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by gxs 7mo ago
I’d be more curious to hear about the processes people have put in place for AI code reviews On the one hand, past some threshold of criticality/complexity, you can’t push AI unreviewed, on the other, you can’t relegate your senior bes
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by gxs 7mo ago
I would love for someone more knowledgeable in this space than I to chime in on the economics of this industry Are the few cents you get from antagonizing users really worth it? I suspect the answer is simple and that most users don’t give
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by gxs 7mo ago
I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it It’s
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by gxs 8mo ago
Amen. On top of that, especially now, with good prompting you can get closer to that better than you think.
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by gxs 8mo ago
Yeah I sort of cringed when I read his comment to be honest The whole point of the area of work that as far as I know is called interpretability, is precisely to try and figure exactly how these things work So I thought your comment was a g
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by gxs 9mo ago
Ah, you can add to that list messages never showing you your attachments Have a thread going with someone for years? Yeah good luck seeing more than 20% if anything you’ve ever sent each other
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by gxs 9mo ago
Huh? What about all the open source software you use, did you build all of it? What about the phone in your hand, did you design that? HN loves to believe they are the noble few - men and women of math and science, driven by nothing but the
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by gxs 9mo ago
Luckily I think in this day and age it’d be more viable and not as miserable as an experience - dare I say more accessible You can connect an external keyboard to your phone and if you can swing getting a cheap IPS panel that displays text
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by gxs 10mo ago
Ryanair heavily advertises on their site that their tickets are refundable It turns out, they aren’t - there is a ton of fine print and if you happen to qualify they “refund” you in miles Both in the US and Europe, it’d be great if the gove
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by gxs 10mo ago
It’s naive to think that this is a) the only current use Almost everything ever introduced with good intentions gets perverted into something else Traffic cameras, facial recognition, phone GPS, social media - all can and are used against y
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by gxs 10mo ago
This is a longstanding issue we’ve had, not just with Gemini Even with something as simple as google workspace - permissioning service accounts and authentication are a pain in the ass The docs suck and of course there’s no one to help
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by gxs 10mo ago
Anyone have a way of blocking twitter adds? I’ve just been watching streams after they’re done so that I can get rid of them that way Edit: nvm author mentions vpns as a solution
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by gxs 10mo ago
That crazy thing is that a knee jerk reaction can still be right This IS bad for consumers - we are slowly inching towards the pre streaming world of only a handful of studios who run Hollywood, except now it’s pretentious tech companies
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by gxs 11mo ago
Uh it leaves out one of the more important things that you also get more time for exams
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by gxs 11mo ago
That’s sort of how all this type of policy is pushed through Convenience - what you’re describing is convenience It’s totally fine if you prioritize that over everything else, but my only thought here is that everyone should be crystal clea
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by gxs 11mo ago
Not this bad of a situation but I’ve successfully gotten them to escalate to the network engineers who were able to help Perhaps asking specifically to be escalated to or put in contact with a network engineer would be helpful Or at least f
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by gxs 11mo ago
Or simple threats of lawsuits directly/indirectly, theres a lot of money at stake here in the end
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by gxs 11mo ago
Ditto for lawyers The thing that gets me about AI is that people act like most doctors or most lawyers are not … shitty and your odds of running into a below average one are almost 50/50 Doctors these days are more like physicists when
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by gxs 1y ago
In a different time when different mindsets prevailed, the US government handled this about as well as you could hope The Fairness Doctrine is irrelevant today because of the way news is published/broadcast, but was effective in my hum
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by gxs 1y ago
Exactly - this is a case where consistency is more important than accuracy If everyone is optimizing their GAAP figures, eventually everyone converges on a similar number you can compare across companies Downside is that if you don’t play t
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by gxs 1y ago
> One provision in particular—Section 24, which made it illegal to publish false information online that was deemed to be “grossly offensive,” “indecent,” or even merely an “annoyance”—has been especially ripe for abuse I mean how is thi
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by gxs 1y ago
I wonder if this explains at all why I've never had the need to diagram anything before I build it - whether it be software or something concrete like a cabinet - I just don't I work very much like my dad, as I build I just refer
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by gxs 1y ago
It makes sense that everything would converge on the same time When every company does the same market “research” to figure out what appeals to consumers, over time they are all going to arrive at the same conclusion As this particular styl
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by gxs 1y ago
Also, people don't realize that sometimes it doesn't even matter Enough people don't care, don't notice, or in the worst case, even when they do, if the companies band together and don't give people a choice, eventu
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by gxs 1y ago
no one actually prefers it, its just the default for ios users and what everyone uses in the US this means that i either use ios or i have to be "that guy" always asking everyone to send something in a different format or to pleas
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah iMessage - over the years there have been “breakthroughs” - people find nifty workarounds or have even reverse engineered the iMessage protocol, but for whatever reason nothing ever sticks There are current workarounds, like isn’t your
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by gxs 1y ago
As someone who jumped in the apple bandwagon at peak apple and hasn’t been through all their ups and downs the way some die hards have been, it’s been super aggravating dealing with apples shit lately - not what I signed up for all those ye
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by gxs 1y ago
If I were a billionaire, one of my many pet projects would basically be a 100% privately-funded-by-me organization that does nothing but test consumer products - either directly or by third party It would be so boring - no funding accepted,
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by gxs 1y ago
It’s almost like the best engineers are, like, people who come in all shapes and sizes Super nice guys, complete assholes, showmen, wallflowers - what they have in common is that they are great at making software There are for sure personal
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by gxs 1y ago
With all due respect, you are kidding yourself if you think those cameras aren’t used for surveillance/ logging They don’t have to be “adapted” to surveillance - they are made with that in mind Obviously older generations of equipment

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