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by bsder 1y ago
> people are really bad at spotting AI slop Erm, guilty as charged? Although, I don't think you can blame people for that. There was a video recently comparing a bunch of "influencer girls" that had signs of "This is
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by bsder 1y ago
A much bigger problem is that when an AI/LLM coughs up code, you have absolutely no idea what the copyright or license is.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Not enough trades persons, building supplies, capital to solve that problem. The salaries of most tradespeople are not increasing significantly. That would imply that the field doesn't see a shortage. Given how damaging manual la
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by bsder 1y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. Maybe he got missed--let's concede that. What about the other 10 or 100 or 1000 or subjected themselves to tests and didn't find anything? Where are their stories? If you have enough people, t
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by bsder 1y ago
> All rational people agree that Obamacare sucks. Um, no, we don't. Remember recission panels? Remember not being able to get insurance if you had sleep apnea (aka pre-existing condition)? I can go on and on about exactly how insu
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by bsder 1y ago
> Unfortunately it never got traction. Categorically not true. Tcl got a LOT of traction. Expect was everywhere. Tk kicked ass and took names. AOLserver, anyone? VLSI CAD stuff still uses it today. It just got pushed out of the wa
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by bsder 1y ago
Winning at chess is more "avoid gigantic blunders" than "make brilliant moves". Zig feels like one of the few programming languages that mostly just avoids gigantic blunders. I have some beefs with some decisions, but no
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by bsder 1y ago
There are things that are objectively a "bad fit". As long as you steer away from those, the "good" choices are mostly interchangeable--use what you prefer.
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by bsder 1y ago
I really wish people would quit pushing "functional". People equate that with "My programming is now always a recursive logic puzzle." Talk about "immutable by default". Talk about "strong typing".
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by bsder 1y ago
Yes, everybody in JaneStreet is expected to be able to use Ocaml, Neovim, and R/Julia/etc. Everybody in the company is expected to be able to sling numbers in text on a computer super efficiently.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Narrow AI, AI with guardrails, AI with multiple safety redundancies - these don't elicit the same reaction. They seem to be valid, acceptable forms of automation. Maybe because AI is only good at things that have been artificially
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by bsder 1y ago
> As much as I want independent EU software ecosystem, I don't think using public funding can breed anything but more corruption. Well, you described what happens when you outsource everything. Governments used to ... gasp ... empl
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by bsder 1y ago
Extra supply is helping, but I would argue back-to-office and layoffs are the primary culprit. You're not competing with 4+ techbros to an apartment in downtown Austin anymore. Anecdotally, the local tech meetups are WAY off in parti
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by bsder 1y ago
> With git bisect, all of sudden a normal user was able to bisect the kernel by himself and point to the concrete commit (and dev) that broke things. Huh. Thanks for pointing that out. I definitely would never have thought about the us
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by bsder 1y ago
> I'm not following: Rust excels at C interop Zig is an example of excelling at C interop--not Rust. And Cargo is an impediment in the embedded ecosystem rather than a bonus. Part of why we're getting Rewrite-it-in-Rust everywh
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by bsder 1y ago
Lots of banking access laws were put in place after the Great Depression and vestiges still remain although most of them have been repealed. See, for example, Section 37.002(c) of the Texas finance code: "An office or operation may not
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by bsder 1y ago
I don't agree. What made Figma successful was being able to share via a URL. Period. No program version problems. No file extension problems. No problems between Mac and Windows. No problems with anti-virus blocking your email atta
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by bsder 1y ago
Only if you are an actual employee . If you are a contractor, probably not. And a lot of the government is contractors.
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by bsder 1y ago
> At some point customer service died. At some point enforcement died. It used to be that locking someone out of their money would wind up with people in jail . Now, it's not just a cost of doing business but also viewed as a po
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by bsder 1y ago
The issue was that support for "Brexit" was a bad-faith fabrication by Murdoch-owned media with a dash of foreign-funded interference. When you put down any specific Brexit implementation and asked people to vote on it, you gene
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by bsder 1y ago
"Visibility" invariably bites you in the ass at some point. See: Rust, newtypes and the Orphan rule, for example. As such, I'm happy to not have visibility modifiers at all. I do absolutely agree that "std" needs
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by bsder 1y ago
> Could someone sell me on one of these alternative terminals (kitty, ghostty, wez, etc)? Because these terminals all use the Kitty protocol, you can finally detect a single ESC press without a timeout hack as well as use shift with arro
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by bsder 1y ago
> I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. Because a bucketload of people only interact with the Internet using a device with a tiny-ass screen and super-
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by bsder 1y ago
> much like the "SEO industry" sprung up to attack search. This ignores history a bit. The problem wasn't the "SEO industry". Any SEO optimization for one search engine gave you signal to derank a site on a dif
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by bsder 1y ago
> It's probably no accident there's videos like [1] about how every restaurant tastes the same when supplied by Sysco (national distributor versus buying fresh/local, which means higher prices...) Sysco is a secondary prob
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by bsder 1y ago
> What's happening guys? The people who benefited from those who sacrificed for rights and equality over the past century got complacent and lazy. The current rhetoric is exactly the same as was used to discriminate against my anc
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by bsder 1y ago
Install Linux, call it "Windows 11" and blame everything on Microsoft and AI? Unless they've got a genuine Windows app that they need, you might be able to get away with it...
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by bsder 1y ago
I also have seen recommendations to microwave your toothbrush.
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by bsder 1y ago
What are you trading off to get from 90% to 100%? How about compile speed? Are you willing to wait an extra second to get 100%? How about 10 seconds? A minute? 10 Minutes? An hour? Rust is notoriously slow at compiling and people have
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by bsder 1y ago
Even as someone who doesn't mind writing in C, I would absolutely flag that function as way, way, way, way too terse for no good reason. The code gets ridiculously easier to read if you write src[0] and src[1] instead of (*src) and (

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