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by dartos 2y ago
Yes… I have… I was working for my university’s assistant dean. He was using school funds to have us make an Iranian real estate app. Pulled together a team of 5 students working 4 hours a day. It was all sorts of weird and he was nuts. One
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by dartos 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that’s intentional. Your OS kernel is NOT a code base where you want a lot of people making “drive-by PRs”
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by dartos 2y ago
Pure democracy is not very good. It's just governance by mob rule (which is bad for the same reason populism is bad) Which is why republics have been succesful. Ideally me, as an idividual, should be able to trust a local leader enough
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by dartos 2y ago
> A system where elected representatives always serve the interests of a select few is essentially an oligarchy in disguise. When the available choices are just two variations of the same corruption, it becomes difficult to view it as a
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by dartos 2y ago
I’d argue that software engineering doesn’t normally have the same rigor that say structural engineering has. Every structure has the potential to kill the inhabitants, but all software does not have the potential to kill its users. The sta
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by dartos 2y ago
> A dictator who serves the people's interests is effectively concretizing that power Wtf? No. A dictator maintains all the power. The people have no power. Just because the interests of the people are supported by the actions of a
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by dartos 2y ago
> China is better at free market capitalism Aren’t they not a free market? That’s partly why > China has multiple companies in each sector. Free markets lead to monopolies when unchecked… like in the us.
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by dartos 2y ago
Democratic != good for the people, just who the people wanted. Dictators don’t give people the choice. You’re just using the word “democratic” wrong.
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by dartos 2y ago
I’ve been fired for saying a 1 hour standup was a waste of time.
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by dartos 2y ago
Unfortunately it seems none of that matters in the face of a payday. I wonder how different tech would be if intel started in Europe. I feel like the culture in the US, at least at large, is entirely money focused.
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by dartos 2y ago
> I already said they are technically not black boxes. We are not in disagreement here. I’m saying they are not black boxes at all. Not just “technically” > The point is that there is no one implementation of C. And the same is true f
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by dartos 2y ago
I think we have failed Alan Perlis who said “I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted ev
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by dartos 2y ago
> The definition of "hate speech" is unclear and a made-up word to make people feel bad for being angry Buddy, do a little bit of googling before you say plainly incorrect stuff like this. [1] [2] Just because there’s not a sin
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by dartos 2y ago
That is true, but Jew hating people are quite prominent on Twitter. Just look how many likes Ye’s “I AM A NAZI” tweet has…
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by dartos 2y ago
> much operations of any kind What is a brain operation? How do you measure that? My point is that you can’t a make your argument because you’re comparing two subjects that have nothing in common beside the vague colloquial notion of “co
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by dartos 2y ago
They’re not black boxes at all. The code is all there and is deterministic. Sorry, but the peculiarities of one optimization level on one implementation of C do not affect my point at all.
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by dartos 2y ago
I feel like I shouldn’t need to point out how literally going from point A to point B is wildly different than going from a requirement to a shipped product. Or how your example “a shipped product” is not a well defined goal. Please don’t j
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by dartos 2y ago
> as they don't turn off their brains Let’s hope. But it seems like we do turn off our brains when using AI tools. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
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by dartos 2y ago
I’ve heard this comparison between C compilers and LLMs and I don’t think it’s similar. there’s a direct relationship to C code and the resulting assembly. The C language was specifically designed so that language constructs were converted
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by dartos 2y ago
I don’t think it’s a great analogy, and here’s why: When trying to get from point A to point B, there is a clear, well defined goal. Streets (paths) are also clear and well defined (within reason on most popular GPS direction software). An
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by dartos 2y ago
The issue comes 5-10 years from now when there’s a serious shortage of senior devs. I mean… as a senior dev now, I’m not complaining, but it can’t be good for the industry at large.
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by dartos 2y ago
I don’t think so. Being lazy and never developing foundational knowledge is different. New devs are expected to have experience using AI coding tools. If they’re expected to have that, why wouldn’t they trust it? If you trust a code generat
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by dartos 2y ago
Idk if there’s any meaningful metric which we can compare brain compute with digital compute. Bc… we can do training and inference at the same time… while maintaining balance, operating machinery, or any number of tasks which are computatio
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by dartos 2y ago
Not for YouTube :(
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by dartos 2y ago
That many?!?
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by dartos 2y ago
> This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs But it is. That’s why you, the user (or an enterprising LLM search tool) need to do things like > set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases Personally, I’d rather
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by dartos 2y ago
> k8s allows developers to actually tailor containers/pods/deployments themselves Yes, complex tools tend to be powerful. But when I say “devs who care about knowing how their code works” I’m also referring to their tools. K8s
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by dartos 2y ago
I think the developers who care about knowing how their code works tend to not want hyperscale setups anyway. If they understood their system, odds are they’d realize that horizontal scaling with few, larger services is plenty scalable. At
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by dartos 2y ago
> It probably works well for already clear and well structured cobol.
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by dartos 2y ago
How would a simple tax code help the ultra wealthy?

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