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by belZaah 7mo ago
An excellent analogy. Everyone is an expert in taking the photo. But this does not make them a photographer. Even that expert claim is actually not fully true, the phone camera is woefully inadequate in many ways. But the main difference be
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by belZaah 7mo ago
So it’s like code for execution via a llm or an interpreter? Have we invented source control yet?
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by belZaah 7mo ago
I used to manage NT-based infra back in the day, have been on a mac for 15 years now because of stuff like this. A few years ago I bought a Windows box for my daughter. Out of the box the clock was wrong and it would just hang on auto-updat
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by belZaah 7mo ago
The weird thing is the way it’s trash. It breaks weird things no dev should ever have to touch. At one point Excel left horizontal lines on screen, when scrolling. Bullets and numbering just straight up refuses to restart numbering. It _wor
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by belZaah 7mo ago
That’s a broken analogy. An intern and a llm have completely different failure modes. An intern has some understanding of their limits and the llm just doesn’t. The thing, that looks remarkably human, will make mistakes in ways no human wou
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by belZaah 7mo ago
I don’t think the objections are not necessarily in terms of lack of productivity although my personal experience is not that of massive productivity increases. The fact that you are producing code much faster is likely just to push the bot
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by belZaah 7mo ago
I’m not sure you are familiar with the way some traditional communities treat, say, single mothers. The system is, that if you make unfortunate choices (such as moving away from your support network and carrying your life savings where you
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by belZaah 7mo ago
Hats off for going to the Primary Source!
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by belZaah 7mo ago
> I believe in coding primarily as a means to an end Yes. Absolutely. To what end, though? Is your end deterministic like a cryptographic protocol or loose like pagination of a web page? Is your end feature delivery or 30 years of rock s
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by belZaah 7mo ago
It’s called emergent behavior. We understand how an llm works, but do not have even a theory about how the behavior emerges from among the math. We understand ants pretty well, but how exactly does anthill behavior come from ant behavior? I
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by belZaah 8mo ago
Not just that. An LLM is an universal middleman for anything creative. Books, code, music. Everything written, spoken or performed can be accessed as digested and mixed by the LLM. It breaks all content-relates business models by inserting
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by belZaah 8mo ago
What ticks me off in this is the statement, that a certain body shape is “unattainable for most”. I’m pretty sure the author does not have the data to back this up. Difficult? Yes. Requiring commitment? Absolutely. Unattainable? No. I reall
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by belZaah 8mo ago
There’s an old saying: if civil engineers built houses the way software people build software, the first woodpecker to appear would destroy the civilization. With Tesla, we build cars. That, as told in court documents, absolutely should con
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by belZaah 8mo ago
The premise here seems to be, that the code is where the value is created. That’s maybe true for some apps but not every one. Apps can facilitate interactions (eg Training Peaks), store data long term (eg MyFitnessPal) or act as a part of a
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by belZaah 8mo ago
These are objectively awful instruments. They were so bad (and hard to get), that it was a common practice to make your own. For these purposes, the public phone booths were frequently vandalized as the pnones contained mics, that could be
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by belZaah 8mo ago
This is true only for a small subset of problems. If you write crypto or hardware drivers, details do matter.
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by belZaah 8mo ago
Depends on the problem. If the complexity of what you are solving is in the business logic or, generally low, you are absolutely right. Manually coding a signup flow #875 is not my idea of fun either. But if the complexity is in the impleme
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by belZaah 9mo ago
Fundamentally, Amazon will not promise you they will break the law. They are subject to US regulations as well as German ones (in this case). If these regulations demand your data be accessed or removed or keys compromised, it will happen.
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by belZaah 9mo ago
Some internal Skype versions had cat detection. When the client discovered cat-like key presses, the other side would see a cat walking animation instead of typing animation. Don’t think this feature ever made it to a public release.
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by belZaah 9mo ago
If that is true, and a given history of prompts combined with a given mosel always gives the same code, then you have invented what’s called a compiler. Take human-readable text and convert it into machine code. Which means we have a much h
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by belZaah 9mo ago
Welcome, kids, to how all web development was done 25-30 years ago. You typed up html, threw in some scripts (once JavaScript became a thing) and off you went. No CMS, no frameworks. I know a guy who wrote a fully functional client-side ban
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by belZaah 9mo ago
University of Tartu sysadmins used to point warez.ut.ee to 127.0.0.1 back in 1993 just to confuse warez-interested but ill-educated youth like myself.
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by belZaah 9mo ago
You can exercise your ankles so they are less likely to crumble if forced into an awkward position. Also look at where your feet land compared to each other: if one is almost ahead of the other (think camel stride), your foot is to the left
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by belZaah 9mo ago
Trail running is fun. But it’s probably not the surface but the technique change, that gets rid of the pain. I’m currently going through the process of shifting my running technique to where I push rather than pull myself forward and it’s a
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by belZaah 9mo ago
AI could make me probably more productive in, say, Word. If it would be integrated into Mac Word the way it’s there in VSCode. Which it isn’t. But while they do that, the writing software I’ve used for 30+ years gets worse and worse devouri
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by belZaah 9mo ago
I’m working on a research proposal to basically take cybernetics and system dynamics to the problem of human weight management. We know a lot about individual mechanisms of how our body regulates food intake and calorie expenditure, but to
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by belZaah 9mo ago
I find it strange, to what extent people dive into the process of software design while calling it system design. Is your dev team junior or senior? Are they all in an office somewhere or divided between two sites 4 timezones appart? How’s
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by belZaah 9mo ago
The function of a system is what adds value to someone. The form is what incurs costs. These both are part of your system architecture. Thus, if your architecture is badly done, there is nothing left over between value added and cost and th
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by belZaah 9mo ago
Typing arcane language into a computer has never been the hard part of programming. Getting a flight ticket was the hard part of making travel happen. No Silver Bullet is as valid today as it was back then.
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by belZaah 10mo ago
True. Those demagogues are typically not up for sale, though. Given the scale of the current revenue gap, it’s not if but when we find there being a price on how bad the situation in South Africa seems to be.

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