ChrisMarshallNY

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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> There is more to the internet than these 2 companies. To many people, the Internet is Facebook. Back in the day, the same people considered AOL to be the Internet . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Maybe. I think that strengthening laws that force servers to be more diligent would be unpopular (especially with this crowd), but it's a lot different from forcing backdoors. The idea of backdoors needs to be drawn and quartered, and
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yup. Seen that, too. But there’s a lot of room between “perfect,” and the "quality" of most of today’s tech, and I worked for a company that routinely shipped gear that had a very high level of Quality. I’ve watched people u
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I’m really anal about the Quality of my own software, and tend to be hard on others’ software (doesn’t make me too popular). > I've had multiple jobs where directors/VPs/execs/etc. sometimes ask me to evaluate some
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Sort of the antithesis of "Move fast and break things." I find it quite reasonable, but also despair that this advice even needs to be given. It's just basic "horse sense." https://i.pinimg.com/736x&
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Sadly, I can't find anything to disagree with, here...:(
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Love it. The German language has words for almost anything; especially if it’s cynical. I’m told that’s because the language is designed to synthesize words. I wouldn’t know. I don’t speak German (but I speak English, which has German roots
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> being impossible to talk to That hasn’t been my experience. The first couple of layers are sort of “inflexible bureaucrat,” but it doesn’t take long to get to an actual human, with authority to act. In my experience, I’m usually on t
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Ah. That makes sense. I would think that "Mac apps," means that they are, actually, a different OS (I actually already knew that, which was why I said what I said. The Intel thing was a spitball). But one of the few joys geeks get
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
The simulator is a completely different OS. It may even still be using Intel. I always figured that Apple never set up a true emulator (like what Android does), because they didn't want people exploring their OS with a debugger.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Sadly, it seems that the lesson from this, is to keep your repos private. I am not a fan of that, but I think many folks will take that away from this.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I think it may depend on where you are. Around here (Long Island, NY), it's far better than Google Maps, and I use it all the time. I've heard that it falls down, in rural areas, though.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> This isn't the most complex software engineering task known to humanity. Add a + button. Pop open a text entry field. Validate. Save. Done. I'm sure even the shitty Gemini model can vibe code that in a couple of months, righ
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Oh, I don't really do much more than have feedback loops, where I review the output, then ask for things like less verbosity, or a lower-level vocabulary, etc. I like to apply this at each application, rather than make a blanket rule,
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Happy to do so. Probably not something a lot of folks here would find interesting, but I'm easy to contact, from my Web sites. People here, often do that. Basically, my needs are different from others. I'm not working on the next
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Heh. Just to explain. I mentioned a personal anecdote, and a personal observation that things people think are new; are not, in fact, new. Us old people do that a lot. We've seen a lot of stuff. The usual HN rude demand for "stati
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
> typically not in our lifetime. That's changing. Even though I'm 64, I suspect that I'll be seeing a lot of "not in my lifetime" stuff happening, before I pop my clogs.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
A friend showed me a video, put out by a local news organization, that started with an attractive woman, standing in the place being discussed, speaking into a microphone. Cool. Standard local interest story. Then, it cut to a photo montage
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
So John Nagle is an AI. Huh. Never would have guessed it, in a million years... To be fair, "Famous person accused of being an AI," was on my bingo card. It was inevitable for this kind of embarrassing mistake to happen.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yup. There's some places that we'll need that accountability. I suspect that this may be filled by folks that act as "LLM brokers," using AI in the background, while dealing with the legalities, in the foreground. But in
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Go for it. I’m not losing any sleep over it. Have a great day!
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
No. Please provide them.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
No. I heard global warming. The cooling was from nuclear war.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I remember in Africa, in the late 1960s/early 1970s, being taught in social studies, that Ethiopia was at risk for famine. They discussed that many farmers raised sheep and goats, which have a drastically different impact on the enviro
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yep. And I guarantee that people are probably already instructing their agents to have random typos.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I’ve just been using it, with a chat interface. Basically, as a “consultant.” For me, and my projects, it’s been great. It’s made an enormous difference. I guess my workflow may seem “quaint,” to many folks, here, but the end results spea
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Heh. We are now at the point where people might end up deliberately inserting typos and bad grandma into their writing, just to signal they aren’t AI. I mentioned once, that one of the reasons that AI sounds the way it does, is because it l
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I strongly suspect that quite a few HN members are busy creating agents that are furiously stuffing GH. As I said before (and it was not a popular comment), it's easy to be an "armchair quarterback," with these services, as I
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
Yup. He hangs out here[0], as well. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll
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by ChrisMarshallNY 2mo ago
I run a 2012 MacBook Air 11” for Zoom meetings. It’s stuck on Catalina, but it runs fine. If I really wanted (which I don’t), I could probably hack it to run newer operating systems. I know there’s a few ways to do that.

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