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by chii 6mo ago
> I don't see how that's possible, but maybe I'm thinking too myopically. you are thinking too myopically. We have people who can still do maths well after the introduction of the calculator. We have people who can still s
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by chii 6mo ago
or it's made the onus for the proof that the data wasn't used, so if your decision didn't come with a proof it wasn't, the party making the decision can be sued for it. Like a clean room implementation requirement.
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by chii 6mo ago
Palpatine: I am the senate!
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by chii 6mo ago
The hoe wasn't fancy, but the plow was (at the time).
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by chii 6mo ago
you might want to have a gander at https://store.steampowered.com/app/207570/English_Country_Tu... (there's a mac/iphone[0] version, not sure if it still works on newer versions of macs tho). [0] http:&#
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by chii 6mo ago
> what exactly is stopping any company from doing this themselves and breaking into the RAM business? nothing, except the terrible yields that they would obtain, and the lack of scale making the entire enterprise not profit generating (a
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by chii 6mo ago
they might mean west of japan ;)
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by chii 6mo ago
You know the idea is powerful when the idea is what gets remembered and not the author of the idea. It's why this is also my absolute fav of all his works.
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by chii 6mo ago
> supply will saturate that depends on the ability to produce supply at a saturation rate. It did work for internet backhaul links - ala, those dark fibres. However, i reckon those fibres are easier to manufacture than silicon chips. I
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by chii 6mo ago
one word from the parent post sums up everything you said: patience. Or lack thereof (two words).
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by chii 6mo ago
> also not remotely practical. studying them makes you smarter, which makes you better at using the practical stuff.
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by chii 6mo ago
> How many vibe coded projects do you want to maintain? here comes the next SaaS idea - vibe coded services as a service. You tell what service you want, may be point out a couple examples, and you get that service vibe coded and hosted
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by chii 6mo ago
That's where off-platform, trust worthy sources are important. Over the years, i've curated a lot of subscriptions on youtube of such long form content (talking about things like Primitive Technology, Smarter Everyday, etc). It si
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by chii 6mo ago
I don't watch shorts because of the type of content it encourages - short clickbait content for the attention deficit. I want long form, well researched, well put together content. These types of content takes a long time to produce, u
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by chii 6mo ago
> someone with a heartbeat they can blame when stuff inevitably goes wrong. if said person can be blamed (and take on the liability), but cannot stop the action or audit the action, take preventative measures (which costs money) etc, the
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by chii 6mo ago
why can't the name be 'scape goat'? Since that's what they are - the "real" responsibility rests on the owners, and they happily shed it as limited liability ownership of shares.
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by chii 6mo ago
jargon are words being used that don't carry the typical laymen definition, but a specific one from the domain of said jargon. If a written piece is intended for an audience who knows the jargon, then it's fine to use jargon - in
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by chii 6mo ago
> They see polls that show strong support for policy X i would imagine those polls are full of selection bias - even if the poller is trying to be as neutral as possible. People who would agree to participate in polls tend to have strong
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by chii 6mo ago
I wish those PRs made by the bot can have a diff of the source code of those upgraded libraries (right in the PR, because even if in theory you could manually hunt down the diffs in the various tags...in practise nobody does it).
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by chii 6mo ago
made even worse by the fact that it's possible to detect a pipe vs just standard out display of the contents of curl, from the server side. This means the attack can be "invisible", as a cursory glance at the output of the cu
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by chii 6mo ago
In this situation, you raise the issue with management, with a paper trail that Cover Your Ass, that the pace is unsustainable and bugs will continue to accumulate faster than it can be fixed. Make sure that you are not responsible for it a
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Thoughts on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Programming Courses [video](youtube.com)
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by chii 6mo ago
The "value" creation is tied to the interest rate. When interest rates are low, even low value creation projects are viable. When rates are high, those exact same projects are no longer viable. Therefore, i would argue that the la
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by chii 6mo ago
building around bugs that you know exists but dont know where is also a part of it. Reliability in the face of bugs. The mere existence of bugs isn't enough to call the software buggy, if the outcome is reliable (e.g., a triple module
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by chii 6mo ago
Not everybody who reads HN is well versed in business/entrepreneur oriented jagon.
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To the surprise of no one.
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by chii 6mo ago
I suppose if you examine the behaviour of a library, and code against that, then it is possible that the behaviour is unintentional and thus you end up being locked into a bug. This is most clear when the library is supposed to follow a sta
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by chii 6mo ago
> When everything is "just data", you spend a lot of time digging deep in libraries trying to figure out exactly what shape the data should take or that is a good spend of time where you familiarize yourself with said library (
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by chii 6mo ago
I would imagine that an alpha particle would still be inert in the sense that it won't cause chemical reactions with other molecules.
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by chii 6mo ago
That was before it was discovered that these LLM have incredible monetary potential.

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