zarkov99

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by zarkov99 2mo ago
For the most part those are people who were not previously able to create because of skill atrophy or lack of programming aptitude. From their point of view being able to command (for now) a more capable entity to do what they (think) they
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by zarkov99 4mo ago
I care deeply about craft, but: a) I cannot effectively review more than 2000 lines of code a day. The LLMs can produce much more than that. b) Even if I accepted my reading throughput limitations as the cost of being in the loop, reading i
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by zarkov99 3y ago
I do not see it that way. I was born in Europe and immigrated to the US. In my mind the differences is that the US attracts more ambitious and talented people than Europe.
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by zarkov99 3y ago
This is not right in finance at least. Messages updates are typically incremental just like in TCP. The reliability problem is dealt with with careful network stack tuning, core affinity and out of band recovery.
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by zarkov99 3y ago
They are clearly not politically neutral, unfortunately, whether by accident or design. And I say this as someone who has been a supporter for years.
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by zarkov99 3y ago
The videos you see are curated to showcase police brutality. In a country with 300 million people and as many guns, its not hard to come up with a video a day depicting things going wrong. That is not the norm though. No one is going to pos
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by zarkov99 3y ago
Is it not feasible to simply raise the bar on what is expected in a graded essay? Or is the human/chatgpt combo no better than just chatgpt?
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by zarkov99 4y ago
I have a 13 year old who just got a phone. I do not think things are as hopeless as you seem to believe. My daughter mocks social media (including my own use of it) and, so far, wants no part of it. That is, I think, largely because her mot
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by zarkov99 4y ago
TCP is rarely used in HFT data centers except as required by exchanges.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
People who hate Elon musk, which includes almost all of media, have no qualms about lying about Tesla in order to hurt it/him. In fact they might think is the right thing to do, for the sake of, well whatever. If you are interested in
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by zarkov99 4y ago
That is exactly right. In terms of knowledge acquisition the disruption has occurred. Any motivated young person can get a world class education free of charge, without ever stepping into an ivy. But it turns out the main purpose of college
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by zarkov99 4y ago
What would you replace leetcode with? For all its faults, and I agree there are many, leetcode is at least more or less objective and (for employers) very cheap.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
With eglot and lsp-mode emacs, for me, has feature parity with vscode for c++ local development. Unfortunately for remote work tramp is still a nightmare and vscode far ahead.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
The problem with this idea has been the same for 40 years: unlike in other fields of engineering in Software there is no bedrock of empirical science from which we can derive objective, reasonable standards. It is all opinion in CS and no d
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by zarkov99 4y ago
That is a fantastic analogy, it captures exactly the pros and cons and the context dependency of methodologies.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Man, I have seen this everywhere, there is so much low hanging fruit for organizations that take developer productivity seriously. It is insane the amount of friction (leading to burnout, disengagement, and ultimately turnover) that develop
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Of all the arguments against RTO the ones the signatories chose were racism, agism and sexism. Because everything, absolutely everything one does not like must somehow be linked back to white maleness. God, this stuff parodies itself.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
This is obvious nonsense to anyone that breeds, owns or even regularly interacts with dogs. But gas lighting has always been a preferred tactic of those proselytizing "the message".
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Are you jealous? What is wrong with being 25 year old and figuring out how to lead the company you interned at to unlock 1 billion in revenue? Seems like a pretty good start to me.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
He was not born in the US. Like Arnold, unless the law changes he won't be able to do it. Unfortunately.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Do something physically hard, hard enough for you to slightly fear it. Martial arts, in particular BJJ would be a great option. You need to let your body command your attention, urgently and forcibly, so you get out of your own head and can
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Good. Nice to see blue collar jobs offer a decent living.
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by zarkov99 4y ago
I think this depends on the scale of the problem. For small, algorithmic, problems, the kind you would see in a coding interview I find it far more efficient to solve on paper, or on your head, before getting bogged down in code. The diffic
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by zarkov99 4y ago
Comments, I believe.
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Start Wars, at least episode III, meaning the first one, is clearly structured around the hero's journey, a story archetype that has been around since time immemorial, in every culture on earth. A story that old and enduring must reson
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Pageless is great, except for the loss of footnotes. Why not fix that and have the best of both worlds?
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Solidarity to whom? A group of people that have the same super valuable skills as me? Why do they deserve any of my solidarity any more than anyone else? As to your point, I agree, it is all about degrees, and in my mind the degree to which
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by zarkov99 5y ago
What if you do not want a future where you have to pay union dues and give up individual agency in your relationship with your employer? Unions might be a necessary evil to rectify massive power imbalances but that is hardly the case in tec
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by zarkov99 5y ago
> There is a tendency in the West to view all minorities as somehow being the same. Is unique to the West? Do people in Asia distinguish one European from another? How about in Africa?
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Pretty sure the OP was being sarcastic.

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