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by Scarblac 1y ago
Airplane cockpits are an obvious example (but not on a computer screen, of course). All the controls readily available.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
When a module is first loaded, it's compiled to bytecode and then executed. Importing a non existing function will throw an error right away. It's not a compilation error but it does feel like one, somewhat. It happens at more or
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That sounds like roughly all work related software? Not so niche at all.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I do the designing, then I write a comment explaining what happens, and the LLM then adds a few lines of code. Write another comment, etc. I get very similar code to what I would normally write but much faster and with comments.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Not even that, it's to prevent clubs going bankrupt all the time. Without rules, every club is going to invest huge sums betting on achieving a top result that would give return on investment, and only a few can achieve that each year.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Well yes, but so will climate change itself.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Depends on how long term. A crash of the global economy may be the best way to prevent at least some climate change catastrophe.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That's actually hilarious, so much high tech involved to get a dark background.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
There is buzz around the combination of Django and HTMX, worked on by the same people in one team, as a much simpler alternative to split frontend and backend teams with a REST API in between (and perhaps NextJS as well, etc).
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by Scarblac 1y ago
And have endless disputes over who owns what exactly? Allow companies to kick people off their land because they can't do anything about it? IMO having a good land ownership registry is one of the most important things to count as a de
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Or let all browsers track users, sell the info, shows ads over web sites, and so on. While blocking on page ads. The market for ads shown on web pages and user info tracked by pages will crash, so companies will have to find more direct way
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The root style is global to one app, the component may be used in many different apps.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
So he has to take time to write up those experiments he was doing as exploration, and nobody will read them because who wants to spend time reading about failed experiments. People will still want to do their own exploring to get a feel for
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by Scarblac 1y ago
"The question of whether computers can think is about as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
It won't be long before people start using LLMs to write such whitelists too. And the APIs.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
The secretary of defense was talking about military secrets on a device that does not have an air gap with the internet, so it was breached.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I thought ISBN numbers might be somewhat centralized. But I don't know anything about the domain.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Is there really not some API out there that knows about all published books? Paid, if necessary?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That was in 2017, it's 22000008 years ago now.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Look at all types of mammal that exist, from us to platypuses to bats to whales. Evolved in a few hundred million years. Modern humans have been here for a few hundred thousand. In 500 million years absolutely anything could happen (if we s
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Dolphins have only lived in the water for 50m years or so, they still breathe air. They could re-adapt to the land in that kind of time frame easily.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's not? Didn't most of them coexist with us until they didn't?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The endless series of 10 second video clips, selection optimized by algorithm to keep your attention just enough to continue on and on and on... That's not at all the same as TV, video games, or rock music.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I see it differently -- if we are all alone, then our disappearance will be an unfathomable catastrophe. If it's abundant, well, so it goes.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
A minimum wage worker (probably the other side of the ticket machine call) gets a lot of leeway, a well paid manager needs to do better. I don't care that much about phrasing, not as much as others do.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Tbf I am Dutch, and also drunk. But yeah, if I lost the ticket I'd assume I was going to have to pay the full rate, period. I'd try to speak to someone because who knows, but that's all. And there's someone on the other
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Why would I have an opinion of the parking attendant at all? They're a a cog in the machine. If I thought about their phrasing at all, I'd assume they had a bad night, or not. Anyway I lost the ticket, it's my problem.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
That's what we did, and it moved everything to China.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
But then, this is HN.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
But a solution that takes an OpenAPI spec and generates all of those things from templates would be much more reliably correct than letting an AI do it, and has already existed for years. I think AI is a game changer but not for things that

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