bluegatty

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by bluegatty 2mo ago
A bit bewildering but a small variation of this work: do a ton of experimental branches that you just don't merge. It's amazing how the AI can learn from branches that ran up against a wall. I don't think that you need to mak
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
a shocking number of devs don't describe their jobs that way either. people who self learn will tend to focus on the code not the proecess
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
"wear additional, invisible hats " No ... those are not invisible hats ... those are the real hats . Software is 'Knowledge Distillation' the code is the hieroglyphic artifacts. Engineers Engineer, Scribes Scribe. Ju
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
"If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years" It's like saying 'Lawyers write documents!' for their job ... no, that's just an artifact. Architecture,
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Yes, I litereally indicated they should not be able to use the tool that way. Just like cops should not be able to ram their cars into people , or pepper spray peole in the face just because someone refused to show their id? Like - you peop
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
No, the AI is writing code not architecture. And it's the same for all disciplines. There will be no mass job layoffs for antying but relatively automatable stuff.
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
If we had decent AI we'd only be asking users about serious issues that need some thinking. 99% of requests are valid, how on earth can't we have observer AI to enact policy on those?
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Then your argument is we should have no police 'because power corrupts' I don't think this is reasonable or principled. The evidence here is that Flock can be used maliciously, I don't think anyone doubts that, the quest
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
No, there's nothing specific or inherent about Flock that is specifically helping cops bad bad. This is not like something that helps them cover their tracks, or hide behind some tool. I don't like Flock, but it's the 's
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
You started out right but this: "This will ruin lives, even if they're eventually let go. Jobs lost, evicted from homes, cars towed, pets surrendered and put down." No. The 'domestic violence and prohibited substances&#x
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Don't use Oracle for anything.
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
It's ok though - the US Forces do have 'the best logistics in the world' - that's not an unfair claim at all. They are exceedingly exceptional. But all of these systems have limits and characterizations. US would be hard
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
"It is widows and orphans." - you lost the argument by trying to characterize these people as innocents, because it's such an awful position it undermines your own legitimacy. These are 'Cártel de los Soles' etc the
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
It's fair to say overall engagements were bad, but it's hard to argue that a military looses when it streamrolls the opponent, and then 'decides to leave'. The US generally wins wars, but can fail on occupational and gra
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Yes, that's a fair assessment, but then general context is still one of very specific strategic targeting. And FYI it's not just about 'Oil Prices', the US has left many other strategic industries in place whereas by any
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
The difference is deliberate and arbitrary attack of civilians at scale and total lack of concern - popularly, politically, operationally, and practically for casualties outside military targeting. The notion one would even try to compare &
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Planes aircrew high fixed/operating cost - lower unit costs on strikes. Missiles, more expensive - depending on. Missiles are not 'rocket science' - pun intended. They're expensive because of the overhead of military ind
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
US has 600 air refuelling aircraft and 40 naval supply ships. US power is mostly strategic, it's 'Air Based' which gives the kind of instant leverage leaders like. It's 'Aircraft Carrier Based'. The US doesn&#x
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
No - the Iran war is a total strategic failure, but the US is very obviously 'exceptional' - I'm not saying necessarily admirable, or more moral etc but it is hugely 'stand out' in terms of capabilities. That's
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
In some ways yes, not in others.
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
They are not cheaper losses, because production capacity for those things is very limited. Missiles are always easier to replace then platforms of any kind. But yes - a single, lone captive could cause political devastation.
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
It's easy to believe, it's hard to realize. The conflict with Iran is only 'minor' in certain respects, it's a major air campaign otherwise, involving strategic bombing on par with the Iraq War 2 - or at least the i
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Good point, but extensibility != OSS though. JetBrains and Claude/ChatGPT are not open source. I think we would like them to be ... but ...
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Totally agree; we can't leverage good stuff because we are mess. There are some sorts of protocols and conventions that might help with this. For example, not-for profit medical systems can hold certain records , then problems are regi
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
Railroads were a legitimate innovation that reshaped industry and society, there was no doubt about that - but it required massive capital expenditures, even buy in from regular people. As a result, there was speculative bubble, massive ove
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
No - the growth today is capital expenditures, not productivity. To be fair, the industrial revolution was a 100 year period or so, computers, web, cloud, mobile and AI will likely be perceived in the same historical framework. AI will take
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
This is not 'productivity mirage' this is just 'tooling mirage'.
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
First - it's an examples, it's not about 'why do that?' - that's another question entirely. Second - it is very wrong to imply 'the AI has bad training data for JS / TS' - that's generally not ho
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
No - that is the wrong analogy. 'Lisp' is an arcane tool and it's highly debatable in the objective sense if 'Lisp' is better. The analogy is someone is saying that 'cars are useless' and that everyone sho
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by bluegatty 3mo ago
" but the software will be fine if you don't." " You already know that the quality will be on par with what you would have written yourself." No - I totally don't agree. I've almost never seen a situation

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