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by gregw2 7d ago
What's really crazy is therapists are starting to give their clients AI slop as part of their value-add, using it to create writing for clients to take away that resonates more with clients... and the AI is prompted without all the con
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by gregw2 10d ago
I think so. Although the more paranoid AWS customers who turned on (and pay for) S3 cross region replication or similar cross region DR for other services would be fine.
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by gregw2 10d ago
Just learn how to use Liquibase (or flyway, or... ) in your git repo and CICD pipeline deployments alongside your code. I did it with production Scala apps over a decade ago. I even built sproc TDD test suites.
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by gregw2 10d ago
AWS has a history of this before re:Invents (its annual big conference) in my experience. They've gotten a little better in recent years.
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by gregw2 10d ago
Typo: Carr wrote that in 2003, not 2023 for those of you who missed the foolishness and insane wreckage that article caused. The lost business value and competitiveness caused by outsourcing IT overseas to unmotivated parties under Carr&#x2
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by gregw2 15d ago
True. I think we tried bevy but don't remember what if any issues we had.
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by gregw2 15d ago
Err, no. If someone is at fault, it is definitely the company (OpenAI) not the employee in this case. Just think, isn't the whole point of a company, of incorporating, is that the liability shifts from the employee to the firm? It is
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by gregw2 16d ago
Oh, I 100% agree. The question is how much you can reduce the effort of the port/migration, and in particular the validation effort. I've worked on projects where the core bits of code were "90%" converted by some autom
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by gregw2 16d ago
Why isn't the game industry moving to rust? Someone in that industry can perhaps speak to it, but I have two cents of perspective... I have helped a young person with gamedev interests try to learn rust (on Windows). They've learn
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by gregw2 16d ago
Those interested in this may find the following articles of interest: Microsoft goals [edit: err, Microsoft hiring manager vision-casting goal ] to convert 1 billion lines of code to rust by 2030 via automated tooling enabling "1 engin
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by gregw2 21d ago
This is all about Greenland and reducing leverage Trump might wield to get it, right? They can't say that, it just gets them into a pissing match with Trump and what good is that but it's not hard to read between the lines. I also
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by gregw2 22d ago
Hey now, sure, Microsoft Bob didn't get us ordinary users a "partner that helps you by making it easier", but it DID help MS Bob product owner Melinda French get a "partner that helps you by getting 10+ billion dollars&q
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by gregw2 23d ago
Agreed. Cheerios and Rice Chex/Krispies are what I settled on for a while... not loaded, not zero, but minimal.
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by gregw2 1mo ago
And Bigquery has continuous queries: https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/continuous-queri... And many databases have triggers. And with postgres you can combine triggers with NOTIFY to push changes downstr
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Ugh. This analysis starts off a little interesting with its observation that "intelligence", as analyzed historically, tends to be about solving bounded-context problems (with a known right answer) rather than open-ended problems
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Regarding the "expensive overhead of boxed types", do we just need more work at the hardware ISA level (with pointer tagging or NaN-boxing) and we need the hardware to be aware of those bits and handle them safely/properly vi
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Last time I went to donate blood, I read all the fine print they asked me to sign, and I was giving them the right to sequence my DNA (!) The tech taking my blood had no idea; nobody else had ever read it. I did complain and ask the blood d
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by gregw2 1mo ago
A confusing rename means you the customer can't understand the product line and your large enterprise must have more conversations with Microsoft to clarify. Such conversations then become sales opportunities. That plus the resume-buil
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Per his GitHub repo ( https://github.com/pfalstad ) last week he ported his electrostatics sim fro. GWT/Java to Typescript+Vite ...
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by gregw2 1mo ago
He also wrote zsh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell ) as a sophomore in 1990, moved onto other things a few years later, and a couple decades later in 2019 it became the MacOS's default shell.
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by gregw2 1mo ago
It was a joke/tease question. I have yet to be able to create diagrams or visualizations I am happy with with LLMs. I can get a diagram, but tweaking it via prompts is extremely painful. I do think it's a interesting moderately s
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by gregw2 1mo ago
What a great visualization! Now can your favorite LLM make me a similar one for the Real #s?
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by gregw2 1mo ago
The conclusion that the sun and moon look the same size in the sky is most intuitive when you think about how ecipses appear to us. The relative curve shapes when the moon covers the sun, and the ways total eclipses appear to match sizes do
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by gregw2 2mo ago
Is there any reason Zuckerberg/Meta should get huge lawsuits and criticism for addictive design and say, Pinchai/Google/Youtube should not? Not a troll question, just wondering.
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by gregw2 2mo ago
As someone with kids, I still don't see a scenario with YouTube fading... What are you talking about? The video slop problem? If so, it's sort of like saying you don't think the Internet can survive if GenAI keeps going... w
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by gregw2 2mo ago
If certain political problems to be solved are zero-sum, and others are win-win, I'm not sure how adding more intelligence will solve the problem of the zero-sum ones that are the source of conflict and resource constraints. The premis
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by gregw2 2mo ago
I'm not an academic but I've worked through practical problems in this space for longer than I'd like to admit, often in ignorance of the literature. The most CS-y fundamental paper would probably be Lamport(1978) below, but
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by gregw2 2mo ago
I was a little surprised to find someone experienced in time series modeling not mentioning bayesian modeling nor the use of ensemble models... but I do think its more fundamental points were worth making.
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by gregw2 2mo ago
Between the difficulty and value propositions for forecasting timeseries "disk usage" versus "financial markets" there are some rather relevant time series such as "company sales" or "demand for company pr
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by gregw2 2mo ago
What seems intuitively wrong as a layperson new to this about Coase's theory, is that the "surprising" collapse in prices to marginal cost "in period 1" assumes that consumers have no marginal utility, and thus no

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