adrianN

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by adrianN 5d ago
Software stacks are infrastructure. It makes sense to pay for infrastructure via taxes. That's why "Public Money, Public Code" is imho a great initiative. We should redirect the public money that we currently hand over to pro
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by adrianN 5d ago
They expect to retire with a decent amount of money before things go down hill.
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by adrianN 6d ago
You prevent abuse of the API by models the same way you prevent abuse by humans: you have server side checks.
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by adrianN 6d ago
I’d celebrate the revival of the ca 2000‘s blogosphere.
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by adrianN 7d ago
Averages are quite misleading. The core is obviously a lot denser. Our sun has an average energy output per cubic meter that is comparable to a compost heap.
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by adrianN 7d ago
The argument is probably that LLMs can find those optimizations cheaper than a human expert. Since LLM cost at fixed capability seems to be going down you either expect humans to be completely replaced or human wages to be lowered by LLMs.
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by adrianN 7d ago
The steelman argumentation is probably that spaghetti doesn't matter to LLMs and no humans will read that code anyway.
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by adrianN 8d ago
There is a finite number of rces that LLMs can find. We‘re in for a rough couple of years but on the other side of the transition we‘ll have more secure software stacks. I’d rather that everyone got the full capabilities and we’d weed out t
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by adrianN 9d ago
Customers love it when their queries sometimes run a lot longer.
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by adrianN 10d ago
Fear not, soon everything will have the style that the major LLMs find most aesthetic.
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by adrianN 11d ago
It depends on how much time you can spend on the task. If you're allowed to write proper documentation about architecture and requirements that is probably better. If you're just drive-by fixing the code, then good comments are a
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by adrianN 11d ago
It's difficult to refactor and rearchitect without first understanding what's there and why.
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by adrianN 12d ago
Who is underestimating the importance of food and clothes in history? Certainly not the historians. Agricultural output is literally what made and broke empires.
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by adrianN 14d ago
We‘d have to occasionally bomb all computing infrastructure in other countries to prevent them from training.
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by adrianN 14d ago
It starts to become a problem once you’ve replaced public infrastructure to a sufficient degree by private infrastructure like waymos that avoiding to use them starts to seriously inconvenience people.
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by adrianN 14d ago
Very skilled assembly programmers still can beat compilers, but nearly no assembly is written by humans anymore.
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by adrianN 14d ago
Most people hate all drivers except themselves.
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Optimized Solar Cell(simplifier.neocities.org)
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by adrianN 18d ago
It can be simultaneously true that a group of not very good at something and that that group is the best at doing something.
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by adrianN 18d ago
Intelligence is probably at least partially inheritable. If intelligent people have fewer children you expect intelligence to go down eventually.
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by adrianN 18d ago
The best mathematicians are also not very good at solving the hardest problems though. By definition.
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by adrianN 18d ago
What percentage of the population is expected to get university education today vs the sixties?
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by adrianN 18d ago
Democracy breaks down when you demonize people with different opinions instead of figuring out on why they believe what they’re believing and on which topics you can find consensus. When you assume to know everything about a person by where
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by adrianN 19d ago
Customizing the experience is what the web is all about. The browser is a user agent not an advertising platform for the corporate overlords.
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by adrianN 19d ago
I don’t claim that nobody matches the stereotype.
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by adrianN 20d ago
„If the actors are good“ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The translators have to be good too btw.
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by adrianN 20d ago
The efficiency of responsibility laundering depends on your social standing. If people like you they welcome reasons not to prosecute you, if you are disliked people might go as far as to start prosecuting you for made up reasons. Instituti
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by adrianN 20d ago
I think that’sa harmful oversimplification. You should avoid arguing against a boogeyman version of your political opponents. People vote for crazy candidates for a multitude of reasons. Most people have fairly average opinions on the major
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by adrianN 20d ago
There is an interesting passage in Moby Dick where they talk about whether whaling could make whales go extinct, but the concern is brushed away as human hubris. How could humans completely destroy something that God created?
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by adrianN 20d ago
It's expensive to build enough batteries to cover a few days with very little generation. Hydrogen and gas turbines currently look cheaper.

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