AdieuToLogic

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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Should we not allow the analysis of hair found at crime scenes because someone might steal some of my hair and place it there? First, I never implied disallowing analysis at a crime scene. What I described is a realistic activity crimi
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> The misuse of license plate data wouldn't make my top ten list of potential powers that law enforcement might abuse. Are you sure about that? How about if your license plate were stolen without your knowledge, placed on another ve
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> Abuse by police officers and other individuals with access to these systems is the answer to the stupid but common question "why should I worry about surveillance if I have nothing to hide". > I never hear that questio
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Please have everyone cite their sources and I will cite mine. I did not ask "everyone." I asked you to do so. > That Google and Meta employees are not law enforcement completely misses the point I'm making but I nev
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> This isn't an answer to the question. Why do you (apparently) refuse to answer the question? Assuming the question you are referencing is: Please compare the number of officers doing such a thing to the number who did not.
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> If you think some Google employees doesn't have MORE access than a cop, you are WILDLY mistaken. This is a conspiratorial position at best. If you can cite from a reputable source similar abuse attributed to those organizations, t
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Please compare the number of officers doing such a thing to the number who did not. Please compare the number of people who committed burglary at a location to the number who did not. The act of violating laws has nothing to do with th
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> The biggest thing I've learned from doing stuff like this is that there are no shortcuts. At some point or another, to truly learn something deeply, you've got to dig in to the boring details and do things the hard way. This
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> There's a quote I forgot that says: "There is a Quality to Quantity". > I agree with that, it may not be reliable, full featured, well designed, ergonomic, etc. But quantity enables things and thus is a quality in its
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> I can guarantee that you cannot produce such PRs in the same quantity/quality than a modern LLM. Who said I would not use a combination of LLMs, scripts, and any other automation technique available?
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> They're here, because even "bad" code has uses. We can have quantity over quality. We can generate throw-away programs (where the lack of maintainability doesn't matter). We can solve some problems by brute force (k
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Yes on a very personal level you look at LLM-generated code and think to yourself "wow this is garbage" but what about the people, as pointed out many times in this thread, that simply do not care? Does that not count as &quo
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Coding was expensive in the sense that once you decided what to do, it took a few engineers months / years to do moderately complex projects. That's not true anymore. This conflates two orthogonal concerns; understanding what
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> And finally: Why bother making new software at all when AI can just do the thing you wanted done, directly? In many ways, the "save costs by LLM-ing everything" mindset is the same logical fallacy companies fell into in the 9
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
Indeed they would, as the decision chain I posited is a form of "argumentum ad absurdum"[0]. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> That was because coding was expensive and we needed to be sure we didn't code the wrong thing. Coding has never been expensive as it is nothing more than a reification of a solution to a problem as it is understood at that time. I
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> How are you going to prompt the LLM or validate its output if you don't understand the requirements? > Your PM can write the ticket, and your QA can test the output. If your PM can write the ticket and your QA can test the
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> We already know developers don’t actually spend most of their time writing code, with studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent. > Anyone else finding they're spending more time writing code (or a
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> Anthropic doesn't allow using subscriptions outside Claude Code. Perhaps this[0] Pi documentation could help. 0 - https://pi.dev/docs/latest/models#anthropic-messages-compati...
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> I love that people hate indentation based so I show them a poorly indented C style languages codebase to see how they feel about indentation. And I love that people love indentation based languages so I show them a file with some spuri
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
What a blast-from-the-past! I still have stacks of DDJ, C/C++ Users Journal, SysAdmin, and The Perl Journal issues in my library. They are right beside some O'Reilly books from the same era I shant part from anytime soon. > Lo
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> Curious what you mean by proactive? Could you share a bit more? > Happily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt, get an output. "Current AI" is not limit
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
> The whole "90% of my time as a coder is spent typing, so I should optimise my ability to type fast" is so, well, wrong. 90% of our time should be spent thinking, and most of that reading. Any software engineer who proclaims &
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
Or just find an appetizing dish in the book, jot down the ingredients, and visit a local market. This strategy also enables alternate use-case discovery by interacting with subject-matter experts.
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
This is a great idea I fully commend. An additional option for meals under $10 is cooking them oneself too. I know this might appear to be obvious, but is still a viable option IMHO. A used copy of the "Joy of Cooking" book and s
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by AdieuToLogic 2mo ago
>> For reference, I've seen Visa marketing materials that suggest their network can do ~70k TPS. > Roughly a hundred servers on 100 GbE ports each could handle one small UDP packet per human every second ... While there is no
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by AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
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by AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
> Ever found yourself writing this? for f in *.txt; do wc -l "$f" done No, because `wc` accepts multiple files. And the example given is incorrect for any file having a `.txt` suffix and whitespaces. > Or this?
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by AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
To support your recommendation and redress the strawman the article postulates, the post's author could have replaced: find . -name '*.log' | xargs rm With: find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm
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by AdieuToLogic 3mo ago
> Fred Brooks and the mythical man month observed that communication between people expands faster than linear, and that adding more people to a project makes it later. In my experience with more than a couple dozen software projects, th

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