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Comment · 5 days ago
usually some “data science” team takes the results and decides what to do. really heavy process for something that is usually quite simple.
Comment · 2 months ago
These control characters do sometimes appear in CSV files in the wild. The suggested method of parsing is unsafe and lazy.
Comment · 2 months ago
Appears to be AI slop. I don’t know why the author attempts to put cars in the same class as a bike, either. Bikes and scooters occupy the same space, both in terms of where they are expected to be found (and not) and how drivers and pedestrians alike might perceive them. You wouldn’t run on the highway. You wouldn’t drive on the sidewalk.

The car is fine if you drive it like a car. A bike is fine if you ride it like a bike. What’s lazy about an electric scooter in the bike lane is both physical and mental, and cyclists are bothered by the latter. Because scooters accelerate quickly, are heavy, and usually operated at speeds in excess of bicycles, cyclists perceive them more like cars driving in the bike lane. They exist in a different category altogether, one that isn’t bikes or cars.

Comment · 2 months ago
that’s like going to the bank to pay your mortgage, a real, simple, and yet meatspace operation
Comment · 2 months ago
This sounds like Excel when you open a CSV file.
Comment · 2 months ago
Seems more like a cult than a job. Hopefully the equity is like… a lot.
Comment · 3 months ago
Nothing was lost using a graphing calculator because you assume the calculator produces the correct result every time. Imagine if, instead, 90% of the time it was wrong, and you needed to check the result and then take another pull on the slot machine lever.

Centering a div and using regex are basic programming skills that aren’t some kind of difficult exercise or the privilege of a select few. Everyone working (at least on typical business CRUD applications) should know how to use these tools.

If you don’t then I’m sorry - maybe you shouldn’t be a programmer.

Comment · 3 months ago
Pretty sure this happens in every field. Opening any sufficiently detailed tabular file with Excel almost guarantees data loss.
Comment · 3 months ago
Wonder how much this cost the author to write, as it’s just AI slop…
Comment · 3 months ago
How long does a train track last? Does a fiber optic cable last? Both are greater than 30 years, both will persist (relatively well) without use, and the benefits of scrapping or removing them are minimal. This allowed future companies to take advantage of them. Even if GPUs running at high load last five years, if the data center they are in goes bankrupt (because the AI bubble bursts), it’s likely they’ll be stripped and sold to make way for more productive CPU-based uses and to recover some of the cost of the bankruptcy. The surrounding buildings and infrastructure will have longer use, but it doesn’t translate to a net future benefit with AI.
Comment · 3 months ago
Keep trying. You have limited downside and unlimited upside.

Take the outside capital and ride the dragon. Doesn’t always work but if it does you’ll be doing fine.

Took me 18 years to get to success. Sometimes these things take a while.

Comment · 3 months ago
The variation in individual developer throughput was as much as 20x pre-AI. 10% is basically nothing. You’d be better off firing your worst performer and replacing them with someone good (or great).
Comment · 3 months ago
I have been using Sensibo for years. Never had a problem.
Comment · 3 months ago
Garbage disposals were at one time illegal, and despite the passage of 30 years there’s still concern in existing buildings that the plumbing can’t handle it (which is probably unfounded).
Comment · 3 months ago
unreadable AI slop

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