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by acdha 2mo ago
I think that also hits what you see universally with every AI product trying to pass worse results off as a benefit: if you’re a business, the prospect of cutting your cost per cookie is really attractive as long as the decline in quality d
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by acdha 2mo ago
That’s a joke referring to The Onion, not a serious analysis: https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...
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by acdha 2mo ago
On iOS: page menu —> kebab menu —> show IP address
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by acdha 2mo ago
Nobody is saying NPM is unique - it’s one end of a spectrum but that doesn’t mean everything else is completely on the other end - for example, this study found Maven projects having almost as many dependencies on average as NPM, both well
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by acdha 2mo ago
Em-dashes were in common use long before LLMs existed — anyone saying that’s a sign of LLM use should not be listened to. They’re used by LLMs because they were trained on good writing and we shouldn’t avoid using them any more than we shou
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by acdha 2mo ago
Possibly, but my point was basically that I wouldn’t be judgey about developers not doing something which most tools aren’t designed to make easy, or even possible. We absolutely should be trying to get to the point where it’s easy - this i
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by acdha 2mo ago
I think it’s premature before a lot of tools improve to make that more workable: for example, if you use AWS how realistic is maintain separate IAM for each tool you run and map the right one into a sandbox for each tool? To use your editor
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by acdha 2mo ago
They help only to the extent that you have completely isolated credentials: the hard part isn’t the container, it’s things like fastidiously using separate least-privilege credentials everywhere and not using tools or editor integrations wh
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by acdha 2mo ago
Can you give an example of where that’s happened? In my region rates are going up and data centers are driving it with expensive upgrades.
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by acdha 2mo ago
It’s not that there’s a single stdlib feature which would’ve stopped this but more that JavaScript developers have been conditioned that it’s normal to install tons of packages and update them quite frequently so there are a lot of individu
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by acdha 2mo ago
It’s correct that NPM is not unique but it is the worst for cultural reasons: no other ecosystem started with such a limited language, which lead to the culture of publishing tons of small packages working around things which everything els
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by acdha 2mo ago
Sorry about that and thanks @monocasa for correcting the link. I’ve had that bookmarked for a decade.
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by acdha 2mo ago
I think that’s really illustrating how the problem isn’t what they expected: nobody was doing GPU computing in the 90s and when it became huge that was specialized for certain classes of work and involved custom toolchains. The fact that ev
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by acdha 2mo ago
There was also a long piece by a former Intel chip designer who was incredulous about how much the Itanium team was promising numbers based on a very few hand-scheduled routines for FPU-limited code. I think there’s a solid argument that th
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by acdha 2mo ago
Yeah, that was real soon now in the mid-90s – I remember reading Byte in high school and they’d be talking about how Alpha, MIPS, etc. workstations were doomed and then it kept getting pushed back – maybe 98/99, early in the next centu
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by acdha 2mo ago
Your last paragraph is getting at the core problem: COBOL _is_ easy to understand and write at the language level but what keeps people on these systems is decades of accumulated business rules, and it’s almost certain that there’s no accur
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by acdha 2mo ago
This is largely true to only the extent that you you have a machine-verifiable measure of quality. If not, you’re putting more pressure on the humans who can actually reason and understand business goals. This cascades: tests are what make
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by acdha 2mo ago
Exactly right: it’s not that humans were perfect-I’ve seen too many write-offs from the big consulting companies to ever say that—but that the pattern of errors is different and any intuition you have around that will not be correct in the
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by acdha 2mo ago
The vendors like to toss around terms like “thinking” or “reasoning” to encourage prospective buyers to anthropomorphize models. These challenges are a visceral reminder that none of those marketing claims accurately describe was LLMs do: t
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by acdha 2mo ago
They’d still be going down paths like mandatory logins and aggressive bot blocking, but I think it’d be different if they still had the trust of most users. The moderator community was something rare and special — a ton of skilled people wo
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by acdha 2mo ago
It’s one of the reasons why mainstream adoption has failed: most people lack the hubris needed to say they’ll be “smarter” than everyone else and have perfect OPSEC, run their own bank-grade security, etc. — especially since it costs more t
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by acdha 2mo ago
Nuclear power is massively subsidized already — those plants only get built with massive state support. Right now you can justify a solar rollout with traditional fins because it pays for itself in a couple of years but in the United States
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by acdha 2mo ago
I agree to some extent—the bulk of the real damage came from Google declaring war on the open web and companies like Facebook manipulating the ad market to harm publishers (pivot to video fraud)—but Reddit saw that happening and decided to
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by acdha 2mo ago
Can you show the research you did before declaring there is no evidence of better performance? For example, how does the ProPublica contract compare to the industry trend?
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by acdha 2mo ago
“No evidence” or “I haven’t looked for evidence”? Unions do more than just keeping people from dying in mining accidents — for example, I read this yesterday with what sure looks to be concrete benefits for the workers: https://w
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by acdha 2mo ago
There are people who advocate for an all nuclear strategy but other than the ones whose non-profit gets fossil fuel industry contributions it seems to be much less common than a decade ago because the economics are undeniable now.
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by acdha 2mo ago
That’s like 0.3-5% per C° so even at extreme temperatures you’re talking like -15% — and that’s happening when it’s extremely sunny so you’re talking 85% or better, not a 15 point reduction off of an already limited panel. Nuclear costs so
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by acdha 2mo ago
Finding something ideologically inconvenient doesn’t make it noise. There is simply no level of new carbon emissions which isn’t guaranteed to cause expensive problems around the world. That doesn’t mean we can’t switch everything instantly
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by acdha 2mo ago
Yes: the way we should think about that is that we do things like switch to trains and BEVs so we can afford to continue running airplanes while synthetic fuels are being put into production.
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by acdha 2mo ago
That seems like a huge disadvantage for nuclear power if you need to guarantee strict ideological commitment to ignore cost-competitiveness not just now but into the future. Renewables and batteries are not only cheaper now but have far les

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