demorro

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by demorro 4mo ago
You are a member of society. Society stops people doing harmful things to themselves all the time.
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by demorro 4mo ago
I would follow him if I could. Most of my colleagues as well.
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by demorro 5mo ago
I know you were simplifying, but "does foo then bar" is so far away from what an actual specification is that it defeats the point. A more complete spec will capture performance requirements, input preconditions and output postcon
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by demorro 5mo ago
If you're not already applying static analysis and linters to your codebase (and I know many of you aren't), ask yourself why you would bother to apply an expensive LLM tool? Not to say these things won't catch vulnerabilitie
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by demorro 5mo ago
Please don't support this. Satoshi wants to be anonymous.
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by demorro 5mo ago
This is a distinction without a difference. We can conceptualize ourselves as fully deterministic individuals, or transcendentally connected nodes in a greater consciousness, or innumerable interpretations in-between. It's completely p
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by demorro 5mo ago
yes it is. Debate over, all sides have been expressed.
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by demorro 5mo ago
I continue not to understand much of the point of this. I don't recognize the git workflow the author is talking about, and neither do I see the point of stacked PRs. Commits are fine as a unit of isolating work, and rebasing to keep t
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by demorro 5mo ago
This reads more like the liberal case for AI, and not the left wing case so much. The code switching section in particular is not a left-wing position at all, unless the idea is that the code-switching is used as a temporary measure to dism
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by demorro 5mo ago
The only thing that has changed is that there used to be a loose correlation between capability to effect change and inherent desire for quality. This correlation barely exists anymore, so the counter-cultural acts that happened to manifest
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by demorro 5mo ago
Absurd. Market forces don't optimize for quality, reliability or human welfare. This is religious thinking.
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by demorro 5mo ago
> It defined a new category of software Which is exactly why you can't use it as an example, there is no control. This is basic stuff.
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by demorro 5mo ago
Y'all can say violence isn't the answer all you like, but not addressing this will cause violence. Mass, misguided, idiotic violence of the like few of us can imagine. Either we make significant change whilst we still have some ca
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by demorro 5mo ago
Applying a production paradigm rooted in the patterns of the past (factories) is foolish. Factories automate repeatable process, where each repetition produces a unit of value. There is nothing to repeat in software. The configuration capab
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by demorro 5mo ago
I'm very excited for a tech sector disconnected from silicon valley. We've forgotten that you can get a lot of scrappy stuff done in a shed for quite cheap when you're not trying to inflate hype bubbles constantly.
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by demorro 5mo ago
Aye. The "use boring tech" advice isn't just about technical stability. You need to guard yourself against eventual boredom and ecosystem decay. Hype and enthusiasm can mask how likely these systems we put in place are to act
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by demorro 5mo ago
Our positions are completely compatible. People are anthropomorphizing LLMs, saying that because humans train on protected works, then it is fine for LLMs to do the same. If they have only the rights that their human creators have, then acc
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by demorro 5mo ago
Humans should have more legal privileges than machines, just as individuals should have more legal privileges than corporations. It's really as simple as that. I don't want to gripe around making up justifications, that's how
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by demorro 6mo ago
Completely normal and expected. People thinking that this isn't the case everywhere need a reality check. Most software is riddled with obvious security issues. If we can remediate them with AI, great, but don't be thinking that t
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by demorro 6mo ago
> Once that was out in the wild it was only a matter of time before someone productized it, but there was no conceivable world in which nobody decided to... By this logic, we cannot blame anyone who is the agent of anything that we deem
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by demorro 6mo ago
> But lifting heavy objects puts long-term wear on your back and joints, making you less effective over time. Odd argument considering you could also say lifting heavy objects makes you more effective over time, as it makes you stronger.
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by demorro 6mo ago
> I really enjoyed Merchant’s book and did not enjoy Mueller’s (which I found to be 10% about the Luddites and 90% about interminable intra-Marxist ideological arguments). I'm just about done with Blood in the Machine, and didn&#x27
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by demorro 6mo ago
Most of the people using these models aren't skilled enough to make that determination. Seems rough trying to sell yourself as the thing that means you don't need to understand what you're doing but also insist that you under
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by demorro 6mo ago
I guess I'm confused. I thought epsilon was the smallest possible value to account for accuracy drift across the range of a floating point representation, not just "1e-4". Done some reading. Thanks to the article to waking me
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by demorro 6mo ago
This seems like a somewhat shallow reading of the leftist position. To go through the initial bullets point by point. - The copyright issue is more about equality and justice and any conceptual belief in copyright. I think many leftists wou
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by demorro 6mo ago
20 minutes is not enough time to drive you into a state of desperation, where you may be forced to try something novel which will expand your mind and future capabilities in unknown and unexpected ways. You might be driven to contact anothe
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by demorro 6mo ago
This Dynamic Dialectical Substrate sounds a lot like Pirsigs Metaphysics of Quality to me, which I think is neat.
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by demorro 6mo ago
Most software engineers are terrible, probably more than half are net negative in the grand scheme. I would argue this extends to most white collar positions. It's not simple to solve.
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by demorro 6mo ago
This doesn't seem different enough to be worth the transitional cost, even if you don't need to actually move away from a git backend.
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by demorro 6mo ago
Bravo.

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