SrslyJosh

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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
Intuit and H&R Block spend millions of dollars a year lobbying to prevent that. It doesn't even require "AI", the IRS already knows what you owe.
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by SrslyJosh 1y ago
It looks nice, but I find the choppy scrolling (on an M1 MBP, no less!) to be distracting. It also doesn't really tell me anything about the content, except where I'm going to see tables or code blocks, so I'm not sure what t
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> What does 5408 mean and why is it taking up valuable screen space? For anyone who's not familiar with something as basic as the history command, please pick up a book on bash/zsh/sh and take the time to learn. If you don
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite... Of course it won't, though those roles are probably the most suited to being replaced by a not-so-bright chatbot.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees? Wishful thinking at this point in time.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> True, AI can be more productive Citation needed. =)
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week Ah, yes, work 60 hour weeks so that Google can create AGI and lay off half of their employees. A brilliant plan for workers. (I d
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you could drop at least 60% of domains from search engine indexes with no reduction in result quality. (And it would probably be a net quality increase to get rid of all the domains that just copy content from other dom
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Yeah, this is where I stopped reading: > LLMs now offer the intelligence layer that makes it all viable LLMs are the opposite of what you want in enterprise software: unpredictable black boxes that go awry seemingly at random. I also can
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Yep, and even if they weren't planning on just ignoring the deficit (as republicans always do when they're the ones doing the spending), any money "saved" by these assholes was going to go straight into the pockets of Mu
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Elon has been operating in bad faith since he came to the US on a student visa and then illegally worked for a startup.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
An "awkward gesture" that has no other meaning in western culture. Which he made twice. It's not something you can do by accident. > I can't imagine why he would throw one That's pretty naive. He's a white s
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. They can make up any number they want, we have no way to verify it. This could just be a lie to further demoralize workers and/or make them afraid of missing out on the chance to get a buyout.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
It's much simpler to not write an entire second application in the fucking browser, which is what React et al frequently entail.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> Some common scenarios I keep running into: > * AI suggests code that completely ignores existing patterns > * It recreates components we already have > * It modifies core architecture without understanding implications > *
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
You've failed the Turing test.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> Some have access to fast software that looks sleek. Others rely on tools that look like they were created in the early 2000s and left frozen in time. In my own experience, software that "looks sleek" usually means "unmai
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Unfortunately, scrolling is choppy for me even with reader mode turned on. Great article, though.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Indeed it will be a useful definition, as this comment noted above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951573
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> UX Limitations: htmx ended up pushing our app towards a Rails/CRUD approach, which led to a really poor (or at least, boring and generic) user experience by default. Good websites behave in predictable ways. If I can tell your web
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
If your devs can't work without something writing their code for them, why are you hiring them?
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> hallucinates and generates invalid data The model is doing the exact same thing when it generates "correct" output as it does when it generates "incorrect" output. "Hallucination" is a misleading term, coo
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> I lead an applied AI research team where I work Your paycheck depends on people believing the hype. Therefore, anything you say about "superintelligence" (LOL) is pretty suspect. > Getting AI to do work involves getting AI
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Unfortunately, if this succeeds, you'll need to figure out a way to prevent (or mitigate) spam and other abuse. It's an awful problem, and I'm not sure if there's any way to really deal with it. A PGP-style web-of-trust
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
Safari, please. =) Also, it'd be great if this was an open standard so that anyone could write an extension for any browser.
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by SrslyJosh 2y ago
> Astro is designed as a Multi-Page Application (MPA) by default, shipping minimal JavaScript and delivering static HTML via full page reloads. So...a website. weary emoji

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