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kalado commented on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?   vaghetti.dev/posts/times-... · Posted by u/vaghetti
LAC-Tech · 4 years ago
I feel like we have so much leverage and don't use it at all.

We're still attending stand-ups every day with non programmers telling us when we can and cannot refactor. It's nuts to me that a skilled profession - that not many can do - lets themselves get micro-managed like this.

If anyone has read Developer Hegemony, I'm fully on board with that general premise - we start operating like lawyers with partnerships, and turn bosses into customers. Though that does require us to think of ourselves as professionals not nerds who are too smart for business.

kalado · 4 years ago
This doesn't sound like a correct stand-up to me.

My understanding and how we are actually doing it: You say what you did and plan on doing, no comment are made, it's just an FYI for everyone else. And/Or you have the chance to present a problem you are having and you arrange a "let's talk later" with someone who can help you.

What you are describing sounds like a daily mini breakdown / refinement.

kalado commented on I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR   wired.com/story/hours-wor... · Posted by u/zx76
myspy · 4 years ago
Hey VR designers, anyone ever thought about people that wear glasses? Most headsets don't really take it into account.
kalado · 4 years ago
Valve Index allows you to set the distance of the lenses towards your face so there is room for glasses.

A lot of glass wearers did tell me that they can see perfectly well without glasses, probably far-sighted.

kalado commented on Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads   sciencemag.org/news/2021/... · Posted by u/lnyan
kalado · 4 years ago
Lightspeed briefs! As seen in your dreams!

It takes a long duration of stimulus to influence our dreams and even after the influence, the dream can be in any shape.

They had people play tetris for three days straight and only 60% dreamed of it.

They plan on target specific sleep states specifically but that means that something has access to my brain waves and is allowed to make sound while I am sleeping?

I am all for more research into dreams but advertisers? Even if they get something there is no way to actually roll it out to consumers...why then?

kalado commented on It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency   twitter.com/Pinboard/stat... · Posted by u/cratermoon
kalado · 4 years ago
People always talk about the simple monetary aspect and I don't see much benefit in just bitcoin without a well working lightning network either.

I'm still semi young and not a senior developer yet, so can someone explain to me how the following blockchain projects "have no clothes" as in "would be much easier without blockchain"

- Helium Is building wifi coverage, incentivized by rewards based on coverage provided (that the users don't have to pay)

- Several projects providing decentralized cloud storage.

- SingularityNET is an AI marketplace that allows easy access to different ML apps with the goal of making those work with each other.

I also find the ethereum infrastructure really cool (except the huge fee problem right now which is getting fixed with proof of staking/2.0 soon).

You have a whole "new" internet that you can access via ether nodes and you can just consume other smart contracts on the network with no hassle. No need to create an account for a service or purchase some monthly traffic etc. You just interact with other apps because payment is decentralized and everything is public.

I've made a small demo project for myself in .NET to see how it works and it really isn't too difficult.

It seems to me that people who say that all "cryptocurrency" is a scam barely investigated more than bitcoin.

kalado commented on 8-bit Turing complete computer that I made in Factorio (2019)   imgur.com/a/tVB9xOx... · Posted by u/yellowyacht
optimalsolver · 4 years ago
I often wonder if these types of games are sapping away the intellectual potential of humanity. They're explicitly geared to lure in the kind of obsessive tinkerer types who've historically driven scientific and engineering progress. Only now, there's little to no payoff for the rest of humanity if they spend thousands of hours consumed by one of these games.

What's Newton's modern equivalent doing right now? Probably perfecting a build order in Stellaris.

kalado · 4 years ago
Hmm, didn't I read that exact same question on reddit earlier.
kalado commented on 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains   npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/respinal
Tarq0n · 5 years ago
I was under the impression that aphantasia had to do with a general lack of visualizing ability / visual imagination.
kalado · 5 years ago
Aphantasia and SDAM (Severely deficient autobiographical memory) often go hand in hand.
kalado commented on Don’t Call Yourself a Developer If You Don’t Code   mariopeshev.com/dont-call... · Posted by u/ZnZirconium
bdcravens · 5 years ago
Perhaps, but this argument could be extended. Many "developers" do little more than glue together bits of framework boilerplate.
kalado · 5 years ago
I think the argument is very clear. The bare minimum to call yourself a developer is if you wrote a line of code.

Everything else are degrees of skill/competence.

kalado commented on Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor   nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new... · Posted by u/uptown
unexpected · 5 years ago
Tik Tok is INSANELY good at figuring out what you want to watch. At first it shows you a random selection of videos, but it pays very good attention to what you're lingering at, and starts showing you more and more of those types of videos.

My wife and I downloaded Tik Tok at the same time, were shown the same videos in the beginning. Now, I basically see only Call of Duty: Warzone clips along with a few prank videos. My wife (far more political than I) sees a lot of videos of the protests, BLM activists, and other stuff.

Tik Tok does not try to force you to watch videos that you're not going to watch. It's crazy good (and scary).

kalado · 5 years ago
It is, I'm pretty sure the "lingering" part is exactly true, in that you don't have to like a video or even finish watching it for it to influence your feed to show more of similiar stuff. Just keep looking at it a bit longer than other videos.
kalado commented on Keep Your Stuff, for Life   perkeep.org/... · Posted by u/vincent_s
CGamesPlay · 5 years ago
Wow, it was really hard to find out what this software does. I finally found a demo at the end of an hour-long talk from 2 years ago: https://youtu.be/PlAU_da_U4s?t=2687

So it seems to have a bunch of scripts to import data into its database from a variety of sources (including cloud services), and provides a search interface to navigate that historical data. And it has a lot of under-the-hood stuff about replication, and it's entirely self-hosted.

kalado · 5 years ago
I felt the same but if you go to "Docs" the very first link is then:

"Overview: The original motivation and background for why Perkeep exists and what one might use it for."

And there I found a great description.

kalado commented on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever   buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/minimaxir
kalado · 5 years ago
I'm honestly suprised that home office is as beloved as it seems to be.

While I 100% support it, I'm also on the far side of introverted. I would have thought that half or more would hate not having their social interactions daily.

u/kalado

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