mattdeboard

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by mattdeboard 7d ago
I wrote out a variety of replies but I just emphatically agree with your "lack of imagination" statement. I have been constantly surprised over the last 15 years at the general inability to correctly foresee how things can do wron
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by mattdeboard 9d ago
The intro paragraphs talking about the mental disengagement or decline or whatever we want to call it really resonated with me. It's something I've also taken measures to counter. In fact I'm on vacation right now to Basque C
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by mattdeboard 12d ago
That is a distinction without a practical difference.
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by mattdeboard 23d ago
This is amazing! What a cool website.
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by mattdeboard 27d ago
Very insightful. The idea of using pseudocode is clever, and the persistence+correlation layer idea is great.
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by mattdeboard 1mo ago
You seem to be arguing that people shouldn't be skeptical, by default, of studies of products that are funded by the companies that make the products. They funded this study as a prospective way of increasing the adoption and market sh
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by mattdeboard 1mo ago
I reckon they used "pathologically" as a synonym for "compulsively" and/or "extreme"
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by mattdeboard 1mo ago
I get where you're coming from (having also watched that video), but I'm skeptical mainstream commercial chatbots would be built without constraints in regard to sandbox-jumping measures to help a customer. All the economic incent
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by mattdeboard 2mo ago
Your last two sentences remind me of the olden days of people building applications on top of FB and Twitter APIs (and later, Reddit), only to to have the rug pulled out from under them in one way or another
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by mattdeboard 3mo ago
I'm working on https://xingolak.pages.dev/ I've been learning Basque and wanted to see a visualization of how the semantics move into different grammatical structures when translating between Basque and English&#x
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by mattdeboard 3mo ago
I traded emacs for vscode several years ago now but this post made me wonder if I'd be insane for dusting off my herd of finely shorn yaks to try typescript dev again with it. At the time I left for vscode, emacs had a REALLY bad Types
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by mattdeboard 3mo ago
The road to eternal burning hell is paved with stored procedures. My experiences (!!) make it so i will never be convinced on the risk:reward being worth it.
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by mattdeboard 4mo ago
The way this position conforms to the interests of the capital class, and conflicts with those of the labor class, is a red flag. It simultaneously and conveniently: 1. takes the heat off AI blowback 2. synergizes perfectly with "RTO&q
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by mattdeboard 5mo ago
It's not that i don't like it. It's that I've got 10-15 years (i think) of muscle memory with magit
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by mattdeboard 5mo ago
I've been retired from emacs for several years now but I'm still looking for a magit replacement that is independent of my editor. Vscode's magit extension is really good but i split my time between IntelliJ and vscode. Anyon
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by mattdeboard 5mo ago
"don't be evil"
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
You would be lying if you wrote that because you do not know if that is true.
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
Uh, yeah, dude, when Whitehouse.gov announces its new app, the app is a government program. Hope this helps but something tells me it won't.
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
Are you upset people are being critical of a shabbily run government program?
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
He explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements. How would you have written it differently
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
Ok but are you arguing against code reviews of AI generated code?
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
People are determined to make the future of code an even bigger dumpster fire than the present of code.
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by mattdeboard 6mo ago
Do you not review junior developers' code? I don't understand your point
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Show HN: Novel visualizer for translations to/from Basque language(xingolak.pages.dev)
1 points by mattdeboard 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
Hey just saw this. I will probably take a look at this on Monday.
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
I also have a a scratch-my-own-itch project[1] that leverages an LLM as a core part of its workload. But it's so niche I could never justify opening it up to general use. (I haven't even deployed it to the web because it's ea
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
Honestly this insight feels very actionable to me. I do more SQL reporting for biz analysis than i would like (i'm a dev not a biz analyst). I may take a crack at this tool next week.
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
Interesting note about left join in the CTE being converted into an inner join. Didn't know that
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
did you use AI to write this response? Why?
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by mattdeboard 7mo ago
Not many, but junior devs grow into senior devs who do, which is the point. If there are no junior devs there is no one growing into those skill sets.

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