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by davydm 1y ago
I'm no apartheid apologist, but I have lived here (ZA) all my life. Whilst I haven't read the entire article, the first paragraph is actually on-point: apartheid was shit in a lot of respects, but the schools, especially in rural
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by davydm 1y ago
great, so in addition to regular inaccuracies, we'll get wholly-made-up bullshit! can't wait.
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by davydm 1y ago
lol, someone needs to go read Fooled By Randomness 1. currency predictions are all more affected by randomness than anything else - this is why only people who want to lose their money invest it in, say, pesos or roubles (many have done it,
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by davydm 1y ago
le sigh another moron using the word "autistic" without any apparent understanding of the condition
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by davydm 1y ago
boo frikkin hoo - let the man-baby go dig a hole or something
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by davydm 1y ago
yeah, i came here to say that it sounds like wails against ai simply because it's ai, not because the content is, honestly, mediocre at best (by design - it can't exceed it's training because it interpolates, instead of extra
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by davydm 1y ago
it's not that nobody would have wanted the device if it worked well - I'm sure lots of people would BUT Apple already has a battery problem - most iphone users are running from charger to charger, or using the fancy new magnetic b
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by davydm 1y ago
I found the same thing, so I don't bother with ai-gen code AT ALL. I found that the time wasted fixing up the slop was not worth it - it's more efficient to code it yourself, as shown by studies (eg referred to here: https:/
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by davydm 1y ago
would love to see how this pans out: - too weak and it's the same problem as wireless chargers for phones - they do the job, but no hurry included, so sucks if you need charge now - too strong and the charging "mat" becomes
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by davydm 1y ago
good old GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), but what I think most people are forgetting here is that outputs from these LLMs end up back in the input side, so the effect will strengthen across the board over time, as we keep training from the
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by davydm 1y ago
Another variant of "you're holding it wrong" which attempts to cover up a real and serious issue with ai codegen: it's simply not reliable at producing good code, which is completely understandable when we think about it
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by davydm 1y ago
It's gonna be a hard fall when it comes, with the only silver lining I can foresee being cheap GPUs once the demand crashes.
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by davydm 1y ago
"If he'd hired a less senior developer with no domain understanding I think getting to the point he got to with Claude Code would have actually been quite challenging." I think this is the foundation of the muppet-think I see
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by davydm 1y ago
Very cool. Keep on keepin on.
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by davydm 1y ago
came for the poetry, left with an engineering lesson
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by davydm 1y ago
be born to rich parents - like most of the billionaires that we see today generational wealth is the most common springboard I've seen for "successful" people - but how successful would they have been without daddy's mil
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by davydm 1y ago
join the OpenAI/Microsoft circle jerk right now!
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by davydm 1y ago
I say leave it legal and let the dna which fights against species propagation be eliminated from the pool.
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by davydm 1y ago
cool article to go through (I happen to be working on some hcaptcha integration, so it's right in my field of view), but with all the logic spelled out - surely clever automated attacks will be crafted to pass all these checks, by alte
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by davydm 1y ago
I don't understand the outrage. Yes, DHH is a weapons-grade plum, confidently wrong on a range of topics. I'm not here to defend him in the slightest. We use stuff made by people with questionable pasts all the time. You know anyo
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by davydm 1y ago
https://archive.ph/CefCH
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by davydm 1y ago
The real issue I see raised here is one I experience myself: You're hired as an expert. But when you use your expertise, people with the power to make decisions ignore you. You're told you're important to the company, blah bl
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by davydm 1y ago
as long as there's a 100% comprehensible integration test around the whole thing, sure - otherwise a smart ai would conclude that the best optimisation comes from a zero-byte file which does nothing.
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by davydm 1y ago
In addition, if you don't know the concepts, you won't catch chatgpt out when it hallucinates bugs (often subtle) into the code. Personally, I stay away from ai-gen code because I don't want to debug someone else's code
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by davydm 1y ago
https://archive.ph/Qa0Wt
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by davydm 1y ago
Perhaps Jobs was onto something, although a little monotheistic about it: Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Perhaps, in that complex individual, there was a respect for Woz and his kin - the peopl
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by davydm 1y ago
I don't even understand the general premise here - why prevent someone from renting out a property they have bought on mortgage? What's the impact to the lender? Surely just that there's greater chance that mortgage payments
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by davydm 1y ago
best is i can't even mention this at work because people will get the feels about it, bunch of ai-cucks
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by davydm 1y ago
so this is why GitHub has been having issues and is moving to azure - nothing to do with the needs of people using it, everything to do with trying to build a moat around their own ai code-gen. I can't wait for this shit to explode. I
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by davydm 1y ago
Coding and...?

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