fab13n

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by fab13n 1mo ago
My gut feeling is, this post is 180° wrong. LLMs are the exact opposite of "elite coders", they're perfect StackOverflow users: * they memorize adapt and write back small-scale patterns very efficiently; * they know widesprea
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by fab13n 3mo ago
Being the maintainer of such a big open-source application as Chrome used to grant dictatorial power: maintaining a fork represented too much work. It only happened in the most awful situations, such as Oracle acquiring OpenOffice. But that
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by fab13n 1y ago
Smart move: now that they're an established player, and that they have a few billions of investors' money to spend, they comfort a jurisprudence that stealing IP to train your models is a billion dollar offense. What a formidable
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by fab13n 1y ago
> it's questionable whether this is a net benefit for Romania as a whole. it depends what's most beneficial: having a few percents of very mathematically experts people in maths-heavy professions? Or having everyone somewhat de
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by fab13n 2y ago
The choice is between: * be completely autonomous from day 1, and progressively increase the number of situations you can drive through; * or drive through every legal situation from day 1, and increase the % of them handled autonomously. I
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by fab13n 2y ago
the magic power of spreadsheets is that they encourage improvisation, and it probably applies to that one. you have only one data structure (the 2D table), data types are super-weak, there are no variable names... all of this guarantee a ma
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by fab13n 3y ago
If Google succeeds at banning ad blockers from Chromium-based browsers, there's no doubt that Firefox' usage will go back up.
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by fab13n 3y ago
Remote software engineer in the EU here. Remote has been fantastic, to extend our pool of potential customers/employers. Not working in an open space, not being disturbed by pointless red-tapers and middle managers is a productivity bo
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by fab13n 3y ago
That's what better IDEs did to Java codebases indeed: they made layered boilerplates and leaky abstractions somewhat navigable, therefore generations of careless contractors have been able to ship ever nastier messes.
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by fab13n 4y ago
if your test can't tell a smart student apart from a dumb algorithm, the broken part is your test.
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by fab13n 4y ago
can't wait to see what people come up with when they'll start interfacing it with a modern AI.
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by fab13n 4y ago
Got one under Ubuntu 22.04. My only issue is that some transitions are frustratingly slow, much moreso than on my 2014 XPS13: * Getting out of sleep (deep RAM sleep, not hibernate) * Handling password/fingerprint authentication once ou
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by fab13n 4y ago
there's a problem between Bob and the bureaucracy. whether it's a Bob problem or a bureaucratic problem is left as an exercise to the reader. However, I'd be thoroughly unsurprised if Bob happened to be on the autism spectrum
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by fab13n 4y ago
I've had a bakfiets for 12+ year in France; I did DIY electrification at the time, as that was the only viable alternative then; both kids have been moved around in it since they're born (now my teenager can use our non-cargo e-bi
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by fab13n 4y ago
I prefer companies which are open about the technologies and languages I'm experienced with. That's a huge green flag, that they consider their software engineers as smart people solving hard problems while continuously learning n
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by fab13n 4y ago
I believe the reason they don't post salary ranges isn't to lure new hires into underpaid positions, at least not primarily. it's in order to avoid renegotiation with current employees, who may have negotiated a less favorabl
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by fab13n 5y ago
Another spin to the same story: major employer agrees that forcing people to commute to office deserves substantial extra pay. Google employees are in a more-than-fair position when it comes to negotiate compensation. If the deal sucks, the
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by fab13n 6y ago
with a "Jerome Kerviel" logo openly mimicking that of Société Générale, at least parts of the site or of the contributors are here as a joke.
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by fab13n 6y ago
It needs to be called for what it is in a capitalist framework: a _dividend_, not merely an income. It is a share of the nation's wealth, which you receive as a legitimate co-owner of that nation. The only difference with a company sto
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by fab13n 6y ago
why isn't there a standardized API, to voluntary tell websites "I don't mind cookies" and bypass those messages?
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by fab13n 6y ago
If there's between 100 and 1000 people in a train, getting rid of the driver saves between 1% and 0.1% of an hourly salary by ticket. The economic pressure to do so is very low, compared to the difficulty and legal liabilities. Automat
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by fab13n 6y ago
that's exactly what they did last year when the law came into force. Then newspapers could fill a form begging Google to accept their content for free, which most of them did. I don't know what this post refers to, haven't ha
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by fab13n 7y ago
It's huge for stuff you'll still bother to go and fetch yourself in a physical shop. In the future, I'll expect more and more stuff to come to me, rather than having to go and fetch them myself. Luckily for Amazon, they'
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by fab13n 7y ago
As read from Europe, it's really scary to realize that this question makes sense in a first world country.
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by fab13n 8y ago
I've read, but can't find the figures sustaining it, that vegetarian diets are more efficient per acre, but less efficient per gallon of water. The kind of fruits and vegetables humans eat consume lots of water, whereas the food f
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by fab13n 9y ago
I don't know for sure, but both are likely enough to warrant an investigation. Again, one's guiltiness doesn't make the other one innocent. The only reason I don't insist on falling like a ton of brick on Tyler is that i
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by fab13n 9y ago
You're right, I had it wrong, I though it was a valid defence. I don't expect law nor jurisprudence to be rational, and neither possible interpretations of the eggshell skull doctrine--what it actually is and what I wrongly thou
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by fab13n 9y ago
If you re-read carefully, you will see that absolutely nobody in this thread ever argued that Tyler wasn't responsible, nor that he shouldn't be charged with manslaughter. He is, he will most likely be found guilty, and we'
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by fab13n 9y ago
The ludicrousness isn't about Tyler being charged (and the eggshell skull doctrine would rather be used to exculpate Tyler, although I neither think nor wish that such an argument would fly), it's about the police officer not bein
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by fab13n 9y ago
If you swat in most of Europe, all you'll get is a police patrol ring at the victim's doorbell, and politely enquire about the situation. That's pretty anti-climatic, as a prank, and that's why nobody will bother making

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