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by bccdee 11mo ago
> If I give a random person off the street a nail gun, circular saw and a stack of wood If this is meant to be an analogy for AI, it doesn't make sense. We've seen what happens when random people off the street try to vibe-code
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I mean, of course the people who left wanted to leave. What about people who actually live in China?
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by bccdee 11mo ago
Banning encryption proved infeasible, so they just switched to programs like PRISM instead. That was very successful.
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> Especially with this strongly pro-American, strongly pro-privacy admin lol "pro-privacy" and "pro-cop" are diametrically opposed, and Republicans pick "pro-cop" every time. And "pro-American" doe
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> There weren't many actual communists in Russia What's this claim based on? Hierarchies are fractal; at every level of an ideological authoritarian society, comfort and influence are only granted in exchange for affirming and
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> Karl Marx said that in the first stage of communism there would be a required period of dictatorial control Not that it particularly matters, but he didn't say that. Marx never set down specific ideas about how a communist or prot
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> the debtor could have sold the bike to pay the debts …so clearly the bike was worth more to them than its cash value. Again: They probably needed that bike for work. Losing their job will easily cost them more than $400. > yet no on
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by bccdee 11mo ago
Nail guns are great because they're instant and consistent. You point, you shoot, and you've unimpeachably bonded two bits of wood. For non-trivial tasks, AI is neither of those. Anything you do with AI needs to be carefully revie
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by bccdee 11mo ago
The spectre of the "wasteful welfare recipient" is invoked constantly, but I've never seen any of these people. The poor people I've known are, by necessity, quite careful with money.
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by bccdee 11mo ago
It's honestly amazing how many people hold a powerful a conviction that the world is essentially fair; that the poor must have some moral failing which justifies their poverty. If it's happened to thousands of people—if you see th
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> who would gladly give them the guest room for a few weeks Yeah, a couple weeks and then what? Couch-surfing is a form of homelessness, and the membrane between sleeping on a couch and sleeping on the street can be very thin, especially
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by bccdee 11mo ago
Oh really? Where? How can you tell they're reckless or lazy and not (e.g.) disabled?
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> They found a way to move up. Yeah, and they probably had to spend money to make that happen. Night courses at a community college aren't free. A higher minimum wage makes it easier to get your foot in the door for something better
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> Most Americans have a car (in my country this is a luxury) Using this as an example to illustrate a broader point: Most Americans can't afford not to have a car. Public transit in the US is next to non-existent in many places. I
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I think that's a comforting lie people like to tell themselves. Lots of hard-working people never get their due. In reality, people who escape bad circumstances often just get lucky. That's hard to accept, because nobody "des
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I don't think you've even thought about this for 30 seconds. > If it could easily fetch more money, it would have been bid higher than £50. Have you ever been to one of these auctions? I haven't. If I want a used vehicle,
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by bccdee 11mo ago
We live in the live service microtransaction era. Gamers have proven as resolute as wet tissue.
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I think you may live in a bubble. By some estimates, the game industry is worth as much as music and film put together
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I think it's a price issue. VR is fun, but a headset costs more than it's worth. Prices aren't out yet, but the whole foveated streaming thing seems like cost-cutting tech, and it'd be smart for them to position themselv
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> Let's take someone who once upon a time was responsible for grading papers. As far as that person is concerned, AGI has arrived for their profession You're talking about TAs. I know TAs. Their jobs have not disappeared. They
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by bccdee 11mo ago
> Robots combined with AI will be creating that value. Will they? Within what timeframe? Because a bubble economy can't be told to "just hang on a few more years" forever. LLMs are normal technology; they will not suddenly
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by bccdee 11mo ago
I find the argument for the bubble to be extremely straightforward. Currently, investment into AI exceeds the dot-com bubble by a factor of 17. Even in the dot-com era, the early internet was already changing media and commerce in fundament
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by bccdee 1y ago
Spec & Malli look cool. But my concern is more with something like this (reusing my earlier example): let mut authn = UserLoginView.build(userDataRepository); let session = authn.login(user, pwd); // vs let session =
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by bccdee 1y ago
I don't have a problem with accessible development tools like that, but they do have tradeoffs. An Excel spreadsheet is an excellent tool for some business calculations, but once you start asking questions like, "can we add some a
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Option 2 sucks because your Object hierarchy is combinatorial on the number of distinct _callers_. I kinda like that. Suppose we do something like `let mut authn = UserLoginView.build(userDataRepository); let session = authn.login(user
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by bccdee 1y ago
The thing about that is that you can only ever YOLO the superficial layers of your architecture, and only ever in certain ways. Having a YOLOable system requires deliberate and considered architectural choices deeper down.
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by bccdee 1y ago
What makes it rapid is taking shortcuts. There's no silver bullet for increasing speed while preserving maintainability and extensibility. Prioritizing speed is exactly the problem described in the post you're responding to.
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by bccdee 1y ago
> It's trivial to ensure that only one message is delivered to only one consumer if that's what you want. Consumer groups track their offset and then commit the offset, the message stays in Kafka but it won't be read again
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by bccdee 1y ago
One of the big benefits of CQRS is that everything becomes asynchronous, and you can handle write-heavy data with stream processing. Implementing distributed locks across your stream processing system is... unpleasant to contemplate. If you
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Irrelevant, as a) that's just your own personal and very subjective opinion Yes? And it's just your personal, subjective opinion that this is irrelevant. Most meaningful judgments are subjective. Get used to it. > DDD is e

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