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by jb3689 5d ago
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet” seems like the golden rule we’ve all forgotten
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by jb3689 24d ago
"Do the work assigned to them" has multiple levels of abstraction. You could say it's the task level which would be entry level. You could say it's the project level which would be mid level. You could say it's the
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by jb3689 2mo ago
Do people have fun building vim macros? Vim macros are awesome because they don't involve reading manuals, memorizing obtuse key commands which you never use on a regular basis, or understanding weird configuration lines - you just use
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by jb3689 4mo ago
Sometimes I feel like the only sane person in the room for not wanting to have to usher the LLM through phase by phase. Every time I need to choose the next skill or cat the next error is just a waste of my time that could be spent doing th
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by jb3689 4mo ago
Yeah, this is how it factually does work, but it’s not great. That’s why so many people are having to build custom tools to fill the gaps
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by jb3689 4mo ago
You have a deadline and scope (of solution) handed to you from product/management. It’s the same issue now at work.
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by jb3689 5mo ago
I’ve found LLMs very good at two things: 1. Recommending paths forward, 2. Following established architecture. Your job is to be able to treat the LLM and code as sheep
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by jb3689 5mo ago
Why would you do anything else? It’s still faster than me doing it as long as I’m parallelizing. I can regularly get up to 5-6 things running in parallel at the moment with no downtime. I suspect by EOY I’ll figure out how to run more
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by jb3689 5mo ago
$400 * 23 business days would be $9k. Sounds ballpark to me
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by jb3689 7mo ago
A good interviewer won’t be looking for a single solution to the problem. I’d expect them to entertain the Google Sheets answer - it’s good signal that the candidate will consider what already exists in the world. I’d rather extend the prob
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by jb3689 7mo ago
Distributed systems and probabilistic data structures really should be in every undergrad CS curriculum even if just in passing for the second
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by jb3689 7mo ago
It irks me that these "just use Postgres" posts only talk about feature sets with no discussion about operations, reliability, real scaling, or even just guard rails and opinions to deter you from making bad design decisions. The
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by jb3689 8mo ago
The problem is that a lot of what is happening is within the executive branch's power and/or democratic. A nontrivial number of Americans support everything that has been happening. The expectation at a time like this would be tha
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by jb3689 1y ago
On the other hand, no one cares about Velcro or Tupperware
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by jb3689 1y ago
100% agree. I am interested in seeing how this will change how I work. I'm finding that I'm now more concerned with how I can keep the AI busy and how I can keep the quality of outputs high. I believe it has a lot to do with how m
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by jb3689 1y ago
Where though? The only people I see moving around live in Seattle, SF, and NYC where there are tons of open positions
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by jb3689 1y ago
Location: Boston, MA, USA Remote: Yes (In-office/Hybrid also fine if local; travel is fine) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Linux, Programming (esp. Ruby, Go, Elixir/Erlang), React, Typescript, Databases (Mon
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by jb3689 1y ago
I really wish someone would have shared something like this with me in graduate school. Learning how to be a successful grad student took me too long to learn. In fact, I honestly didn't event learn it until I was done with school.
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by jb3689 1y ago
Makes me wonder if we’ll see more emphasis on loosely coupled architecture as a result of this. Software engineers maintain the structure, and AI codes it chaos at the leaf. Similar to how data engineers commoditized data via the warehouse
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by jb3689 1y ago
Musicians picked Monster because they were reliable and had an excellent replacement policy not because of brand ego. The Darn Tough of cables at least in terms of policies
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by jb3689 2y ago
> They did it within a system of laws and regulations that government admittedly does create for fostering such wealth creation. However, this still often requires strenuous effort by these people for their own ends. You are confusing tw
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by jb3689 2y ago
I believe the previous poster was arguing that taxation still exists at a macro level, i.e. money is sucked out of the economy. It doesn’t matter so much who paid the taxes. The wealthy pay the interest.
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by jb3689 2y ago
Part of me wonders if doubling down on taxing transactions (which tariffs is categorically) can thus work. It seems like an elegant way to avoid having to deal with wealth vs income.
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by jb3689 2y ago
> Yes, the only thing that genuinely scares the rich is wealth taxes Why though? We’ve already established the end game if we don’t do this. It’s hard to imagine society willingly regressing back to feudalism. What we likely need is a se
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by jb3689 2y ago
That's the issue right? No one knows what access they have, so you should assume the worst. They've already been claiming that they are making writes, so full write privilege isn't off the table. It's not even the access
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by jb3689 2y ago
I’d like to see better controls for keeping diagram components from colliding. I’m sure that’s a nontrivial ask, but I run into poorly placed components quite frequently, and I feel like that’d be a major selling point for Mermaid for me i
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by jb3689 2y ago
If you are doing anything serious, then yes. OTP is a top tier framework for writing any sort of complex parallel/distributed processing. I’d pick OTP over ActiveJobWhatever any day. Elixir code is also easier to maintain at scale due
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by jb3689 2y ago
I searched for a guide explaining PID controllers the other day, and after the fifth full screen mobile pop up on a result I finally just gave up. Even on your silly site I accidentally clicked allow because of the buttons switching to defa
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by jb3689 2y ago
Ah, the B type developer. Knows enough to find exciting and interesting problems but doesn’t know how to distinctly separate a type C (who can’t solve the problem at all) from a type A ( who knows the problem in and out and knows “it depend
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by jb3689 2y ago
Every database has issues and quirks whether they be about how you design your application, how you need to scale, or how you need to maintain your database. You can play this game “just use XYZ and have no problems”, but it isn’t realistic

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