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by hkt 1y ago
It depends on the motivations of the people behind the ban, though. VPNs aren't terribly interesting to the government over a porn age verification plan, largely because subscribing to a VPN costs money and requires a debit card. Some
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by hkt 1y ago
Reasonable. I've considered using em dashes for plausible deniability for the opposite reason.
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by hkt 1y ago
To be fair, the job market is terrible. Not nearly as attributable to AI as people think, I suspect - I'd pin it on interest rates. Still, I'd consider other things if I had anywhere to go and he's not made a bad choice.
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by hkt 1y ago
s/need/be/
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by hkt 1y ago
This can be done: I gave mine a justfile and early in the project very attentively steered it towards building out quality checks. CLAUDE.md also contains instructions to run those after each iteration. What I'd like to see is the CLI&
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by hkt 1y ago
I can confirm input matters a lot. I'm a couple of hundred hours ahead of you and my prompting has come along a lot. I recommend test cycles, prompts to reflect on product-implementation fit (eg, is this what you've been asked to
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by hkt 1y ago
I've made another comment in this thread about a nice tool I one-shotted. The reason I don't publish anything now is because in the UK at least, companies are not behaving will with relation to IP: many contracts specify that anyt
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by hkt 1y ago
I did a flask application that read an AWS account's glue resources, displayed them based on category (tag of "databasename" and "driver" etc) and offered the ability to run those jobs in serial or parallel, with a
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by hkt 1y ago
I've been using flask and the results are remarkable. Remarkable to the point where I've one-shotted rather good things that I'm now using daily.
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by hkt 1y ago
I've been toying with writing something like this for ages and now I don't have to. Brilliant work, thank you!
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by hkt 1y ago
Those are nerds who did founding rather than being an employee, though. Maybe that's the distinction they're trying to make?
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by hkt 1y ago
Not so. Adding to context files helps enormously. Having touchstone files (ARCHITECTURE.md) you can reference helps enormously. The trick is to steer, and create the guardrails. Honestly, it feels like DevOps had a kid with Product.
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by hkt 1y ago
This. It helps to tell it to plan and to then interrogate it about that plan, change it to specification etc. Think of it as a refinement session before a pairing session. The results are considerably better if you do it this way. I've
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by hkt 1y ago
The more AI assistants there are which are roughly equally competent, the more price becomes a factor. Mobility between providers is quick, it only takes one company willing to burn a lot of cash to win users or strategically hobble a compe
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by hkt 1y ago
You're right, I misread. I'm terrible in the mornings - apologies.
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by hkt 1y ago
Labour appear to be talking about wanting to repeal the OSA judging by this morning's news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/29/uk-pol...
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by hkt 1y ago
I suspect for this reason we are going to see a lot of attempts at applied AI: I saw an article semi-recently about an AI weather forecasting model using considerably less power than it's algorithmic predecessor, for instance. The answ
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by hkt 1y ago
Competition is the thing. Prices will drop as more AI code assistants get more adoption. Prices will probably also drop if anyone ever works out how to feasibly compete with NVIDIA. Not an expert here, but I expect they're worried abou
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by hkt 1y ago
Noted! I'm in the UK and nobody mentioned anything. Maybe I'll ask! I'd love to not have glasses even if it was just some of the time.
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by hkt 1y ago
I was told it wasn't :(
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by hkt 1y ago
> Excellent question! Would you like to eliminate surgeon scarcity through declining birth rates, or leaving surgical maladies untreated? Those falling within the rubric will be treated much more rapidly in the latter case, while if we m
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by hkt 1y ago
If they can automate training me not to recoil from the eye speculum I'd appreciate it, my pesky body does not like things getting too close. (Serious remark)
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by hkt 1y ago
Here's a thought: what if descendants of today's open models end up refined by proprietary models, resulting in a world in which it is largely impossible to keep AI under private ownership? What if data protection laws give way to
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by hkt 1y ago
Out of interest, how much capital did you accrue during that time? Mortgage free and a good pension seems to be the bar for voluntarily adopting a slower pace of life.
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by hkt 1y ago
I immediately think of mining. Mining in most countries places little value on miners: it is a dangerous, life shortening occupation very often done by those without much alternative. It's history is one of random deaths and maimings,
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by hkt 1y ago
For any actual openness in released models the dataset they're trained on would have to be released as well, so yeah, it is a bastardisation.
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by hkt 1y ago
It isn't a coincidence that Google continue to fund Mozilla: Firefox is, arguably, a fig leaf. A few hundred million a year is a small price to pay to Google if they have even a semi-willing participant in allowing them to bulldoze thr
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by hkt 1y ago
The dose makes the poison
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by hkt 1y ago
Is this because it is a SPA? I'm hesitant to ascribe blame but I have to confess I'm pretty bored of inexplicably heavy frontend code that takes an age to both arrive and execute. Bonkers stuff.
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by hkt 1y ago
We have build a cheap infrastructure for mass low quality interaction (the internet) which is principally parasocial. Generations ago we used to build actual physical meeting places, but we decided to financialise property, and therefore la

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