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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
Didn't random companies add block chain to their names only just a few years ago and get 30+% jumps in stock price immediately?
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
What you describe is more or less exactly algorithmic information theory. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory : "Informally, from the point of view of algorithmic information theory, t
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
"[T]here is an entire cohort of people who can think about specifying systems but lack the training to sdo so so using the current methods and see a lower barrier to entry in the natural language." "Specifying" is the lo
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
That sounds more like mimicry without understanding, like playing the glass bead game.
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
It's a South Park reference. It very much is equating the accent with stupidity and backwardness. In their defense, they make fun of nearly everyone. But they definitely were mocking White Southerners there.
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
I subscribe to the second point of view. Several companies fall in that bucket. Oracle comes to mind.
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
That's what it was like when you started out, but did you eventually learn that code? Imagine constantly getting out back into square one on understanding a legacy code base you just inherited, forever. This is what it's be like w
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
Why can't they?
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
You probably mean necromancy.
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
Sounds like he'll actually have to learn to code!
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
My guess is this is correct. To the extent coding with agents becomes dominant, the need for non-technical managers to coordinate large numbers of developers will decrease.
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by PessimalDecimal 7mo ago
This is the gist of Israel's problem. Successful tactically, but no long term strategy. They're increasingly isolated. As Baby Boomer voters lose power in US, Israel's isolation will become more obvious.
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
I came here to say the same thing. It's basically _is_ Emacs. Heavily configurable tool, text-focused UI, primary interaction with a minibuffer ..er.. box to prompt at the bottom of the screen, package distribution mechanism, etc etc.
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Colorado Bill: Age Attestation on Computing Devices(leg.colorado.gov)
3 points by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago|0 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
People ask dumb questions with obvious answers all the time. This is at best a difference of degree, not of type.
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
It might be more accurate to say that a lot of low-trust societies have become connected to the Internet which weren't nearly as online a couple of decades ago. For example, a huge fraction of the world's spam originates from Russ
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
My guess is there's more to that story than just "protobufs don't forward unknown fields" because that's not how they work be default. Take a look at https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/prot
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
> Everything was good in the begining, as long as everyone submits their .proto to a centralized repo. Once the one team starts to host their own, things get broken quickly. Is this an issue with protobufs per se though? It's a data
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
buf.build sounds interesting as a middle ground for using protos without going all-in on the Bazel build ecosystem.
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US billionaires race China to moon(reuters.com)
4 points by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago|1 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago
I'd put "the exception that proves the rule" on the list too. It's a brilliant piece of rhetorical jiu jitsu though, somehow turning disproof of a 'rule' into confirmation. And it definitely is thought-terminat
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Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code(fortune.com)
5 points by PessimalDecimal 8mo ago|0 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 9mo ago
How many times do you have to roll the dice with .001% of disaster before it strikes? How often are you using the tool in this way?
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by PessimalDecimal 9mo ago
I heard 2028 is when it really gets impossible to catch up.
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by PessimalDecimal 9mo ago
Just once. Just for a night.
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
It doesn't. There's seemingly no connection between the handful of examples of self-hosting software actually getting worse, and the earlier point about hardware costs.
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
2/3 of this article is about DRAM prices. How is that "enshittification" of self-hosting?
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
But why couldn't they, e.g. buy other people's thing in exchange for their gold? IOW, why is the relevant fact that _Spain_ didn't have much more wealth despite having more gold? Other people in other countries valued (and st
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
> your worry is that what... It will rm -rf /* something? There are many, many stories exactly like this. E.g. from two weeks ago https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1pe0s4x/googles... .
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by PessimalDecimal 10mo ago
China's middle class is already larger than the entire US population, and growing fast. It won't be rich in the sense that say Switzerland or Norway are rich. But it seems safe to say they won't be barely scraping by. IMO, In

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