep, this is the number one reason people think they aren’t suited for math. Everything is built on everything else, and if you missed anything you’re screwed. It takes a while to realise you are screwed, you can get by on rote for a s
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by conwy 2y ago
> Never use the stuff :) So many people tell me this that it's become cliche at this point. I find it demotivating, but unfortunately I have to press through, as there is literally no other way I'm going to gain entry to my uni
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by conwy 2y ago
Yes, it's algebra. Math isn't like programming. In programming you can often solve a problem using a library, framework, language facility, etc. without entirely understanding why it works all the way down to the binary level. In
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by conwy 2y ago
As someone who's taking a university entrance course in Calculus I find these kind of "calculus made easy" pamphlets irritatingly trite. The hard part isn't the highest level concepts, which are actually fairly easy to g
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The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage(theatlantic.com)
2 points by conwy 2y ago|0 comments

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