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by RevEng 3mo ago
What are some better options? I honestly can't think of any way of proving someone's age other than electronic ID provided by a well trusted institution like a government. The only alternative would be removing anything possibly i
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Trump agreed to the MoU saying it's allies would stop attacks, including in Lebanon. Israel continues to bomb it. It's up to Trump to put pressure on Israel to stop in order to make good on his deal. It's no surprise this is
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Funny how quickly "won't someone think of the children" turns into mandatory government ID for private services, banning necessary and secure (and encrypted) communications systems, and locking children out of access to the d
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Two of my co-workers have the last names Dyck and Cox. I've seen others whose last name is literally Dick. And let's not forget the famous actor Dick Van Dyke who strikes out twice on most filters. I've heard several other na
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I don't care for his vision. I'm basing that on his words and actions, not based on anybody else's propaganda.
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I quite liked Cursor. I even tried Claude Code and found myself wanting to go back to Cursor. Unfortunately, this completely kills it for me. I will not support Elon Musk or any of his shenanigans. He is already far richer than any person s
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by RevEng 4mo ago
That prospectus didn't make anything clear. It was pictures of rockets and rubbish about "the light of consciousness". The only real information was buried deep in the middle and it showed a company with poor finances and no
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by RevEng 4mo ago
You pay a 3x markup to rent a server through AWS than managing your own. You pay for convenience. At shall annals that's fine, but for large companies with their own datacenters, you generally do things in house.
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by RevEng 4mo ago
That's a strange one. I had to use POA for my mother in law last summer and it was straight forward.
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I usually agree with Simon but I think he is overlooking an important factor. There is a lot of AI usage happening not because it shows benefits, but because the business has mandated its ubiquitous use. Companies having dashboards for toke
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I strongly disagree. I'm an engineer - I'm all about the fastest, cheapest thing that meets the requirements. I don't need Opus 4.7, even for my complex programming tasks. It costs over 10x other models available that still g
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I use composer-2 daily for complex programming tasks. It's a fine tuned Kimi 2.5 - nothing groundbreaking. I've even had reasonable success using Qwen 3.5 on my desktop GPU. Opus might be better, but it's certainly not necess
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Every meeting, every memo, and every prototype is output in terms of the employees doing that work. Whether it's directly saleable is irrelevant. The investors base the value of their investment on the expected future value of the comp
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Cursor with its tab completion. Iterate with the agent part to research, design, and plan. Let it generate boilerplate and scaffolding, perhaps with placeholders for you to fill in. Then fill in as you normally would, but with an auto-compl
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I think we can do both. Ask the AI to summarize it, but to show examples and point out where things happen. Let it make you a Coles Notes. You still need to look at the code yourself and understand it, but an initial outline and explanation
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I'm always hesitant of these claims. Sure, it's possible that AI really did help them achieve the same level of quality at 100x the pace. It's also possible it generated a huge tech debt that only passes the tests but hasn&#x
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Great point! This is along the same lines as a low fidelity prototype. It doesn't have to be production quality - hell, it barely needs to work so long as it's good enough to get feedback. Now I can have higher fidelity prototypes
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I treat it like other triage tasks: things could always be better, but how much effort does it take and how much better could it be? There's a common saying that the enemy of good is perfect. It's easy to get stuck in the loop of
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by RevEng 4mo ago
Huh, good point! When a colleague asks me to review their design or otherwise discuss it, I'm always looking for things they might have missed, assumptions they silently made, or corner cases that could come up. I start from the positi
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I do the same thing as an expert with 20 years of experience. You can always benefit from a second set of eyes and a second opinion. What's important is that you consider that input and then make your own decisions, rather than deferri
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by RevEng 4mo ago
This is why I don't use agent-first platforms like Claude Code. I want to write software with an AI to assist me, not an AI to write my software for me. I don't want an environment whose main mode of operation is instructing an AI
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by RevEng 4mo ago
I do something similar. Design reviews are an extremely valuable part of the process but they take a long time and people are busy and who really has enough expertise to provide meaningful feedback? Well, the AI is always available and it c
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by RevEng 4mo ago
A lawsuit will cost you at least thousands of dollars if you can even serve the person. The FBI doesn't care about even thousands of dollars of fraud; they are busy chasing million dollar crime rings. Try reporting to your local police
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by RevEng 4mo ago
After a couple of turns the system prompt is a small part of the context. Not changing the system prompt at all is key so that the rest of the history is itself part of the prefix.
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by RevEng 5mo ago
My employer doesn't specifically block this stuff, but does put up a warning when you visit it to review our AI usage policy. There isn't detection for using things in ways we shouldn't, but they have an audit trail and can r
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by RevEng 5mo ago
They do have agreements, but they aren't exclusive, and Microsoft and Open AI have had a rather public falling out over the last year.
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by RevEng 5mo ago
A spectrogram is literally the same audio, just transformed through a Fourier transform. That transform has a trivial inverse. The spectrogram isn't perfect - the visual representation is low resolution and the phase information is mis
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by RevEng 5mo ago
So it's hyped? Lots of deployment doesn't mean lots of value, especially in the midst of a bubble larger than any we have ever seen before.
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by RevEng 5mo ago
Generating 12x the amount of code/commits/releases isn't a useful metric. That could just as easily be 12x more code to maintain or iterations needed to get it working. Products are measured by the value they provide, not by
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by RevEng 5mo ago
I legit thought it was just an image. The first panel fills my whole phone screen and there is no indication that there is anything to scroll. I don't like this new web.

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