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Applied to an L5 software engineering role via e-mail and without any other contact I received back a bunch of questions that clearly look like they're aimed at L6 or even L7. Not sure what to do with that so I withdrew. Briefly considered answering them but was weirded out.

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How do you define slop in relation to ? For me, it is how quickly you get to an unmaintainable state- the acceleration into something that becomes difficult to work. I talk more about it here: hellodavid.dev/blog/slop

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Not that I think we're close to a canonical definition (as if we'll ever all agree on one) but my team has defacto adopted the definition of code that the developer responsible for it doesn't understand, approve of and essentially has now honestly reviewed. Basically anything which leads to cognitive debt.

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I agree, I don't think that there will ever be one canonical definition, but I like this definition as well, as it places the onus on the actual person creating the slop. Thank you for sharing!

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I naively went into a work problem thinking that RAG was solved by the service offered at work, and wow was I wrong. Been a fun week so far experimenting with many different methods before doing the academic research, and it's been nice to be validated by outside research.

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in , upstairs the music is 👌

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日本語話者はどれくらいいるんだろう。ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろう

I wonder how many Japanese speakers there are. Is it okay to keep posting in Japanese here?

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こんにちは世界

Hello World

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こんにちは。はじめまして。

Hello. Nice to meet you.

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ここで日本語で書き込み続けるのはどうなんだろうサイト作成者はさまざまの言語の話者が一緒に話せる場面にしたい気がする

I wonder if it's okay to keep posting in Japanese here. I get the feeling the site creator wants this to be a place where speakers of various languages can talk together.

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Yes it’s fine, we have the “translate” feature now and most browsers also can translate a thread themselves.

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τώρα έχουμε αυτόματες μεταφράσεις!

now we have automatic translations!

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ran 5km daily for 7 weeks now

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wow congrats!

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Wow, respect!

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Published livediff — a tool written in to show a live diff view so you stay on top of what your are doing.

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This bout of COVID is more like “Corona Light” compared to previous years, but I’m still spending most of it in bed. Stay safe out there.

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Can really relate to

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Useful software necessarily contacts the world; models are already better than us at finding and poking holes in it; agents sacrificing themselves for a collective. Huggingface incident has me finally Yudkowsky-panic-curious.

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I like this, it's simple

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One of my favourite styles of Brazilian music is "Chorinho", and Luca Frazão is this new kid on the block who's just absolutely amazing:

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Hello, world

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I'm obsessed with Cowboy Hunters (the band) right now

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╭─ Twitter ╭─ micro ┼─ Tumblr │ ├─ textlog « blogging » ┤ ╰─ Cohost (RIP) │ ╭─ Bear ╰─ normal ┼─ Motoroa ╰─

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is pretty fun. Some very nice improvements in 0.9 today.

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So, I've been using this harness for a week and a half now, and what's interesting to me is that it brings a lot of things that I'd already built for myself in Pi. I built a little email system for agents to communicate, a memory system to do this "continual harness" thing of self-improvement. I know I'll move on to another harness in the future, so I'm trying to treat this like I do laptops now, and think about portability in the things I build or customize.

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