benrutter

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by benrutter 2mo ago
Not OP but yes if you consume more jam (not if you consume the same over a period of time, because you're then just paying less for jam over a wider time scale). The example I've heard given is accounting and spreadsheets. It ma
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by benrutter 2mo ago
Anyone have info on if other platforms are seeing the same scaling? And if so, are they seeing problems too? I definitely only hear about GitHub outages, but it is a lot bigger than the others.
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by benrutter 2mo ago
Those kind of abstract CS interview questions never feel that helpful to me, but in all honesty, your story sounds like a job of the interview working. You were able to demonstrate that you were enthusiastic and knowledge about programming
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by benrutter 2mo ago
Tangent, but I have a theory that refactoring is one of the best symptoms of a healthy dev team. It's partly that refactors themselves have benefits, but I think more that the benefits to refactoring aren't visible to something
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by benrutter 2mo ago
> Opposing fascism supported on dehumanizing policies such as racial supremacy is not a mere difference in opinion, as is pushes to invade and annex other countries. I'm not sure, I'd say two things: - I think "mere differ
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by benrutter 2mo ago
> You have both US governments and US oligarchs openly pushing and directly promoting fascist and extremist political parties, while at the same time threatening with annexation and military interventions. I think the first part of this
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by benrutter 2mo ago
As a UK citizen, it's interesting to think back to Barack Obama's attempt to convince the country not to vote for Brexit (saying the UK would "go to the back of the line" for future trade deal negotiations). I think the
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by benrutter 2mo ago
I'd be cautious describing market sell offs as good news for anyone since the fall out could be pretty bad (that's a "worst case" scenario, so far nothing like that) There's some winners though, people dumping AI st
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by benrutter 2mo ago
I agree that'd be good long term, like the dot com crash. But I wouldn't write off the short term negatives either- the dot com crash was not fun for a lot or people, an AI crash isn't set to be a blast either.
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by benrutter 2mo ago
It probably depends on how people interpret it right? I doubt anyone is saying "I love being tracked" - but some people might choose personalized ads over anonymous ones. I don't really use youtube natively a lot anymore, but
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by benrutter 2mo ago
Yup! Not affiliated in anyway, just a fan. I like jupyter but marimo's my go to for a few reasons: - Automatic reactivity can be turned on (will trigger dependent cells if you uptade an upstream one) - Much nicer non-json file format (
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by benrutter 3mo ago
Simple but pretty common use case: If you're ever looking at some pre-existing code and thinking "I don't really get why it's written like this?", you can get a lot out of looking through the git blame/history.
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I think 5 years ago, we'd just have thought this was a "badly designed menu" and moved on, but now AI has taught us to feel a deep sense of disappointment with it's particular blend of poor personality-less design. I was
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> Miss sized models plan out each requirement, and smaller models implement a tightly detailed task? Isn't this the standard approach? It is, but the article is suggesting something different. The central idea is to use /prewal
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I can't tell if you're being serious, but if so, this is a bit silly. It feels like saying Covid 19 was no big thing because the Black Death of the 1300s was much worse. But even more so than that, your own wikipedia article seems
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I loved this article! Regardless of how you feel about AI as an industry or tool, the economics of AI is fascinating. It's awesome to see something like this that gets into the business side a bit more. I don't know if I agreed to
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> historically we didn’t have LLMs which don’t mind “unpleasant[ness]” and “heavy rework”. I'm not quite as optimistic. "Unpleasantness" might sound like subjective disgust, but it often relates to objective criteria like
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by benrutter 3mo ago
If you're looking for a non-ghostty recommendation (not that I have anything against ghostty) I use alacritty + zellij and it works fantastic. It doesn't seem to impact battery, I certainly get good battery usage on both my work a
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by benrutter 3mo ago
>Staging Ground is available to two different types of users on Stack Overflow: > > - Users who are asking their first questions > - Users who want to review and offer guidance on newcomers’ posts It looks a little different, li
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I remember some moderator having a go at me for answering someone's question (apparently the question wasn't high quality, and me helping them has encouraging "the wrong type of question" for the site). AI is a part if S
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> - tangled federates: https://blog.tangled.org/federation People have been talking about federation across forges for a couple of years and seems like its finally at least close to being a real thing!? That's absol
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by benrutter 3mo ago
Of course!
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I was thinking about the combination of: - Human impact on the environment, which e-waste is a big part of, is causing damage to wildlife, and serious climate change. - There's huge awareness of and push back against bad hardware pract
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by benrutter 3mo ago
Yeah, that's really not great at all! From their website: > Wait, it's single use? Yes. We know this sounds a bit odd, but in this particular circumstance we believe it's the best solution to the given set of constraints I
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by benrutter 3mo ago
Tangent, but anyone who's a fan of Typer, I'd massively recommend Cyclopts! It's essentially the same design, but takes advantage of some of the type features python introduced post Typer being written, to make things a littl
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I like the idea of trying to make email more about human-to-human connection with less focus on automated-stuff-to-human. The bit I don't understand, is what about where you need the automated-stuff-to-human, like, authenticating a new
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> I get about 10 AI generated spam emails a day that get through my spam filter. Yikes, that's sounds unworkable for a lot of people! Most people in here are techies and use email all the time, but some use cases (say, contractors w
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> Done isn’t when your work is over. Done is when value is created in the world. I don't get what the context behind this is? What's the intended goal of gatekeeping the word "done"? For me, I normally come up into &q
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by benrutter 3mo ago
> So you have Android Automotive? (stupid name) Yes I do! And yes it is! It's a fairly recent Volvo, and it has a sim card (or something along those lines) that connects to the internet. It also can use a phones connection via bluet
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by benrutter 3mo ago
I haven't tried it (I thought my comment made that clear, but sorry if it didn't). I definitely did look at the page and watch some of the videos though. Maybe I'm missing something but to me: - It describes itself early in t

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