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by groby_b 9mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from requesting the AI write bare CSS. They're pretty decent at that too. And feed back screencaps, ask it to fix anything that's wrong, and five iterations later you have what you want. Just like
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Open Source never was "a gift economy". It is a sharing economy, and that requires mutual participation.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Fairly certain it'd be more sustainable than a $4/month subscription, which is a nuisance for anybody who'd actually want to pay for this. $4 is targeting the hobbyist market. Within that segment, the tiny population of devs
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Given the guideline is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." one could certainly make the case it's not a topic that's fit. "Large company does horrible things, occasionally an investigation h
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by groby_b 9mo ago
I mean... this one's actually a pretty good paper, but we also had Linus Pauling pontificate on Vitamin C, so maybe we should cool it with the appeals to Nobel authority alone.
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by groby_b 9mo ago
If an employee has a business need for a $10k workstation, I'm fairly certain they'll get a $10k workstation. Yes, accounting still happens. Guardrails exist. But quibbling over 2% of a SWEs salary if it's clear that the prod
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by groby_b 9mo ago
Amdahl's law still holds, though. If A and B differ in execution times by orders of magnitude, optimising B yields minimal returns (assuming streaming, vs fully serial processing) And sure, you can reject chunks, but a) the rejection i
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by groby_b 9mo ago
But the bottleneck is generating embeddings either way. memchunk has a throughput of 164 GB/s. A really fast embedder can deliver maybe 16k embeddings/sec, or ~1.6GB/s (if you assume 100 char sentences) That's two orde
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by groby_b 10mo ago
I think we've moved on from the times where you brought a printout to the change control board to talk it through.
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by groby_b 10mo ago
I'll just take the very first example on the list, Internet-enabled beds. Absolutely a cooperative game - nobody was forced to build them, nobody was forced to finance them, nobody was forced to buy them. this were all willing choices
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by groby_b 10mo ago
You'll need to understand that <blatantly political actor does stupid thing> is a criticism of the actor's stupidity, not the political faction. If it consistently happens more often for any given political faction, then it&
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by groby_b 10mo ago
An excellent illustration of the German word "verschlimmbessern"
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by groby_b 10mo ago
Wait till you work in a corporate environment, where Project Fuzzy Mustard triggered a violation of the ElastoFish metric in the Yellow Hills subsystem, leading to a Code Mild Lavender with a side of Pink Sprinkles.
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by groby_b 10mo ago
It is extremely funny to me that the list thinks the mistake about !important was using the exclamation mark sigil, and not the concept of a single priority level. In the words of one of my CS profs, from a few decades ago: "There are
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by groby_b 10mo ago
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by groby_b 10mo ago
You can go faster once you understand the domain reasonably well that you could have written it yourself. This allows you to write better designs, and steer LLMs in the right direction. "Vibe coding" though is moving an ever gro
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by groby_b 10mo ago
Postel was wrong, and it's got nothing to do with tolerance of other people, and everything with solid engineering (or encouraging the absence thereof). It mattered for rapid adoption, it is the curse of any stable system. But if we mu
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by groby_b 11mo ago
I mean yes, if you waste time on worked that does not bring value, people tend to get cranky. If you then take longer than you said, it's not a mood enhancer. That's not a people problem though. That's failure to recognize th
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by groby_b 11mo ago
The difference is that PE firms own firms as investment vehicles, while Valve is owned by people who see making games as their calling. No, I don't think Gabe's averse to the nice checks, but he is in a business he deeply cares ab
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by groby_b 11mo ago
> 'any current weaknesses in AI systems are just temporary growing pains before an AGI future' I see we've met the same product people :)
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by groby_b 11mo ago
As opposed to reaching, say, somebody in an offshored call center with an utterly undecipherable accent reading a script at you? Without any room for deviation? AI's not exactly a step down from that.
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by groby_b 11mo ago
Yeah. Well. There are company that require TPS reports, too. It's mostly a sign leadership has lost reasoning capability if it's mandatory. But no, reporting isn't necessarily the problem. There are plenty of places that use
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by groby_b 11mo ago
There are plenty of good tasks left, but they're often one-off/internal tooling. Last one at work: "Hey, here are the symptoms for a bug, they appeared in <release XYZ> - go figure out the CL range and which 10 CLs I sh
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by groby_b 11mo ago
Yes, but it's not in any way relevant to the topic of the article except both mentioning awk. The author specifically wanted a functional variant of awk, and they wrote the article because it meant updating their priors on LLMs. Both a
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by groby_b 11mo ago
This is many useful things, but it's far from a reproducible C++ build. That'd require you ensure bit-for-bit identic builds when you reproduce, and logging the repository state is just a tiny first step to get there. https:&#x2F
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by groby_b 11mo ago
Just in case people miss the core message: This is something you do if you have a credible risk assessment that you think a big conflict is a possibility within the next decade or so. And, as much as I'd like to focus on deteriorating
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by groby_b 1y ago
Yes. Techniker ist informiert.
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by groby_b 1y ago
Not OP, but... Cocoa Beach? Home of Kelly Slater?
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by groby_b 1y ago
If you aim for large-scale Enterprise sales (which you should if you take this step), no, the folks running home labs are not usually the ones making decisions.
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by groby_b 1y ago
> Musk did nothing except make recommendations. The executive branch took concrete action. The bullshit is strong in this one. Yes, Musk & DOGE acted: https://www.epi.org/policywatch/doge-shuts-down-usaid

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