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by djeastm 2y ago
Probably because they see all the data behind the scenes and know how the sausage is made with respect to what brings in $$. Capturing the attention of humans is just a psychological manipulation exercise. We're mice being given dopami
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by djeastm 2y ago
I saw this, too. I know a Youtuber who has 2 million subscribers and their latest videos get about 5k views when they used to get 500k without a change in quality.
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by djeastm 2y ago
Are the authors of the code assistants using those assistants to write the code assistant's code?
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>as with lawyers, medical doctors, and so on. It's frankly ridiculous that software "engineers" are permitted the title without the responsibility in the US. It's because 1) most of us don't work on things that c
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by djeastm 2y ago
I took a look at the 1992 Best of What's New edition and got a blast of nostalgia. My favorite part was always the classified ads at the back of the magazine. Got scammed out of a buck by one of those "make money at home" ads
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by djeastm 2y ago
>And then finally doing some quick googling to validate the answers seem correct. There will come a time when there won't be anyone writing information to check against. It'll be AI all the way down. Or at least it will be diff
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by djeastm 2y ago
>as it seems to anthropomorphize LLM in a way "hallucinate" does the same thing, fwiw
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by djeastm 2y ago
May be the pink elephant problem. If you pass the word "vulnerability" maybe it's going to return results that are linked to vulnerabilities.
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by djeastm 2y ago
>police state Isn't a police state where a government is concerned with security above all else? To my mind, a place where private organizations are above all concerned with security is the exact opposite, anarchy, since there&#x2
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>has me thinking about throwing the thing out Me, as well, but there's got to be someone whose job it is to calculate just how often it can interrupt people with ads without them throwing the device away because I've been sayin
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by djeastm 2y ago
Tetrafecta would be cooler
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>I've been saying for a while now that there's an absolute gold mine waiting for people who want to specialize in fixing AI generated applications. The real savvy ones will use later generations of LLMs to fix the output of ear
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by djeastm 2y ago
> How would one handle this type of project in 2024? Route most of the rote communication via an LLM, automate as much as possible, ignore all feature requests, dogfood everything as you continue to use the project yourself? As someone e
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by djeastm 2y ago
This seems like it'd be great to have playing at an old folks home. I know my grandparents watch the Johnny Carson/Tonight Show channel for a taste of their old culture
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>I really don’t like the denigration of humanity to sell these products. Sure, but then humanity was denigrated the first time a calculator was used to compute a sum instead of asking John Q Human to do it. I'd argue that the more w
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by djeastm 2y ago
>I might enjoy having written a book, but I don’t think I would enjoy writing a book. Reminds me of the saying "A classic novel is one that I'd like to have read, but don't want to read"
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by djeastm 2y ago
This is true, but part of that convincing is actually providing at least some amount of response that is helpful and moving you forward. I have to use coding as an example, because that's 95% of my use cases. I type in a general statem
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by djeastm 2y ago
>Coding AI can write tests, write code, compile, examine failed test cases, search for different coding solutions that satisfy more test cases or rewrite the tests, all in an unsupervised loop. Will this be able to be done without spendi
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by djeastm 2y ago
>You're going to have patterns from the .NET Framework era being ported to .NET Core projects. It works, but you'll have two paradigms of doing things mixed into your project. I've been spending the past couple years migra
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by djeastm 2y ago
I would guess many of them are lonely and are just happy for the attention. My father made a friend, an elderly man, who was being taken advantage of by some locals. Basically helping themselves to anything in his house, asking for cash, dr
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by djeastm 2y ago
>it would not occur to me that "learn language" in a headline should imply that That's because you've been marketed-to by beginner's courses your whole life, probably. Like I said, this goes back to things like R
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by djeastm 2y ago
Indeed, it's a beginner course, but they market their app as if they've discovered some secret algorithm to learning languages when any of their students would get just as much value out of any number of other independent learning
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by djeastm 2y ago
There goes thinking we had any sort of resiliency in the retail stock market... I really wonder how all of the major brokers could be having an issue. Is it just one of those "we haven't ever had a real market crash since we start
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by djeastm 2y ago
>However, they should be thrown away immediately after proving your coded logic matches business requirements as they are slow and lose value and become tech debt quickly. Can you expand on why integration tests should be thrown away onc
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by djeastm 2y ago
I'm a former military linguist who was trained to learn Arabic. I've always disliked and distrusted Duolingo (and before that, Rosetta Stone), for providing people the basics (which they do just fine) but making it seem like fluen
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by djeastm 2y ago
I wish my first name rhymed with "y" so I could make my portfolio domain name clever.
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>Saw the apple? Shomstein was confused. She didn’t actually see an apple. She could think about an apple: its taste, its shape, its color, the way light might hit it. But she didn’t see it. Behind her eyes, “it was completely black,” Sho
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by djeastm 2y ago
>countries with the best education tend to be authoritarian On what basis are you making this claim?
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I suppose he figures it can't do much worse than it has been doing.
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I think it's more nuanced than the article headline suggests. People get happier into middle adulthood, but after that it's more variable From the study linked ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36848104/ ): &gt

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