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by criley2 2y ago
It doesn't make sense for a middleman like booking.com to let you completely bypass everything they offer. However it certainly might make sense for an individual hotel to let you bypass the booking.com middleman (a middleman that the
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by criley2 2y ago
Both are a good thing? Even from folks in America who strongly dislike the fascist leadership, you'd be hard pressed to find folks who think "Europe should underfund their military and rely on the American tax payer for defense&qu
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by criley2 2y ago
A few thousand rich people don't need 8 billion pets. "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature" (Georgia Guidestones, a monument describing someone's ideal future that is surrounded by conspi
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by criley2 2y ago
>Training on all papers does not mean the model believes or knows the truth. It is just a machine that spits out words. Sounds like humans at school. Cram the material. Take the test. Eject the data.
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by criley2 2y ago
"While I work on perfecting how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search." Google Search then proceeds to summarize a bunch of AI-written slop into the worst, most hallucination-ridden AI-summary you've
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by criley2 2y ago
Are you "thinking" or are you regurgitating analysis of the problem based on what you read on the internet, too? This one is funny because for something like leet code, nearly everyone just reads the best answers, learns them and
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by criley2 2y ago
Two points: >That's expected, since all the leetcode problems have ready-to-use solutions on the internet. 1) If the implication is "The model knows the answer and regurgitates it like lyrics to a song" then I would push b
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by criley2 2y ago
At some point, you become the luddite. Maybe you have no experience with modern AI dev tools, maybe you work in a language that is underrepresented in models meaning off the shelf tools don't work well, or maybe you're just an old
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by criley2 2y ago
I don't view Big Tech as being against copyright. They simply hold a position that they will not pay for something unless forced to ("make me" - a very common position for the powerful to hold). In fact, I'd argue that B
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by criley2 2y ago
For the record, Twitter currently punishes people who call VIP's mean names and seems to take action against all negativity pointed towards certain ideologies that fit with the owners preferences, and they're talking about some op
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by criley2 2y ago
I think you just accept the risk, same as not doing code review. If you're doing something Serious™ then you follow the serious rules to protect your serious business. If it doesn't actually matter that much if prod goes down or y
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by criley2 2y ago
And I think this analysis suffers from ignoring the increased environmental cost of creating a new electric vehicle. It takes 15,000 to 20,000 miles of driving for the average EV to "break even" with new ICE vehicles due to the mu
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by criley2 2y ago
The problem with reading vs writing is building "true understanding". If you are reading code at a high level and building a perfect mental model and reading every bit of code, then you're doing it right. But many folks see f
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by criley2 2y ago
Using the front end of these websites to work in your complex codebase is very challenging. I use the chatbots for higher level questions about libraries and integrations, not for specific implementation details in my codebase. But without
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by criley2 2y ago
In all my circles, I don't know a single "X" user. Not even one. Anecdotes are funny like that. Facebook monthly active users: >3 billion Instagram monthly active users: >2 billion Threads monthly active users: ~275 mil
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by criley2 2y ago
Basically what Wolfram Alpha rolled out 15 years ago. It was impressive then, too.
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by criley2 2y ago
In my opinion, there is absolutely no way a junior / SWE1 could greenfield an app by doing anything other than following a youtube tutorial or similar step by step guide, and would have basically no understanding of the decisions made
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by criley2 2y ago
I don't personally agree with the idea that senior is basically the end point of writing high level code. Perhaps it's just a difference in terms but I think of seniors at the high end of their capacity as being able to release hi
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by criley2 2y ago
Humans have an uptime of 16 hours, but generally speaking can only operate professionally for an 8 hour span. The other 8 hours are spent mostly doing personal maintenance and refueling their physical and mental capabilities. Oh, and humans
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by criley2 2y ago
I'm not sure where you learned that the US legal system is against religious discrimination in private organizations, but it's not strictly true. Many religious organizations in the US openly discriminate against people who are no
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by criley2 2y ago
Really goes to show how bad top-tier LLM's are at rather basic tasks like creating a clue out of popular media. This should be among the core competencies of major models with tons of available training data and simple summarization re
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by criley2 2y ago
> want free software to run website > want free plugins to add functionality to site > absolutely will not hire developers or pay for software or plugins > how dare the free plugin for my free software not be coded to the highe
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by criley2 2y ago
We're in the "add billions in dollars of datacenters" and "spin up nuclear power plants" level of infrastructure needed for their growth, so if anything, I might be underestimating the costs if they grow as much as
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by criley2 2y ago
$11 billion revenue in 2025, but how much in costs? In 2024, they are projected to bring in $3.4 billion in revenue and lose $5 billion dollars. They just had a massive fundraising round for $6.6 billion which at the current costs and growt
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by criley2 2y ago
This doesn't make sense on many levels. "Hospital IT" does not code the hospital EHR systems, just like the airport doesn't code flight management systems. These are life-long software engineers, just like others reading
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In Linus's follow up video, he admits it is true and even agrees with Youtube's takedown. He states flat out that he knows other youtubers have been banned for teaching folks how to get around youtube's business model and it
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by criley2 2y ago
"Youtube deletes LTT video that explicitly teaches users how to block ads on Youtube" might be a more honest title, but less clickbait. I mean, that's their business model. Watch ads or pay for premium. Do you really expect t
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by criley2 2y ago
They say that copilot is great but the chatbot was bad because it lacked context, missed nuance, and frequently gave correct-sounding answers that actually weren't great. That's exactly my experience with copilot. For simple text
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by criley2 2y ago
Many phones had great waterproof ratings with a headphone socket. Nearly all phones today are thick enough for sockets, a 3.5mm would fit fine on my Pixel 7 pro. The thinness wars ended when too many people sat on their phones and bent them
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by criley2 2y ago
>You say overly-regulated, I say sufficiently regulated. Maybe, just maybe, those companies should not launch here Sure! Sounds like we're in total agreement that the comment I replied to suggesting that the EU was "too big to

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