Staying married, a happy household, evidence of the parents working hard, childhood sports and watch all competitions, lots of hugs, reward merit, punish only egregious misbehavior, don't yell, restrict social media, monitor messages through 8th grade, the real expectation is college and academic excellence without pressure from parents, get children reading books early, no pacifiers, respond to needs not wants, babies sleep on their own through the night by 6 months, identify develop and support any talent or aptiude, one sport after age 10 is ok, communicate openly and easily with kids through grade 12, allow mistakes, and leave them alone in college. And then hope.
Used by id games in Catacombs 3D (pure nostalgia), Wolfenstein 3D, and copied in many other games.
Apparently shipped in some Borland compilers as well.
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Out of 16.4 million Americans who served in WWII, only about 40,000 are still alive.
They’re dying at a rate of ~100 per day.
These are the heroes who saved the world from tyranny.
Find one. Thank one. Listen to their stories.
While you still can.
@GergelyOrosz manual data labeling full time, or some small % of time? having engineers do a bit of labeling to develop intuition for the task, check the labeling template, and/or to validate the quality of labels from contractors is IMO valuable
@fjzeit Darn right. Overoptimizing for the intelligence factor and missing out on the beauty, feel, experience, and other aesthetics is a huge miss for a lot of engineers.
Hacking and solving problems drew me to the discipline, but I've stayed for the art.
today, I watched this DHH interview for a 2nd time. his approach to AI coding is much more playful and curious than many other experienced devs, and he’s very good at articulating why. some takeaways:
“the best programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they’re the ones who are able to get the most out of the ai acceleration.” in his opinion the taste, judgement, and the ability to review what AI produces are unique qualities you gain over time.
“maybe we've seen the best of the golden days” seems to be true for the average programmer. the craft was valued for a set of constraints and as they loosen, the salaries would drop.
“the number of projects we have tackled internally that we would never even have contemplated starting on are legion.”
he does mention some of the downsides of using these tools but his curiosity for them is quite interesting.
also great bits on what it means for developers to work in post-AI era. great discussion between @dhh and @GergelyOrosz.