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by cedws 3mo ago
The problem is not lack of surveillance, it is poor enforcement on behalf of the justice system. The consequences need to be 10x’d.
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by cedws 3mo ago
The reason LLMs seem powerful is that they can churn out the Nth variation of a CRUD app in minutes. But it’s hard to imagine they’ll ever independently develop a compiler for a truly novel programming language, for instance. They don’t hav
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by cedws 3mo ago
I think there’s a good possibility that they’re intentionally not fixing it, cheaters blatantly using wall hack are easy to root out and ban.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Your comment comes off as patronising, I don’t know if you intended that or not. These issues are not a matter of ‘holding it wrong’, they’re fundamental to agentic coding.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Agree with all that. You only have to look at the Claude Code source leak as proof that AI cannot write a clean codebase.
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by cedws 3mo ago
I've always preferred in person interviews on both sides, but since COVID it's gone out of fashion unfortunately.
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by cedws 3mo ago
It feels like everyone and their grandma is building an agent orchestrator at the moment, but I'm not hearing a lot of success stories. The fact that Anthropic and OpenAI haven't laid off all their software engineers already is pr
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by cedws 3mo ago
What worries me is how it will be harder to differentiate the two now. I don’t want to work with people who just completely delegate their thinking to LLMs all day, but how do you effectively filter them out as an interviewer/interview
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by cedws 3mo ago
The polio vaccine is much older and as far as I could find has never had a death attributed to it. COVID vaccines are newer, and their safety profile was not fully understood when they were rolled out.
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by cedws 3mo ago
For the record, this comment is not arguing against vaccines or their veracity, there seems to have been confusion about that. I am specifically arguing against vaccine mandates.
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by cedws 3mo ago
It does though. A government mandate is the same as pulling the lever, it’s trading who lives and who dies. Even if more people survive as result, just like in the original trolley problem, the one who pulls the lever becomes responsible fo
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by cedws 3mo ago
Yes, but the crux of my original point was not about absolute number of lives saved or lost. It was about the trolley problem and mandates.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Healthy children and young adults were at very little risk from COVID though. Seatbelts are a safety measure that applies almost uniformly across age groups.
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by cedws 3mo ago
IIRC the vaccines were provably linked to the death of young people who had blood clots they shouldn't have had. The common argument made is that the vaccine saved more lives than they took, but this is pretty fucked up IMO. It's
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by cedws 3mo ago
Conversely this has the potential to unlock the internet. How often have you clicked a paywalled link on HN and moved on because you don't want to go through the hassle and pay $20 to read an article? If you could be frictionlessly bil
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by cedws 3mo ago
The value of Hide My Email, SimpleLogin is that you can blend in with the crowd. If you use your own domain then the domain becomes the common link.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Not yet.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Bryan Johnson might be interested in IV’ing frog gut bacteria.
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by cedws 3mo ago
AI solutions are still extremely mediocre. Sure, if you tell it exactly what to build, it will build it way faster than any human could. LLMs still lack creativity to come up with the best solution. They’re trained on the average, so they’l
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by cedws 3mo ago
I stopped using Reddit daily when they killed Apollo. Now it looks like I’ll stop using it entirely. Good riddance, thanks for killing my doomscrolling addiction for me.
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by cedws 3mo ago
I have plenty of experience with LLMs and use them daily but definitely wouldn't call generated code "quality code." Often looks like complete vomit.
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by cedws 3mo ago
This thinking that every task must be stuffed into the most 'advanced' (expensive) model out there is idiotic, and it's not only you unfortunately. At $JOB I have warned higher ups we should try to keep our expenditure under
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by cedws 3mo ago
These countermeasures aren't going to matter for much longer anyway. China has been able to hoover up plenty of training data through their proxies, and now DeepSeek V4 due to their incredibly cheap pricing.
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by cedws 3mo ago
The anti-systemd crowd just seems uneducated to be honest. They still say that systemd is bloated, because they don’t seem to understand systemd is a catalogue of software, not literally everything happening in PID 1. Moreover none of them
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by cedws 3mo ago
I tried nix-darwin (with plenty of LLM assistance) but struggled to get it to work in the way I wanted. I couldn’t get it to manage my dock, and it was fiddly bootstrapping my two main users from an admin user.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Can it really be called "extreme" anymore? Europe is swinging strongly towards being anti-migration at the moment. Other parts of the world like Japan are also going through such swings. Many countries never opened their borders t
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by cedws 3mo ago
I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere that closed models can essentially cheat benchmarks right? What Anthropic or OpenAI brand as a model doesn’t necessarily have to be just weights, it can be a whole backend system that augments the model
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by cedws 3mo ago
No, giving the consumer more information on what they’re buying is not a bad thing, only a crook would say that. If gamers don’t want to play games with AI, that’s their choice, whether that opinion is justified or not.
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by cedws 3mo ago
Tech companies shouldn’t be able have it both ways and say that copyright doesn’t apply to LLM-generated code only when it benefits them.
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by cedws 3mo ago
There’s a difference between Singaporean, Chinese surveillance, and US surveillance. In the former countries you get surveilled, and in exchange you get to live in a safe, harmonious, and relatively prosperous society where you can leave y

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