spjt

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by spjt 9d ago
I'm kind of glad this is all happening because it provides a nice example to point to when I try to explain why I don't want to be dependent on a vendor for these sorts of things.
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by spjt 10d ago
If I didn't know they were the same car I'd probably take Honda without carplay over a Chevrolet with it.
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by spjt 1mo ago
A label is fine. With USB the risk is that the thing doesn't work as well as it could. It's been the situation forever with extension cords that they have the wire gauge printed on them, and in that case the risk is that if you ch
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by spjt 2mo ago
Yeah we were trying to develop an internal corporate MacOS desktop app and the amount of shit I had to go through just to get it to the point where someone who isn't a developer was able to run it was absolutely insane. In the end a lo
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by spjt 2mo ago
As an American that stuff is fairly inconsequential to me, although I am already aware of those things so I wouldn't even have a reason to ask. Likewise a Chinese person probably wouldn't have much interest in topics that a US-bas
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by spjt 3mo ago
Of course he presents a hypothetical person who honestly earned a billion dollars, because he can't name an actual example. All you have to do is double your million dollar business every month for a year and a half! I'm sure this
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by spjt 4mo ago
Why would remote working have anything to do with the amount of junior hiring? You can maybe make the case that remote work isn't as helpful for juniors etc etc. but that has absolutely nothing to do with the decision to create a job r
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by spjt 4mo ago
As if the reason people don't like Windows is because the ads on their desktop weren't loading fast enough.
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by spjt 4mo ago
Why teach people bad habits starting out? Probably dating myself specifically but I started out with Pascal, and I'm glad I did.
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by spjt 4mo ago
I wish I could do the same thing. Coworkers would be allowed to ask me X number of questions per month, and once they hit that limit I get the rest of the month off.
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by spjt 7mo ago
I'm one of those cowards that always succumbs to the pressure and ends up tipping, but it bothers me enough that I just won't buy anything if I know I'm going to get asked. This is good training.
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by spjt 7mo ago
Walmart InHome is $40/year and no tips.
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by spjt 9mo ago
Let's ban it before anyone finds out if it's useful
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by spjt 9mo ago
But it is being continually refueled. The output of an LLM, at least in the process of generating code, is a combined product of human creativity and the LLMl. I have told it what to do, fixed what it got wrong, and verified the solution wa
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by spjt 9mo ago
Yeah if they thought unions were bad, they really won't like dealing with another company larger than them.
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by spjt 9mo ago
Interesting that I read elsewhere that most Venezuelan oil goes to China due to the sanctions. Would be nice to see them put a carrier group down there to guard their shipments...
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by spjt 9mo ago
Because it has oil on it, you can sell oil for money.
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by spjt 9mo ago
No shit. My question is the real question, how can I make money straw-buying GPU's and smuggling them to China?
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by spjt 9mo ago
Is the new Gemini really that good? The "AI Overview" stuff on the google search page is so incredibly bad that I have never even given it a look. If so, the AI Overview is horribly bad negative advertising because it's so us
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by spjt 9mo ago
I always made sure to include "Time spent on time tracking" when I had to do it.
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by spjt 9mo ago
> Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS I still find it too much of pain in the ass to deal with to justify for my personal stuff. Easier to just click through the warning every time.
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by spjt 9mo ago
Why not do it in English? I have a "program" that exists entirely as the history of an AI chatbot session. To "run the program" I load the history and a file into the message context and say "Now do this file."
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by spjt 9mo ago
I've always seen estimates as trying to guess the highest number the PO will accept, the time or effort involved in actually completing the task is irrelevant. I have never had a PO or anyone else complain that a task was completed mor
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by spjt 9mo ago
In my experience, having to track my hours absolutely destroys my performance. Thinking about how I need to pay attention to how long I spend on everything is a constant distraction in the back of my head while I try to do anything useful,
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by spjt 10mo ago
It sucks if you're looking for entry level work, of course. However, I'm a TL/manager with mostly entry-level reports and I have told them for a while the other side of this mentioned here - by the time they get to senior lev
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by spjt 10mo ago
In my experience the style bikeshedding comes about when PRs are not properly scoped. At least I have learned to just say TLDR.
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by spjt 10mo ago
I'm staff and that is probably the main thing I use AI for. It's maybe a bit ironic that AI is a lot better at sounding like an empathetic human being than I am, but I'm still better at writing code.
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by spjt 10mo ago
This happened to me a long time ago... well not me but my kid. She made a youtube video and got flagged for not being old enough.
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by spjt 11mo ago
Good luck cracking down when local inference gets cheap.
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by spjt 11mo ago
I don't think it wants to. Ask any on-call engineer or support tech how they felt when, after having their phone blow up at 1am because everything is falling apart, they found out that this was an AWS-wide outage.

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