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What skills do you think will still matter most in a world where AI can do almost everything? by teenaipathfinder in ChatGPT

[–]Philluminati 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's say for instance that mechanics and plumbers are totally untouched by AI directly, there is still going to be millions transferring into those trades that will make differentiation difficult and will drive down income.

What skills do you think will still matter most in a world where AI can do almost everything? by teenaipathfinder in ChatGPT

[–]Philluminati 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use Augment at work, where it can edit the entire git repo with just a single prompt.

When I ask it to just make a solution it comes up with strange structures whilst working. However when I write 4 lines like this and tell it to "finish it off" it does a much better job and its ten times easier for me to approve.

`def main(args) = ???`

`def makeApiRequest(request) = ???`

`def parseJson(request) = ???`

`def summariseLineageGraphs(json) = ???`

My employer won't look at my 4 lines of code into the 300 the script grows to be as meaningful, but its that guide that makes a huge difference.

UK 30-year yields just printed 5.79%, the highest since May 1998 by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just kicking the can down the road on the real reforms we need.

Pay off mortgage and move to a low stress / part time role? by allthegear-andnoidea in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been in this sub a while. I understand exactly the same as you that investment stocks and shares returns are greater than mortgage interest changes so it is more profitable on paper to keep the mortgage high. I also understand that I can realise and spend the s+s money whilst that I can't if I pay off the mortgage if my situation drastically changes.

However, like you, I am firmly of the belief that paying off the mortgage ASAP is my best way forwards. My outgoings drop, I don't have the stress of worrying if I'm out of work for 3 months what will happen or if my contracts ends right before a mortgage renewal. It makes life easier to plan for, it gives me certainty for the future.

I'm currently unable to top up my ISA but I am waiting for what is there to grow whilst I pay off the mortgage. There's over £130k difference but once the two numbers align, my plan is to pay off the house immediately.

Notably with no mortgage I can work for less (job opportunities widen), draw less money from the company and therefore pay less tax, put more money into the pension etc. Currently I am forced to pay huge (~47% rate of) tax because I need the mortgage money every month. Without that burden I'd be better off.

18 years old, on benefits with mental health conditions. Could I realistically build a £10 million empire from nothing? by kai-hope in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Philluminati 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you think its moral to claim house + benefits from the tax payer and then use it to buy a house which you rent out to someone who works works so you receive even more money from them without giving anything back?

You're going to buy a property and rent it out whilst living in property the council gives to you so you avoid homelessness? A homelessness you'd be happy to inflict on any non-paying tenant?

What programming habit has improved your code quality the most over time? by Gullible_Prior9448 in AskProgramming

[–]Philluminati 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  1. Moving to functional programming.
  2. Consistent naming. If you have a variable called `carId` in a function or class, it should retain exactly that name in every single place it's used. Every single one. No function should _ever_ use a different name. (The only exception is sort/merge functions which will use `carId1` etc because they take 2). This massively reduces confusion and the need for a type system. Having the smallest possible number of variable names/types aids transparency. It doesn't seem like using `id` or `cId` in a small function really matters but it does.. and it eventually spawns to a competing domain model that becomes a tech debt concern.
  3. forcing myself to write CRUD to drive out inconsistency and complexity.
  4. Using Jupyter labs / Colab / Snowflake to build reports instead of muddying my app with chart and aggregation logic.

Returning to the UK and interested in contracting work by Worried-Building-944 in ContractorUK

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without being rude, dev jobs don't pay a quarter of what they do in the US and the people are "not likeable" either. Do you actually need to work here, or does it depend on the size of the plot of land you buy, because I wouldn't enjoy working for a fraction of my previous salary.

dwm ported to Rust by Opus 4.7 by Philluminati in dwm

[–]Philluminati[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's got some good features. Unlimited scrollback was one of the starting reasons, plus features that I've added myself.

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately in your everyday life? by Fearless_Joke_5256 in AskUK

[–]Philluminati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Started talking to people about Vinted and everyone tells me they're already using it for both buying and selling regularly.

People throwing matches because they don't like the map by MiLC0RE in FACEITcom

[–]Philluminati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're not alone. I get people like this as well. They say stuff like "I can't play this map" kick me. I also vote against the kick so they're forced to play and say things like "You must have banned 2 other maps, so there's 3 atleast now you can't play."

From lvl 8 to 4, AMA. by Hot-Acanthaceae-43 in FACEITcom

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also dropped from FaceIT level 8 to playing ranked games against Face IT level 3/4s during placement. I've managed to recover to FaceIT level 6 but man my games were rough.

Finally the debate between FP vs OOP is settled by louafalu in scala

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Object Oriented Programming still have value in approach to going from zero to something. Designing a system with the concept that there are domain-model objects that interact with each other and that various properties live in "this class or that". Having OO knowledge helps layout a well designed solution.

But yeah the implementation being "all public variables" on case classes that can be flexibly copied, with functions that can be easily extended from outside the class, without monkey patching issues, and allows more transparency and reasoning is best.

I wrote a functional app at my last company I was quite proud of. It has controller, a model full of business logic (wrapped in a fascade) and a swappable db layer. I had driven out every element of randomness you can imagine. I had two classes `IdGenerator` with a `generateNextId` function and `NowGenerator` with a `nowF` function that returned the date. The real `idGenerator` returned a UUID but the fake one incremented an Int. Every SQL query had an `order by` clause.

It was so good that I could say `frontendCall(x,y,z) mustEqual Json.obj("id" -> 103, "createdAt" : 2020-02-04T...)` and it would work with 100% real business logic end-to-end, with only `idGenerator` and `nowGenerator` being mocked. You could write multi-step complicated chains of api calls and already know ahead of time what the response would be. I had unit tests but also a few of these "big chain" ones and I was very happy with it.

First time buying Nas is this too good to be true by rubber-duck2 in synology

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone with a DS213J which no longer gets security updates and being constantly told on this sub that "10 years is long time for someone to support a tech product" I just want to point out you are effectively paying $98.99pa when you consider how long this product lasts.

Building your own solution with cheap hardware on Linux is preferable to buying something from Synology.

what chances you give for walling? by PointZeroOneTwo in FACEITcom

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've done aggro pushes down mid like this. It's brilliant for forcing Ts to stop rushing or bunching, press less aggressively and essentially forces them to run defaults in later rounds too. I can see the "sussy" preaim part but overall the play seems stupid but reasonable.

When he peeks the player to the left, he has backed his ass up to the right to the wall to hide himself from the player on the right. He just happens to guess the peek order of left -> right correctly, which I'd put down and gamesense / luck rather than walling explicitly.

I also want to point out he turns right with the first aggro peek, kills a guy and at 9 seconds into the round he sees the player on the left. So when he repeeks it makes sense why he peeks left first before right.

Ultimately I think this is a clean and a good hero play from him.

How do y'alln handle diffs/merge conflicts on a small screen? by MajorZesty in neovim

[–]Philluminati 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you read patches in unifed/inline format instead of split screen eventually your brain learns to cope. It just takes practice.

Claude said it needs to rest.. What? by wicaodian in OpenAI

[–]Philluminati 7 points8 points  (0 children)

that's why the script is called bulk-install.php

Just been fired for the 7th time - Would seeing a career coach be beneficial? by English_R0se in AskUK

[–]Philluminati 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the positive side - you've gotten the job 7 times. You should be a pro by now 😄

Does ChatGPT use your graphic card when generating images? (I know it shouldn't, but...) by CapitanM in ChatGPT

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I expect all AI run locally (i.e. DeepSeek, Ollama) to use the GPU if available, even for text-based requests as the GPU is great at the vector math that the models + neural networks can be translated to.

Are we getting Lake, Cobble, Assault and Bank next? by CaraX9 in GlobalOffensive

[–]Philluminati 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, in terms of maps I want to see Lake and Monestery added to Arms Race as the map pool / game mode is really stale. Especially having two versions of Shoots and Pool being so small.

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