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by groby_b 9mo ago
It was well designed. Hence the "it got stuff done". But it was also behind the times. And, if we're fair, half of its reputation comes from the fact that half of the F77 code was written by PhDs, who usually have... let&#x27
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Fogeys unite! ;) (They're about me, too)
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by groby_b 9mo ago
I suppose we shall amend to "The determined Real Programmer will fix FORTRAN" ;) But, for the folks who didn't grow up with the Real Programmer jokes, this is rooted in a context of FORTRAN 77. Which was, uh, not famous for i
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Not to put too fine a point on it: The world has 35 years of experience with submodules. It's not rocket science. The committee just did what committees do. And sure, "future extension" is nice. But not if the future arrives
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by groby_b 9mo ago
FFIEC guidance since '21: https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/bulletins/2021/bulletin-2...
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by groby_b 9mo ago
"And when sub-agents or third-party tools are involved, liability gets even murkier." It really doesn't. That falls straight on Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Ultimately, CISO, CFO, CEO are in the line of fire. The article
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by groby_b 9mo ago
"Our tooling was defective" is not, in general, a defence against liability. Part of a companys obligations is to ensure all its processes stay within lawful lanes. " Three months later [...] But the prompt history? Deleted.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
I don't think you're missing something. The standards committee made a bad call with "no submodules", ran into insurmountable problems, and doubled down on the bad call via partitions. "Just one more level bro, I sw
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Depends, do we care about TCO? Also, can I pick the set of bridges I compare? OK, kidding aside: If you deeply care, you can probably mine the Federal Highway Administration's bridge construction database: https://fhwaapps.f
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by groby_b 9mo ago
You will get a different bridge. With very different technology. Same as "I can't repair my grandfather clock cheaply". In general, there are several things that are true for bridges that aren't true for most technology:
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Price volatility exists. Meanwhile the overall price of storage has been going down consistently: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
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by groby_b 9mo ago
fwiw, the same is true for humans. Which is why there's a whole lot of process and red tape around that button. We know how to manage risk. We can choose to do that for LLM usage, too. If instead we believe in fantasies of a single a
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by groby_b 9mo ago
No. You don't get to make "technology gets more expensive over time" statements for deprecated technologies. Getting a bespoke flintstone axe is also pretty expensive, and has also absolutely no relevance to modern life. Thes
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Because your manager might have been dealing with something privately, and didn't feel like doing something fun, but had to because the Gods Of Corporate decreed it so. And so, an act of rebellion against a shared reality that forces y
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by groby_b 9mo ago
100% I'd argue that unspoken rules apply even more strongly in actual outdoors setting, because a good number of those norms actually have serious consequences when violated. Anybody seriously hiking or offroading gets to save a non-ze
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by groby_b 9mo ago
What are they going to make a scene about? You playing audio loudly in a public space? They kind of ran out of legs to stand on a while ago.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
> GP said 'open bar with 2 bartenders'. I.e. commercially priced drinks, and staff. GP here, and no, that doesn't mean that. It means you hire 2 bartenders to make the drinks, and you buy the supplies they use. And, no, if
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by groby_b 9mo ago
"host" implies in your home, not in a restaurant. If your version of hosting is "let's outsource it and just open the wallet", then, yes, sure, you can spend a lot of money. It ain't hosting, though. You failed
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Can we stop innovating on UI for existing problems? The standard affordances for most well-known problems are long settled. Unless you're solving an entirely new class of problem, maybe you don't need to reinvent a large number
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by groby_b 9mo ago
How the heck do you manage to host a $3K cocktail party? You can run an open bar with two bartenders for 50 people for that price? (Unless everybody is a complete lush, I guess ;)
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by groby_b 9mo ago
You'll need to get over the idea of this being a shared load. Every community has one or two people that are "the engine" and constantly keep people reconnecting. Has nothing to do with social media, or Covid - it's alwa
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by groby_b 9mo ago
LLMs are bad at creating abstraction boundaries since inception. People have been calling it out since inception. (Heck, even I got a twitter post somewhere >12 months old calling that out, and I'm not exactly a leading light of the
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by groby_b 9mo ago
If you value somebody so much you show them multiple times, I'm going to assume they're outsized weight in terms of influence and cost, too.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
And once you realize that Management + Finance + Marketing outnumber engineering at OpenSSL [1], you know the money is put to good use, too. [1]: https://openssl-corporation.org/about/leadership/
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Alas, the summarizer... is vulnerable to prompt injection.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
> We have all of the tools to prevent these agentic security vulnerabilities, We do? What is the tool to prevent prompt injection?
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Banks are perfectly well equipped to foreclose on you. Ask anybody who was around in 2008. You don't usually skate by on years of non-payments, so I'd sticker the original claim with [citation needed]
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by groby_b 9mo ago
People from Denmark, Norway, Sweden are smart enough not to come to Trump's America, that'd be the reason, if you're still wondering.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Can we just agree that both the pro- and anti-llm faction mostly contribute noise? And go back to discuss actual achievements? It's trivial to share coding sessions, be they horrific or great. Without those, you're hot air on the
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Protip: When you consistently present yourself as somebody with a massively inflated ego who will be a constant pain to interact with, nobody's going to hire you, skills or not.

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