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by djeastm 1y ago
>isn't doing much else but existing The nerve of some people. Seriously though, why isn't existing enough?
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by djeastm 1y ago
I was a linguist in a former life, so these apps always intrigue me. I've made a few attempts myself over the years. Yours looks slick and would've been an interesting one to check out if I were learning a language. I signed-in an
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by djeastm 1y ago
For me it's more like I bounce back and forth avoiding the pains from whatever the last project was using. Same with front-end frameworks vs vanilla JS etc. For example, you work with ORMs and then you see all the problems with them as
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>if you have one Jira card tied to 500+ AI generated tests The dreaded "Added tests" commit...
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by djeastm 1y ago
This weekend I (& AI) made a little quizzing app for testing myself after watching Jeopardy. Only put the last three games of this past season so far, but I will probably add more each day (re-runs are still on until the new season star
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>Do healthcare providers actively upsell testing in the USA? In my experience, normal doctors do not, but there are a lot of private businesses that make their living selling testing. Also, consider that despite a lot of people knowing t
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Well don't leave us hanging! We need the anecdata!
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I kind of hate the implications of it, but if HN (or someone else) wanted to add value, they could show one-line sentiment analyses of the comments in the HN articles so you can decide what's what without even clicking.
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by djeastm 1y ago
Is "birth defect" a eugenically-charged word? I've never heard it used in such a manner, just as a matter of fact.
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The incentive was often creating a community around a shared interest. Good luck doing that with AI summaries stopping people from visiting the sites.
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It is useful, but it assumes the information is trustworthy. At least with websites you could discern some credibility based on the organization publishing the information. With AI summaries, it's just "Google's latest model
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by djeastm 1y ago
I hope things turn out the way you suggest. If we could return to a pre-2000s, pre-Dotcom boom internet I would be ever so happy, but I'm skeptical.
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Would that application not exist in the training data already?
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by djeastm 1y ago
Personally, I'm ok paying 30 bucks a year to make sure fellow human beings in the US don't die of preventable causes in our streets.
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by djeastm 1y ago
Correct. Rosie is an American citizen born in the US and Trump threatened to "revoke" her citizenship. We are all provisional citizens at this point.
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The political parties would probably print out a flyer containing their suggested votes for each issue. If you already were going to vote for the party anyway, this has a neutral effect since that's basically what happens with a repres
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by djeastm 1y ago
RE Point 1. All it takes is one of those other peers' parents to allow them to view pornography and then that kid just becomes the porn-distributor for the school, just like some kids in my day passed around porno mags. In essence, not
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by djeastm 1y ago
I might very well be interested in Grok as a third-party problem-solver and always deal with it at arms length, but I will assuredly never trust the company behind it with anything relating to social issues. That bridge has been burnt to a
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by djeastm 1y ago
I agree about the pricing being... quirky. It consumes so many tokens for thinking (and the thinking is not optional) so a person thinking about just input/output could get burned.
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There's screening for terrorist ties and then there's screening for wrongthink, no?
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by djeastm 1y ago
>..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B. This might be like Stacey King, a Chicago Bulls player, jokingly claiming he and Michael Jordan "combined to score 70 points" on a night when Jordan scored 69 poi
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by djeastm 1y ago
>When I ask them why they did that, they say they don't know, the LLM did it. I can't imagine a professional software developer in a position of authority leaving that statement unchallenged and uncorrected. If a person doesn&#
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by djeastm 1y ago
Greetings, Professor Falken. The only winning move is not to play.
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by djeastm 1y ago
Some people are annoyed at the hype, some are making good faith arguments about the pros/cons, and some people are just cranky. AI is a popular subject and we've all got our hot takes.
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by djeastm 1y ago
>are nigh-unworkable on desktops, support is very spotty I use .webp often and I don't understand this. At least on Windows 10 I can go to a .webp and see a preview and double-click and it opens in my image editor. Is it not like th
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by djeastm 1y ago
>I keep trying to explain this to tiny dev teams I'm curious what role you have where you're doing this repeatedly
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by djeastm 1y ago
People are always welcome to ignore the warnings if they want, as I think every one does.
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How so?
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Sure, but easy in, easy out. Hard earned experience is worth soo much more than slick summaries of the last twenty years of blog articles.
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Will people be willing to make their full time job writing tests?

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