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by dpe82 1y ago
Was this recently, using something like HTMX? Or years ago using some other system (or pure/standard HTML)?
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by dpe82 1y ago
IMHO Meta should be investing/inventing AI. When the AI org was younger it was doing some impressive open source work. Then it bloated and we got Llama 3 and not much since. I don't know if they can recover that earlier magic or i
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by dpe82 1y ago
One of the eternal struggles of BigCo is there are structural incentives to make organizations big and slow. This is basically a bureaucratic law of nature. It's often possible to get promoted by leading "large efforts" where
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by dpe82 1y ago
NIMBYs are everywhere.
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by dpe82 1y ago
At first I questioned your assertion, but after reading the most recent FAA AC revision ( https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/... ) I found: 13.5.3 In most cases, not all wind turbine un
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by dpe82 1y ago
This strikes me as a silly semantics argument. One could similarly argue software engineering is also just writing sentences with funny characters sprinkled in. Personally, my most productive "software engineering" work is literal
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by dpe82 1y ago
a) 5hrs/week is negligible compared to that potential AWS bill. b) The seem tolerant of failures so it's not going to be anything like 5hrs/week of physical maintenance. It will be bursty though (eg. box died, time to replace
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by dpe82 1y ago
I think these days folks say "dark fiber" for any kind of connection you buy. It bothers me too.
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by dpe82 1y ago
Is that really a problem though? Almost nobody does anything "novel to humankind" - besides the odd research professor here and there, we're all just remixing existing stuff in new-to-us ways.
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by dpe82 1y ago
And we thank you for it! I've been a paying customer for about a year now and I can't remember the last time I purposefully used Google search.
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by dpe82 1y ago
You've essentially described Google Wave style Operational Transformation.
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by dpe82 1y ago
Ah that one. Thanks!
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by dpe82 1y ago
Mind linking to "his recent talk"? There's a lot of videos of him so it's a bit difficult to find what's most recent.
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by dpe82 1y ago
Anthropic has existed for a grand total of 4 years. But yes, there was a window of opportunity when it was possible to do cutting-edge work without billions of investment. That window of opportunity is now past, at least for LLMs. Many new
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by dpe82 1y ago
In a previous generation, the enabler of all our computer tech innovation was the incredible pace of compute growth due to Moore's Law, which was also "top-down" from very well-funded companies since designing and building cu
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by dpe82 1y ago
Do you ever fix your own bugs?
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by dpe82 1y ago
Actually that's exactly how you do it.
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by dpe82 1y ago
I drove it 2 weeks ago: https://maps.app.goo.gl/tzDq1cP7WEngYCaH7
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by dpe82 1y ago
Super cool project! I see the map on the wall.. where in Wisconsin are ya?
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by dpe82 1y ago
My understanding is it's even dumber than that: NYC sensibly requires building owners to repair failing brick facades, but allows them to put up scaffolding indefinitely until they do. It turns out just leaving up the scaffolding and n
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by dpe82 1y ago
Hasn't it been largely free of interference up until now? And would you prefer it suffer from corporate interference like all other media?
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by dpe82 1y ago
In Wisconsin, motorcycles, bikes, etc. are sometimes allowed to run a red if they wait for 45s and there's no other traffic around: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/346/vi/37...
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by dpe82 1y ago
Sure; but (IIRC) at the time Facebook was burning cash and the board could have threatened future funding if he refused the offer. He may have been able to get more funding anyway but the larger point is these things are never as simple as
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by dpe82 1y ago
Incentives.
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by dpe82 1y ago
"Intent" in this context means more more like: "did you intend to stab this person?" (battery/murder) vs. "did you recklessly swing a knife not knowing someone was about to walk by?" (reckless endangerment
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by dpe82 1y ago
And if the judgement is in error, it will be appealed and overruled by a higher court. This is how our system works. We're only seeing it as a "problem" lately because the past few administrations have leaned increasingly hea
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by dpe82 1y ago
Why would they have to change? Sometimes software development is largely "done" and there isn't much more you need to do to a library.
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by dpe82 1y ago
Oh yeah. Personally I also try to avoid Python but as the rest of this thread covers it's pretty deeply rooted in ML/AI so I think we're stuck with it - at least for a while.
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by dpe82 1y ago
That's my assumption too: it's a simple language with very good tooling that's used by reasonably serious projects with good code quality. As a result the LLMs have both high quality training data and the output is easier to
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by dpe82 1y ago
As a highly-literate developer with almost 30 years of experience, I can also confirm that LLMs are very good at writing Go.

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