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by dimal 1y ago
I had been worried about what would happen as the American republic goes down, whether other countries would follow suit. So those two examples are cause for hope. As for the second term, we can’t forget that the Democrats basically threw t
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by dimal 1y ago
There’s always been this draw in software engineering to find the silver bullet that will allow you to turn off your brain and just vibe your way to a solution. It might be OOP or TDD or pair programming or BDD or any number of other “best
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by dimal 1y ago
I’m autistic and I agree with this. Pretty much any time someone says, “autism is…” they’re wrong. So, saying this disorder is the opposite of a poorly defined cluster of traits is just absurd.
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by dimal 1y ago
That’s the opposite of an incorrect stereotype. The idea that autistic people don’t have empathy is false. I’m autistic. Of all the other autistic people I know (about a dozen) all are highly empathetic. To neurotypical people we often don’
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by dimal 1y ago
I sympathize with this point of view but I disagree. I’m not sure if I’m ADHD, but I’m autistic. I’ve been diagnosed as ADHD in the past, I’m just not sure how useful it is as a diagnosis for me. I have enormous problems with focus and exec
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by dimal 1y ago
Hmm. That hasn’t been my experience. Getting adderall or Ritalin was as easy as saying, “I’m having trouble concentrating.”
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by dimal 1y ago
We shouldn’t call it a health care system. That’s an aspirational term that doesn’t match reality. We have a medical industry. Like all industries, the goal is to return value to shareholders. If healthcare is provided as a side effect of p
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by dimal 1y ago
Seriously. I have never seen this, even once. I had been wondering if it was impossible. If a model can really say “I don’t know” when it doesn’t know, that could change everything. How many pointless, dumb rabbit holes could be avoided?
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by dimal 1y ago
Even with large contexts there's diminishing returns. Just having the ability to stuff more tokens in context doesn't mean the model can effectively use it. As far as I can tell, they always reach a point in which more information
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by dimal 1y ago
“Trust the science” is a terrible slogan. It almost turns science into a religion. Most people that use it seem to think that science is whatever a scientist says. We should be saying “Trust the scientific method”.
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by dimal 1y ago
With the dynamics of publish or perish being what they are, what’s the way out? As long as there is high demand for papers (not knowledge) then some market will pop up to feed that demand. I hate to say it, but cutting off the money spigot
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by dimal 1y ago
Setting up linting with noExplicitAny is essential. But that won’t stop them from disabling it when they can’t figure something out. They’re sneaky little bastards.
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by dimal 1y ago
Technically you’re not vibe coding. You’re using AI to do software engineering. Vibe coding is specifically the process of having AI produce code and plowing ahead without understanding it. I know I’m being pedantic, but people mean very di
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by dimal 1y ago
They need to fix bugs first. For fucks sake, predictive text on the iOS keyboard regularly predicts non-grammatical words, and dictation is terrible. It’s ridiculous that AI is good enough to write sonnets and coherent code, yet Apple can’t
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by dimal 1y ago
Mozilla is over. They put all their eggs in the Google basket, and soon they’ll lose that. They have no viable path forward. Servo and Ladybird are the future. I’m astounded by how quickly Ladybird is proceeding, with far fewer people than
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by dimal 1y ago
Hmm. I am autistic, so as far as humans go, I'm robot-adjacent.
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by dimal 1y ago
As I get older, I can see a future where I’m cut off from parts of the web because of captchas. This one, where you just have to click a button, is passable, but I’ve had some of the puzzle ones force me to answer up to ten questions before
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by dimal 1y ago
But the future is vibe coding and shipping fast even if we don’t understand the code the LLM wrote!! The only speed metric worth caring about is time to market! Just fucking ship! /s
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by dimal 1y ago
Have you seen the tests that LLMs write if you just vibe code it and don't pay attention? They're generally worse than worthless. They test pointless stuff and they miss important stuff. If you have them on a tight leash, then you
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by dimal 1y ago
> developers fall into two camps: > Craft-focused developers enjoy the process of writing code… > Delivery-focused developers care about shipping products. What the hell am I, then? I’m a craft-focused developer who cares about shi
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by dimal 1y ago
Weird that it doesn’t mention Trump. He and Bezos were at odds until Bezos gave him $1M for the inauguration and decided to neuter the Post’s opinion section. Then all threats of antitrust against Amazon magically went away. Bezos probably
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by dimal 1y ago
Vibe coding pushes errors rightward, but using AI to speed up typing or summarizing documentation doesn’t. Vibe coding will fail, but that doesn’t mean using AI to code will fail. You’re looking at one (admittedly stupid) use case and gener
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by dimal 1y ago
Did you actually watch it? He talks A LOT more about Simula and C++ than Smalltalk. He goes back to the original sources: Kristen Nygaard and Bjarne Stroustrup. Seems odd to focus on Smalltalk when that’s not what the talk was about.
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by dimal 1y ago
I still do a lot of refactoring by hand. With vim bindings it’s often quicker than trying to explain to a clumsy LLM how to do it. For me, refactoring is really the essence of coding. Getting the initial version of a solution that barely wo
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by dimal 1y ago
That is completely bizarre. I’ve been wondering what’s happening to programmer interviews now that AI makes all the standard formats pointless. I never imagined that they would ADD coding to the process for other roles. Having PMs vibe codi
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by dimal 1y ago
Interesting how supposed fraud from lower class people is a high priority that must be punished, but fraud from upper class people is almost always protected by the corporate veil.
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by dimal 1y ago
You chose oil for your example, but what about natural gas? If Europe needs natural gas, they can just buy it… and give money directly to their enemy, Russia. Just buying what you need isn’t without second order effects. The second order ef
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by dimal 1y ago
All that money wasted is the whole point of Mozilla. It’s been captured by Google. The role of Mozilla is to provide a fig leaf of “competition” while using Google money to pay executives who fulfill that duty. Anything that is successful o
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by dimal 1y ago
Won’t make much of a difference? To what?You’re only talking about whether to offshore or not. Not whether to HIRE or not. Many companies simply won’t offshore core functions because doing product development on your core product with a tea
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by dimal 1y ago
This is a shot in the dark, but there is a lot of excitement right now about treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as a metabolic issue. Some people are seeing complete remission, without medication. This isn’t a quick easy recommenda

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