inadequatespace

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by inadequatespace 2mo ago
Yes. Hence why I personally believe learning how to be productive outside of power hierarchies is the most important thing for the Western world to learn.
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by inadequatespace 4mo ago
>Absolutely agreed. It feels like tech companies forgot that they are supposed to add value to users. They literally have forgotten as they’re just following orders from investors (public or private). Before those orders were “get as man
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by inadequatespace 4mo ago
My sentiments exactly. Incidentally IMO this is arguably more of an anti-authoritative argument, i.e. down on the y-axis, rather than "left" on the x-axis, of the political compass.
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by inadequatespace 7mo ago
Yes, if you are a black male, it’s hard mode.
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by inadequatespace 8mo ago
Interesting. It's almost like models don't like being ordered around rudely with this "must” language. Perhaps what they've learned from training data is “must” often occurs in cases with bullshit red tape or other regul
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by inadequatespace 8mo ago
> Maybe it's because we also have suits telling us we have to use neural nets everywhere for everything Or Else, and there's no sense of fun in that. Yes, and using it a justification to offshore/ layoff
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by inadequatespace 8mo ago
Except managers also have expectations of what can be done
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by inadequatespace 8mo ago
> 16. Admitting what you don’t know creates more safety than pretending you do. > Senior engineers who say “I don’t know” aren’t showing weakness - they’re creating permission. When a leader admits uncertainty, it signals that the roo
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by inadequatespace 11mo ago
Another extremely solid win for Cunningham’s Law.
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
It’s worth noting that 1. is not mutually exclusive with writing a TODO. In fact, on my team, all TODOs must have a bug in parentheses immediately afterwards to satisfy the linter. So not only not mutually exclusive, but the opposite.
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
To be fair, I don't have any great specific ideas, but "Work Without the Worker" for example talks about how a lot of LLMs are fueled by neo-colonialist exploitation. So I guess broadly speaking there could be strategies invo
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
The title of this article implies that it is a major or even the only cause for mass tech layoffs, which I strongly doubt. For example, rising interest rates I'm sure also independently contributed. I would be interested to if anyone h
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
I think that’s a bit of a leap; if you think LLMs make the world a worse place, there are many actions that you might take or not take to try to address that.
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
So, what do all of these responses and the article itself seem to dance around? It's not that it makes developers obsolete, but rather increases inequality. In other words, either creates a class of inferior developers because they don
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
Right. What the article is unsurprisingly glossing over (per usual) is that just because AI is perceived (by higher-ups that don’t actually do the work) to speed up coding work doesn't mean it actually does. and that probably to some e
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
I recently tried this, but the import to draw.io did not go well. It imported as a single static image rather an editable diagram. Maybe I did something wrong?
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by inadequatespace 1y ago
Why doesn’t the compiler pack structs for you if it’s as easy as shuffling around based on type?
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
The non-starter with OSM for me is lack* of high-DPI ("retina") support, making it like rubbing my eyes with scratchy wool when I try to read it * well, there's https://osm.rrze.fau.de/testhd.html , but that
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
macOS does it on reboot, not sure if it inherited this from BSD proper
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
PhD training teaches people how to not plateau, as (1) it teaches one how to focus on the unknowns (in that context, in the entire field, so one can dig into them; more easily applicable to one’s own knowledge) and (2) teaches one how to le
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
… how is NameID created, exactly, if not from an email address?
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
> not much momentum Scala? Kotlin? To be fair these came into play WAY after the JVM
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
I’ve been doing similar for various frameworks (Flink) > is it right 100% of the time, no. No human teacher is going to be right 100% of the time either. I suppose ChatGPT is a little more overconfident / doesn’t have a sense of ton
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by inadequatespace 3y ago
How… did you get wax on the pots and pans in the first place? Making candles or something?
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Exactly. The market is a terrible failure.
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Also https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Do you have experience with this tool?
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
It's only rational. The company certainly doesn't care about that individual first, as evidenced by e.g. its decision to lay them off when it doesn't think the individual is serving them, so why should the individual put the
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
You must be jocular then. He said serious usage. (In all seriousness, I’ve had few problems as well. Sometimes I have to muck with base images but it’s not a showstopper)
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by inadequatespace 4y ago
Any use besides… one of the most common uses of the laptop in general in this remote-work era…

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