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by bitwize 7mo ago
Indeed. Even the ur-craftsman, John Carmack, says that delivering value to customers is pretty much the only thing that matters in development. If AI lets you do that faster, cheaper, you'd be a fool not to use it. There's a reaso
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by bitwize 7mo ago
A friend of mine works at a place whose CEO has been completely one-shotted; he vibe-coded an app and decided this could multiply their productivity like a hundredfold. And now he's implementing an AI mandate for every employee, replet
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by bitwize 7mo ago
It was also a direct reference to this scene from Back to the Future Part II : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMy1zO8m8sM
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by bitwize 7mo ago
AI is the much-hoped-for MBA's Stone, the magical substance which transmutes engineering work (costly) into managerial work (valuable).
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I remember seeing the department-store Packard Bell PCs on shelves. Packard Hells, I called them. About half of the display models were busted. I'm surprised that uninformed shoppers could remain uninformed after seeing that.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Last year's birthday present from me to my wife was a mix CD. I attempted to recreate Cereal Killer's Greatest Zukes Album, briefly mentioned in Hackers (1995): "All great artists that asphyxiated on their own vomit!"
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Wait, you type the code in directly? That's like a baby's toy!
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Ah, but if they were easier to do, would they be as effectice at stopping "bad" legislation?
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by bitwize 7mo ago
B-but... muh unicorn-like growth...!
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by bitwize 7mo ago
But in Her , Theodore and Samantha get into a bitter argument and break up before making up again, like regular humans do. It was actually a fairly touching story about relationships in general. LLM chatbots can't match that, they are
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by bitwize 7mo ago
P6 chip. Triple the speed of the Pentium. RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Sceptre used to sell dumb TVs but they seem to be exiting the marketplace. Computer monitors and digital signage may be your best bet. You'll have to save up for 'em but that was true of TV sets back in the day too.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
In the mid-90s the US government proposed that Clipper be used as the universal encryption standard for secure electronic communications in the civilian realm, all other cryptosystems being presumably forbidden. It was based on the idea o
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by bitwize 7mo ago
> There was a lot of piracy with MIDI software, at least in Europe. Hence why Gerhard Lengeling put at least as much time into the design of the dongle as he did Creator/Notator itself.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I didn't specify or imply what he spent the money on, only that he demanded compensation for his time and energy, and at quite a hefty (well-deserved) price. Whether he did that as himself or under GNU Project or FSF auspices is also i
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Sir, this is a Wendy's
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This is pretty much what Richard Stallman did. He acted as a consultant on GCC for organizations/businesses and charged $250/hr in 1990s dollars for the privilege of his time and expertise. If Mr. Free Software himself put a monet
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Dun & Bradstreet is a business credit agency. Having a D-U-N-S number, which they issue, is like table stakes for being taken seriously as a business.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
The Clipper chip is coming back.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
What helps me adjust is what I call Thanos-coding: trying to get AI to do the thing with contexts and agents and SDD and whateverthefuck, and if it gets tangled on its own shoelace say "Fine. I'll do it myself." Alternatively
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This isn't even our first AI hype cycle. That happened in the late 70s-80s. Every lab and agency needed Lisp machines to teach computers how to identify Russian missiles—or targets. The "GOFAI" techniques did not live up to
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Their marketing department is smoking a lot of hopium. I will now think of it as the ARM MatMul Unit.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
You know what? Good. Any one-shotted CEO who thinks this is the future and we MUST adopt it or else, should be first in line. Before anyone else in the org.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I really don't care about my intrinsic value as a person. Without this line of work I couldn't make enough to support my household by myself, which I must now do.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Probably, though I wasn't even talking about AI, I was talking about Microsoft's objections to when Casey Muratori told them that Windows Terminal sucked and they should be able to write one that goes at 60fps easy. The Windows Te
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I remember the first time trying to work with MFC. I was aghast at all the generated garbage the IDE produced. But I guess if you're a drone working in an insurance company somewhere, you don't want to have to deal with message lo
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by bitwize 7mo ago
"We've got some great people, phenomenal people, up there in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver... we're working with them on ideas for what it's gonna be like when I'm their President. Gonna be the best era ever in Canadia
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by bitwize 7mo ago
If the kid doesn't have a smartphone, and looks around and sees kids who do have one, they're gonna be envious and pissed when their parents tell them they can't have one. I know because it's analogous to what I felt whe
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by bitwize 7mo ago
The Canadian social safety net has big enough holes that rather than incur the costs as a first resort, the Canadian government has taken to passing out "are you aware of your options regarding MAID?" pamphlets to decidedly non-te
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by bitwize 7mo ago
This is the ultimate "parents think it's great, kids will think it's lame" product. I mean, I like it. And just the name conjures images of GenXers yelling at clouds on TikTok about how they used to use tin cans or Solo

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