fungiblecog

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by fungiblecog 1y ago
if only programmers cared about functionality as much as syntax we'd be living in a lisp heaven
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by fungiblecog 1y ago
Why are there no good films is a better question. And we know the answer. Hollywood no longer employs based on talent.
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by fungiblecog 1y ago
Whether you think LLM's in coding are good or bad largely depends on what you think of current software dev practice. He only gets to this towards the end of the article but this is the main source of personal bias. If you think the sh
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Fluoride in water wouldn't be necessary is sugary drinks were taxed heavily (or just banned altogether) and dental care was affordable. But obviously that's considered communism if you're a typical american.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
She's a scientist. Most of the people on here are writing software which is essentially reinventing the wheel over and over. Of course you have a different experience of LLMs.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
this is exactly my experience
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Welcome to 2025...
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
The upcoming AI crash is gonna be seriously big
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
So nobody would use code written in common lisp... but they will use code written in an entirely new language.... right...
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
It's a modern disease to seek "success" rather than mastery of a craft for it's own sake. one can lead to the other but not vice versa.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Enjoy your expensive garbage
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
All the smartest people are humble and realise the limits of their capability. as a result they automatically make decisions that reduce complexity. unfortunately software development is full of people who overestimate their capability wit
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Note to the Times writer if the obituary. you can't accidentally murder someone
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
No surprise here. People who care will always do a better job than people who are getting paid but don't care.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
This is what you get when profit is prioritised over every other factor. i'm not sure why anyone finds this surprising. Social democrats recognise the role of government is to put in place regulations that temper this kind of behaviour
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Are people all so useless now we need an app for this despite having all the tools we need already? No wonder innovation in software is dead when you can pump out the same crap over and over with shinier graphics
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
that's how funding used to work before the bureaucrats took control in the 1990's. it's no coincidence we mow have so much junk research
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
No, but intelligence usually correlates with attention to detail
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
while we're bitching about the bitwarden UI my pet peeve is that 99% of my accounts use my email as the username but i still have to type it in every time i create a new account. how about having auto-suggest?
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Datomic
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
The USSR wasn't doomed by communism per se. it was doomed by prioritising ideology and politics over any other considerations. The US is now in the same doom-spiral.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Instead of worrying about how hard it is to give away their money effectively these billionaires should be working to fix a political system created specifically to funnel money to billionaires. Without fixing the actual problem giving away
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
It's well intended but it won't work. Just like every other form of censorship that's ever been tried
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Terrible design. This is why I hate modern software. If the devs barely understand it how are the users supposed to.
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
The rest of us understood it
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
Even smart people completely over-rate “AI” it seems
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
No shit!
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
So the new head of people will help come up with a magic remuneration formula… right…
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
So big corporations love copyright laws when they can use them to make enormous profits - but then want exemptions when the exact same laws don’t allow them to make enormous profits. Welcome to the world we get when we let rich arseholes ma
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by fungiblecog 2y ago
This is a drop in the bucket. The real crime is rich corporations using “science” to enrich themselves. Examples: denying that smoking causes cancer. Demonising fat while promoting excess sugar in processed food, and look at how many organi

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