frank_nitti

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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
I understand what you’re saying now, basically boils down to “might is right”. It’s not a particularly helpful paradigm for solving predicaments without excess violence and suffering, but the model makes sense insofar as it’s consistent
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
Perhaps you’re considering a very select subset of the rich for whom you can argue their wealth was entirely earned through value they delivered to society. Your statement, as written, ignores that much wealth, power, privilege is inherited
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
When billionaires make the decisions about what roads get built, they build roads that help them more efficiently exploit the world around them. This has been observed in many developing countries when their industrialization is driven by p
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
Interesting, my experience in classes using set theory was the opposite, where ∋ only meant “such that” and ∈ only meant “is a member of”. Learning programming syntax at the same time made it frustrating to learn that math symbols were less
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
In my brief exposure of about 6 months here after ~40 years in Southern CA, it really seems to be the case. I’ve never seen so many people just interacting and enjoying one another’s company for hours on end. For a decent portion of any giv
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
This also happened in the LA area back around 2015, lasting about 36-48 hours - no power and consequently no internet. Out in suburbia, it was the first time many neighbors even met each other, or the first time some neighbors had spoken in
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by frank_nitti 4mo ago
Not my comment, but I’d venture to guess they’re referring to the likes of DeepSeek et al, who are/will be able to host their top-tier inference infra more efficiently
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by frank_nitti 5mo ago
I would argue they are also cheating other students in their chosen field, and any future employers who place high value on prestige of applicants’ university, no? If the only tangible, marketable value of graduating from a prestigious scho
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by frank_nitti 5mo ago
My plan is to follow and hop on this train, hope it’s available in other countries also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214645
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by frank_nitti 6mo ago
Interesting to see your observation where I have observed the opposite: posts that share big news about open-weight local models have many upvoted comments arguing local models shouldn’t be taken seriously and promoting the SOTA commercial
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by frank_nitti 7mo ago
Seems to me the commenter was asking: what observations led us to conclude that original affirmative statement that “the AI did this entirely on its own”. Given that this is a common technique and not a novel invention, it’s probably presen
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by frank_nitti 8mo ago
So perhaps this is just semantics - when we say that “coders have been completely replaced”, to me that means all humans capable of reading/writing code are replaced. In the bridge analogy this is the Licensed Engineer who actually und
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by frank_nitti 8mo ago
Who is liable for the runtime behavior of the system, when handling users’ sensitive information? If the person who is liable for the system behavior cannot read/write code (as “all coders have been replaced”), does Anthropic et al bec
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
In terms of demand, anecdotally-speaking I can certainly see this influencing some decisions when other circumstances permit. Many people I know are both excited for new and better games, and equally exited about running LLM/SD/et
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
Jenkins not looking so bad anymore..
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
Hmm well I certainly inferred the same from their comment: it casts “big tech” as the victim of the government, because the latter forced as “overpriced and shitty solution” It’s possible they’re not a capitalist and just extremely sympathe
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
Every single place I’ve stayed in Europe had no shower door, and nothing to prevent the water from spilling out. Occasionally I get lucky and the floor is constructed sufficiently concave so at least the water flows into the drain
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
I love it! And yeah .NET Framework is still critical for some workloads, most notably C++/CLI and WCF for certain apps where deep win32 APIs make their net8.0+ alternatives too much of a headache :) To temper my comment, the resistance
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by frank_nitti 10mo ago
If they’re in a team similar to some I’ve worked with, engineers are barely getting comfortable with the shift away from .NET Framework (!) There are legions of developers for whom Visual Studio on Windows is the only place they have ever b
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
Police that I’ve spoken to will readily confirm this. They consider profiling, not necessarily racial, an important part of patrolling. If they decide you look the part, they will find a way within several minutes/miles of watching.
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
As a fellow former grocery store employee, I can agree about the “break up the monotony” concept from the narrow POV of the bored worker. It is an inconvenience though, even if as insignificant as an eyesore for others, or the landscaper wh
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
Not to mention that, at least on the iOS app, the button to close an ad is in a totally different place than the rest of the UI screens, which is always in the top-left of the screen. A small “X” is placed in the middle-left of the ad image
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
Oh definitely, many headaches untangling massive “variables.tf” files where the value is identical in 100% of the target environments, and would be nonsensical to change without corresponding changes in the infra config resources/modul
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
These are great and succinct, yours and your teammate’s. I still find myself debating this internally, but one objective metric is how smoothly my longer PTOs go: The only times I haven’t received a single emergency call were when I left te
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
For me, it would be because the term AGI gets bandied about a lot more frequently in discussions involving Gen AI, as if that path takes us any closer to AGI than other threads in the AI field have.
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by frank_nitti 11mo ago
Great insight and advice I need to take - your description captures my current situation almost to a tee, better than I’ve been able to understand it for myself, so thank you. In addition to what you described, in my case this engineer quic
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Yes https://youtube.com/shorts/nNfDr18C6H4?si=CKalCaG0DMUP3rZZ This and my original comment apparently struck a nerve for some people, but I’m just sharing what I observe from the links I’ve included. I’d love to see s
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Even Charlie Kirk, of all people, was talking about this (ignore the clickbait video title): https://youtu.be/3wUq3t9f6ug?si=nV_NukcsjHZgj0MT
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
Honest question - is NSFW just a code word for pornography now? I had thought it would be anything that isn’t safe to open at work, including things with extreme profanity or gore, etc
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by frank_nitti 1y ago
I would be more interested to see your response to the key point of their comment - that the US exemplified this on a large scale in recent history. That would be more compelling than to simply claim to have a lot of knowledge of history

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