hooverd

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by hooverd 1y ago
Ah, I'm so glad we can be bipartisan when it comes to making things worse.
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by hooverd 1y ago
To me, anyone using an agent is assigning negative value to your time.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Nah, that's table stakes for a public facing website.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Python is deceptively simple looking.
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by hooverd 1y ago
When you've lived with -AI- stimulants boosting your productivity for a year or more it's pretty easy to believe your own experience over even a well-constructed "randomised controlled trial". we don't demand every
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by hooverd 1y ago
AI, to me, specifically in the field of UX, feels like it's pushed as a panacea for having to do actual fucking UX work. Just throw everything behind a natural language interface! Slop it up!
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by hooverd 1y ago
Crazy how productivity gains just lead to more work for you.
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Executive Order – Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government(whitehouse.gov)
44 points by hooverd 1y ago|24 comments
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by hooverd 1y ago
surely you can appreciate the difference between a compiler and a non-deterministic natural language interface?
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by hooverd 1y ago
they don't!
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by hooverd 1y ago
I think it's a great technology but if people's ability to put food on the table is compromised what's their incentive not to ventilate people working for AI labs?
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by hooverd 1y ago
> some technical know-how how do they develop the technical know-how? how will you review the AI agents when you understand nothing?
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by hooverd 1y ago
I like computers quite a lot and the direction of the tech industry has been to destroy every single think I like or thought would be good about them.
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by hooverd 1y ago
presumably you've done the work enough pre-AI to notice those mistakes?
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by hooverd 1y ago
Ah, another Blame! fan.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Where do the juniors come from?
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by hooverd 1y ago
who is paying?
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by hooverd 1y ago
Maybe I'm just avoiding the worm.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Germans, too
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by hooverd 1y ago
rent control is good actually combined with robust building
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by hooverd 1y ago
They'd kill Mozilla for working on those instead of X.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Which political ideals?
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by hooverd 1y ago
I like Firefox idk
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by hooverd 1y ago
People need to touch grass instead of blaming everyone else for their failure to do so haha.
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by hooverd 1y ago
The left was kinda annoying about it but nobody was going to throw you in jail for misgendering someone or whatever.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Twitter is worse than 4chan now, at least 4chan is moderated.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Thanks!
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by hooverd 1y ago
My recent Dewalt table saw purchase with a blade guard, riving knife, and anti-kickback. So they've gotten better at least.
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by hooverd 1y ago
You should maintain a healthy fear of power tools. They're like big cats. You can be familiar, but never get too comfortable.
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by hooverd 1y ago
I agree, and I would like to know what the alternatives are, plus the pathways off Medium so that I can recommend them.

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