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trescenzi commented on New ChatGPT Models Seem to Leave Watermarks on Text   rumidocs.com/newsroom/new... · Posted by u/hosein88
antirez · 4 months ago
Students cheating with LLMs show more a weakness of a system than anything else. Rich folks had other people make assignment for them for ages, now this got democratized. The educational institutions are mostly disinterested in really doing what they should do to teach critical thinking and understanding if students really understood. To check the home made assignments is a small part of that (in theory). It's not LLMs, is terrible schools.
trescenzi · 4 months ago
I studied CS and Philosophy in college. The philosophy department at the time was struggling to get people to declare so they started a campaign with the slogan “Thinking of a major? Major in thinking”. Which I’ve always thought was both clever and accurate. Such departments become more valuable as the harder skills are more automatable. I doubt that will translate into more philosophy majors but one can dream.
trescenzi commented on As an engineer, I'd rather be called stupid than stay silent   shiftmag.dev/asking-quest... · Posted by u/codeman001
tartoran · 5 months ago
Overexplaining things you don't have a good grasp on is not the best idea idea out there. Asking questions can help piecing together some understanding which when when communicated and has some kind of feedback, does have a good effect on further learning. I used the word communicated instead of overexplaining which I find a bit overbearing. Overexplaining... If the point gets across the first time why repeat it ad nauseum?
trescenzi · 5 months ago
This is a good example of how communication can be hard. I’m not suggesting the person without information over explain. I agree that’s a pretty silly idea. I’m suggesting that as the other person, the person building the flux capacitors, a good idea is to assume that others might not know what a flux capacitor is and try to anticipate questions.
trescenzi commented on As an engineer, I'd rather be called stupid than stay silent   shiftmag.dev/asking-quest... · Posted by u/codeman001
trescenzi · 5 months ago
The opposite of this, actively over explaining, is also a great way to grow trust and your career. By trying to anticipate questions when communicating at work, or writing code, you open up the room for others to ask questions and speed up finding solutions especially in situations like in the article.
trescenzi commented on 22% Drop in Programming Jobs   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/talkingtab
SpicyLemonZest · 5 months ago
The problem is that I don't think this distinction actually exists outside the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The obvious hypothesis to me, which the source article doesn't seem to consider, is that this statistic isn't measuring anything other than a change in fashionable job titles.
trescenzi · 5 months ago
I’ve been asked multiple times in interviews what I think the difference between a dev/engineer and a programmer is. As a hiring manager I’ve also had people ask me the question as a way to get at role expectations. These were all at smaller companies though and on the East Coast so it might be a small vs big company thing? But it’s definitively not just a BLS understanding of job roles.

I do agree with your hypothesis though. The article doesn’t even account for the software engineer title either.

trescenzi commented on 22% Drop in Programming Jobs   washingtonpost.com/busine... · Posted by u/talkingtab
csomar · 5 months ago
To save you wasting 10 minutes: The distinction between programmer and software developer in government definition, led to "programming" jobs dropping by 22%. This doesn't affect the "Software development" industry which saw only a 0.3% drop.

It is really a click bait.

trescenzi · 5 months ago
It is clickbait, assuming you don’t know the distinction between a developer and a programmer. If you do it’s actually a pretty solid title. I’d argue it’s worth a read because the main point is very good.

I think the core distinction is important and gets at what LLMs are and are not good at. LLMs are good at translating clear specifications into common programming languages. That is what a programmer, by the BLS’ definition, does. The hard part of being a software dev never has been writing the code.

They are claiming that the act of programming is in the process of being replaced. That seems somewhat likely. However they aren’t saying that overall tech industry jobs nor even software dev jobs are decreasing.

trescenzi commented on Making Postgres scale   pgdog.dev/blog/you-can-ma... · Posted by u/levkk
999900000999 · 5 months ago
I'm kind of interested in why we can't make a better database with all of our modern technology.

Postgres is a fantastic workhorse, but it was also released in the late 80s. Who, who among you will create the database of the future... And not lock it behind bizarro licenses which force me to use telemetry.

trescenzi · 5 months ago
I guess I’d ask why is something having been first released in the late 80s, or any decade, as positive or negative? Some things are still used because they solve the problems people have. Some things are still used just because of industry capture. I’m not honestly sure where I’d put Postgres.

Are there specific things you’d want from a modern database?

trescenzi commented on Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)   exurbe.com/stoicisms-appe... · Posted by u/Tomte
mjburgess · 5 months ago
> prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice

I adopt rather the opposite virutes. Imprudence, risk, throwing-your-self-at-a-wall-until-you-cant, intemperance (conflict, debate, disagreement, competition) and pragmatism (address what is rather than what should be).

Behind each of the stoic virutues is a psychological position to dettach, dissociate and live in a more abstracted conceptual space. This can be theraputic if you are in grief, etc.

Outside of that, personally I think: attach too much, risk more than you ought, and participate in the world ("dirty your hands") by making the best of it, rather than anything more abstract.

Professors of stocism like to make a virute of dying quiety -- this i think absurd. If the plane is falling from the sky, i envy the people screaming -- they have the right levels of attachemnt to their own lives.

trescenzi · 5 months ago
This is a very interesting comment for me. I really dislike your virtues but agree with everything else and your general dislike of stoicism.

I think there might be a more middle way which doesn’t include impertinence, for example, as a value but still celebrates screaming as your plane is falling from the sky.

The reason I dislike your values is because at face value they imply a disregard for others. I think there is a way to deeply value both yourself and others. It’s possible you don’t imply that disregard for others that I get from the values you listed though.

trescenzi commented on Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03... · Posted by u/leotravis10
choult · 5 months ago
Oh dear... You should hear some of the stories about Jim Caviezel[0]...

On second thought, maybe make up your own mind before you dip into that.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/1euFlDCuryFSzMw6BjQCWA

trescenzi · 5 months ago
Oh yea I always read about actors during commercial break. Was a bit startled when reading his Wikipedia.
trescenzi commented on Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died   eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03... · Posted by u/leotravis10
trescenzi · 5 months ago
I’m watching Person of Interest for the first time. It’s interesting watching it today now that the premise, minus 100% accurate crime prediction, is largely a forgone conclusion. It was produced after Klein but before Snowden and does a good job exploring the expansion of surveillance and just how motivated the government is to have a system that tracks everyone. Of course it’s fiction but it’s a fun watch that asks a lot of good questions.

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