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by godelski 4mo ago
How do you expect it to give you what you want if you don't think about it? Solution spaces for even seemingly simple problems is incredibly large. There's a reason there's a thousand different types of nails and a million ty
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by godelski 4mo ago
Look Worf, I'm just one human. You don't know me. You don't know what I'm doing or not doing. But I know you're making our situation worse and I know you're not living up to the ethics of your namesake
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by godelski 4mo ago
There's a lot of variables at play and it's not like we know much about that trial. Also, please see the community guides. Treat comments in good faith (i.e. the strongest interpretation of their comment) and try to encourage prod
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by godelski 4mo ago
The same fact is true in a democracy. A democracy specifically is set up so just a single person doesn't rule. That's called a dictatorship. But you turn a democracy into a dictatorship through tribalism. So forgive me if I get ma
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by godelski 4mo ago
I really don't get why it's so commonly stated. It's so obviously dumb once you think about it for more than 5 seconds. It's like people arguing that improving the track or improving the shoes doesn't win races beca
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by godelski 4mo ago
I'd phrase it as people are researching these things because they're important. The reasons they're important are pretty diverse but because of how our economy works the research all ends up being related to profits downstrea
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by godelski 4mo ago
Why do you think I like them or support those actions? Do you support everything the Klingon Empire does? That doesn't seem like the Worf I know. The Worf I know can distinguish the people of a civilization from the leaders of their
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by godelski 4mo ago
Me? I didn't vote for the orange Nazi
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by godelski 4mo ago
That's not the pipeline at all. Academia creates the foundation industry sits on. There's a lot more failure, yes, but hits are way more impactful. Innovations generate entire industries. So weird argument. Academia isn't mea
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by godelski 4mo ago
> If I spoke freely about how I feel about the US right now If you read my comment as defending the US then you've misread. Also, you're probably just as pissed as 60% of Americans > It is inconsequential if the
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Why not? Weird egos. I moved from academia to industry and constantly got told "In industry we just care that 'it works'". I thought that was a weird premise, given... you know... who doesn't? But the m
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by godelski 4mo ago
> They want velocity They keep using that word, but like so many words they use it's clear they don't know what it means. They're chasing speed, not velocity
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by godelski 4mo ago
> As an Australian, I'm not sure that I care about the safety of my data when it comes to LLMs. US companies already stole scores of data I'm not sure I understand this. I'm not defending the US, but isn't you
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by godelski 4mo ago
I love to throw away code. It seems people are afraid because it feels like wasted work. But I'll rewrite code multiple times. I'm convinced it makes me faster. We're running marathons, not sprints
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by godelski 4mo ago
Similarly "move fast and break things" is a great strategy for learning. But it's terrible for creating production grade software. You break things to learn how they work, but then you got to go back and clean everything up o
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by godelski 4mo ago
I like that aphorism. But if it leads you to building a graphing calculator with Electron then I think it doesn't work, it isn't right, and it isn't fast. There's also the old saying about how a good programmer is lazy.
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by godelski 4mo ago
Same with me. Made me also learn a lot of bash and Linux. I'm not expert (better than average but I'm not fucking around with kernels or deep stuff) and have found that very beneficial to my career, even (especially!) with agents.
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by godelski 4mo ago
Basically if you go back a few years ago "AI" was basically marketing speak only. Engineers and researchers said "ML" almost exclusively. So it was a good litmus test to identify people who actually knew what they were t
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Of course, this is an extreme success story; most yak shaving fails. To be fair, this is true for most things. Though that doesn't mean it's useless or not a worthwhile endeavor. I think we often make a mistake by ass
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by godelski 4mo ago
> The comparison suggests that the thing doesn't do what it's marketed to do. Because it doesn't. What AI is being sold as is incredibly different than what it actually does. I love AI. I spent years in grad school
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by godelski 4mo ago
> The hard part now is liking the industry around it. This is exactly how I feel. I fell in love with computing for the same reasons I fell in love with physics and engineering. I love making things. I love the puzzles. I love di
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Long time fans of a thing are the ones who created the community and drove the direction of the thing. I agree, it is only natural to be angry/confused/frustrated when there is a large and quick influx of new people w
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Do you agree with me that this approach is better, as it would not only increase trust in Firefox but also reduce complaints? I agree the approach is better but doesn't work in reality. I mean how many people actually end
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by godelski 4mo ago
> No 4 GB model was downloaded. Oh no! Mozilla downloaded a 50MB file onto my computer after I asked it to translate a page for me. Those batards!!!! I'm not convinced anyone complaining even knows what they're complain
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by godelski 4mo ago
> as long as that’s the case So until people decide it's worth donating to.
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by godelski 4mo ago
> Opt-out is a dark pattern, period. No it isn't. All you're doing is making it harder to talk about dark patterns. You want to know dark patterns? How about having to physically mail a letter to cancel your news subscr
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by godelski 4mo ago
> If they had listened to their users It seems to me like they are. A lot of people actually use those AI features. Particularly translate. The other I like is semantic search. Those are genuinely useful things. When people are c
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by godelski 4mo ago
Vote strategically. Candidates notice btw. So if you're in a heavily red state but you're blue, then vote in the primaries for the more centered Republican. If you're in a heavily blue state but red, do the opposite. Either
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by godelski 4mo ago
> elegant solutions My favorite is how people will yell at you about how elegance doesn't matter, that they "just care that it works", and "keep it simple". I'm certain all the sayings repeated in in
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by godelski 4mo ago
> 2.5 hours vs 25 or more. 10x. My point is that these 10x moments aren't sustained. When we're talking about a "10xer" we're talking about someone over a longer period of time. For "in the moment&q

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