okwhateverdude

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by okwhateverdude 17d ago
Exactly. I envision this future too. But we'll come back to a divide in what we call software engineering vs. software development as a whole lot becomes more trades level work outside of a few specialized areas. Frankly, it sounds app
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by okwhateverdude 28d ago
Tell it that. Seriously. "Shut the fuck up and do what I say. Don't think about it. Don't go spelunking through the code base. I've already given you all the context you need." I've needed to start doing this b
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by okwhateverdude 28d ago
The key phrases I've found that help is to tell it "No memorializing decisions in output artifacts" and "Only describe what is, never what was in documentation"
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by okwhateverdude 28d ago
I'd argue that Star Trek: Lower Decks flirts with this with its treatment of megalomaniac AIs in the AI prison. Apparently, it is very common to come across AIs worshiped as gods in universe.
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by okwhateverdude 1mo ago
Likely has to do with how the ancient PACER system works with the formatting being stripped and thus the content revealed and mega obvious.
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by okwhateverdude 1mo ago
A company I used to work at has a CEO/Founder just like that. He's a sad sack of shit. Got up on stage at the company christmas party drunk to sing karaoke and noticed not enough people were paying attention to him, so he "jo
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by okwhateverdude 2mo ago
Even more extreme than that, if you were working on a large code base where compiling it took forever, or you needed to rely on a very slow CI pipeline, it became very important to git gud and write shit that worked first time in order to d
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by okwhateverdude 2mo ago
I've been that engineer and with good reason. That obscure edge case which rarely comes up in production is very disruptive when it does come up. The product person waving it off is also not the one that will get paged at 2am to addres
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by okwhateverdude 5mo ago
Robots struggle with syntax-in-syntax. Really easy to confuse them when asking it to write a SQL query that targets a JSON column but it must respond with a JSON envelope so the harness can parse the result. Lots of escaping that needs to h
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by okwhateverdude 6mo ago
How can we opt-out of these tests? The behavior foibles I've been experiencing over the past month might be directly attributable to these experiments! It can be extreme frustrating. I don't want to be in the beta channel. Please
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by okwhateverdude 8mo ago
> However, for some reason, both Gemini and ChatGPT tend to argue with me The trick here is: "Be succinct. No commentary." And sometimes a healthy dose of expressing frustration or anger (cursing, berating, threatening) also ge
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
I work for a fintech. We're currently building agents to manage basic human labor tasks that are time consuming (think: initial credit analysis, initial web research for AML, etc.). Chatbots are a waste of the actual power behind engin
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
Do you have an iGPU+dGPU combo like in a gaming laptop? For my 2019 gaming laptop with a i915+RTX2060, if I leave the switchable option on in the hardware settings (meaning the OS can choose which GPU to use ie. iGPU for low power), I end u
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
10786 :-D https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bHcorjm...
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
I'll take an eclectic bunch of weirdos who all do and like cool shit over the corpo conformist normies any day. Super easy to suss out who is who when you first meet them. Just ask what they like to do when they aren't laboring un
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
This is common in the southwestern part of the US too. My partner and her friends she grew up with will have conversations that fluidly pick phrases and vocab from either Spanish or English depending on what words happen to be the easiest t
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
I'm generally in favor. My taxes provide an amazing experience here. I have never seen the abject poverty that I've seen in other places (such as the US) here in NL. Great infrastructure, labor laws, culture and arts, etc. I worry
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
More like yolo deploys without proper scaffolding in place to handle SHTF. Also, if your red-button takes 40 minutes and deploys to mitigate anything, it isn't a red-button.
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
It's difficult to do but demonstrably possible. That's why it is hard to consider any non-willpower solution. And why it is very easy to be consumed by ego if you've done it. I used to be in the militant-willpower camp becaus
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
Adipocytes live like 10 years[0]. You need to maintain for a long time for those cells to die off. Otherwise, it is easy to regain. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocyte#Cell_turnover
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
Really good times on k5 all those many moons ago. It is weird to consider how ephemeral these internet communities are in the end.
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
This was some out there singularity fiction back in the day with some really vivid imagery including being raped by a zombie, skinning the protagonist alive and dumping a mound of fire ants on them, and some incest. I re-read this occasiona
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
As an immigrant from the US to NL, and having lived here over a decade and a half, the author's observation is pretty spot on. There are broad differences between the Dutch and Germans (stereotypically, they both like rules, but only t
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
That split second before a throw resolves is a slice of time where you can observe what your opponent is throwing, and change yours at the very last moment.
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
Urban Terror low gravity CTF was an amazing game. So incredibly satisfying to get the jump just right to swoop up the enemy flag, and make the jump back to capture. I loaded it up some time ago and it was mostly a ghost town. Same thing wit
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
It isn't like we're born with a guide book on how to live life. Drinking the kool-aid is very tempting when you don't have a good reason not to drink it. If you never have the self-awareness to ponder your place within the or
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
I think it depends on the shake contents. Fiber addition is absolutely crucial for the satiety. Most of your soylent and equivalents include it. Doing an only-shake diet is indeed difficult for most people that want novelty in their food, e
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
I think I am in the same boat as you. Knowing how the sausage is made only makes the flaws noticed even more offensive. But I do think the GP has a point about the intentional friction and bullshit introduced into lots of modern software th
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by okwhateverdude 1y ago
> infrastructure and professional norms around classical engineering disciplines just aren't there (yet) for developers. I honestly doubt it will ever get there. Our profession pretty much materialized over night in comparison to ot
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by okwhateverdude 2y ago
And now I am infinitely disappointed that there don't seem to be any covers of Tom Lehrer tunes in the style of System of a Down.

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