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by sublinear 11d ago
What the hell else do you have to do?!
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by sublinear 11d ago
This is very true. These kinds of lists tend to be reactive to the author's environment and current state of mind. Work is not the enemy. A lack of autonomy ruins motivation. Ask someone younger and their top ten is completely differen
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by sublinear 12d ago
The precise word choices have nothing to do with it. Even in this rebuttal you're still projecting an oversimplified perspective.
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by sublinear 12d ago
I'm curious how these polls are conducted. These polls are at least already biased since people self-select. If they're online only, even moreso. If they're only advertised to echo chambers, even moreso. Anyway, the result ma
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by sublinear 12d ago
Sucks to be that guy? I'm not sure what your point is. You haven't given enough information to assess much. It's also likely you don't know all the numbers or you'd be working there.
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by sublinear 12d ago
I think the point was many people are car enthusiasts and can technically afford the maintenance if they want it that bad. In fact, it usually takes them down the path of flipping the cars and falling up instead of down.
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by sublinear 12d ago
You insist on using broad brushstroke language like "masked goons". Nobody is going to listen to your lack of nuance on other topics either.
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by sublinear 12d ago
In my experience, what is "useless" to me is required by another team. Believe it or not, that's what the majority of the business thinks about software code too, and you're only further proving my point.
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by sublinear 13d ago
Yes. I am thinking about rock, jazz, and fingerstyle playing. They're hardly edge cases and haven't been for decades. They're so popular and modern enough to prove the original point. With regards to tuning, fingerstyle will
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by sublinear 13d ago
The impatience you have for planning work that doesn't immediately "do the thing" is precisely the same attitude that got us into this mess. I'm more convinced by the day that there's a significant amount of undiagn
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by sublinear 13d ago
What?! I'm surprised those are the things you complain about regarding guitar sheet music. The only real problem is guitar always has several different ways to play the same notes all over the neck and instrument tuning isn't al
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by sublinear 13d ago
Border patrol, law enforcement, FBI, etc. There's a few military bases as well. I'm not sure what else you're expecting in Texas. If you look at google maps, the "secrets" will become a lot less mysterious.
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by sublinear 13d ago
Totally agree. The story is similar for all the dots in the middle of nowhere and small towns. That's half the map! If people are so curious, they should head on out there and see what the fuss is about. They're going to find a lo
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by sublinear 14d ago
At the risk of sounding rude, ignorant, and insensitive... did you all get married young? That all sounds a bit narcissistic. Life is too short to be miserable, and we don't celebrate divorce enough. I'm happy for you both, and ho
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by sublinear 14d ago
Wait, are you accusing the wealthy of being actual humans who value things besides money?
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by sublinear 14d ago
> My question is: why are we waiting until code review to do all of those things? I’ve never particularly liked pull requests as the centre of the software development process. This is a strawman. Who is writing code professionally witho
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by sublinear 14d ago
> We could not read theyfell.com. It blocked us, or it needs JavaScript to show anything. Copy the words off the page and paste those instead, and we will bury those. Where's the obituary for this?
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by sublinear 14d ago
Why is it always the ones with the highest karma giving the most hollow defense? How's retirement treating you?
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by sublinear 14d ago
Explain to the rest of us how far along those problems were before AI.
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by sublinear 15d ago
Doesn't that say more about the massive crumb tray nobody ever bothered to empty at the bottom of mathematics? I'm sure someone will point out something like the 4-color theorem as a counterargument. Where is that kind of theorem
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by sublinear 15d ago
Yes. It's worth pointing out that anything with n distinct parameters is just a point in n-dimensional space. We're so used to handling so many dimensions that nobody ever bats an eye until someone brings up the magic word "d
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by sublinear 15d ago
Too shallow of a dismissal, and you don't determine what everyone else takes seriously. It's been several years now of LLMs only appeasing those with low expectations and inexperience. Unless the only goal was generating boilerpla
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by sublinear 15d ago
Promotion into management isn't so different. They still experience similar thrashing and have to learn or be fired. My point was not only that so much human learning happens out-of-band, but that it has to be fundamentally different f
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by sublinear 16d ago
> I have a degree in linguistics, so I understand the power of immersion. This seems to be the thrust of the whole post. I just don't think immersion has the same influence on mature people with a stable worldview. Why would you hav
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by sublinear 16d ago
I think this is fine as long as the success criteria are strict enough that they are forced to learn something in the end. Any significant testing will inevitably create that situation. The LLM won't have enough context to handle the m
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by sublinear 16d ago
I'm fairly certain that at least half of the people commenting (and all of the people who downvoted you) have over a decade of git muscle memory in their fingers. That's far faster than asking AI, and sometimes probably even faste
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by sublinear 16d ago
What makes knowledge "specialized" to you? Most devs use git. Even better than ChatGPT is just doing the thing on reflex. Not every manual step is necessarily a tedious chore nor even slower when you actually know what you'
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by sublinear 17d ago
How many more face eggs until we pop the AI yolk?
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by sublinear 17d ago
The "best engineers" we have right now started their careers when the startup era was hot and they now have 15-20+ years of experience. They wore all the hats while everyone else stunted themselves straight out of school by going
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by sublinear 17d ago
> The best engineers know how our systems work down to more levels, but for average developers producing average software with average impact, average output is acceptable. What if I told you the "best engineers" pretty much al

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