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by cmiles74 7mo ago
Seems like a bad bet to me. It looks like authors are going to lose this case setting the precedent that you not only don’t need to license training data, obtaining it illegally (for free) is totally okay.
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
It wedged distribution away from record companies. IMHO, that was a pretty big concern for them.
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
Is this maybe more about the quality of the documentation? I say this 'cause my thinking is that reading is reading, it takes the same time to read the information.
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
I think it varies. Most enterprise software is good enough if it just works. In the consumer space quality and polish is way more important. Then there are things like modeling and video where performance is a much bigger deal. Sure, no one
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
The article isn't clear on this point, I believe because Meta isn't clear on this themselves. Other bits of this piece highlight third parties reviewing the responses of the AI assistant; it's possible that people are recordi
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
My reading was that as soon as you enable the "AI" functionality you are opted into having your recordings labeled. "But for the AI assistant to function, voice, text, image and sometimes video must be processed and may be sh
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
This was one of the first hits on Kagi. 404 has a similar article (I think) but it's behind a paywall. "The demand for this ‘Ray-Ban hack’ has been steadily increasing, with the hobbyist’s waiting list growing longer by the day. T
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by cmiles74 7mo ago
It took a good while for me to figure out that a family member had inadvertently signed up for an Apple Music account that they were not using.
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
Isn’t that the hard part? If the tasks are small enough and well defined, where’s the win over just writing the code right there and then?
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
I can take a verbal description from a meeting with five to ten people and put together something they can interact with in two weeks. That is a lot slower than Claude Code! Yet everywhere I’ve worked, this is more than fast enough. Over
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
Isn't the real problem here the unscrupulous AI scrapers? These sites want to be paid for their content to be used for AI training, if this same content is scraped by the Internet Archive the AI companies can get the content for free.
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
I think trademark, I remember Bill Gates referring to Windows NT as "a better UNIX than UNIX".
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
In my opinion, time spent learning Perl or an outmoded framework still helped me learn new things and stretch myself. A lot of that knowledge is transferable to other languages or frameworks. After learning QuickBasic and REXX it was pretty
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
When the cost of defects and of the AI tooling itself inevitably rises, I think we are likely to see a sudden demand for the remaining employed developers to do more work "by hand".
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
In my opinion, it is far too early to claim that developers developing like it was maybe three years ago are statistically irrelevant. Microsoft has gone in on AI tooling in a big way and they just nominated a "software quality czar&qu
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
Like the new features in Windows 11? They’ve just anointed a “software quality czar” and I suspect this is not coincidence.
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
I am not confident that AI tooling can diagnose or fix this kind of bug. I’ve pointed Claude Opus at bugs that puzzle me (with only one code base involved) and, so far, it has only introduced more bugs in other places.
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
I have junior people on my team using Cursor and Claude, it’s not all great. Several times they’ve checked in code that also makes small yet breaking changes to queries. I have to watch out for random (unused) annotations in Java projects a
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
I don't see how that matters, the point is that we don't need the federal government's mandate in order to have a national clearinghouse of title data.
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by cmiles74 8mo ago
The federal government never enumerated the power to manage a national credit agency and yet we have several.
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
It's pretty common for software developers to be asked to code up some random algorithm on a whiteboard as part of the interview process.
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
These are the people Amazon hired, with the qualifications for which Amazon was hiring. If Amazon has some nebulous “career ladder” problem, I believe the fault can be laid at the feet of Amazon’s hiring practices. Deciding one day to simpl
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
Tell that to the people cashing big checks at Microsoft and Google. ;-)
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
Isn’t that the job? I’m not even sure what “understand AI” even means, from where I sit, it maybe means “add AI to everything” and that doesn’t seem that complicated. I’m not here to defend the people in Amazon corporate, I’m just not convi
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
Denaturalize and deport? https://www.npr.org/2025/12/24/nx-s1-5649729/trump-administr...
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
I suspect there's also a good amount of astroturfing happening here as well, making it harder to find the real success stories.
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by cmiles74 9mo ago
It's difficult for me to believe that you might be arguing all of the icons in the drop-down menus are beautiful... I know I have found them distracting. In my opinion, this article had very clear and direct criticisms; they were hardl
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by cmiles74 10mo ago
I like the terminal-based LLM tool, Crush. I find it handy in that I can pull it into any IDE and it works the same. - https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush
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by cmiles74 10mo ago
I mostly read fiction but I made time for a couple of nonfiction books this year. On the fiction side I really enjoyed "Luminous" and "When We Where Real". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_(n
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by cmiles74 10mo ago
> In a press conference, Powell said that staffers at the Fed think that the government could be overestimating the number of jobs created by 60,000 each month. With published figures stating that the U.S. has added an average of 40,000

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