iepathos

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by iepathos 7mo ago
The old path of 'military invents it, civilians eventually get it' (like the Space Race or early ARPANET) hasn't been true for decades. Today, almost all major technological leaps like the modern internet, search engines, sma
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by iepathos 8mo ago
"1000 PRs/week" with no breakdown of complexity or value is a vanity metric. If these are mostly migrations, boilerplate, and bug fixes on previous Minion PRs that were bug ridden, then you've just created 1000 code revi
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by iepathos 8mo ago
The hole is closed with per-site pseudonyms. Your wallet generates a unique cryptographic key pair for each site so same person + same site = same pseudonym, same person + different sites = different, unlinkable pseudonyms. "The actual
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by iepathos 8mo ago
If AI is good enough that juniors wielding it outproduce seniors, then the juniors are just... overhead. The company would cut them out and let AI report to a handful of senior architects who actually understand what's being built. You
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by iepathos 8mo ago
Apparent hypocrisy and injustice in government policy is an ugly thing in the world that should be pointed out and eliminated through public awareness and scrutiny.
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by iepathos 8mo ago
Get a life that's more interesting than dish washing 4-8 hours a day.
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by iepathos 8mo ago
Thought the same thing. There is no legal recourse if the bot drains the account and donates to charity. The legal system's response to that is don't give non-deterministic bots access to your bank account and 2FA. There is no fur
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by iepathos 9mo ago
The default output from AI is much like the default output from experienced devs prioritizing speed over architecture to meet business objectives. Just like experienced devs, LLMs accept technical debt as leverage for velocity. This isn&#x2
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by iepathos 9mo ago
The "code witness" concept falls apart under scrutiny. In practice, the agent isn't replacing ripgrep with pure Python, it's generating a Python wrapper that calls ripgrep via subprocess. So you get: - Extra tokens to ge
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by iepathos 9mo ago
Research on calculator use in early math education (notably the Hembree & Dessart meta-analysis of 79 studies) found that students given calculators performed better at math - including on paper-and-pencil tests without calculators. The
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by iepathos 9mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. The objections to non-profits, OSFs, education, healthcare, and small companies all boil down to: they don't pay enough or they're inconvenient. Those are valid personal reasons, but not moral just
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by iepathos 9mo ago
> As IT workers, we all have to prostitute ourselves to some extent. No, we really don't. There are plenty of places to work that aren't morally compromised - non-profits, open source foundations, education, healthcare tech, sm
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by iepathos 10mo ago
What specific legal recourse beyond what exists? You can already sue for breach of contract if a company violates their privacy policy. The real problems are: (1) detecting violations in the first place, and (2) proving/quantifying dam
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by iepathos 10mo ago
I agree with you that cheating is a loaded word, but the question at the end here that the rules or standards enable users to work around it therefore it's not cheating is a bad semantic argument. We can use the exact same argument to
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by iepathos 10mo ago
These hyper paranoid statements like "I personally don’t touch LLMs with a stick. I don’t let them near my brain", are fairly worrisome for a technical person who claims to have any understanding of AI and undermines the credibili
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by iepathos 11mo ago
I can tell they're using MkDocs for the HyperDocs static site gen based on the screenshot. I'm working on an open source solution to generating docs with AI for codebases and maintaining them for documentation drift. I wrote a b
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by iepathos 11mo ago
Improving the open source automated documentation maintenance workflow I setup https://entropicdrift.com/blog/prodigy-docs-automation/ Any feedback is very welcome.
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by iepathos 11mo ago
The erosion of freedom is everyone's problem. Normalizing government control over personal bank accounts is a dangerous precedent. Today it's scam prevention, tomorrow it's freezing accounts of political opponents.
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by iepathos 1y ago
Kind of surprised I have to point this out. Power companies do not generate the same amount of power regardless of whether that power would be consumed on their grid or not. They increase generation based on demand. Whether that power co
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by iepathos 1y ago
I'm working on Debtmap - An open source Rust-based code complexity analyzer that tells you exactly which code to refactor and which code to test for maximum impact. Combines complexity metrics with test coverage data to identify the ri
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by iepathos 1y ago
Human naming has nothing to do with software naming which seems obvious but apparently not. Python package creators should check the pypi registry for names and generally avoid name collisions where reasonable. Common sense applies for red
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by iepathos 1y ago
Immigrants are a critical part of the working class in America. Always have been.
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by iepathos 1y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the working class is “resorting to populism to reverse the trend.” If anything, the fact that so many working-class voters support a wealthy oligarchy—one that consistently advances policies benefitin
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by iepathos 2y ago
Right... but we all know this guy beat his girlfriend from the report. She didn't want to press charges, that doesn't mean this guy is innocent and it doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer reputational harm. For the good of
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by iepathos 2y ago
I find the open source argument pretty weak. Linux is open source but is more used in production than windows, macos, or any other operating system by far and very arguably out-performs them. The very nature of being open source does not
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by iepathos 2y ago
Better tools that accelerate how fast engineers can produce software? That's not a threat, just a boon. I suspect the actual transition will just be people learning/focusing on somewhat different higher level skills rather than
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by iepathos 2y ago
Office Space just keeps replaying in my head. All he needed was a timely fire to get away with it.
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by iepathos 2y ago
For real, with everyone having a smartphone with high quality cameras on them there really is zero excuse for there to not be highly detailed accurate videos of this if they are legit especially with people describing them as "low and
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by iepathos 2y ago
> The education system is the same for all the kids This is incorrect, certainly an ideal we'd all like but far from reality. The educational experiences and outcomes of 1st and 2nd generation immigrants can and often does differ s
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by iepathos 2y ago
The Federal Reserve study classifies non-ordinary expenses with households by comparing against median data for a region. For example, having a massive house means the square footage is significantly above median for the region and classif

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