andrekandre

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by andrekandre 5d ago
> Capitalism isn't an ideology your confusing trading/markets with capitalism; they aren’t the same thing, and it definitely has ideology(ies) https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism
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by andrekandre 5d ago
nowadays i can’t even start a day without a fresh cup of jev in the morning…
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by andrekandre 5d ago
> Jev is a new type of model that just makes decisions based on given options. something like “if x > y then x else y”?
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by andrekandre 5d ago
you will be assimilated
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by andrekandre 5d ago
5 years of (200/month) tokens at that price, meanwhile an rtx 5090 pc is about half that… hmm but i wonder how much these token costs are sustainable or not, it may be in the long term cheaper to have your own hardware if token costs g
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by andrekandre 8d ago
maybe its the verb? what about `exclude()` or `keep()`? in those cases its less ambiguous (to me anyways) that returning true means 'yes' to 'keep' or 'exclude', whereas saying yes or no to filter is like &#x27
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by andrekandre 8d ago
> amnesia is driven by materialist consumerism anecdotally, but i see this everywhere not just in tech...
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by andrekandre 8d ago
> resulting in 10GB stored in a few days for what should have been like 5 MB of data something for all those new datacenters to take care of (only half sarcastic i'm afraid)
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by andrekandre 8d ago
> Why does it feel like we've forgotten how to automate things? everybody is too busy everyday fighting fires to garden all those standard automations; its much "easier" to just throw it at an llm and move on (just
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by andrekandre 9d ago
> I always struggle to remember if ‘filter’ keeps elements that match the condition or removes them if you had parameter names maybe it might help? `filter(where:)` like in swift...?
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by andrekandre 10d ago
thanks for the thoughtful reply ^^ yes, regardless how one feels about "ai", its obvious to me its basically gasoline being dumped on this "faster and more" culture we are all suffering from...
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by andrekandre 11d ago
> obsession over quantity and speed over everything else i think this is a problem larger than just programming; we see it everywhere in western(ish) culture more and more ime....
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by andrekandre 11d ago
> We're souless automatons feeding a machine god. whats the machine, capitalism?
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by andrekandre 11d ago
> something as mundane and non-violent as computer programming gets compared with violent combat ever worked at s large corporation?
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by andrekandre 11d ago
not that i disagree, but its funny because i just came back from a presentation from a "chief ai officer" where he boldly stated that ai is the next big abstraction for programmers (even had fancy charts and tables to boot)
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by andrekandre 11d ago
> I still wouldn't want to put in the capital resources towards it. do these ai-startups require a lot of capital?
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by andrekandre 12d ago
> cause your business to really spend a lot of time shepherding the tech over the finish line some may be better than others, but isnt this basically true for all these 'multiplatform' systems? i have nightmares of al
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by andrekandre 14d ago
i hear a server rack had been hit with a subpoena...
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by andrekandre 14d ago
"boys with toys"
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by andrekandre 16d ago
n+1, i hope they continue it as well its a great form-factor and pretty tough as well
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by andrekandre 17d ago
whats that saying? "i broke in to steal the tv and found you already had stole it"?
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by andrekandre 19d ago
> People everywhere want to strive, work hard and get ahead. i think you need to visit more countries and cultures because you would discover this is not at all true
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by andrekandre 19d ago
column view is the one saving grace of finder; the rest is best left untouched
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Cory Doctorow on the Big AI Lie [video](youtube.com)
11 points by andrekandre 20d ago|0 comments
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by andrekandre 20d ago
its like in the exorcist, except the demon is the charity: "the power of capitalism compels you!"
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by andrekandre 20d ago
i literally tell it "explain it like a 5 year old can understand" and "keep it under 100 characters".. helps somewhat (its still an llm so caveat emptor)
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by andrekandre 20d ago
> But as this type of task is literally the least liked task in programming, the programmer passes it off to the LLM as well to avoid burnout... this is my daily life now and its miserable its an overload spiral that gets worse a
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by andrekandre 21d ago
jira and confluence come to mind...
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by andrekandre 21d ago
at some point we need to stop caring what china is doing and start doing what is needed for ourselves... this "china is doing x so we have to do y" china derangement is ruining everything.
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by andrekandre 21d ago
> But nobody gets rich that way so you end up buying into a worse system software development is like this too; you can do fine without all the fancy ceremonies and tools as long as you get the basics right, but rent-seeking and

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