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by ebiester 1y ago
But if we had a famine, we could redirect that toward generating food for that year or three. No, I don't love biofuels either. but it's not entirely a bad idea.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Avoiding starvation on a country level is a good goal of government, even if it isn't perfectly efficient. That can mean price floors and things that are not optimal for cars or toys.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think the easy answer is "could you see this system being rewritten in QT or Visual Basic 6?" If this would have been a desktop app in the 90s, it's within this scope.
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by ebiester 1y ago
My contention is that this may not be the traditional client side app, but you are still placing these on a single page. Just because you are replacing the HTML on the page doesn't mean it is a multi-page app. It's an interesting
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by ebiester 1y ago
You and I read that completely differently. Standing up for other employees is the explicitly "not narcissist" part of that statement. The statement is "Value people. Do not value soulless entities. They are trying to extract
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by ebiester 1y ago
This happened in the West Bank, not Gaza. But if you are talking about peacekeeping forces in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, I think there's a good argument for it.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Yes, a well-engineered SSR webapp could be indistinguishable from an SPA. However, it is much harder to build a well engineered SSR with the tools we have. I haven't seen someone solve errors with form submissions and the back button
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by ebiester 1y ago
Then, however, they would be accountable for how many times AI fails. If I'm paying a flat rate, the only economic cost I am worrying about is "will this be faster than me doing it myself if it fails once or twice?" If I am p
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by ebiester 1y ago
Sometimes, it's "there is something wrong here but I cannot figure out a way to make it better yet without working nights and weekends for the next three months with no benefit to myself."
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by ebiester 1y ago
So, if you are one of 52 wealthy and mostly white countries... got it.
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by ebiester 1y ago
FIFA is looking at moving our matches to Canada. I don't think this administration was that interested in hosting a global event.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Consider the general research - in all, it doesn't eliminate people, but let's say it shakes out to speeding up developers 10% over all tasks. (That includes creating tickets, writing documentation, unblocking bugs, writing script
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by ebiester 1y ago
I don't doubt it, especially when you have an organization that is focused on building the most effective tooling possible. I'd imagine that they use AI even when it isn't the most optimal, because they are trying to build ex
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by ebiester 1y ago
At this point, they have to be training it. At what point will you start using something else?
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by ebiester 1y ago
And if you’re willing to pay $195 for the package and upgrades of $50 each time the OS breaks the app, we are good. And as long as this software doesn’t have to sync across mobile and desktop. And as long as this is single user software. Th
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by ebiester 1y ago
According to multiple outlets including Gergely Orosz, this was incorrect reporting. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-a... This has impact on those careers so it’s worth getting right.
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by ebiester 1y ago
It's going to take more people willing to move away from slack for those purposes. As it is, I'm going to propose that we move more key conversations outside of slack so that we can take advantage of feeding it into ai. It's
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think there was a consensus over the past decade, but we are now having to adjust our priors. The answer is changing month by month. It also means people are delaying their decision because they are afraid of the wrong solution right now
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by ebiester 1y ago
While I get my organization's IT department involved, I do wonder why this is built in a way that requires more work for people already paying google money than a free user.
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by ebiester 1y ago
So, as a member of an organization who pays for google workspace with gemini, I get the message `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT environment variable not found. Add that to your .env and try again, no reload needed!` At the very least, we need better
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by ebiester 1y ago
This is a rather human failing - complexity is fractal: you only notice it when you get close enough to it. However, I disagree that engineers only have to deal with the complexity of the computer; instead, I argue they have to translate th
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by ebiester 1y ago
I was thinking things as benign as the flu or shingles - I'm hoping we don't have anything like COVID again.
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by ebiester 1y ago
To be replaced with people who will not approve vaccines regardless of safety, reducing our total health. I can't wait to travel to Mexico or Canada to get a vaccine!
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by ebiester 1y ago
AI isn’t quite good enough for organizing your notes yet. However, the biggest issue with our notes is that we make them for us, not another person, so the context is lacking for search.
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by ebiester 1y ago
It's game theory in our favor. The team that gets this right suddenly gets 100% of the pie and deals a blow to their competitors, at least until their competitors can find their own path. A five year monopoly on this kind of treatment
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by ebiester 1y ago
Nobody wins the oppression olympics.
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by ebiester 1y ago
And that's the intersection between race, genetic background, ethnicity, heritage, and culture. You joke, but "assigned at birth" is probably apt. You may have discomfort or comfort in identifying with it. It may subtly chang
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by ebiester 1y ago
It's there in every university. It's in every sociology and anthropology field at least. But in general, it gets dismissed as "Woke."
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by ebiester 1y ago
Probably because it's an "Ops" team that controls the keys and uses infrastructure as code rather than devevloper and operations combined as a mentality. And the ops team has preconfigured systems for single page applications
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by ebiester 1y ago
I'd even argue that small web apps are easier in vanilla JS. There is a definite threshold where that flips, and inside every small web app is a large one waiting for its time to shine. I've been struggling with how to write about

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