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Ask HN: Improving as mid-level dev with forced use of LLMs

2 points·by quantum_magpie·3 месяца назад·1 comments

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quantum_magpie
·4 дня назад·discuss
Oh, so it's also your fault when you plan, and get approved a vacation, and then in the middle of it (lets's say on week 2 out of 4) you're notified that in two days you must be in the office, or, according to you, you should get canned?
quantum_magpie
·7 дней назад·discuss
Jeez, just imagine a ballistic missile hitting your neighbour's house, with no indication or alert coming ahead. I would bet a good 50€ that you'd be freaking the shit out.
quantum_magpie
·3 месяца назад·discuss
You are describing opt-in policies — you’re out by default and you have to opt-in to be tracked.
quantum_magpie
·3 месяца назад·discuss
I think most checkouts do that, to prevent duplicate payments. Dunno about epic, but I often encounter that mitigated by a dedicated ‘go back to store’ button post-checkout
quantum_magpie
·3 месяца назад·discuss
MS has a history of fucking up LibreOffice installs.

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/General/General_Inst...
quantum_magpie
·3 месяца назад·discuss
An alternative reply, with analogy, if you like them:

You own a restaurant, where you sell poisoned (intentionally and knowingly) food. A group of people band up for class action lawsuit for poisoning them, and have the lawyers post a sign at your restaurant, that everyone poisoned there should reach out and get some compensation.

Should you be allowed to take the sign down?
quantum_magpie
·3 месяца назад·discuss
It’s not a rival store, or speech against them.

It’s a lawsuit, with the users of the platform as the damaged party, against the platform. Removing the possibility to reach the users should result in a default judgement with maximum damages immediately.
quantum_magpie
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Could you point to where you found the details of the exploit? It’s not in the linked page. Really interested. Especially the part about modifying it and the other users propagating it?
quantum_magpie
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Well, google doesn’t sell pixels in eu that can use graphene, and samsung installed the israeli spyware on all their devices. So apple is kinda the best solution.

Unless you count xiaomi and huawei as the proper android devices?
quantum_magpie
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
In the German site I get free shipping over 60 Eur, but only by stuff shipped by amazon. And other vendors somehow manage to always screw up shipping, so now I have had all orders for used books that had no/invalid tracking number, not arrive and I have/had to negotiate a refund for all of these refunds with the vendors themselves instead of amazon. So all-in-all, amazon is actually good, makes stuff available that’s impossible to find locally (books in English), and does shipping well.
quantum_magpie
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
No, it’s more like you have 10k km to drive in this car.

And then, after you actually drive it for 10k km on “unauthorized” highways, they ban you.

That’s why analogies are for fucking idiots. There is a true example — you bought access to use your account for n tokens, and google got pissy that you didn’t use the tokens in their spyware ecosystem.

For you analogy loving fucks, it’s like the arcades selling their proprietary 50 cent worth token coins, that only works on their machines, when they could just accept 50 cent coins.
quantum_magpie
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
If I pay for a subscription that guarantees 1000 tokens, I am paying for guaranteed 1000 tokens.
quantum_magpie
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Regarding the calculator, I get the same -4 in Android, just checked. So they all suck..
quantum_magpie
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I have a 2020 Fiat 500 Abarth, and it is absolutely perfect: There is a screen (I think 7") for Android Auto/CarPlay/radio/nav, and every single other function in the car has a physical button. It is also absolutely gorgeous - pinnacle of design, IMO
quantum_magpie
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues. Didn't do chats there, though, only the meetings.
quantum_magpie
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
I would be very cautious advising SSRIs for anyone, especially developing children, considering my own experience (on sertralin), which was complete disappearance of a libido, and massive weight gain, +40kg (70 -> 110) in ~10 months. 5 years later I still have not undone the damage from it.
quantum_magpie
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
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quantum_magpie
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I consider myself a hobby photographer, and I love having a phone camera. I can then have the tele glass on for entire hike/session, and do landscapes on the phone. Currently, 2 weeks in, I didn't even touch the landscape glass in it's case.
quantum_magpie
·5 лет назад·discuss
>consumers go to aggregators because they want to, not because they are forced to.

Recently I wanted to buy 10-ish dead tree books in English and get them shipped to an eastern EU country. Going through the first 20~ DDG results of online stores exactly zero would ship them here. Also, the local bookstores would have only few books in English, mostly the 'bestseller'-type stuff.

Amazon was the only place that would have them available and would ship them here..
quantum_magpie
·7 лет назад·discuss
1password operates on subscription model. From their support (https://support.1password.com/frozen-account/):

You received this message because your 1Password subscription has lapsed. While your account is frozen, you can still view all your items, copy your passwords, and even copy items to vaults outside your account. But you won’t be able to:

Add new items to vaults

Edit items

Invite people to your family or team

Fill items in your browser


It becomes a read-only list of your passwords, instead of providing ongoing service at a fixed version of the software (unlike JetBrains IDEs, where you actually keep fully operational version of the IDE at the latest version you qualified for).