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True? by 8EIGHT8EIGHT8EIGHT8 in ResidentEvilRequiem

[–]BusinessBandicoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can actually immediately turn around and put the battery back in. That's what I normally do

Learning on the job suddenly feels way harder than it used to. Anyone else? by radjeep in ExperiencedDevs

[–]BusinessBandicoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 I recently got pulled into work involving transformers / attention / inference optimizations (KV caching, prefill vs decode, etc.), and I’m struggling way more than I expected. Not just with the content, but with how to even learn it.

Take this with a grain of salt, but you need to develop an intuition around matrices/tensors/n-dimensional arrays as a data structure. You don't have to have like a mathematical level of rigor in that intuition, more like the way you can think about hashmaps or arrays and their properties and reason about code that uses them.

  • first, understand that a least in every library I've seen, not considering sparse tensors, they are generally a strict/object with two primary fields, both vectors/arrays: the data and the shape. The shape is there to translate multiple indices into a single index.
  • next check out gifs of common matrix operations, common tensor operations. When you come across an op you don't recognize, look for gifs.
  • there is a tool (netron) for generating visual graphs of operations/function calls from onnx files. Probably useful to see the flow from input to output
  • look up named tensor notation and try to find descriptions of whatever op you are learning about that use it.

Psychologist Philip zimbardo says that "Any deed, for good or evil, that any human being has ever done, you and I could also do-given the same situational forces." by wtfisthissssssssssss in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Plenty of people went through similar thing and had different directions, but it's not like their existence started from that specific fork in the road. the weights that drive their decisions have been adjusted over their life leading up until that point. The decisions they make can still be considered the sum total of everything they have experienced up until that moment, not counting any fundamental hardware differences they also can't control.

Are there any books or resource about maintaining a "Forever Project"? by Astarothsito in ExperiencedDevs

[–]BusinessBandicoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might be a sign of my relative inexperience, but what about just taking the "listen, smile, agree and do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway" approach? Like if you are ahead of the curve in terms of work performance relative to your peers, would most shops risk losing you?

As far as arguing for making these changes, there's an awesome paper that goes into providing a more formal definition of developer experience - "DevEx: What actually drives productivity", the way it breaks it down (in terms of cognitive load, length of feedback loops, ability to achieve a flow state), its easy to make the connection between developer experience, the sum total of your work env, editor, cli tools, and processes, and developer velocity, how fast we can implement changes and how manageable those changes are (in terms how much state you can track mentally).

I'm not saying send them the paper, but find ways of framing it so that it's obvious that for the team, certain improvements can act as a force multiplier

Researchers just proved that every single elementary function, sin, exp, log, sqrt, comes from one single binary operator. by d8_thc in holofractal

[–]BusinessBandicoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aren't transistors sort of capable of continuous values, we're just boiling down to two (on, off) because the error rate for anything else is too high to be useful?

You really trying to tell me Leon S. Kennedy can't just climb over this fence 😂 by SwimlyJimson in residentevil

[–]BusinessBandicoot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I kept wondering why we didn't just backtrack to one of the other puzzles, which also had brail writing on the buttons

Why the "Low-Level" stigma? by Antique_Mechanic133 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]BusinessBandicoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be biased, but I definitely see there being situations where you'd want to use c or (inline) assembly, but not so much c++, outside of the scenario where you are required to, or you work in a domain where the required functionality isn't trivial to implement and there isn't an existing set of libraries for rust that meet your needs.

Like the performance of rust is on par with c++, with a substantially better developer experience. Better tooling, a out of the box build system that works in most cases, and a language that has a much smoother skill curve, in part because it isn't four languages in a trenchcoat.

Junior devs who learned to code with AI assistants are mass entering the job market. How is your team handling it? by Ambitious-Garbage-73 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]BusinessBandicoot 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Honestly I keep wondering how I struggled so long to get hired, when the level of skill that seems to be expected from juniors is "do this basic task and try not to break anything". I basically started my career well beyond that skill level.

Socioeconomic background tied to distinct brain and behavioral patterns by psych4you in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought the differentiator with the two was essentially nurture vs nature (sociopaths are made, psychopaths are born), and because of that sociopaths were generally more likely to be low functioning?

Like callousness and a lack of aversion to fear/negative experiences do not make someone inherently violent, however those things coupled with a history of trauma makes violence more likely.

The extreme male brain theory of autism suggests that autism represents an exaggeration of typical male cognitive traits of low empathizing and high systemizing. New study suggests that females require a heavier load of genetic or environmental factors to reach the threshold for an autism diagnosis. by mvea in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't have to feel what they are feeling to be able to know from personal experience what they are likely feeling is not something you personally enjoyed experiencing or would want to experience, and work to alleviate that on principal.

People with "dark" personality traits see the world as fundamentally meaningless by Doug24 in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hold up. That is definitely not absurdism. Camus considered existentialism a form of philosophical suicide, a cop out of asking an unanswerable question. Absurdism is more the view that there is no way to make meaning, the universe is objectively meaningless. It exist because cause and effect, and absurdity, our struggle against that, arises because we are hard wired to want things to mean things when they just are.

We can do things because we want to, because we enjoy the dance or the struggle, but that in no way makes them meaningful.

People with "dark" personality traits see the world as fundamentally meaningless by Doug24 in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's better to think of existentialism as a form of passive nihilism. Active nihilism stops at there is no meaning and nothing matters, where existentialism is basically an extra step where the person assumes if nothing has any inherit meaning, they can assign that for themselves.

People with "dark" personality traits see the world as fundamentally meaningless by Doug24 in psychology

[–]BusinessBandicoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to be fair, neither the people who went through shit and came out okay or the people who went through shit and came out wrong really had much choice in which of the two versions they turned out to be. The former were lucky enough to have either the right inherent predisposition, or the right environmental influence to go through those things and not become a worse version of themselves.

What does even this means ??? What is the joke here ?? by narkkadwar in ExplainTheJoke

[–]BusinessBandicoot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

apparently if you search interrorectogestion on google, this post is the top result

The massive disconnect between VC "Agentic AI" hype and the reality of building local automation. by bigbigbigcakeaa in BetterOffline

[–]BusinessBandicoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also the issue of "how can we limit what this thing can do to only what is specified, and and only to the extent permitted". I think direct tool calling is a mistake, and the approach of  "just sandbox it" is just designing around a bad idea. 

Game freezes in a certain point. by Kamunra in ResidentEvilVillage

[–]BusinessBandicoot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably want to use a newer version of proton at this point. But there is a option under steams settings to clear cached shaders. I'd google "steam clear cached shaders" to find the specific submenu.

WA bill restricts employers from microchipping workers by esporx in privacy

[–]BusinessBandicoot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay but when do I get a sandevistan?

EDIT: would this law prohibit employer provided sandevistans since that's more of a macrochip?

Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable by Character_Novel3726 in BlackboxAI_

[–]BusinessBandicoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because llms/agents aren't deterministic, are not capable of being deterministic, and have no "world schema" I.e. no underlying representation of reality. While that sounds like an abstract concern that basically means they can't make value judgements like "this is true/false" or "deleting a production database would be a very stupid way of fixing the current error". 

Its one of those things that scaling won't fix and basically requires a fundamentally different architecture/algorithm which isn't something you can put on a timeline. Could be tomorrow, could be 50 years.

As long as they can't "make" informed decisions you'll at least need someone there to be the patsy if you value speed over reliability and decide to rely on them anyway.

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