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by beej71 9mo ago
Imagine a world where npm and all the other library repositories are 99% AI slop. And the posts about which library to choose are 99% AI-generated. It'll be so hard to find anything in the chaff you might get your old job as a dev back
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by beej71 9mo ago
What the Internet should be.
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by beej71 9mo ago
> When you demonstrate against them, or do stuff like get in their way or block their agents... Or do anything they don't like, like look at them funny.
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by beej71 9mo ago
> First, no citizens have been arrested. This is apparently not the case[1]. > if citizens are arrested they will eventually be released. Yes, but my point is that this will happen after the polls close. [1] https://www.pr
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by beej71 9mo ago
I know an America-First who runs their own business and imports a ton from China. Now they're feeling the pain, but I'm not sure it's changing any minds. It runs deep.
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by beej71 9mo ago
This is what I tell my students. The hard part of programming is the understand and plan phases and barely any of that takes place at the keyboard. The rest is just typing in your completed plan. And if you find yourself going in circles wh
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by beej71 9mo ago
I hope so.
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by beej71 9mo ago
I'll relax when it gets through SCOTUS (who has overturned nearly 90% of lower conservative court rulings to be in Trump's favor) and not a moment before.
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by beej71 9mo ago
It does not seem far-fetched the the plan would be to arrest anyone who looked vaguely non-white before they reach any swing-state polls in November. Just say it's to preserve the integrity of the vote. Just the threat of arrest would
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by beej71 9mo ago
> my lack of time coding assembly by hand has never hindered my career. I'd kinda like to see this measured. It's obviously not the assembly that matters for nine-9s of jobs. (I used assembly language exactly one time in my car
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by beej71 9mo ago
I don't disagree with the main thesis, but I do think it's relatively easy for skilled writers to outperform LLMs in terms of clarity and impact. Whether or not that advantage makes any business sense is another question.
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by beej71 9mo ago
"such as yellow fever" Yellow fever is spread through mosquito bites and polio is spread person-to-person. An imported case of yellow fever is nearly impossible to spread, while an imported case of polio is virtually certain to sp
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by beej71 9mo ago
This just seems like we're asking for it. We have historical examples of polio ripping through the US causing tremendous amounts of damage. We're going to have an unvaccinated populace and someone's going to get exposed.
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by beej71 9mo ago
And yet here we have a whole bunch of white guys tearing up the Constitution.
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by beej71 9mo ago
> The Supreme Court has told Trump to pound sand as often as it's upheld his policies. Has it? Last I saw, they had overturned nearly 90% of lower conservative court rulings to be in Trump's favor, and a huge portion of those
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by beej71 9mo ago
The thing is, right now we have very little evidence that there is any significant mail-in voting fraud. But we do have a fair amount of evidence that there is suppression of in-person voting. So neither of these systems is perfect, but we
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by beej71 9mo ago
To quote the article: "To be clear, we do not believe the solution to these issues is to avoid using LLMs, especially given the undeniable benefits they offer in many contexts. Rather, our message is that people simply need to become s
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by beej71 9mo ago
Only my own two eyes and my own learning experience. The fact is students will use LLMs no matter what you say. So any blanket "it's bad/good" results are not actionable. But if you told me every student got access to a
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by beej71 9mo ago
> I believe that explicitly teaching students how to use AI in their learning process, that the beautiful paper direct from AI is not something that will help them later, is another important ingredient. IMNSHO as an instructor, you beli
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by beej71 9mo ago
Because if an ICE agent violates your constitutional rights, you have zero recourse. There is no freedom. If you're not afraid of that, you got your head in the sand.
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by beej71 9mo ago
In my experience (programmer since 1983), it's massively faster to leverage an LLM and obtain quality code when working with technology that I'm proficient in . But when I don't have expertise, it's the same speed or ev
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by beej71 9mo ago
Lots of things aren't fearsome until they're pointed at you.
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by beej71 9mo ago
> at least the next 5 years That's not much of a flex. The people who are worried about China taking the lead are looking at velocity and acceleration, not position.
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by beej71 9mo ago
Yes, we did. And that discussion had a most definite conclusion.
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by beej71 9mo ago
Thank you! Cost me three points, but I really wanted this information and was having trouble finding it. :)
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by beej71 9mo ago
I think using AI for tech documentation is great for people who don't really give a shit about their tech documentation. If you were going to half-ass it anyway, you can save a lot of money half-assing it with AI.
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by beej71 9mo ago
I guess my question, given the GP's assertion that private citizens holding classified information isn't a crime, how does the law apply to Trump here? Is there another law saying that government officials need to return all class
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by beej71 9mo ago
> Is there any surprise that there's a dearth of armed citizens ready to stand up for them? Forget the left. Why don't they stand up for themselves?
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by beej71 9mo ago
How does this apply to Trump and mar-a-lago, then? Genuine question.
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by beej71 9mo ago
Seems like a decent balance to me. They note that there's no substitute for experiential learning. The harder you work, the more you get out of it. But there's a balance to be struck there with time spent. What I do worry about is

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