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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
I sure wish I could relate to this but I haven't been at a company that hired juniors since i was the junior being hired 15 years ago.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Idk, I can imagine a specific weird usecase. I use IntelliJ. My coworkers don't. They don't want my .idea folder in git. (You're probably thinking "ok, yep, gitignore!" And you're right except my boss ideologic
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
People always point this out like it's some kind of gotcha. "But things were wrong before, too!" But it wasn't ON PURPOSE. The INTENT, by the people serving the search, was for the information to be correct. Algorithms t
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
I largely don't disagree with you but come to a different conclusion. I have two systems: 1) a "programming desktop" with a $500 upper mid range Ryzen (idr exact), 8GB VRAM Radeon card I bought solely for RuneScape, and 64GB
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Same. I have no desire to use Claude at all anymore.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
No, if anything, I would say a very unfortunate trait of existence right now is that reality does NOT tend to punish corporations for being completely idiotic, at least not very fast at all. Look at musk's companies. They will basicall
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
My sentiments too. I'm using Qwen 3.6 35B A3B on a machine with 64Gb ram and a 24GB 5090 (an Alienware 16 Area51 I bought, serendipitously, about 15 seconds before the idiots preordered all computers for the next 3 years and ruined eve
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
And thanks to AI, we could generate extremely convincing reams of code whose only purpose is to be fake unit tested. Amazing. I sincerely hope I never need to use this nuclear weapon.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Suno is completely incapable of producing heavy metal. I can't speak for other genres bc I don't listen to them, but what it produces is completely hollow and devoid of what makes metal metal. I also think most metal fans will cat
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
TBC I don't necessarily mean they're using them on those servers. Just saying the prices are peanuts to them. I find KVMs are usually used for non-rackmount / weird hardware that nonetheless ends up in a server room.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Right now I am not seeing a great track record of rich people being punished for crimes. The only one so far is Epstein and he was only punished for being caught .
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Because it takes actual creative talent to do more with more. Optimizing costs is far easier.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Just today, the LLM based auto-review that my company enabled for all PRs edited my PR description to confidently assert that I had added a new RPC. I had not. I deleted code and nothing else. Nothing was added. The RPC it claimed I added d
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
It's one of those things where $400 is WAY too much for a homelabber, but most companies (even small ones) can barely count that low when speccing out hardware, ESPECIALLY these days. $400 is like one hard drive in a machine that will
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Yeah. Capitalism has never been less about actual profits and efficiency than it is right now. They just tout whatever random thing they're currently doing, regardless of why they're doing it or whether it was voluntary or not, is
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
RTO is primarily pushed by the capitalist class, and managers are just stuck in the middle. No good manager wants pissed off employees, but managers who push back on the capitalist class do not stay managers long.
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
"If being in the office conforms to the interest of the capital class, it implies that WFH is inherently less efficient" only if the capital class is solely motivated by efficiency. I think this is trivially demonstrable to be not
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
Shorting stocks has a very high "you must be at least this right" bar in order to make money. And given the uncapped nature of losses - the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent - you need to also be real
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by atomicnumber3 4mo ago
"yes exactly. Too many people ask AI to one-shot complex tasks, and wonder it behaves like a junior asked to rush something." Because this version of AI is worth 10 trillion dollars. While the pragmatic versions from realists you
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
It's funny to me to imagine that the whole time humans were doing basically anything on this planet, nuclear fission was also already happening in a few places around the world. I wonder how much science would've been jump-started
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
Somehow one of the most fascinating aspects of LLMs is that they were able to basically both reveal corporate capitalism as primarily being about virtualized feudalism, and also casually ruin the entire world, just by their ability to gener
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
This feels very adjacent to the story about the whole town in debt, and the rich guy leaves a $100 bill on the table, [and so on], in a way that I can't quite put my finger on.
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
The problem is that aquifers are really cool natural filters, and only refill as fast as groundwater moves through the soil. So they're a finite resource. Instead of depleting them, people who want to farm in deserts should probably st
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
I find it does not do very well with go at all. I speculate that it's partly because go is going to be a language you find a lot of concurrent programming happening in. And sure enough, I find even the best claude is nearly useless at
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
I also find that every additional "constraint" you add in your context window, the dumber the agent gets, and it goes double if your constraint is unusual. To illustrate: "Do x" - for baseline, assume this generally does
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
Humble bundle might have a deal with them, given the charitable nature and also how long-running it is.
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
That latter bit is my experience. As soon as AI enters the equation, we have to immediately ignore everything we ever learned and just type text into the prompt box, or you're not doing it right.
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
What? You can literally just download an exe from any website and run it. If you're complaining that Valve owns a big list of games and a ton of eyeballs, and not being on that list means those eyeballs don't see you when they loo
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
"many engineers have not yet tried things that became feasible over the last months" I have heard this statement every single day for 2 years and yet we still have no companies compressing 10 years into 1 year thus exploding past
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by atomicnumber3 5mo ago
Honestly, the most impactful thing I've seen AI do for any workplace is serve as the ultimate excuse for whatever pet thing someone's wanted to do, that can't stand on its own merits, and what they really need is a solid excu

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