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Yes. Hence why I personally believe learning how to be productive outside of power hierarchies is the most important thing for the Western world to learn.

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>Absolutely agreed. It feels like tech companies forgot that they are supposed to add value to users. They literally have forgotten as they’re just following orders from investors …

My sentiments exactly. Incidentally IMO this is arguably more of an anti-authoritative argument, i.e. down on the y-axis, rather than "left" on the x-axis, of the political compass…

Yes, if you are a black male, it’s hard mode.

Interesting. It's almost like models don't like being ordered around rudely with this "must” language. Perhaps what they've learned from training data is “must” often occurs in cas…

> Maybe it's because we also have suits telling us we have to use neural nets everywhere for everything Or Else, and there's no sense of fun in that. Yes, and using it a justificat…

Except managers also have expectations of what can be done

> 16. Admitting what you don’t know creates more safety than pretending you do. > Senior engineers who say “I don’t know” aren’t showing weakness - they’re creating permission. Whe…

Another extremely solid win for Cunningham’s Law.

It’s worth noting that 1. is not mutually exclusive with writing a TODO. In fact, on my team, all TODOs must have a bug in parentheses immediately afterwards to satisfy the linter.…

To be fair, I don't have any great specific ideas, but "Work Without the Worker" for example talks about how a lot of LLMs are fueled by neo-colonialist exploitation. So I guess br…

The title of this article implies that it is a major or even the only cause for mass tech layoffs, which I strongly doubt. For example, rising interest rates I'm sure also independ…

I think that’s a bit of a leap; if you think LLMs make the world a worse place, there are many actions that you might take or not take to try to address that.

So, what do all of these responses and the article itself seem to dance around? It's not that it makes developers obsolete, but rather increases inequality. In other words, either …

Right. What the article is unsurprisingly glossing over (per usual) is that just because AI is perceived (by higher-ups that don’t actually do the work) to speed up coding work doe…

I recently tried this, but the import to draw.io did not go well. It imported as a single static image rather an editable diagram. Maybe I did something wrong?

Why doesn’t the compiler pack structs for you if it’s as easy as shuffling around based on type?

The non-starter with OSM for me is lack* of high-DPI ("retina") support, making it like rubbing my eyes with scratchy wool when I try to read it * well, there's https://osm.rrze.fa…

macOS does it on reboot, not sure if it inherited this from BSD proper

PhD training teaches people how to not plateau, as (1) it teaches one how to focus on the unknowns (in that context, in the entire field, so one can dig into them; more easily appl…

… how is NameID created, exactly, if not from an email address?

> not much momentum Scala? Kotlin? To be fair these came into play WAY after the JVM

I’ve been doing similar for various frameworks (Flink) > is it right 100% of the time, no. No human teacher is going to be right 100% of the time either. I suppose ChatGPT is a lit…

How… did you get wax on the pots and pans in the first place? Making candles or something?