tfandango

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by tfandango 1mo ago
I work for a company with every AI tool imaginable. It's quite dystopian. Emails are flying back and forth with detailed AI analysis which is responded to with a copy and pasted response from another AI. And it's 95% noise. It b
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by tfandango 1y ago
Absolutely, much harder to describe what I want the software to do in English than logical programming language, and then add to that the time taken to understand the code and make sure it does what was intended. Perhaps the worst part, tak
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by tfandango 1y ago
Yep, I am surprised by this whole vibe coding phenomenon. I find it imprecise, and I have to very carefully translate what I want into English, a very imprecise language with a lot of nuance. Either I spend a lot of time coming up with a
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by tfandango 1y ago
My favorite things about the Tabs vs. Space war is that you can't even reference it without igniting it.
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by tfandango 1y ago
he only drinks Tab.
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by tfandango 1y ago
and plywood is probably the material of choice for cabinet boxes, straight, strong, not prone to warping, etc. Actually, seems crazy to use nice wood where it won't be seen.
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by tfandango 1y ago
Elimination of the incentives is the correct solution, yet solving the problem correctly is often harder and more time consuming than just saying you solved it. These raids are public and chaotic and easy, and then you can just claim to ha
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by tfandango 1y ago
I agree with you, while it is complicated, news organizations should and are reporting the facts (we are discussing them here). I think some people in "media" are probably using hot-button adjectives to get at Trump, and to his d
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by tfandango 1y ago
Dang hello, me too. I recently became tech lead at our fintech co, and the few days a month I get to code is like vacation for my mind. I still remember the good ol' days where nobody talked to me and I solved problems all day long.
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by tfandango 1y ago
Yea, it's really the opposite of the stated desired effect, small businesses will go under or not even start, while Target and Walmart afforded to pre-stock their warehouses to ride the wave as best they can. Amazon already informed s
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by tfandango 1y ago
2 years ago my eFile was rejected because one of my dependents was already claimed. I have 3 dependents, and they offered no way for me to figure out what happened. The internet told me to file a fraud claim with the government and send t
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by tfandango 1y ago
prediction: Prompt engineering will get so complicated. There will be a movement towards somehow telling the computer exactly what to do using a logical language of some sort.
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by tfandango 1y ago
I think that's a good analogy. We use on-prem co-pilot and it works pretty good. I find it more useful exploring problems or debugging than I do at using it to make code.
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by tfandango 1y ago
This is a great point. This mocked test, easy to literally click a button, look like you did something good, but potentially add massive negative value when the code fails but the tests all pass. It can be a very helpful tool, but you need
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by tfandango 1y ago
We get to check a box on what AI we use when we close a ticket. I used to select "none" because most of the time that was the case, sometimes I would pick one if I used it to build some scaffolding or explore some performance iss
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by tfandango 1y ago
It is saying something that Biden did not roll back some of Trump 45's tariffs (maybe related to chips?) on China when he took over in 2020. I agree with you; some thoughtful strategic tariffs could have produced good things.
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by tfandango 1y ago
Also, if fixing trade imbalances is the purpose of these tariffs, that brings into question the constitutionality of this. I know nothing matters anymore, but how quickly he forgets to say "fentanyl" when justifying these. Presum
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by tfandango 2y ago
Yes, this is what I was saying.
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by tfandango 2y ago
Remember we are imposing the tariffs on an emergency basis because of fentanyl crossing the border. Even though everyone, even our mastermind president can't even play along with his own rouse; saying things like he wants manufacturin
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by tfandango 2y ago
Best source I've found for exactly what this is was reddit, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/1izjg2m/starlinkverizo... for a system called FENS here: https://www.faa.gov/a
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by tfandango 2y ago
amazing that there's an article about it, thanks haha! Maybe we are the weird ones?
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by tfandango 2y ago
I know some guys who order water with no ice, honestly, I think it's weird, should I report them?
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by tfandango 2y ago
Interestingly my wife is offered O365 online as part of her Master's school as a way to write research papers. When she submits them in canvas, it cannot link to the document she wrote online, so it must be downloaded to her laptop wh
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by tfandango 2y ago
Often misattributed to Mark Twain but actually from Clarence Darrow, a lawyer I've never heard of: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasu... .
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by tfandango 2y ago
I'm late in reply but live in OK. We are the top wind energy producer in the country, at least we were in the recent past. We have A LOT of wind. It's a huge boom for our state which is historically mentioned along with Oil and
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by tfandango 2y ago
Classic trick. As a recent dev turned manager, these are the kind of things I've had a hard time learning.
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by tfandango 2y ago
Thanks, I've been ignoring it since, for the most part, except for a few things just to be aware. I've been studying concepts more deeply now, no more info from tweets: "tariffs good" or "tariffs bad". I appri
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by tfandango 2y ago
I partially agree with you. There is probably a fuzzy line somewhere in between, but reasonable people on either side of it should be able to discuss their disagreements without resorting to canceling each other. However, the challenge aris
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by tfandango 2y ago
This is called the Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Essentially you should be tolerant of others, unless they themselves are intolerant.
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by tfandango 2y ago
I received a lot of anxiety personally; it was difficult to disengage from. I even did not like the outcome but sense some sort of peace anyway, I think, due to just being able to carry on with life for a little while longer.

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