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by fhd2 2y ago
I use Python with a REPL in Emacs, it's relatively similar. The two important differences to Lisps I see: 1. Syntax. It's a bit easier to just evaluate a symbolic expression (put in a simplified manner: anything enclosed by parent
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by fhd2 2y ago
One could agree with the goals of reducing government spending and still argue that "the disruptors" are moving too fast and breaking too many things.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Fascism mostly works by distracting people from the real issues and giving them someone or something to direct their negative feelings towards instead, a seemingly simpler solution to their problems. What or who that is, seems kind of arbit
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by fhd2 2y ago
I've seen companies blatantly pursue the lowest possible hourly rate, kinda disregarding anything else (time zone difference, quality etc). I believe it comes from a procurement mindset (works for other areas, and probably taught in bu
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's quite simple market forces, from where I stand. Companies in high income areas have two options for outsourcing: 1. Just go for the cheapest salary, quantity over quality style. 2. Find a replacement that has a comparable level of
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by fhd2 2y ago
Can't help but go off on another tangent here, because I hate modern cars with a degree of passion. My car is 17 years old and still works fine with yearly service. It doesn't patronise me, track me or provide terrible UX because
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by fhd2 2y ago
Excellent point. Just because the invention of the automobile arguably introduced something valuable, how we ended up using them had a ton of negative side effects. I don't know enough about cars or horses to argue pros and cons. But I
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by fhd2 2y ago
I can get value out of them just fine. But I don't use LLMs to find answers, mostly to find questions. It's not really what they're being sold/hyped for, of course. But that's kinda my point.
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by fhd2 2y ago
That's kinda still how I get the most out of it - search, more or less. Claude gives me great starting points from which I can do some refining/confirming searches and documentation lookups. _Starting_ with search feels like a dra
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by fhd2 2y ago
Fair point about architecture: It's not fundamentally about automation, it's about efficiency (which automation typically supports). If you want to do more with the same amount of people (or the same with less people), quite often
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by fhd2 2y ago
To take a tangent off of 3: Automation eliminated art and craft in a lot of areas. Suddenly it's about economies of scale and things get optimised into Good Enough mass products with little to no variety. Consider architecture (bland),
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's a matter of perspective and expectations. The automobile was a useful invention. I don't know if back then there was a lot of hype around how it can do anything a horse can do, but better. People might have complained about h
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's one of those weird Emacs things that you get _so_ used to that everything else seems to waste your time. Using code formatters and formatting on save or with a shortcut is OK, but not really the same to me. That's probably wh
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by fhd2 2y ago
I worked on this a bit 1-2 years ago. Back then, LLMs weren't really up to the task, but I found them OK for suggestions that a human double checks. Brings us to the Ironies of Automation though (human oversight of automation with a re
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by fhd2 2y ago
Could you elaborate? I'm German and reasonably patriotic, but I don't get why you'd want to down vote parent. Edit: To elaborate: I can see that Elon is sometimes being put in a worse light than would be appropriate. Same is
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by fhd2 2y ago
From TFA: "German road traffic agency KBA’s website on Wednesday showed the number of newly registered Tesla cars fell 59.5% to 1,277 in January, while the overall German market was down just 2.8% at slightly more than 207,000 vehicles
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by fhd2 2y ago
He was crazy from the start though.
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By what appears to be the logic for "open source AI", a locally executable proprietary program would be "open source" (because you can meddle with the executable). To me, that's mostly just "not SaaS". But
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by fhd2 2y ago
When I do architecture diagrams (not that often), my audience is usually non-technical people. I personally rarely see value in them, because they tend to blur different levels of abstractions as well as current and anticipated realities. I
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by fhd2 2y ago
Because practically speaking, you can fine tune them I suppose? But that's also true for binaries, games are a good example of where people pushed this quite far. Based on what little experience I have in ML, I'd say it's abo
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'm in Germany, and while I'm sure we have some corruption (I believe every country has at least a little bit), I'm not aware of it as a systemic problem. With our previous (and how it's looking, next) government there w
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by fhd2 2y ago
TFA is presenting one dimension (junior to staff), but actually appears to be talking about three dimensions: 1. Title - which comes with different activities and quality standards to some degree. (I don't fully agree with the definiti
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by fhd2 2y ago
I did a road trip through Europe a few years back, and when we passed from Romania (coming from Cluj) to Hungary, the road immediately got _comically_ bad. As we got closer to Budapest things seemed to improve, but wow, I vividly remember t
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by fhd2 2y ago
I could tell you not to worry, but I don't think I will. How about embracing it? Think it all the way through: If software development completely disappears as a profession, what impact would it have on other possible jobs, on society?
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by fhd2 2y ago
OK you got me, gptel supports it, so I signed up :P Search result quality is awesome so far, gonna play around with their LLM stuff.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Exactly! For a lot of work, I use Claude as my first source, then typically I verify what I got out of it with a search engine. If the search engine also starts to hallucinate (starting to see that on Google if I'm not crazy), I have z
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, it could be "just" naive hiring processes. It's pretty natural for people to use themselves and their immediate circles as thought guinea pigs for any process they come up with. And unfortunately, quite often, people in
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by fhd2 2y ago
I've mainly used gptel in Emacs (primarily with Claude), and I kind of already use the chat buffer like a document. You can freely edit the history, and I make very generous use of that, to steer where the model is going. It has featur
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, my contracts pretty much all came through my network, someone recommending me, and then clients recommending me, and so on. Not sure if I just got lucky or if this actually works, but my first step would be to tell some relevant folks
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by fhd2 2y ago
I can't say I've interviewed someone to which this applies - unfortunately! Probably just doesn't get surfaced by my channels. I would definitely not expect someone out of work for a while to have any meaningful side projects

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