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by programmertote 16d ago
> Prose density is not the same thing as succinctness Can't agree with you more. I review 2-3 PRs a day from my team of eight data engineers. Most of my team members use Claude to write SQL, dbt and Python code. Some of them use Cla
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by programmertote 1mo ago
He will be pardoned by trump before the latter leaves the office. There will be LOTS of people pardoned by trump. I immigrated from a very poor, military-ruled country to the US more than 20 years ago. It is very sad to see the democratic s
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by programmertote 1mo ago
You are living my dream! When I retire, I want to teach for underserved areas; I also want to help out in some ways related to the homelessness problem. Plus, I want to learn how to play piano/guitar and learn how to swim properly (I c
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by programmertote 1mo ago
> Still, this rate merits carefully watching in coming months; a continued decline may signal a deeper change in the behavior of workers in this critical age group. I know I'm speaking from a rather (somewhat) privileged position. I
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by programmertote 2mo ago
I have at least one coworker who literally copy-paste AI output to respond to code and doc reviews (and most of her communications like on Teams and Asana) despite me telling her multiple times to take it a notch down. Two days ago, she sta
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by programmertote 2mo ago
It really irks me for some reason that American Medical Association (one of the top spenders in lobbying) is doing the lobbying. I did a quick Gemini/Google search and these are the topics they lobby for. ``` Core Legislative Prioritie
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by programmertote 2mo ago
One of the most informative videos from Practical Engineering channel. I thought I knew NYC infra fairly well, but I learned so much from that video still (like how NYC's electric grid is actually a grid and more fault tolerant).
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by programmertote 2mo ago
> Cross-platform search should be standard by now. A shared watchlist across services would help I have a Hisense TV with Roku interface. I was always able to search a movie and it'll tell me ways to watch. Being a data engineer, I
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by programmertote 2mo ago
Interesting... at my current job, my team and I are solving this problem of how to make sure LLM understand our SQL data warehouse to answer analytical questions for clients. We have a 20-year old database with rotting schema as the blog po
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by programmertote 2mo ago
I am like OP -- I use old.reddit.com strictly in Firefox. I'm comfortable and familiar with the old UI (been a Reddit user for as long as Reddit has been around). I was a little annoyed by being asked to log in. But I don't want t
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by programmertote 2mo ago
Like some folks already commented here, even as someone who has been working in tech for 20+ years, I find Passkey confusing. I understand the key aspect in computer science term, but I don't know how to use it across devices. Another
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by programmertote 2mo ago
100% what I do. :) Simple and gets the job done.
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by programmertote 2mo ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. What I'm saying is that the same issue can be observed in the US (i.e., it's not Germany specific).
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by programmertote 2mo ago
I watched the demo video. Isn't that agent's voice too hasty in responding? Maybe that's what they (OpenAI) are trying to show off as full-duplex tech, but I can't shake the feeling that I'll feel annoyed if the AI
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by programmertote 2mo ago
That sounds similar to what you experience in the US especially as a first gen immigrant. I see a glass ceiling (for the lack of a better word) here. Most of the leadership positions are occupied by US-born (mostly Caucasian) and/or to
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by programmertote 4mo ago
I'm assuming that China, with its industrial power and leadership position to produce a bunch of green energy components (like solar panels), is well-positioned to benefit from this.
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by programmertote 4mo ago
Not related to using LLMs for writing email, but something that bothers me about using Gmail lately. There were a couple of lass action lawsuits (like this one: www.GoogleWebAppActivityLawsuit.com) against Google. The emails from both lawsu
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by programmertote 4mo ago
Same. Last week, my boss, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, dumped an AI-generated proposal (~7 pages) on how to structure semantic layer on top of our dbt models. As the Data Engineering lead, I had to read it and found a few glaring issue
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by programmertote 4mo ago
I thought it's just happening to me. I tried to watch my computer's network activity to see if anyone has hijacked my IP. I closed Gmail and YouTube tabs because I find that they are the ones which pings to the outside world a lot
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by programmertote 5mo ago
My spouse is an hematologist+oncologist. She and all of her coworkers use ChatGPT. Before then, they look stuff up on UpToDate [ https://www.uptodate.com/login ] (they sometimes still do). I went to medical school for three
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by programmertote 5mo ago
These bans, in my opinion, are not the right way to go. Who says that once you are 16+, you are mature enough to interact with the social media apps? I'd argue that if one has never used social media when growing up, it'd even be
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by programmertote 5mo ago
The same question I wanted to ask. I'd be very curious to learn about their post-mission analysis to find out how many bit flips occurred and how many times this redundant system prevented the mistakes from causing issues.
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by programmertote 6mo ago
My wife is a big movie/drama series watcher. She will occasionally flips through Netflix catalog, but will always check first if the series has finished or not. If it isn't, she'll not bother. There are so many series that Ne
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by programmertote 6mo ago
Agreed. As a spouse of a specialist doctor in the US, average folks don't include doctors when they blame the exorbitant prices of the US healthcare. Sure, big pharma, insurance companies, hospital admins and everyone in between play a
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by programmertote 6mo ago
A recent LinkedIn post that I came across as an example of people trusting (or learning to trust) AI too much while not realizing that it can make up numbers too: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariamartin1728_claude-wr
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by programmertote 7mo ago
Speaking this as a spouse of a medical doctor -- case reports are sometimes a good way to increase the bullet point count in your CV if you are a medical resident. A lot of residents do that just for the sake of beefing up their CVs (to app
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by programmertote 7mo ago
Either this will end in a fractured state with different factions OR another Ayatollah will be in charge. Just my guess from seeing similar stories play out in other countries though....
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by programmertote 7mo ago
Is it rumor or true that Saudis or some middle eastern financiers are part of the Paramount bid?
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by programmertote 9mo ago
One thing I learned from programming since the early 2000s, there is no such thing as one size fits all advice. You do what is best for future folks--as I like to call the unfortunate folks who would have to maintain the code I wrote--by pr
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by programmertote 9mo ago
I generally don't like the idea of relying on one private company to track private individual citizens' movement. So, I have an issue with this punishment (although I see that allowing that would also make it harder for automated

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