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by ep103 1y ago
This is prime HR style lying. The response is: Problem statement. Claim that reality is the opposite of the problem statement, with no justification given, despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Statement that if reality doesn't
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by ep103 1y ago
SWIM worked as a PM at a company that decided to redo their UI. They ran into an issue on internal roll out, where they discovered their support team for years had been doing sql injection on a specific form in the UI, in order to run repor
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by ep103 1y ago
I think you've drawn the wrong conclusions from the history of the web. The web started out idealistic, and became what it did because of underregulated market forces. The same thing will happen to ai. First, a cool new technology that
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by ep103 1y ago
This is already the way my company wants to go. Put MCP in front of every GET API, and let teams explore on their own
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by ep103 1y ago
> Now we have fuzzy inputs, fuzzy outputs _For this implementation, our engineers chose_ to have fuzzy inputs, fuzzy outputs There, fixed that for you
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by ep103 1y ago
Yeah, writing a script can be the cheapest part. Developing a full script, and getting that plot vision expressed on screen, blocking the meddling along the way... THAT's expensive.
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by ep103 1y ago
I think the primary thing I've learned about open vs closed source products this last decade, is that the difference in marketing is huge. Both Firefox and Chrome are great browsers, end stop. But most articles on HN about Chrome start
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by ep103 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not in the movie industry or anything, but it seems to me like if one was so inclined, they could put together a list of all of the things that have to be done well in order to make a fantastic movie. If we ignored all of the
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by ep103 1y ago
This is what we used to do, because in one friend group there would be 3 mikes and 2 steves. At some point, you have to use nicknames or last names.
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by ep103 1y ago
Okay, so how do I set up the sort of agent / feedback loop he is describing? Can someone point me in the direction to do that? So far all I've done is just open up the windsurf IDE. Do I have to set this up from scratch?
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by ep103 1y ago
So basically the current system? I say that mostly, but not entirely, jokingly. : )
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by ep103 1y ago
They did. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that while the President is in charge of foreign policy, and can deport people however, these people have to see a court room before they are deported. Yesterday, Trump made various statements that he
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by ep103 2y ago
Oh, that's easy. I choose #3 3: The top of the economic ladder reacts to worsening conditions by switching from promoting riskier growth based economic policies from which they might glean opportunities from new wealth, to allowing on
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by ep103 2y ago
> Scientist: Hurrah! We have created an algorithm that can mimic human speech! > CEO: Fantastic! I've already fired all of the doctors and nurses, how soon can it start doing surgeries? > Scientist: ...
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by ep103 2y ago
A few years after a greenfield rewrite, the codebase is going to go back to the same level of quality it was before the rewrite, because the level of code quality is a function of the competency of the team, not the tech stack. The only tim
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by ep103 2y ago
Right, its because a law should be passed regulating this sort of data for the good of all citizens, but our congress can't / won't pass that, so they only stepped in when it became an obvious national security concern. It&#x
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by ep103 2y ago
tl;dr: AI is looking to convey words. A good author is looking to efficiently convey information. Because that's literally what it is. Its an algorithm that is continuously asking itself, 'what is the most likely word I should s
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by ep103 2y ago
Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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by ep103 2y ago
Sounds like the sorta thing AI would write
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by ep103 2y ago
I try to eat meat to minimize the formula of: cruelty_cow = IntModifier * Animal_Intelligence /(AmountOfProvidedMeat/Deaths) * FrequencyOfEatingThisAnimal Solve for: Min (cruelty_cow + cruelty_pig + cruelty_octopus + ...) Where Am
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by ep103 2y ago
USA is being left behind while regressives try to move us back to a time when cheap oil could be easily exploited from the ground.
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by ep103 2y ago
How the heck does regulation even continue to exist in a post-Chevron world?
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by ep103 3y ago
I was saying this as a tounge-in-cheek way of calling Thiel evil. But also, Thiel is a LoTR geek, who took all of the wrong lessons from the novels, literally writing fan pieces that argued that Sauron was the good guy in LoTR to justify h
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by ep103 3y ago
Sauron does have a habit of consistently appearing, and consistently appearing where least expected.
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by ep103 3y ago
child porn?
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by ep103 3y ago
I know the OP didn't mean it this way, but after reading HackerNews for the last decade or whatnot, it never ceases to surprise me how often developer complaints stem from developers just not doing their damn job. "Almost nobody e
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by ep103 3y ago
FWIW, Homeworld 3 is coming out in 2 months, and I, for one, and psyched up about it
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by ep103 3y ago
Anyone want to try to figure out the gas costs for deploying 30GB worth of smart contracts? xD
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by ep103 3y ago
And yet companies are founded every day in France, and their economy is doing just fine. If a business cannot afford to do business in a country, then that business should not be allowed to do business in that country.
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by ep103 3y ago
Stack Ranking was pioneered by Jack Welch who was operating in an environment where labor was the dominant party in the labor-capital relationship, and he was taking over companies that had had decades of labor growth and power while capita

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