dofm

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by dofm 5d ago
> Arguments as old as time that a new form of automation will put people out of jobs are just not compelling to me, I'm sorry. I also don't believe it's likely that LLMs will ever be ASI, nor ever evil and sentient. I didn
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by dofm 5d ago
I personally think taking part in an industry that openly and casually argues that the insane losses being racked up are fully affordable as long as people are permanently taken out of the workforce is immoral, yes. Pan-industrial job loss
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by dofm 5d ago
> that's the core of what most of us writing software are doing Is that necessarily so?
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by dofm 5d ago
To address the second part of the sentence you quoted, in this generic “doesn’t progress mean all jobs are impermanent?” sense, don’t people generically understand their jobs are generically under threat at some baseline level from progress
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by dofm 5d ago
There may not be a definition of “good”. But there are several workable contextual definitions of bad; it’s your job to know what they are. For example: - it would cause a harm to someone who was not made aware of the risk up front. - it wo
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by dofm 5d ago
Yes. You never threaten to resign. You conditionally promise to resign. I had to make this conditional promise once, back in the nineties, as a junior person in a related industry. Because in the dot-com era developers like me were often si
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by dofm 5d ago
I write code to be read by just one guy. He’s five years older, a bit more tired than me, more going on in his life. Easily annoyed by bad code. Weirdly enough he has exactly the same name and birthday as me.
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by dofm 5d ago
When your fraudsters have near OEM-level resources, perhaps not? (To be clear, I don't know either way; I'm just assuming that this was contemplated at the time because it's easier)
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by dofm 5d ago
This is more "from successful fraudsters" than "from themselves".
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by dofm 5d ago
It's surely on the Pareto Frontier of something
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by dofm 5d ago
The iPhone 18 aperture does not have rounded blades (except the tip). Six hooked blades, very truncated hexagon aperture (perhaps exactly a regular dodecagon, it’s a little difficult to tell from the promo images)
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by dofm 6d ago
The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do! I can't sit here and worry about every little user request that comes in!
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by dofm 6d ago
Vacate entry port, program! I said, move out!
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by dofm 6d ago
It is a burden all of its own.
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by dofm 6d ago
He's often wrong, don't you know. Just not about your performance review.
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by dofm 6d ago
To make the only consumer revenue that will really ever be available. Remember they once predicted it would be 50% of their income. This is the only way they get there.
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by dofm 6d ago
Oh I think I have seen your website before! I too have too much clutter so I will have to turn down your kind offer but I will peruse your sites and I may ping you a note sometime about a particular lens I have been looking for — quite a ra
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by dofm 6d ago
Yes that mechanism only has two blades! They are sort of sickle-shaped. (Presumably gave the Soviet cloners a chuckle) I found myself looking at it when I was considering making a DIY aperture for my DIY lenses. (I've personally settle
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by dofm 6d ago
> This is usually due to the blade shape and quantity I believe. Also because of things like angle of incidence? The purely round lens will generally have nice round (or at least cats-eye) bokeh across the frame with an edge that degrade
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by dofm 6d ago
> Polygonal aperture openings are not the cause of soap-bubble bokeh Errr, quite obviously not, indeed. But then I didn't say they were? I said all phone lenses tend to have soap bubble bokeh as a consequence of their optics. Almost
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by dofm 6d ago
That is from the normal (24mm) camera slightly stopped down (f/1.8), judging by the EXIF. Odd bokeh was one of the risks of adding a mechanical aperture, and bokeh is very often weirdest at the first or second down from open. I would h
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by dofm 6d ago
"Pareto frontier" really is the new "web-scale".
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by dofm 6d ago
> Tech has always been breaking social contracts. It’s how we roll. We did the same thing with taxis and travel accommodations to name a few. It is not how I roll and it never has been . I don't and won't make things that are
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by dofm 6d ago
"AI writing has this strange obsession with making every sentence flow beautifully into the next one. Real people don't do that." If we care, we bloody try!
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by dofm 6d ago
Also a subset of clichéd US tech writers. It actually feels wrong to mention them by name now (because they are actual humans) but the "They're wrong. Here's why." school of writing was strong in the early 2000s and hasn
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by dofm 6d ago
For UK readers: all of UFO is available on the itvX player. So is Fireball XL5 ! (And Terrahawks , Space Precinct etc.) Also The Secret Service but after one episode of Unwinisms you will probably have had enough.
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by dofm 6d ago
"Mindbender" is a brilliant episode. "A Question Of Priorities" is quite dark. "Reflections In The Water" is pretty cool, too.
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by dofm 6d ago
UFO is surprisingly "adult" and dark in places.
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by dofm 6d ago
No offence taken — I just mean to clarify that the proportion of British speakers who do this an-then-soft-H thing is actually pretty small. Having said that, there are two constituencies that do it, I guess: - Those who do it out of uppe
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by dofm 6d ago
> The British pronounce it as "istory," so they use "an" before. "The British" aren't monolithic and neither are our approaches to this. I certainly don't say "it is an historic day" or &

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