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by twodave 1mo ago
Naively-speaking, sure. I think GP was referring to the act of information-processing, specifically, though.
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by twodave 1mo ago
Yeah, it probably is sad to be so unimaginative or pessimistic about your skill set that you see AI as an impediment and not a boon.
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by twodave 2mo ago
To be fair, when I see that pattern after a relevant question, it isn't much of an AI tell. Consider this exchange: A:"Are you hungry?" B:"I'm not hungry, I'm thirsty." When LLMs use the pattern, they are
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by twodave 3mo ago
AI use is such a polarizing topic anymore. What ever happened to just waiting and seeing how it all plays out? Since probably none of us is going to be able to predict it anyway.
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by twodave 3mo ago
Well of course they do. AI has strong association with words and phrases such as "hallucinate", "bad medical advice", "slop", etc. I can understand why a business would want to use it, but it's very seldom
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by twodave 3mo ago
For years I always felt if I got a human on the other end I could understand that a company valued me as a customer enough to provide fantastic support. I could still understand the trade-off if I called and got someone barely-understandabl
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by twodave 3mo ago
Telcos make money off of scammer activity.
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by twodave 3mo ago
There's a perspective by which you aren't wrong, and yet everything about how we interact with the Internet has changed in the last decade or so. Because (to quote School of Rock) the world is run by the man.
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by twodave 3mo ago
Yes, the game is over, the corps have won. Where the Internet used to be a forum for creativity, it's now a weapon of influence. Where we used to have an anonymous (or at least pseudonymous) playground, we are now monitored more than a
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by twodave 3mo ago
For sure. I've taken to using a similar method over the last couple of years as I've increased miles and needed to take steps (ha) to take better care of my feet over longer distances. I wouldn't recommend this setup for more
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by twodave 3mo ago
I tried writing a similar comment. Yours is much clearer. This 100%. As a runner I used to have to re-tie multiple times per run. I corrected my mistake with this same fix probably a decade ago and haven’t had a loose shoelace since.
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by twodave 3mo ago
Runner here. I found some time ago that starting out the classic shoelace tie right-hand dominant and finishing it left-hand dominant results in a very stable knot. Lacing them high enough to keep the ends short helps too. It has been thous
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by twodave 4mo ago
Is there a point to this? Yeah, it's difficult to get it to dissolve completely. For me, it is easier (and faster) to just dump it directly in the mouth and chug water after. So, not sure what you're disputing but it's probab
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by twodave 4mo ago
I was going off of a summary of an outdated report. If I can find a better one I'll post it. -- As an aside, it is very clear in reports like this one[0] how tech job growth nationwide has stagnated. Incredible. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by twodave 4mo ago
This isn’t really true. FL population has exploded so much with high earners that they’re talking about getting rid of property taxes, and Miami is like #2 behind Houston in terms of tech jobs growth.
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by twodave 4mo ago
I wouldn’t say it serves no purpose. It is useful when rewrites are tolerable and loss of history is not. It’s the default when using tools like jj, because the expected workflow wraps git in a way that force pushes are frequent and expecte
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by twodave 4mo ago
It's not necessarily a class of people. It's proficiency vs. mastery. Is some set of people more able to master a subject than another? Sure. Each person has different limits to their potential, of course, but for most things achi
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by twodave 4mo ago
For smaller shops (by small I mean <1,000 employees) this isn't even tenable. We (engineering team of about 10 people) mitigate what we can via tooling and cooldown periods/minimum release age. This will work as long as these m
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by twodave 4mo ago
I still drink the water, I just can’t stand the texture with creatine added. So I swallow the creatine with as little water as possible and drink nice fresh water afterwards :)
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by twodave 4mo ago
I have said the same for a while. And I also think there is an increasing trend of clueless CEOs trying to replace expensive developers with AI token spend. We are still waiting on the long tail of consequences from those decisions, but I s
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by twodave 4mo ago
Others mentioned dissolving it. I find just getting it over with is easier for me. I dump the whole scoop into my mouth and wash it down with a mouthful of water or two. It is flavorless, after all.
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by twodave 4mo ago
TL;DR author confuses anxiety with morals, cuts people out of their life that they can’t cope with being around. This has played out a million different ways throughout history, nothing special about this case, it just happens to be rooted
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by twodave 4mo ago
You can use implicit operators or a library like Vogen to accomplish the same thing in a way that they can be coerced as strings. This isn’t a real issue.
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by twodave 4mo ago
No, I think the company has plenty of responsibility. I just think it is more likely as someone who has been part of many engineering orgs that this is a latent bug affecting some people than some intentional change of policy.
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by twodave 4mo ago
Personifying Google in this way is not realistic. The search team alone at Google is made of thousands of people who are all working on different things with an over-arching mission of making the web MORE accessible, not less. Any release f
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by twodave 4mo ago
The spend difference for this must be enormous. I wonder how they justify it financially. I guess they don’t have to.
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by twodave 4mo ago
Well even today you have the UAE and Qatar warning them not to do this. It’s likely to me that the fighting won’t stop until the situation is different, even if the US were to pull out today.
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by twodave 4mo ago
It's possible, in the short term, but eventually the only oil flowing thru the Strait of Hormuz will be Iranian oil, and perhaps not even that. Give countries enough time and they'll rather invest in building a way around Iran tha
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by twodave 4mo ago
I think the idea is that now that it's a public issue, it will have to be addressed more than just bringing us back to pre-war levels.
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by twodave 4mo ago
Glad to hear you found your way back to the outside portion of the bottle :)

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