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by olsondv 21d ago
And then the second question was: “How often would you base decisions on reported statistics if you understood it better?” Talk about a leading question. I get that they were tacking on their “study” to a larger question pool, but they coul
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by olsondv 22d ago
He probably looked at you strangely because you don’t seem to know much about beer. Do you think all beer called a pilsner is imported from Czech Republic or all Vienna Lager is from Austria?
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by olsondv 27d ago
It largely depends on the person. We have several junior engineers who cannot solve a problem without AI. When AI can’t solve it, they just keep trying and failing. And I mean weeks to months late. Then rinse and repeat on the next task. It
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by olsondv 28d ago
It’s a common tale in English speaking world as well, but we don’t use it as a bedtime story because of the ending. Edit. Didn’t realize it might just be an English version where the boy is killed and eaten. Aesop’s original didn’t have tha
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by olsondv 1mo ago
After having used Codex for a promotional month, and now using Claude, Claude is not as efficient with finding relevant information. I can give it the one file it should be using and then it goes off and greps parent directories for more co
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by olsondv 2mo ago
Or at a stop light and the car next to you is listening/singing to the same song. Never happens anymore.
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by olsondv 2mo ago
Alright, that makes sense. I’m following now. Not at all opposed to making these transparent and accessible to defense attorneys.
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by olsondv 2mo ago
Is the concern that the police will use these tools as a scaffolding and then use other evidence to build the case, then not mention the scaffolding? I’m not a lawyer but couldn’t a defense attorney just ask in cross examination about the e
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by olsondv 2mo ago
Never been a manager, but there comes a point when you realize that you do not have the full picture as a subordinate. Your boss isn’t just managing you. They have a whole team to coordinate with and against the priorities of the rest of th
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by olsondv 2mo ago
TL;DR: Write it so you’re actively involved and not a passive reviewer. Then a sign up link for his course.
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by olsondv 2mo ago
These are different to me. An ask is when you expect some action from the person. A question is for an answer.
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by olsondv 2mo ago
It’s human nature to pattern-match experiences. As the number of experiences grows, more fit into something seen before. So, yes, we’re just getting old.
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by olsondv 2mo ago
Every student is forced to read the same materials and books. Tests are designed to test how close they remember the same correct answers. It’s always been rare that a novel interpretation or idea has come out of a classroom. The modern, st
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Taking the restaurant ordering app, it’s certainly better than a server. Each individual picks what they want and pays for what they got on their own bill. It removes any chance of communication error between the customer and the kitchen. A
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Physics is applying math to Model phenomena. Finance is already numbers so it’s a good fit. If you are insinuating the money corrupts it, they’re paid for the skills they developed. Are medical doctors less noble because they make massive s
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Noise doesn’t have to be broadband. 60Hz is a common noise in US from the AC line frequency. Then there are harmonics of that due to rectifiers.
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Yeah, that didn’t make any sense. If it’s functional, it impacts the system. 15k lines sure sounds like a lot of bloat.
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Github copilot has filters for enterprise that remove the GPL code before it gets returned. At least that’s how my company has been covering itself.
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Has that not been what a senior SWE is? You’re making it sound like engineers need to be asked to implement features rather than contribute to design. At my company, if you are not coming up with new features or applications, your days are
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Allowing non-technical PMs to ship code is fine if they’re the one getting called up in the evenings and weekends when it breaks. Maybe it’s a good exercise to show how much has effort must be applied to each commit.
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by olsondv 3mo ago
Felt the same way. Set aside the hyperbole, and it’s coming from the very real fear that data labeling does not have long-term job security. If the company continues to run after you’ve been moved, it’s pretty obvious you were redundant. To
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by olsondv 3mo ago
“You” being the operative word. The writing is on the wall when an AI-centric cloud company with falling profits can’t compensate its workers in an age where other companies are scrambling to jam AI into everything. It reads as a last ditch
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by olsondv 4mo ago
GE moved off Clearcase in 2019 because even IBM didn’t want to use or support it anymore. Wasn’t set up as bad as you had but wouldn’t describe it as pleasant. Lot of alias cheatsheets. Now we’re on perforce transitioning to git.
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by olsondv 4mo ago
I certainly didn’t understand it. We were using it up to 2019. A coworker set up a spec that would automatically mirror to the main codebase, unknown to me that was possible. I made a branch there, did some stuff, and then reverted. Little
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by olsondv 4mo ago
Maybe 15 years ago it was helpful. Google is so ubiquitous that lmgtfy has gotten even more passive aggressive as time’s gone on.
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by olsondv 4mo ago
Between this and blipped-CAIPI in 2011, there hasn’t been much change from an acquisition perspective in the industry. Mostly everyone shifted to AI reconstruction, workflow improvements, and reducing helium use. Those are the low-hanging
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by olsondv 4mo ago
It’s a poor example. Recently, I did have to email myself photos taken with my phone to access them on my laptop. Would be nice if they were automatically synced. It’s work phone and laptop so I could have gone through OneDrive or Box but j
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by olsondv 4mo ago
The article gave one anecdotal example of a person who misdiagnosed themself and then tried to make a broader point by disregarding the definition of addiction. Addiction is not just how many times a compulsive behavior is done. It’s the in
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by olsondv 4mo ago
When I generate code with AI, I will read through each change as it makes them (babysitting). If I don’t understand it, then I ask for explanation right away. At least by the end I have a grasp on what each change does and the reasoning. Th
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by olsondv 4mo ago
May not have been clear. My job is not AI development. I have features to deliver. The ask from employer is to add the AI knowledge sharing on top of it. They don’t pay for that. When layoffs come, it wouldn’t save me from missed deliverabl

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