csneeky

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by csneeky 26d ago
Another hitch for people to tie their boats to a sinking ship.
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by csneeky 3mo ago
Wonder if those two young authors even know the word objective.
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by csneeky 3mo ago
I think the poster gets it. As do I. And I do not believe either of us care all that much about the vocal minority.
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by csneeky 7mo ago
Claude is better for much than GPT atm. You really think the government is going to hamstring the engineering of weapons and intelligence capabilities by not using it?
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by csneeky 7mo ago
Bluster followed by a "we can't do it now but we will... soon". Whoever has the best model can do what they please you'll see. I work with these things daily as an engineer (been doing this shit for 25 years and wow it
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by csneeky 7mo ago
Is it really the case companies like OpenAI and Anthropic will repeatedly visit this archive and slurp it all up each time they train something? Wouldn’t that just be a one time thing (to get their own copy) with maybe the odd visit to get
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by csneeky 2y ago
Costs more to incentivize people who are already flush with cash to work harder and keep working for you. It’s the prize waiting for anyone here later in life if you kill it and earn the right to join those ranks. Keep your head down and bu
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CIA Recruiting on X(reuters.com)
3 points by csneeky 2y ago|1 comments
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by csneeky 2y ago
I've been given one by a member of the NYPD twice in the past couple of years. I've politely accepted it, put in my desk drawer, and I do not carry it. Always bothered me. Police culture in this city is fundamentally broken.
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by csneeky 2y ago
And what of the rooster mascot?
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by csneeky 3y ago
Darwin
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by csneeky 3y ago
Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing. If the money isn’t there for the builder they are either not leveraging their relationship to the thing correctly, or the thing does not
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by csneeky 4y ago
Pretty sure I’m a machine that’s drawn all my conclusions by statistically analyzing all the input I’ve received since birth… I don’t really know how else I would learn what I have… and I don’t understand how being “just that” is what diffe
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by csneeky 4y ago
- "All it can do is assemble patterns according to other patterns it has seen when prompted by a request" Sounds pretty much like everyone I know.
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by csneeky 5y ago
Fact: functional programming takes more time to learn. It's not full of people that are "smarter' or "snobs" it's just full of people that have taken the time and invested in educating themselves to get to the
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by csneeky 5y ago
Was going to comment but found myself clamming up and deleting it.
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by csneeky 6y ago
I love that the article focuses on interpersonal skills... too often the knee jerk reaction (as software engineers) is to view "skills" through the narrow lens of engineering (various computer science topics, competency in a langu
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Ask HN: Platform owners should charge a fee to use it?
1 points by csneeky 6y ago|1 comments
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by csneeky 6y ago
The link leads to nothing? Has been removed? (Sorry if late to the game but seems no one has mentioned this yet)
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by csneeky 6y ago
After working on more than 20 green field projects over the 25+ years I've been a software engineer I can tell you that yes... all SDLC management tools suck at times, but also can be a great part of something very productive. It'
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by csneeky 6y ago
In that case then maybe the question "Where can I find news that requires the least amount of cognitive load to consume?" is more appropriate... this is also a little defeatist.
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by csneeky 6y ago
I hear you on Reuters maybe that was an unfair inclusion (it is certainly not sensationalist news) but still...
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by csneeky 6y ago
Thanks for the allsides link. If it's what they claim that's a good one.
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Places for true un-politicized news about the US?
6 points by csneeky 6y ago|16 comments
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by csneeky 9y ago
"Types and Programming Languages" (aka "tapl")
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by csneeky 9y ago
I know one employer this will impact: Goldman Sachs. Not only do they demand you tell them what your current salary is during the interview process, they force you during a rigorous background check before your first day to prove it.
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by csneeky 9y ago
If curious I would have gotten the question with Try and Either wrong (because I forget), and I don't really use Scala Streams so I don't know without looking at the API doc. The others would have been fine for me but all of that
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by csneeky 9y ago
I think it is very telling about the state of interviews in the tech world when: 1. I can NOT off the cuff answer those all correctly (at least not without a little Googling). 2. I can, largely off the cuff, implement an IO monad in Scala u
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by csneeky 9y ago
Love this, from one of the answers the author gave: > "You can indeed become enormously wealthy and still be a good person just playing the game. That point needed to be raised because, as Orson Welles once pointed out, everybody ha
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by csneeky 9y ago
Yes, as far as life is concerned I do. Everything we or other life forms do comes from an attempt to make an improvement. Be it selfish or altruistic, it is always to alter some state of the world for a perceived benefit. But our competenc

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