IanCal

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by IanCal 3mo ago
No, GDPR spells out in much more detail what consent means - and burying things in a EULA doesn’t work.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I found that telling Claude I was going to bed meant it continued on making assumptions for longer rather than asking lots of questions or stopping part way.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
The prompt is interesting, I can’t help but wonder how many times it was run and extra instructions were added (don’t return if x, etc).
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by IanCal 3mo ago
They aren’t allowed to do whatever they want with your data, there’s strict restrictions on requiring consent for things you want to do with user data.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
If you're measuring it as "how many people own superyachts" that's probably different from how most people want to measure "how well is the planet being run". > And she's probably more efficient in spen
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> Also, if that was the goal, wouldn't it be better to tax (or break up) the corporations rather than the shareholders? It comes out of their pocket either way, If you do it via the corporations you're saying it should be linea
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> Isn't that fairly close to what we have now? I don't see any theoretical issues. Massive concentration of wealth has a few outcomes you may find disagreeable or sub-optimal * Huge concentration of power in smaller numbers of
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> We've got a highly reliable and effective system for working that out (aka the free market economy) and no alternative in 2nd place that doesn't typically lead to mass starvation because someone underestimated how much food
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by IanCal 3mo ago
They’re the same type of problem as sql injection but there’s not the same ease of solution. There’s also a lot more subtle problems that can come in, but it’s still a decent comparison to help explain things. Selecting from a menu is one w
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Admittedly just scanned this but that’s lossless, right?
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Self promotion is fine here typically, I’d say the main thing here is it sounds like a tv ad. Try X! And not in response to a question or stated problem. Here’s a tip, imagine how you’d comment if this wasn’t your library but just one that
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by IanCal 3mo ago
That’s wildly different, and if you want to invent things and then get mad at them you can, but the rules on ac are because the outside part has an impact on your neighbours.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I think so, or even more permanent ones. since it’s London I assume flats where you need permission for any number of outdoor units but it’s then one for semi detached and two for detached houses - one of the examples in the article is some
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Those people seem to have installed multiple outdoor units, there are limited numbers you are allowed to do without getting planning permission (two for detached housing, one for semi, nothing by default for flats) because these things have
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Also speed and connectivity. My car needs a screen and some low power chips. It’s ten years old and the maps and everything are snappy (low quality touch screen aside, but that’s not too bad) because it’s all running on my nice fast device
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I think this is in the same vein as continuity and user centric and what you were describing but it’s a different part - more than one person drives my car. I want my things and my wife wants hers. Having accounts or something extra on a ne
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Definitely for the time and cost too. If a dev costs $1k/day that’s $30 to spend 15 minutes looking at a pr. How much review does that in tokens get you? I’d wager you’d easily find lots of low level issues that are beyond basic lintin
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Outside of the benefit of some extra documentation around changes and having more than one person see what’s happened there are a few main safety parts here: * It can be easier to see a problem in something that another person wrote, you’re
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by IanCal 3mo ago
It is however extremely hard to measure accurately with software engineering and every easy measurement immediately draws ire from devs here.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
There are steps in between “send an email saying don’t do the thing you want” and “murder lawmakers”. > I dont see how this is even slightly contentious in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty six Violent revolution in response t
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Have profits gone down?
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by IanCal 3mo ago
I’ve been arguing for this for a long time, glad to see this sort of thing start. Papers “being in” a journal hasn’t made sense for a long time, but curation is valuable as is staking reputation on something. People I was with called some o
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by IanCal 3mo ago
There’s a dead sibling comment but I’d also recommend looking at marimo, I just used it to do some analysis for my brother in law and has Claude write the whole thing. It tracks variables used across cells to see what needs re-running. It’s
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by IanCal 3mo ago
This feels like it’s on the level of claiming conspiracy theories are invented by tin foil companies to sell more hats.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Expectations shift, and tools do matter. Imagine you had a direct report. They were doing just fine, slightly better than a typical report. Then you found out they were writing all their code in notepad - no linting, no automated tests or l
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by IanCal 3mo ago
> like having a single engineer spend 250k in tokens or he’d fire him; That’s not quite what was said there, he’s budgeting half a devs salary as token spend in a podcast and that if he had a 500k engineer who spent 5k on it at the end
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Why? This is literally what experimentation and prototyping is ! You spend money for a potential benefit. In this case it’s also a one off cost to find things that can save money over time.
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by IanCal 3mo ago
This is absolute nonsense. Management in many places cares enormously about productivity. What’s been a bit different here is a huge claim of improvement other companies are seeing (so you’re going to be left behind), alongside some develop
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Off topic but I have always felt this seemed like his misunderstanding rather than theirs. It’s an odd question, but it’s a very sensible point to make if Babbage has just told you this will solve the problem of mistakes in calculations -
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by IanCal 3mo ago
Maybe I missed it but this only seemed to be about the legality (which is always also specific countries) Being able to do something, even if you can do it without the police showing up, is not the same as it being right to do something. I

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