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by arkh 1y ago
> Now that you got caught you are fixing it and writing fancy PR fluff. Nope, "the revenge of Clippy" is doing the writing.
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by arkh 1y ago
> For instance, observers have noted the rise of “tortured phrases” used to evade automated integrity software, such as “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”. This has been a thing for years in the social media
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by arkh 1y ago
> The powers that drive this machine are malignant and constantly striving for monopolization and domination. Competition has become a thing to be avoided, rather than relished. So, Ayn Rand was right in her diagnosis?
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by arkh 1y ago
The author just want a medal saying they're Technical. Whatever this means, it is important to them. Like a child and a sheriff medal. "Technical" is the current cool club to be in and they want in. I guess technical is &quot
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by arkh 1y ago
> how incredibly stingy tech companies are about spending any money on support Which is crazy. Support is part of marketing so it should get the same kind of consideration. Why do people think Amazon is hard to beat? Price? nope. Product
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by arkh 1y ago
The USA is not the whole Western world. And in most of the Western World the main culture accept trans people. They may differ on who can take pills at what age or if the state should pay for surgeries (is it cosmetic, is it vital) but peop
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by arkh 1y ago
Let me be bold: transphobia is counter-culture nowadays (at least in Western societies). Counter-culture is not always a good thing.
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by arkh 1y ago
Yup, ytmnd predates it a couple year.
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by arkh 1y ago
> The reality is AI will change how software is built Yup, now instead of blindly using tab to autocomplete I have to check the "AI" is not fucking up before pressing the key.
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by arkh 1y ago
> you're kind of end up paying them 10x more than if you had taken the extra time to deploy it yourself The length to which many devs will go to not learn server management (or SQL).
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by arkh 1y ago
All the result of A/B tests. Everything will converge to give you an engaging experience for most people. The only not too bad student is reddit which lets you keep using their older UI if you want to. But everything else is pushing ne
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by arkh 2y ago
The best is still to not have to commute. Work from Home when your job allows it should be the norm, not the exception. No time lost commuting, no fuel / electricity used to move and roads are less congested for people who have to comm
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by arkh 2y ago
I don't see the problem. How many CEO are also on the board of multiple companies? If people at the top can be employed by multiple companies, anyone with a job involving less responsibility doing the same should be ok.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Many of these agencies are from collectivist cultures, so in the mind of the agency, they all work in our project. This may not be true, but the agency sees the position as theirs, not the recruit's. So they typically don't t
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by arkh 2y ago
> most of the "foundational" knowledge is very easy to acquire But you have to know this knowledge exists in the first place. That's part of the appeal of university teaching: it makes you aware of many different paradigms
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by arkh 2y ago
Managers serve one function no AI will replace: they're fuses C-suits can sacrifice when shit hit the fan.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Who are all these all these engineers who just take whatever garbage they are suggested, and who, without understanding it, submit it in a CL? My guess would be engineers who are "forced" to use AI, already mailed management
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by arkh 2y ago
> The best devs talk to principal engineers and junior devs alike. There is no hierarchy. They try to learn from everyone, young and old. The newcomers often aren’t entrenched in office politics yet and still have a fresh mind. They don’
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by arkh 2y ago
> Infected development toolchains can spread horizontally to “secure” builds. Nowadays there are so many microcontrolers in your PC an hardware vendor could simply infect: your SSD, HDD, Motherboard or part of the processor. Good luck bo
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by arkh 2y ago
> This means a worker running in the same data center hosting your D1 databases might get ~10ms requests This is already waaaaaay too much. Same datacenter I expect nano seconds round trips. Datacenter to a datacenter on the other side o
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by arkh 2y ago
The original meaning of mechanical Turk is about a chess hoax and how it managed to make people think it was a thinking machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk The current LLM anthropomorphism may soon b
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by arkh 2y ago
> Of course this means >200ms to even hit the server when requests don't come from the same data center. What world are you living in? When using a European server from Europe I expect < 10ms ping. Less than 100ms for East coa
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by arkh 2y ago
The main problem is the lack of responsibility all along the chain. 25 years and people who shifted blame and were OK with people going to prison so their bonus would not be impacted are still enjoying life out of jail. Seeing this lack of
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by arkh 2y ago
At least they only got fired. Not prosecuted for fraud like the British postal service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal > In all, between 1999 and 2015, over 900 subpostmasters were prosecu
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by arkh 2y ago
Seen this real-life: management ask for some unannounced change on prices. Everyone in IT tells them "this is gonna backfire fast". No way to budge them on it so we apply. A couple hours later support and sales are getting hammere
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by arkh 2y ago
In military term you'd call this "fat" the reserve: an unused percentage of your capacity which you can deploy to exploit an opportunity or to plug a hole. Now, the difference between those reserves and what you usually get i
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by arkh 2y ago
50 years ago, in "The Mythical Man-Month" Fred Brooks was already discussing the cost of cloud based solutions. > Since size is such a large part of the user cost of a programming system product, the builder must set size targe
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by arkh 2y ago
> rough on the body and doesn't even provide proper health care or sick days to rest That's why I'm bullish on human shaped drones controlled with full-body trackers. If you could do most physical jobs without being physic
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by arkh 2y ago
Pkl to bind them all? https://pkl-lang.org/index.html
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by arkh 2y ago
My current case is: whatever you'll look for in a hardware store. So anything yeah: muzzle width, wood length, protective gear, liquid quantities, animal food etc. And depending on the client vertical they tend to not use the same voca

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