rebelsimile

@rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if I took a thc gummy as a suppository?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if this is new timey advice from a rich person or old timey advice from a gentleman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the detailed reply. I think one of the reasons I feel like I’m slower than I want to be is I tend to think a lot about those kinds of edge cases. My main problem now is learning to find the right-size for prototyping/building.

  That said, I’ve written thousands of loops at this point but I’ve only done an input loop like that in python once or twice (in classes as I recall), so that specific method of getting the application started would probably be in that “I’d be embarrassed I’d need to google that” category. But I think once I got started I’d code out a decently competent prototype of a basic store (I’ve built an ecommerce store before so I’m familiar with some but not all of those edge cases). I would never think that code would be ready to ship though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this.

  I mentor lots of people and i met with someone last week for the first time, and as we were chatting he mentioned several times things like “So I just asked the AI what to do, and then did that exact thing”…. Uh, so… I don’t use AI that way.

  I started using it basically as soon as it came out and I started like everyone else, writing out all these requirements into the system, marveling at how it just spit back out a whole program, and then obviously ran into all the pitfalls that that entails.

  So, these days, my AI use is limited to what I’d say is syntax conversion/lookup (like “What’s the syntax for instantiating and adding to a set in python?”) and anything I’d immediately verify.

  I should also say I’m aware of leetcode/things like that. I play around a lot on Codewarriors and see how others put together solutions and learn a lot from that. I really enjoy the silly grindy aspects of coding like figuring out how to extract all the content from a json object that should be a string but can’t be a string for <reasons>, and building larger/complex systems like game engines. Components/react and that style of development makes a lot of intuitive sense to me as well.

  Anyway I say all that to say I’d be sort of embarrassed to use AI during an interview like I’d be embarrassed to need to google anything, but it would be primarily about syntax and I’d be as likely to distrust anything the AI was saying as to use it unless it aligned with what I’d expect the code to look like.

  Do you mind if I ask what a “weeder” task might be vs. a more involved one? As someone who hasn’t worked on a dev team before, I only vaguely know what you mean by “We were hoping to say they needed to write some tests to get a code review”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in software (relatively high up), just not as a developer. Started to take development classes at night to pursue it as my own interest, and work on websites/games for myself. When I’m working, I guess my favorite thing to do is to approach work systematically, and my regular job keeps me pretty well-informed about the front-end aspects.

  I really appreciate the suggestion. I’ve written some small contributions to public projects, but (I think I mentioned in the past here) not being a dev by trade I have held back some of it because it doesn’t work perfectly and I don’t have any interest in maintaining it/fixing it for others (as I’d like to be working on games, etc). Anyway this was very helpful, thanks (I got super busy yesterday and couldn’t respond).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a question, as someone who struggles with a little developer imposter syndrome. I don’t work as a dev, but I’ve coded from the ground up (using AI initially but basically only these days for syntax checks or to help accelerate writing something routine), including multiple websites (initially in React/Tailwind but lately in raw HTML/CSS), games (using python/godot), etc, for my own purposes primarily (as I have a completely different day job). Is that typical of a candidate you’d see in an interview? Are you having to screen candidates like that for whether they know what they’re talking about or are you referring to more junior people (assuming that what I’m profiling isn’t super junior)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA | Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, big credit for admitting the colossally apocalyptically stupid thing everyone knows is stupid was stupid. such credits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way h1b visa are applied will 100% cost highly skilled Americans their jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do have a 64gb m1 MacBook Pro and man that thing screams at doing LLM AI. I use it to serve models locally throughout my house, while it otherwise still works as a fantastic computer (usually using about half the ram for llm usage). I still prefer a 4080 for image generation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When can we expect 500TB drives to be available?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah taken as a guideline and observation that computer speeds/storage/etc continue to improve, I think it’s fair. It may not always be double, but it is still significantly different than other physical processes which have “stagnated” by a similar metric (like top speed on an average vehicle or miles per gallon).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reDUcTIon iS gAIn⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What, and live with negativity at the heart of every atom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it felt like the Bible and the white/yellow pages used the thinnest paper I’d ever seen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  gosh who would want an uncommon character that obviously most average people aren’t thinking about in their passwords, that sounds like it might even be somewhat secure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 25th Anniversary, Sega Dreamcast!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh shit it is 9.9.99+25

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Patents In-Car System That Eavesdrops So It Can Play You Ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also understood what you clearly meant but this is a good exercise in not blowing up at a pedant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out it was just someone who didn’t know how to change the setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are now 14 competing universes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini Live, Google's answer to ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, launches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Googles response no one wanted to a product no one asked for. I hope Google buys plots in the graveyard in bulk at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever realized just how broken you are?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, that father may have grown up with a father just like you. He just made different choices. Just like you can see that those are different choices. You could and probably will make different choices too, it’s the only way we ever change. It’s not by retroactively having perfect circumstances. It’s by choosing to be better each day moving forward.

  Also, as a 40+ year old myself it’s always important to take a clear stock of the ways you’re similar to your parents (I find more every day) and also the myriad ways you are your own individual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I did this almost 30 years ago and could recite it from scratch, haven’t made a cable since hs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ve gamed out the next step the right way, what that means is that older subs and their content just get locked away behind the paywall. Eventually all of reddit is on the slack free account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes. Also, !r is reddit also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people say two things "cannot be compared", they had to compare them to come to this conclusion. Are 'dissimilar' or 'unequal' better words?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What they actually mean is rather “these two things are very dissimilar”, or “these two things are unequal”.

  I think what they mean is “This is an invalid comparison”. For instance, the idea that two concepts are “apples and oranges” invokes the idea that apples and orange can’t be compared. But of course they could be compared as fruits (which would you prefer to get in line at the cafeteria? Aren’t you inherently inviting a comparison? I’m with you on that).

  However, if one were asking whether golden delicious apples are better than honeycrisp apples and someone butts in that navel oranges are the best, they’d get the same “navel oranges and golden delicious/honeycrisp apples can’t be compared” response because they’ve brought up an invalid comparison in the context of the comparison. Apples and oranges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All they’re going to do is teach the AI that sometimes people end posts with useless disclaimers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally playing with POWER.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  had one as a kid, it was terrible even by kid standards. I used to pretend to be a cyborg cop with it and my gray light gun though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weight⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Joke’s on you, I’d die before weighing myself on Earth too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 32 bit machine that is still in service for this task and some others, but I’d rather run it on a modern machine (m1 mac)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can Wine run 32bit Windows adobe software?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great. That covers what, 1 month of his administration? Keep going, unless you’re cherrypicking this incredibly active recent two weeks. This list should be enormous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, don’t stop, what about two weeks prior to that? And two weeks before that? I bet we must be living in a consumer utopia with the pace of the last two weeks, surely applied to the last 3 years, right? right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think our parent’s generation (or maybe their parents’?) would have said something like “There ought to be a law!” but we don’t say that because we don’t expect anyone in office will ever help us. Hm.