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ptyyy commented on     · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
ptyyy · a year ago
I guess they saw the avalanche of legal challenges and decided better. I wonder if we'll see this come back with more of a targeted approach.
ptyyy commented on A coder considers the waning days of the craft   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jsomers
andy99 · 2 years ago
> The worst dev on my team uses ChatGPT a lot, and its facilitated him producing more bad code more quickly.

This is great. The exact same is true with writing, which I think it's trivial for anyone to see. Especially non-native speakers or otherwise bad writers can now write long-winded nonsense, which we're starting to see all over. It hasn't made anyone a good writer, it's just helped bad ones go faster.

ptyyy · 2 years ago
> Especially non-native speakers or otherwise bad writers can now write long-winded nonsense

You have now described 95% of Quora's content.

ptyyy commented on Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers    · Posted by u/hellothere1337
BenFranklin100 · 2 years ago
Electrician should be your first option. Pay is often better than other trades and it is more intellectually demanding and less physically demanding at the same time. There’s a shortage now too.

Most electricians easily work into their 60s so age should not be a factor. You will need to start off as an apprentice but given your demonstrated technical ability, I would hope you’ll be able to identify niche jobs within the profession that you will give you leg up for more rapid advancement.

ptyyy · 2 years ago
I worked as an electrician in the military, albeit for aircraft. I do miss getting my hands dirty in that regard; however, the civilian side aircraft electrician pay is not remotely comparable to my SE salary (in fact it'd be a more than 50% pay cut). Is residential/commercial electrician pay closer to SE pay?
ptyyy commented on American workers are demanding almost $80k a year to take a new job   cnbc.com/2023/08/21/ameri... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
nine_zeros · 2 years ago
There be another article titled "Landlords are demanding 20% more a year than two years ago" and that would explain a large portion of the American economy wonkiness.
ptyyy · 2 years ago
Yeah, my in-laws rent went up nearly 40% and the property management claimed it was due to upgrades (the upgrade was a new coat of paint on the building). That took them out of the range of being able to afford their apartment and other necessities with social security and a meager retirement. They had to move to a new place in a bad area and my MIL had to start working again.
ptyyy commented on Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?    · Posted by u/Inshpro
ptyyy · 2 years ago
I was using Github Copilot, however I just ended my subscription because I wasn't using it enough despite being elbow deep in code every day. Most of the time the integrations that I use (JetBrains Rider and VS Code) wouldn't function correctly or I'd constantly be logged out. When the integrations _were_ working, the suggestions would be decent but occasionally when doing something like converting jquery to vanilla javascript I'd end up spending more time debugging the result of the suggestion than if I had just done the conversion myself.

Otherwise, I use ChatGPT to help me write tickets/user stories for work as well as for generating test cases for my QA engineers to follow.

ptyyy commented on Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption   act.eff.org/action/stop-t... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist
ghastmaster · 5 years ago
> You see, the EARN IT Act grants the Attorney General broad authority to force tech companies to do whatever he wants

I looked and could not find this. That article did not offer any specifics either.

ptyyy · 5 years ago
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-b...

Scroll to summary, specifically "Section 230 immunity for CSAM can be earned via 1 of 2 “safe harbors”."

ptyyy commented on One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020   joel.net/how-one-guy-ruin... · Posted by u/Sandeepg33k
watwut · 5 years ago
The pull request I have seen were changing "how to install" into "how to easily install" and such. They were not fixing typos or even making sentences better. They were just meaningless changes.
ptyyy · 5 years ago
No way man, there are very meaningful changes like this one https://github.com/devraj-kumar/BLOG-/pull/13/commits/1b26bf...
ptyyy commented on French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave   vogue.com/article/french-... · Posted by u/karimford
throwaway894345 · 5 years ago
Yeah, in that case it makes sense, but if your wife worked for a different company, what's stopping you from claiming to be the primary caregiver even if your wife does the majority of the child care work? Or vice versa? This policy seems unenforceable in this circumstance which is surely more common than both spouses working for the same company.
ptyyy · 5 years ago
You make a good point.
ptyyy commented on French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave   vogue.com/article/french-... · Posted by u/karimford
throwaway894345 · 5 years ago
We have 12 weeks for "primary care giver" and 6 weeks for "secondary care giver". I'm very curious about how a company could determine or enforce which spouse is primary and which is secondary. From the bit of reading I've done on legal blogs, companies open themselves up to legal liability if they so much as permit a culture in which it's assumed that women are primary care givers and men are secondary much less pressure men to take the lesser amount. I wonder if there are a lot of companies who are still pressuring men to take the lesser amount and just rolling the dice on the legal liability. Otherwise why bother with the "primary vs secondary" distinction at all, since they presumably can't enforce it? Maybe they're hoping it will be honor-system? Or maybe they hope they can pressure everyone to make their other spouse (who most likely works outside of the firm) be the primary care givers?
ptyyy · 5 years ago
> I'm very curious about how a company could determine or enforce which spouse is primary and which is secondary.

My company leaves that decision to the couple. The couple chooses who is primary and secondary. My wife got 12 weeks as the primary caregiver. Our situation is a bit weird because we work for the same company.

ptyyy commented on French fathers will now get 28 days of paternity leave   vogue.com/article/french-... · Posted by u/karimford
pi-rat · 5 years ago
28 days? That's barely enough to get your head off from work tbh. I just finished 133 days (at 80% pay) of paternity leave here in Norway, and the last part was def more rewarding than the start as you hit your new stride and regular work life grew ever more distant.

All the organised toddler activities shut down because of covid19. Bought one of those child carrier backpacks, and we've been exploring forests and mountains almost every day this summer/fall, it's been a great bonding experience with the now 1 year old :)

ptyyy · 5 years ago
Around the start of August I finished up my 6 weeks here in the US and it was definitely not enough. 133+ days would have been nice, but here in Freedom-Land™ I was lucky to get the 6 weeks I was given. I know a few new dads who got no paternity leave from work, or 1-3 days. Absolutely ridiculous in this day and age.

u/ptyyy

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