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by dwb 11mo ago
A table is for tabulating data. They have quite different meaning and purpose, even if they share a couple of characteristics.
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by dwb 11mo ago
No, I asked about other things where you think the maker should restrict types of use? Are you saying you agree with EULAs in general? I can’t think of many cases of EULAs restricting usage in the way we’re talking about. Maybe some tha
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by dwb 11mo ago
This repository doesn't work on services , it modifies models that you can download and run inference on yourself. Are there any other pieces of software, or data files, or any other products at all where you think the maker should be
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by dwb 11mo ago
I still don't get it, can you clarify? It's not the research phase that I'm disputing. Clearly for a large codebase, you need some good way to take all that information (code, product knowledge) and distill it down to somethi
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by dwb 11mo ago
You can get away with incredibly vague "specs" in tickets most of the time because of a shared understanding of the system and product – of the kind that an LLM won't have (without very careful and well-organised in-repo docu
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by dwb 11mo ago
I have similar feelings. I’m willing to believe there are scenarios where this kind of thing makes sense, maybe – a colleague has had great success on a small, predictable greenfield project with it. I don’t work on many of those. My main o
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by dwb 11mo ago
This is going nowhere because you insist on conflating gender and sex.
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by dwb 11mo ago
Are you having a nice time repeatedly misgendering one of my trans siblings? I see what you’re doing. A bit of basic social respect costs nothing, you know. And “visibly” as in I get funny looks and sometimes shouted abuse from passing cars
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by dwb 11mo ago
Who would go to the trouble of transitioning, against the vicious judgement of some people, if not to try to live a more authentic life? I am (visibly) non-binary, and I can tell you, I don’t do this just for the hell of it.
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by dwb 11mo ago
Irrelevant, we are talking about gender, which is distinct from sex. It remains that “pregnant people” is a plainer and more accurate way of talking about people that are pregnant.
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by dwb 11mo ago
This is not a case of language evolution, “woman” has never been a biological term. Also the rest of my comment.
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by dwb 11mo ago
https://www.gov.uk/apply-gender-recognition-certificate
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by dwb 11mo ago
You will not find many mainstream scientists in this area that agree with you.
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by dwb 11mo ago
“Woman” is not a biological sex, it simply isn’t. You are ignoring that trans men (legally and socially not women), along with some intersex people (neither biologically male or female, by definition, and legal gender varies), and cisgender
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by dwb 11mo ago
No such thing as a “biological woman”. I’ve only ever heard medics in the UK use careful and restricted terms when discussing sex - “male” and “female” at most, and only when relevant. Clearly it is sometimes relevant and no-one is disputin
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by dwb 11mo ago
Wrong https://www.gov.uk/apply-gender-recognition-certificate
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by dwb 11mo ago
Trans men are men, socially and legally. Describing them as women is simply incorrect.
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by dwb 11mo ago
I said “the burden”, not “the burden of proof”. Not all inquisitions are worthwhile. The questions in your post have very obvious answers, especially in the context of the article. > Isn't it just like diary-writing or memo-writing,
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by dwb 11mo ago
It is obviously very different to solo writing. The burden should be on you to explain why it’s so similar that this line of conversation is worthwhile.
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by dwb 1y ago
That sounds awful! For a start, accessibility would get even worse than it already is. The browser may become more “minimal” and “simple” from the point of view of the implementer, but certainly not the user.
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by dwb 1y ago
> The word balance never came up. Hope you Deliver enough Impact before you burn out. Honestly sounds like a corporate brainwashing effort more than anything. “Senior principal engineer”? What’s next, “Senior staff principal engineer”?
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by dwb 1y ago
Are you an individual contributor if the vast majority of your work isn’t individual contribution? And you’re not a “working-level” IC? God I hate all this big corporate hierarchy terminology. Along with all the pontification about what a “
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by dwb 1y ago
Honestly, if the LLM/agent can't do what I want with a simple, shortish prompt that I understand, augmented by some well-chosen tool calls, I'm not interested. These incantations may or may not work, but I just don't wan
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by dwb 1y ago
Just tried Notion AI to build me a mermaid diagram and it was totally useless. So probably not bothering with that again. I can write good enough English without it and I don’t want to sound like generic slop anyway.
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by dwb 1y ago
Your English is fine as it is. In this case at least, AI made it worse with all the grating hyperbole (“fantastic”, “perfect”, “stellar”). If you want to improve your English, why not get AI to point out mistakes and unidiomatic bits, rathe
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by dwb 1y ago
If you don't clearly detail what your new tech product or system is bad at, as well as what it's good at, I'm not interested. So much of engineering is about navigating the inevitable tradeoffs. Marketing should have no pla
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by dwb 1y ago
> And the key thing to recognize is that there's nothing in the system to enforce that standard. "Good at making money" or "Good at running a business" doesn't mean one is good at anything else, or, indeed,
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by dwb 1y ago
They may not be moral leaders, but I expect them to be leaders who are moral. Well, I don’t expect that they will be, but that’s my standard.
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by dwb 1y ago
That is a much better argument than saying it is "more clean", which doesn't mean anything. I don't necessarily agree, because I don't think zero values are a good feature of the language, and even if they were this
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by dwb 1y ago
Why?

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