DanHulton

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by DanHulton 1y ago
The thing about this, though - cars have been built before. We understand what's necessary to get those 9s. I'm sure there were some new problems that had to be solved along the way, but fundamentally, "build good car"
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by DanHulton 1y ago
You're still thinking too small. Think back to the heady days of intense Java popularity and strain your brain to remember your Gang Of Four... What's better than a Factory? A FactoryFactory! Why order a burrito that is made in a
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by DanHulton 1y ago
This is a well-written report, but... Does anyone NOT know this? I've deleted all my social media and actively try to limit my news ingestion and none of this, not the facts nor the conclusions, was novel to me. I honestly don't t
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by DanHulton 1y ago
As an FYI, I had a similar issue and tried a whole lot of things, including different mechanical keyboards, with which I had a variety of successes and failures. But ultimately what REALLY helped was going to physiotherapy and identifying m
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by DanHulton 1y ago
And if you want to get the same "we serve the code directly" benefit as well, you can set up an npm proxy and require its use. That way you're getting a very specific version, and downloading that version from a location you
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by DanHulton 1y ago
I, too, am still rocking the 13 mini, which they made good enough that nothing they've made since has made me wish to upgrade, though the fact that every phone since is Too Damn Big has made me happy I haven't yet. We've got
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Alternatively, it could have been over long ago with a lot less loss of life, if Ukraine had been supported more full-throatedly, instead of allowing to drag on as it has. Sometimes you gotta rip that bandaid off.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
I've begun to hate the term "democratizing." In fact, I now tend to see it as a strong shibboleth from people who don't actually value the thing being "democratized" - computing, art, music, and who think in te
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Don't forget gaming back in the day! Facebook games started taking off, then Facebook decided that the _only_ way you could get paid on the Facebook platform was with Facebook Credits, and to incentivize Facebook as the gaming platfor
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by DanHulton 1y ago
That battle was long-ago lost when the leading LLM companies and organizations insisted on referring to their products and models solely as "AI", not the more-specific "LLMs". Implementers of that technology followed su
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Objects should also stop having always-on blue LEDs for power indication or whatever. When I turn off the lights at night, my living room basically stays the same luminescence, because of the wash of blue LED light from every stupid little
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by DanHulton 1y ago
> 99% of programming is repetitive plumbing Even IF that were true (and I'd argue that it is NOT, and it's people who believe that and act that way who produce the tangled messes of spiderweb code that are utterly opaque to pub
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by DanHulton 1y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for critics of powered flight to point out that steam engines will never be truly useful for the job if that's the only kind of attempts at powered flight that anyone's shown, and they've been c
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Unless you are yourself a robber baron the likes of Zuck, you should look up this little concept called "class solidarity."
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by DanHulton 1y ago
> The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. Oh, is it now? So you know for a fact that intelligence comes from token prediction, do you, Mark? Look, multi-bit screwdrivers have been im
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Poor developers use tools poorly, film at 11. But seriously, yeah, every time I see a complaint about ORMs, I have to wonder if they ever wrote code on an "average team" that had some poor developers on it that didn't use ORM
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Imagine using this defence with regards to airline crashes. "The crashes happen by accident not by intent" would be a clearly ludicrous defence, as it ought to be here as well. If we were serious about preventing these kinds of t
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by DanHulton 1y ago
We really need to get used to treating PII as poison, storing as little of it as possible, and getting rid of it as soon as we're done with it.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Oh it's not pockets. I just have tiny raccoon paws for hands. I like being able to reach across the keyboard one-handed (to shift, etc) and I can't do that on modern, larger phones.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
It doesn't have to be a lawsuit preventing them from leaving. Golden handcuffs usually work pretty well for such a situation.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
I used to defend tabs for this reason, except I kept running into source code formatters/displays online that would attempt to display my code with the tabstop set to 8 spaces, which made it nigh-unreadable. While I run into fewer that
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by DanHulton 1y ago
And it's not about those people. It's "Master Foo and the Script Kiddie", not "Master Foo and the Professional Red-Teamer". It's about a fictional archetype, and the story isn't meant to be taken lite
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Well, typically, they start with safer cities, something that's out of the purview if the MTA.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
You say that as if it's a justification, not an observation. For one, the world doesn't need to be that way, I.e. We don't need to "leave behind" anyone who doesn't immediately adopt every single piece of new t
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by DanHulton 1y ago
Citation needed.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
There is almost guaranteed going to be an attack along the lines of prompt-injecting a calendar invite. Those things are millions of lines long already, with tones of auto-generated text that nobody reads. Embed your injection in the middle
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by DanHulton 1y ago
You can be terribly intelligent and be an incredible fool at the same time. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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by DanHulton 1y ago
He hasn't abided by any checks nor balances so far. If you're not buckled up long ago, what exactly were you waiting for?
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by DanHulton 1y ago
It really depends on if the 10-year-old code in question was put together by a talented team with high standards, doesn't it? But regardless, on a large project, you're always going to have some version of this problem. At least w
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by DanHulton 1y ago
I'm curious where that expectation of the flip comes from? Your experience (and mine, frankly) would seem to indicate the opposite, so from whence comes this certainty that one day it'll change entirely and become reliable instead

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