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by gregjor 1y ago
Human delusion and loneliness not even science fiction, just a sad fact of the human condition. If a person can fall in love with a photograph or an anime pillow, falling in love with a chatbot doesn’t seem far-fetched.
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by gregjor 1y ago
archive.is and a shortcut to it added as a share sheet action. I found a walkthrough online for setting that up, works most of the time.
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by gregjor 1y ago
It doesn’t mean anything. Almost none of the words you use have clear accepted definitions. AI got turned into a label for so many things it doesn’t mean anything. AGI comes from science fiction with no metrics, just hope and hype. Terms li
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by gregjor 1y ago
Not even close to a working SAML implementation in PHP. Fortunately the widely-used and supported SimpleSamlPHP package exists. simplesamlphp.org
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by gregjor 1y ago
I have worked in software dev for over 40 years with no degree at all. Mostly self-taught, but I got quite a bit of employer-provided training and mentoring especially early in my career. I got recruited by a big company while in school, pu
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by gregjor 1y ago
https://archive.is/2025.07.22-081105/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by gregjor 1y ago
Agree about perpetuating car dependency. In theory Uber and Waymo replace multiple cars with fewer cars. In practice they just put more cars on the road. LA specifically practically requires residents to drive everywhere due to distance and
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by gregjor 1y ago
Car dependency is a feature of LA, not a bug. And not a secret one gradually discovers — LA is famous for exactly that. How would Waymo make anything but the smallest dent? How many people who don’t have a car in LA can afford Waymo or Uber
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by gregjor 1y ago
If only we had source code control and versioning, backups, stuff like that. And some common sense. No one so inexperienced as a developer almost made a “$1M product.” This story doesn’t describe a problem with AI agents. It describes someo
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by gregjor 1y ago
Population of Europe almost double that of USA.
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by gregjor 1y ago
Consider finding a different yardstick, or not trying to measure "success" at all. By age 40 I had three children, and I hadn't died or suffered serious illness or injury. That represents "success" in terms of evolu
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by gregjor 1y ago
Agree. It has spread like toenail fungus, infecting almost everything with half-baked and useless AI features. The Economist should look for businesses that have actually used AI to get measurable benefits, or tried and failed to do so, rat
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by gregjor 1y ago
Define dev productivity.
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by gregjor 1y ago
Not for fun, but I do build CLI tools for development and production use.
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by gregjor 1y ago
I think you just posted to argue or troll, but I’ll take the bait. SQL predates almost every programming language in use today. If those languages don’t have good interfaces for relational databases that’s where the bad design blame goes. B
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by gregjor 1y ago
No. Even if you tried the AI companies don’t care. You don’t have the resources to enforce it, and slap on the wrist fines don’t bother big tech companies.
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by gregjor 1y ago
No need. Don’t want. You asked.
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by gregjor 1y ago
Suggest clearing cookies and cache and starting over. https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/p/contact_support
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by gregjor 1y ago
I didn’t make any claims about the long-term prospects of AI, not sure where you got that. 100,000 years — 20 times longer than recorded history — presents a ridiculous horizon to predict anything. Whatever happens on that time scale will h
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by gregjor 1y ago
> However I believe you and many others are, due to a fear or animosity towards the implications of near term AGI, are engaged in motivated reasoning. Not fear or animosity. I have over 40 years in software development. I’ve seen numerou
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by gregjor 1y ago
As much as I’d like to continue debating with you I think we will just continue talking past each other. I didn’t address the possibility of AGI, the consensus or “delta” of smart people, the utility of LLMs, or the prospect of OpenAI et al
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by gregjor 1y ago
Yes. When the dust settles and the data gets crunched I expect tax code changes and a glut of money looking for returns will explain the layoffs much better than AI doing anything useful.
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by gregjor 1y ago
> Would you really consider the Nobel laureates Geoffrey Hinton¹, Demis Hassabis² and Barack Obama³ not worth listening to on this matter? Obama, no. Geoff Hinton has his opinions and I’ve listened to them. For every smart person who bel
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by gregjor 1y ago
> There is a lot of debate whether AI will surpass humans in all economically viable skills (AGI, by one definition). Actually very little debate. We get a lot of unsubstantiated hype from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Micros
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by gregjor 1y ago
I joked. You should use Java. Few companies have the resources to duplicate Java and the JVM in a reasonable time. At this point Java and the JVM have three decades and tens of thousands of developers backing them up.
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by gregjor 1y ago
I’d go with the complete new OS option.
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by gregjor 1y ago
Accurate to call Trump a former president because he served 2016-2020. Also the current president, but one needs actual intelligence to understand that. Or maybe the AIs have achieved sentience and we can interpret such statements as hope.
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by gregjor 1y ago
I have never seen a job opportunity on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc. In the (now distant) past LinkedIn had some value if I needed to reach out to professional contacts or recruiters. Now it just has job spam and self-promotional crap.
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by gregjor 1y ago
If you mean not wasting time so I can get more work done, no social media. Canceled all of them so I don't waste time on nonsense. Got quite a bit of time in return. If you mean not having to start over or do a lot of rework, I think t
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by gregjor 1y ago
Working for wages doesn't have to mean 9-5 in an office. Many programmers work remotely with flexible hours. Most places I've worked had flexible hours and in-office requirements even before COVID. Self-employment can mean selling

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