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by beej71 7mo ago
Political engineering angle: "These people will not rest until they are able to read your child's messages."
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by beej71 7mo ago
Smells like shareware from the old days. Didn't mind it then, either.
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by beej71 7mo ago
I've often wondered why the stock market oscillates while Trump is in office. If I just knew a little in advance...
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by beej71 7mo ago
To answer the OP's question, apparently not! :)
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by beej71 7mo ago
I don't think it's worthless. It can greatly speed up coding. And learning foreign languages. And many other things. But I do think humanity is worse off because of it. So I'm a detractor in that way. :)
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by beej71 7mo ago
It's not the robots that are going to blow the floor out of the trades; it's the legions of people joining the trades that will do it.
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by beej71 7mo ago
They're having computers make management decisions...
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by beej71 7mo ago
If it's for aliens, why does it ask you to verify that you're human? This government makes no sense!
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by beej71 7mo ago
Seems to be ok in Alaska.
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by beej71 7mo ago
Except that it will cause far more damage than it mitigates.
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by beej71 7mo ago
No, but it does mitigate the damage... where are we in this analogy anymore? :laughing:
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by beej71 7mo ago
And voter ID will fix this?
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by beej71 7mo ago
We should probably stop telling the cops that this hammer is great for drywall.
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by beej71 7mo ago
> I feel like this is really about how your identify is tied up in what you do. This is it for me. One thing that's important to my identify making things. And I have a lot of trouble saying I made a thing that I asked someone (or s
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by beej71 7mo ago
No. Because operating a motor vehicle is a very dangerous activity. This a very is a poor analogy that you have here.
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by beej71 7mo ago
> What constitutes an ID being expensive? If you're talking about this as a requirement for voting, then anything greater than $0 is too expensive since it smells like a poll tax.
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by beej71 7mo ago
> Neither is voting free It's pretty free. You sit down at your table, fill out your ballot, and drop it in the mailbox. You don't even need a stamp. (In some jurisdictions.)
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by beej71 7mo ago
We curl up on the couch and look at our phones. ;) Actually we've made an effort to have people over more now, and we gather around the coffee table to chat. And even when we don't have people over, we're more likely to talk
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by beej71 7mo ago
Searching for "commercial display" will get you some dumb TVs. They tend to cost 2x, but you get what you pay for. We just gave away our 55" Hisense to our friend. I hope she doesn't think it means we hate her now. ;) (S
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by beej71 8mo ago
I don't see demand dropping in the medium to long term. Businesses like to grow, and two devs with AI are better than one. And one dev with AI is better than one non-dev with AI. The job is changing, and I don't like it in many wa
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by beej71 8mo ago
> Short of voting, protesting and getting into arguments with MAGA people I don't know what else I can effectively do. Also: Give money to organizations that are doing the work on your behalf. Lawsuits are still important. Call or w
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by beej71 8mo ago
You're getting downvoted, but people should be aware that arguments like this sometimes only reinforce the other party's position in their minds. My recommendation is also not to bother with those debates (unless you're doing
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by beej71 8mo ago
I view this as a massive personal challenge. Can I write instructional materials that are better than an AI summary? I'm going to keep trying, even as books become obsolete.
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by beej71 8mo ago
I agree partially, but I think there might be a ton of connections in the training data that aren't obvious to humans. And being a word prediction engine is all about making those connections.
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by beej71 8mo ago
But we also at HN have historically called your experience "anecdata" and take it with a grain of salt. Don't take offense. Provide more data. I humbly suggest that a more hacker response would be, "That's really in
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by beej71 8mo ago
Yeah, this is a dictator's dream scenario and hell for the citizens. Not only do you not want to get caught for saying something that The Great Leader disapproves of, but you're terrified that anything you say might get flagged by
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by beej71 8mo ago
> Soon it'll be faster to one-shot the tiny slice of functionality I need from Adobe CS than to navigate their subscription cancellation obstacle course. Pretty sure you're already in that world. ;)
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by beej71 8mo ago
From my naive standpoint, LLMs like this seem to have some big strengths. One: possession of a superhuman expanse of knowledge. Two: making connections. Three: tireless trial and error. If you put those three things together, you end up wit
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by beej71 8mo ago
Oh shit... Ok... Um... Beej's Guide to Network Programming is now $500! Respect me!
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by beej71 8mo ago
Not the GP, but I'll answer: their now-inevitable global leadership in technological and scientific advancements--that is what I want to copy.

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