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Re:Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age on Saturday April 05, 2025 @09:08PM (#43598128)
Well, arguably so do LLMs. You put in the same input prompt, out comes the same code. But yeah, it is kinda different, but I'm just saying that as LLMs become better at understanding how to solve sub-problems, they may become reliable enough that coding via LLMs becomes the new norm, and learning how to effectively prompt will become a new skill for coders
Re:Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age on Friday April 04, 2025 @12:59PM (#43585094)
Perhaps that partly because 90% of the training data used to teach LLMs to code is made by junior engineers?
Re:Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age on Friday April 04, 2025 @12:58PM (#43585074)
Well, whats the difference between Vibe Coding in 5 - 10 years vs coding in C 5 - 10 years after compilers came out?
Re:Knowing CSS is mastery to Front end Development on Sunday March 02, 2025 @01:08PM (#43233181)
> Custom icons for an input field? Welp, it’s not that easy for privacy reasons to add a pseudo-class here in certain cases.

What exactly are those privacy reasons? And by custom icon for input field is meant replacing the cursor with e.g. an svg?

Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:20PM (#43143358)
Maybe has more to do with volume of information rather than it being especially difficult for him? Could be that was his week's todo list
Re:Richard Feynman's Blackboard at the Time of His Death (1988) on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:12PM (#43143274)
My CS professor in grad school was once struggling to set up a classic analog overhead projector, so I taunted him about it: "sooo, you can debug 1M lines of C code, but you can't...."
But serotonin is active in many aspects of the body's physiology no? So just because it may not act on other classes of receptors, it still has wide ranging impacts. There are many kinds of SERT receptors, as they mentioned, Fk isn't all that selective about it
They never said not to use Fk for major depression or other life threatening psych issues
I would say "Happy dappy dumbp dipshits" is not what I get from the Baha'i ideals

Some people are born leaders, thats their inherent personality tendencies. Often they are psychopathic, which is a congential thing, and hence not their fault in any ways. Rather, just like anyone else, they are also mines rich in gems of inestimable value

So how can you get someone like Stalin or whatnot, who can mesmerize the populace, make brave, bold and rational decisions in the face intense crisis, but at the same time help them somehow understand and internalize foundational principles of justice and equity so that their strengths can be manifest without tormenting people and thereby extinguishing so much human potential?

Re:Obscure Islands I Find Interesting on Sunday February 09, 2025 @12:39PM (#42992096)
Try millionaire. If you were a billionaire your whole conscience would have been snuffed into lifelessness from all the economic exploitation you've engaged in to get there, and thus you wouldn't be able to find any deep meaning in the experience

No one deserves or can benefit from $1B beyond the shimmera of delusional self-aggrandizement

Re:Obscure Islands I Find Interesting on Sunday February 09, 2025 @12:35PM (#42992068)
Another slight UI suggestion is a button to fully zoom out
Re:Obscure Islands I Find Interesting on Sunday February 09, 2025 @12:33PM (#42992056)
Wouldn't you have to dig deep to make the base structurally stable so that the elevator doesn't fly off into space eventually?
OP's article is about children, yours is about adults.

OP's article's conclusion states "Furthermore, our study highlights the importance of studying neurodevelopmental disorders closer to their onset, rather than in adulthood when a lifetime of compensatory mechanisms may have already taken place"

As I understand, autistic people often get negative reinforcement from authoritarian mindsets of society (follow the general norm and the power structures instead of thinking for yourself) and that can be kinda traumatizing for autistic people

So what we need is to recognize every person's perspective is equally valid or plausible at least, and no one is inherently superior, whether NT or ASD etc...

I just thought the abstract was hilarious. Though really these fights can cause lasting psychological damage in the victims of bullying though...
There's also Allen Carr's books about treating addiction, and they don't use negative reinforcement, at least the ones I've read

Rather it helps you learn to recognize the fallacies behind the addictive cravings themselves, and to thus resolve the core of why you turn to that in the first place

Still have to make the decision to recall those in the moment, but when you do you do neutralize the cravings

His first book was Easy Way to Stop Smoking

For digital addiction there's Smart Phone, Dumb Phone

For internet porn there's easypeasymethod.org (based on EasyWay to Stop Smoking)

Re:Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:02PM (#42731486)
Yeah I guess React + SSG isn't the best choice. Nano JSX might be better

https://nanojsx.io/

Re:Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:37PM (#42731225)
Why will they stop working eventually? Assuming they are all self contained and you don't upgrade even node js for that project

Edit: Oh right, OS upgrades could do it. Or network keys changing etc...

But if it is in fact more humane than in the past (hard to imagine TBH), hopefully that trend of gradual improvement will continue?
Re:Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:04PM (#42719645)
you mean npm packages? why would you need to update those anyhow?
Re:Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @08:55PM (#42706438)
Isn't using React with a static site generator framework basically the same thing but better?
Another thing is how to help them learn self control in the face of the massively sophisticated research into how to get them hooked into SM. Allen Carr's book, Smart Phone Dumb Phone, seems pretty insightful and helps the reader understand the root psychological principles behind tech addiction

Perhaps that would be a helpful resource? Another Allen Carr book, Easy Way to Quit Smoking, has a reputation of helping smokers lose their cravings for cigarrettes after undersanding the falasies behind their cravings

Learning those principles at formative ages would probably go a long way

I like watching chess videos of this guy doing online chess. I appreciate his being extremely down to earth and not arrogant by any means. Great vibes
First of all, how much is this your issue, vs the society's problems impacting you?

The main causality I'm seeing here is that the uber-wealthy are clinging to their money like a crack addict to their next fix. Specifically by often paying their employees the absolute bare minimum they can, based on the circumstances. The result is that, to achieve basic financial independence, most people need to spend a herculean effort, often along lines that aren't in line with their fundamental aspirations, and which might not even succeed

And since this wealth disparity is an issue we take for granted, we often grow up learning to think of "being wealthy" as the root of all human aspirations, when in fact all that can do is satisfy only a person's most basic of basic needs

Hence we don't learn how to find what our true aspirations in life are, and hence if we do achieve financial independence, we often feel something is missing

An example of this can be learned from the book by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" where she talks about how, before the Genocide dessimated their societies and cultures, the indigenous peoples had a lot more time for recreation, ceremony, and arts than the europeans did. This tells me their economies were more efficient, probably because they didn't have the ever expanding greed of an elite class to satisfy

This would open people up to exploring their true aspirations beyond survival

In my personal experience, at some point I suddenly felt the need to become a mental health counselor. Eventually I started studying neuroscience through MIT lectures on youtube. I honestly cannot describe how enthralling that was. It wasn't something that would get me rich. It was just fascinating and eye opening, and something that could probably lead me on a path of doing basic research in the future that would, who knows, help homeless drug addicts, especially those who are victims of systemic racism

So in the future, I think I need to focus on stuff like that more

All that data seems would be really helpful to help me do some nasty social engineering with the ISS and crew

Only thing now is how to haul my ass up there to do that

I'd rather be mildly stabbed rather than scammed into an inescapable human trafficking pipeline
There's a paper I saw a while ago that uses LSTM for some kind of technical analysis trading, and the portfolio grew from 115k to 155k in a year, but also consistently

Seems like there's clear patterns to the market. If only these apps would teach people these patterns and trading techniques in depth rather than just letting them trade

True, but I think the main issue is that neither is beneficial to society, genetically or otherwise. The main purpose of the knife attack analogy is to demonstrate that protecting against that involves skills that are useless if we can just eliminate the threat in the first place

Many of us experience that knife attacks are not part of life, but perhaps we take for granted the existence of scammers?

Granted, being able to protect against one self against a scam may include talents that carry over to other useful aspects of society building, but same with being able to fight off knife attacks

And again the point is that, 1: those aren't the only beneficial aspects to society. someone without those talents may be brilliant in other ways, thus evolutionary pressure on that is not helpful. And even if someone isn't brilliant in other ways, we are all still valuable. Just ask a parent who raises a highly disabled kid, they will know this far more deeply than you or I do

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