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by ebiester 1y ago
Only one at a time, but a CEO is still chasing that monumental success that their reputation can ride on later.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Is the purpose to collect money, or is it to proselytize? It may as well be a "Keep the name of Jesus and the thought of his return relevant"
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by ebiester 1y ago
I think the difference is that I spent so much time tweaking the website that I wasn't writing. Moving back to Jekyll was entirely a move because I wanted to spend more of that time writing. At the same time, I know that it limits me i
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by ebiester 1y ago
What if there are setup questions that need to be answered that change the trajectory of an install? For example, some installs will have features you can opt out of to save space.
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by ebiester 1y ago
However, if I miss a bill at my credit card because of some missed email, I can call them and get it fixed up. If I miss a bill at my bank, I can call my bank and we will get it fixed up. And those are a bit too big for my comfort compared
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by ebiester 1y ago
The alternative is continually watching over my shoulder for some sort of scam because I have no recourse. And agents just make it easier.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Let's frame it more generously: The reward is based on being able to contribute something novel to the world - not because nobody else can but because it's another contribution to the world's knowledge.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Studies take time. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... is the first one from Microsoft. But it goes back to gains coming as people become more skilled.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Yes, not because you will be able to solve harder problems, but because you will be able to more quickly solve easier problems which will free up more time to get better at programming, as well as get better at the domain in which you'
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by ebiester 1y ago
I get that it's frustrating to be told "skill issue," but using an LLM is absolutely a skill and there's a combination of understanding the strengths of various tools, experimenting with them to understand the techniques
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by ebiester 1y ago
There are multiple parts of the job. Can you work with your team? Can you get management what they need to do their job effectively? Can you get what other teams need from you effectively? Can you do the technical work? All of them are part
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by ebiester 1y ago
If you like Snobol, I'd take a look at Icon, Griswold's research language after Snobol. It took a lot of the ideas but smoothed it out. I remember writing the Icon string manipulation in java in college, and I've hated regula
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by ebiester 1y ago
I remember driving with my grandparents at that age, and there is a reflex issue. Their reflexes slow and it becomes a lot more difficult for them.
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by ebiester 1y ago
Okay, yes, we get it. But the United States as a name even is not unique to western hemisphere countries - the name of Mexico is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" - or United Mexican States. We were the first country from the to be reco
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by ebiester 1y ago
You are likely a prime candidate for one of these drugs then. Are you considering it?
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by ebiester 1y ago
How much of your active attention is tracking on your hunger signals. If I can't focus on my current task because I'm too hungry, that's food noise. If I can't get to sleep and am tossing and turning because I am too hun
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by ebiester 1y ago
How much did you lose? What is your current food noise? I really like Mark Lewis's take on YouTube - he's someone who is very fit in general but an injury threw him off and before he knew it, he had gained double digit kilos. This
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by ebiester 1y ago
They didn't have a monopoly on information anytime in the 20th century. If you wanted to have all the knowledge, it could be expensive to acquire a personal library, but nothing was stopping you from acquiring the same textbooks. Heck,
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by ebiester 1y ago
Academia did it with advertising. And it used some of the strategies founded by its marketing, communications, and psychology departments. It also recognized the GI Bill as an opportunity and also sent lobbyists for the HEA in 1965.
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by ebiester 1y ago
This seems to be the general feeling of students right now. Academia put itself as a gateway and barrier to the middle class. Why would we be surprised when people with no interest in anything but the goal are not enthralled by the process?
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by ebiester 1y ago
Devin ( https://devin.ai/ ) is another model. (So no, it's not like you're submitting it as your work.) You create a ticket. The AI takes the ticket. The AI may ask questions. The AI creates a pull request. You revi
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by ebiester 1y ago
The example they were using, however, was Devin, which is supposed to be autonomous. I think they're presenting a slightly different use case than the rest of us are.
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by ebiester 1y ago
The founding fathers would have been called terrorists today by the British. Past the Boston Tea Party, the Green Mountain Boys is a pretty good example. "The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terror
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by ebiester 1y ago
Eventually? Microsoft and Copilot, and Apple and Siri - even if they have to outsource their model making. It will be a challenge to desktop Linux.
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by ebiester 1y ago
I don't think about it in lines of code, but let me say that there are some efficiencies being left on the table. It helps because I am quicker to run to a script to automate a process instead of handling it manually, because I can ban
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by ebiester 1y ago
You cannot build a tractor unit (the engine-cab half of the tractor-trailer) with Model T Technology even if they are close. And the changes will be in the auxiliary features. We will figure out ways to have LLMs understand APIs better with
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by ebiester 1y ago
I'm really working hard to figure out how to optimize away documentation, but it's seemingly harder than writing the code. It's easier to generate the code from the documentation than the documentation from the code, referenc
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by ebiester 1y ago
First, I think it's fair to say that today, an LLM cannot replace a programmer fully. However, I have two counters: - First, the rational argument right now is that one person and money spent toward LLMs can replace three - or more - p
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by ebiester 1y ago
I don't dispute that these are problems, but the fact that its hallucinations are quite sophisticated to me means that they are errors humans also could reach. I am not saying that the LLMs are better than you analyze but rather that a
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by ebiester 1y ago
The hard part is that for all the things that the author says disprove LLMs are intelligent are failings for humans too. * Humans tell you how they think, but it seemingly is not how they really think. * Humans tell you repeatedly they used

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