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by gspencley 1y ago
autism warning As most people understand the word "dolphin", Orcas are not technically dolphins though they belong to the same family. I've heard the claim that Orcas are a species of porpoise, like dolphins, but I can't
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by gspencley 1y ago
I disagree. In a lot of cases text will be clickable, but will also contain content that you want to copy/paste into Wikipedia or a search engine etc. Think annotations (click on this text for more information) or headers/titles t
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by gspencley 1y ago
> but I feel like software engineering has lost much of its craftsmanship It's not just software. I'm very pro-business / pro-capitalism but I will happily agree that an omnipresent business pressure is to reduce costs and
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by gspencley 1y ago
It's not so much double the design work, it's double the code maintenance. I'm of two minds on this. I agree with your complaint that "mobile first" (or just responsiveness in general) has tended to reduce the pleas
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by gspencley 1y ago
> but suggesting that these new technologies are not driving business innovation How did you take that away from my post? AI can provide genuine value and also be a hype train. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. I put "mo
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by gspencley 1y ago
AI is just the current incarnation of the hype train cycle. I've never been a big fan of smart phones and I remember in the early 2010s the "mobile revolution" was in full tilt and it even impacted the Linux experience. I end
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by gspencley 1y ago
How is that a refutation? If I want to understand any position I would look for first sources. Say I want to understand why Russian invaded Ukraine, I would seek out Russian sources. When I try to understand the Palestinian position, I seek
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by gspencley 1y ago
There's a content creator I used to follow who said her outlook on social media changed the day she discovered that her 11 year-old nephew was an "edge-lord" on Twitter who was trolling at such a sophisticated level that it c
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Do you have a right to force the other person to keep your conversation private? It depends. If you're speaking to a doctor or a lawyer, yes, by law they are bound to keep your conversation strictly confidential except in some ver
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Once you get used to it, you get more solitude in public transit. That is physically impossible. Again, it's a "me problem", I'm not trying to say that the world needs to accommodate my unique personality, but if ot
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by gspencley 1y ago
From an efficiency point of view public transportation makes a lot of sense. From a quality of life point of view, I have never been comfortable being crammed into a sardine can with that many other people. I've done it. I've neve
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Money is a unit of exchange that exists to compel action. That's the point of it Citation required. Money is an intermediary form of exchange. It arises organically because if, for example, you are a dairy farmer, there is no pra
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by gspencley 1y ago
What a weird straw-man. I said that, on an individual by individual basis, people get to decide what criteria are important to them and can discriminate (or not) accordingly. That if one entity doesn't want to work with another, there
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by gspencley 1y ago
You misinterpreted my language. What I meant, for clarity, was "individual entities." Be that individual persons or individual businesses. It's the difference between one party wanting to distance themselves from you, due to
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by gspencley 1y ago
> The only difference between your phone and China's social credit system is that China tells you what they're doing. We pretend our algorithmic reputation scores are just “user experience features.” At least Beijing admits the
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by gspencley 1y ago
Our CEO was boasting about new speech to text technology recently. They said something that I found extremely objectionable: "I can speak a lot faster than I can type." The fact that I found it objectionable doesn't mean that
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by gspencley 1y ago
Nothing to do with charge-backs as our bank was not providing payment processing for us. We ran a "free site" that made its income from referring subscription sign-ups to paid sites through their affiliate programs. We sold nothin
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by gspencley 1y ago
I don't think he was trying to imply that he did anything wrong. He was admitting the ignorance regarding how banks and banking work... plus acknowledging that a lot of readers will have had experiences that would make them think &quot
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Is it possible to stay better than AI? Maybe for some people. Not for the average person. I know we're talking broadly across all industries but I can only speak to what I know and am able to observe directly. My opinion of the av
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by gspencley 1y ago
Yes. I have checked many checkboxes that say "Verify You Are a Human" and they have always confirmed that I am. In fairness, however, my daughters ask me that question all the time and it is possible that the verification checkbox
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by gspencley 1y ago
The thing about automated systems is that they typically cover the happy paths, and leave people who fall outside of those happy paths extremely frustrated. Take automated phone menu systems, for example. "If you are calling about X, p
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by gspencley 1y ago
My favourite code smell that LLMs love to introduce is redundant code comments. // assign "bar" to foo const foo = "bar"; They love to do that shit. I know you can prompt it not to. But the amount of PRs I&#x27
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by gspencley 1y ago
I went through the parents, looking for a claim somewhere that AI was "useless." I couldn't find it. Yes there are lots of skeptics amongst programmers when it comes to AI. I was one myself (and still am depending on what we&
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by gspencley 1y ago
> But I flat out don't believe the "piracy doesn't lead to lost sales" shtick, of course it does. I'm not as certain as you are. Correlation does not imply causation, but media sales have trended upwards in the a
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by gspencley 1y ago
Oh don't get me wrong. I'm sure that an LLM can write a decent test that doesn't have the problems I described. The problem is that LLMs are making a preexisting problem much, MUCH worse. That problem statement is: - Not all
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by gspencley 1y ago
> making tests What I'm about to discuss is about me, not you. I have no idea what kind of systems you build, what your codebase looks like, use case, business requirements etc. etc. etc. So it is possible writing tests is a great a
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by gspencley 1y ago
Yeah I'm not an AI naysayer but was pretty skeptical that AI could actually do anything for my workflow. Tedious, repetitive stuff that you'd typically write a throwaway script for is one good use case for AI for me. This doesn&#x
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by gspencley 1y ago
I replied to someone else with the same response. I'll repeat it here. The point of my reply wasn't to do with MFA codes, specifically, but the fact that MALWARE can take screenshots in order to harvest things, such as MFA codes o
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by gspencley 1y ago
You're laser focusing on MFA sniffing, specifically. The point is that malware can take screenshots to harvest information. Your banking information has a ton of sensitive information about you that could be used for a variety of diffe
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by gspencley 1y ago
I have yet to move into the woods but, given my current levels of burnout, I think such a proposition is highly underrated. What's wrong with moving into the woods? Wait, if everyone moves into the woods there will be no more woods tha

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