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by entropyneur 7mo ago
Same at 42. I've been making software for 30 years and the gap between what I can envision and what I can code in a single day is so huge that it takes all the steam out of me. With agentic coding I can move at a pace that feels right
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by entropyneur 7mo ago
If only we had some technology that would relieve us of the need to share IP addresses among multiple servers, this might have been unnecessary.
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Comparatively few people live under worse authoritarianism than the one in China. Definitely not enough to form a talent pool that would make any dent in whatever China already has. Especially when you factor in education quality.
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Why would anyone want to become a Chinese citizen? How's everyone discussing linguistics while completely ignoring the authoritarian elephant in the room?
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Previous discussion: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-online-portal-bypass-... Weird title, but worthy of discussion. From the little info available so far this appears to be little more than political posturing
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Why is it depressing? Personally, unless the alternative is literally starving, I wouldn't want to do a job that a robot could do instead just so that I could be kept busy. That sounds like an insult to human dignity tbh.
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Emacs is an interesting analogy. I've switched from IDEs to Emacs at some point in my career, and inertia obviously wasn't the reason. Then another 15 years later I went back to using IDEs (inspired by Carmack's interview).
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
Reading this thread suggests being "AI-first" is hardly a talent magnet.
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by entropyneur 8mo ago
> I deeply appreciate hand-tool carpentry and mastery of the art, but people need houses and framing teams should obviously have skillsaws. Where are all the new houses? I admit I am not a bleeding edge seeker when it comes to software c
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by entropyneur 9mo ago
I am with you on this, although I was able to ship with Aider before as it uses less autonomous approach than the current wave of agentic tools. I don't even care about abstract code quality. To me code quality means maintainability. I
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by entropyneur 9mo ago
Stock market integrity is important because of their function in the economy. Scamming of gambling addicts is tragic but not detrimental to society.
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by entropyneur 9mo ago
Going to such great lengths to keep the office quiet. It wouldn't even occur to me to think about the noise.
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by entropyneur 9mo ago
The majority of American voters chose this at the most recent presidential elections. And immigration was the central issue, so that's exactly what most of them voted for. Not sure why you are surprised. If anything I find it notable h
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by entropyneur 10mo ago
Honest question: why no mention of China? I assume they've given up earlier due to lack of resources?
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by entropyneur 10mo ago
AFAIK the C implementation is a kernel module that's not shipped in stock Android releases. The WireGuard Android app uses that module when available, but otherwise uses wireguard-go.
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by entropyneur 10mo ago
My experience so far has been that the knowledge of what should and shouldn't be, while important, bears no predictive power whatsoever as to what actually ends up happening. In this instance, in particular, I wouldn't expect our
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by entropyneur 11mo ago
It was completely incomprehensible to me.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
I know I am going to be in the minority, but I don't understand why we can't let Python be Python. Static typing is great, and there are already other statically typed languages for all your needs. Why not use them? Well, at least
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by entropyneur 1y ago
I agree that whether AI is conscious is an important question. In fact, I think it's the most important question above our own existential crisis. Unfortunately, it's also completely hopeless at our current level of knowledge.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
> Did David Lynch make Mulholland Drive because he predicted it would be a good movie? He made it because he predicted that it will have some effects enjoyable to him. Without knowing David Lynch personally I can assume that he made it b
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by entropyneur 1y ago
This article seems to fall straight into the trap it aims to warn us about. All this talk about "true" understanding, embodiment, etc. is needless antropomorphizing. A much better framework for thinking about intelligence is simpl
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by entropyneur 1y ago
Have you been engulfed in flames before? I've definitely experienced mental states that were worse than being dead. I don't regret remaining alive because of all the positive experiences I've had afterwards. But if we are tal
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by entropyneur 1y ago
The path is in the opposite direction altogether.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
Wondering if anyone had success with this yet. I have several ideas for poetry and prose that I don't have the skill to pull off. I periodically plug them into new models and so far all the results have been completely unsatisfactory.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
How does one look at gpt-1 output and think "this has potential"? You could easily produce more interesting output with a Markov chain at the time.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
This was the first product demo I've watched in my entire life. Not because I am excited for the new tech, but because I'm anxious to know if I'm already being put out of my job. Not this time, it seems.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
Interesting. This is quite contrary to my experience. Using LLMs for things ouside my expertise produces crappy results which I can only identify as such months later when my expertise expands. Meanwhile delegating the boring parts that I k
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by entropyneur 1y ago
Can someone please explain why we still have chargebacks in 2025? Don't accept cards without 3DS, problem solved. If not, why not? Are some important consumer segments still stuck with cards that don't have it?
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by entropyneur 1y ago
You are free to believe whatever you chose of course and state it here, but the sentence you cited does nothing to support your claim.
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by entropyneur 1y ago
Same thing. Couldn't get it to work with an API key (which worked just fine in Aider before). Couldn't get it to work with a Gemini Code Assist Standard license. The management UI and documentation are a torture maze. Can't s

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