dboreham

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by dboreham 10mo ago
I think it's more productive to analyze the adoption (or not) of a technology from the perspective of it being a cult, rather than with strict technical factors. A cult grows as an emergent phenomenon where the conditions on the ground
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Either a) this is window dressing and nothing material will change or b) there's a housing crash coming.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Yellowstone
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by dboreham 10mo ago
> ahead of the administration that can't even bother It's possible they have tried to justify, but via Fox News and Truth Social. Neither of which you and I read, I presume.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Most computers did not exist in an adversarial environment at the time. Perhaps the most "adversarial" context would be: undergraduate timeshare use. So the mainframes of the day, which would be the typical platform for undergrad
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by dboreham 10mo ago
You'll want VT-52 for this era.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
My ISP (naming no names...erum...Spectrum) refuses to even admit they know what IPv6 is. It's like asking the NSA what Menwith Hill is for...
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Nondeterminism is not the issue here. Today's LLMs are not "round trip" tools. It's not like a compiler where you can edit a source file from 1975, recompile, and the binary does what 75'bin did plus your edit. Rath
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by dboreham 10mo ago
I've been doing software of all kinds for a long long time. I've never, ever, been in a position where I was concerned about the speed of my package manager. Compiler, yes. Linker, sure. Package downloader. No.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
What underlies this is that the USA is a fundamentally scammy country. I mean no disrespect: I'm a US citizen and have lived here for 30 years and made plenty of money from the US economy. But nevertheless it's a scam culture. And
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by dboreham 10mo ago
This is a good piece of writing that nicely illustrates how what we perceive as "who invented something" is mostly a function of money and politics.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Definitely reduces the cost of consensus though.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
I've used LLMs to find bugs in and write code for a language almost nobody uses, that has terrible documentation. My assumption is that it did so in the same manner a human would: "ok this looks kind of like Algol or C" and &
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Similar history for Denver.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
How do you know whether a human brain understands something?
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by dboreham 10mo ago
I don't do side projects, but the LLM has completely changed the calculus about whether some piece of programming is worthwhile doing at all. I've been enjoying myself automating all sorts of admin/ops stuff that hitherto got
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by dboreham 10mo ago
This comment is wrong in two ways: 1. Current LLMs do much better than produce "small programs that already exist in multiple forms in the training data". Of course the knowledge they use does need to exist somewhere in training d
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by dboreham 10mo ago
JS on the server seemed to me to be a solution looking for a problem. We already had plenty of arguably adequate server side languages. JS was the weird language you were forced to code in for the browser so why on earth would you want to u
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by dboreham 10mo ago
My wife worked there when we first met. She told me she knew where there was a Cray-1 sitting at the bottom of a stair well. Obviously this raised my level of interest. We went up there on the weekend and took each other's photo sittin
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Plus tariff.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Good to see this having spent the last 10 years arguing with people who configured pre commit hooks then failed to understand the bad consequences.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Battery life isn't a concern with current EVs.
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How AI Fixed My Procrastination(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by dboreham 10mo ago|1 comments
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by dboreham 10mo ago
CUaaS. Cover Up as a Service.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Regular people don't understand nor care about any of that. They'll happily take the Faustian bargain.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
One of the things I like about LLM coding is that I don't need to become a psychologist in order to persuade other humans to approach their work in an manner I'd prefer.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
AI can be an FP absolutist too.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
Perhaps worth recapping that he hates them due to a specific personal event (the same is true for everything he does, if you dig deep enough to find the reason). In this case he developed a golf resort on the East Coast of Scotland. Meanwhi
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by dboreham 10mo ago
> we crossed into the realm of intentionally doing damage That occurred a long time ago with the destruction of USAID and arbitrary firing of large numbers of federal workers.
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by dboreham 10mo ago
This is quite falatious and wrong. The first computers were built in order to solve problems immediately that were already being solved slowly by manual methods. There never was a period where people built computers so slow that they were s

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