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by viach 3mo ago
When I checked the last time "consciousness" was not defined yet. So the title can be read as "Some things are likely not unique to earthlings"
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by viach 11mo ago
X -> Optimism, Optimism -> Longevity Can't wait for a research which reveals the X.
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by viach 1y ago
I think people often misread AGI as Artificial God Intelligence.
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by viach 2y ago
Yup. And the real danger of AI is not that it enslaves humans but in that it will bring great disillusionment and existential crisis. Someone should write a blog post about this to warn humanity.
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by viach 2y ago
> 1 The tech industry has accidentally invented the initial stages a completely new kind of mind, based on completely unknown principles... > 2) The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself. 3) The in
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by viach 3y ago
> Be an engineer that PMs don’t hate Easy-peasy. Always agree with their estimates, never complain, never ask for a raise, work additional hours.
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by viach 4y ago
Can't wait for the battle of the OpenAI JavaScript frameworks
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by viach 4y ago
Being smart is not the end of the game, software is created by teams. You could ask them to make reverse code review so that they can enjoy each others smarteness.
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by viach 4y ago
Like you said "they can’t be bothered working out how to..." That's a fact which is not going to change.
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by viach 4y ago
> Use stored procedures For God's sake, please don't
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by viach 4y ago
Strangely, it resonates to me in the context of finding "The Best Note Taking App" buzz. Whoa, X has backlinks! Yay, but Y is open source! At the end of the day we all open the default system notepad.
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by viach 4y ago
90% of times when strangers were telling me compliments it ended up with "street scam", iukwim
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by viach 4y ago
Sure, it's dead. But very wide spreaded and high paid.
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by viach 4y ago
99% of analogies are correct
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by viach 4y ago
The "real world" view pretty much depends on the glasses you wear and the observation point.
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by viach 4y ago
You are taking it too seriously. You are allowed to make mistakes like everyone else.
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by viach 4y ago
Says someone who uses white font on purple background
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by viach 4y ago
If you use JSON for configuration (as it should be), why not update the whole file and get change tracked in VCS? If you use it as a database, why not Mongo then?
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by viach 4y ago
> Consider mocking only as a last resort Consider trying to write tests in a non-trivial Spring Boot app without mocks
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by viach 5y ago
I think if you speak slowly any of the Slavic languages it will be understandable enough "from Prague to Vladivostok"
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by viach 5y ago
If these other people have similar systems you could even authomate it via shared API so that they are just doing ping-pong of howareyou-imfine. Win-win!
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by viach 5y ago
> A sequence of checks to arrive at the root cause of the problem can be represented as a path in (preferably balanced) binary search tree. Yes, probably everything in this world can be represented as a balanced binary search tree, who k
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by viach 5y ago
Interesting, is there a website which offers a set of real dev problems to solve? Like, here is the IP of a prod environment, we are getting 500 with some combination of POST request parameters to this endpoint, the logs say there is someth
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by viach 5y ago
Similar to how one gets a backend developer working on "full-stack" - by slowly moving tasks context.
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by viach 5y ago
Short summary of the 80 min discussion: - Is there life after death? - It depends.
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by viach 5y ago
They missed the obvious option, to firbid high schools (this will remove students)
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by viach 5y ago
Some people can be aware of what you think their emitions are driven by and use it for manipulative reasons when you react accordingly. Probably it is a good idea to treat people as grown adults who can be responsible for their reactions w
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by viach 5y ago
> We’ve encountered nothing we can’t potentially improve This statement is a bit exaggerated, saying optimistically.
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by viach 5y ago
Increase taxes for car owners globally, done.
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by viach 5y ago
Is it a best practice nowadays to use word "coronavirus" for all the viruses with the particular molecular structure pattern instead of word "flu"?

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