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by imiric 10mo ago
> Third party managers don't hit the spot either. I've been happy with Pinboard for many years now, which does just the bare essentials. There are integrations for most browsers, though I prefer using it externally via a small
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by imiric 10mo ago
> UBI (from taxing big tech) If you think those in power will pass regulations that make them less wealthy, I have a bridge to sell you. Besides, there's no chance something like UBI will ever be a reality in countries where people
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by imiric 10mo ago
> His language is LLM prompts. If he can check them into git and get reasonably consistent results if he ran the prompts multiple times You're joking, right? There's nothing "reasonably consistent" about LLMs. You can
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by imiric 10mo ago
Definitely. I'm not disparaging the process of assembling IKEA furniture, nor the process of producing software using LLMs. I've done both, and they have their time and place. What I'm pushing back on is the idea that these a
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by imiric 10mo ago
I'm sorry, "upskill"? The roles you mentioned don't require any more advanced skills than those required for software development—just a different set of skills. And an IC is not "left behind" if those roles do
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by imiric 10mo ago
They're not moving back into development. They're adopting a new approach of producing software, which has nothing to do with the work that software developers do. It's likely that they "left" the field because they
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by imiric 10mo ago
There's hardly anything original here. These are regurgitated points you'd see in any article of this type. In fact, your favorite LLM can give you the same "lessons" from its training data.
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by imiric 10mo ago
Eh, sure. But at the same time lessons aren't learned by reading what someone else has to say. They're learned by experience, and everyone's is different. An engineer with "14 years at Google" hardly makes them an e
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by imiric 10mo ago
If by "body-slammed" you mean "trained on SO user data while violating the terms of the CC BY-SA license", then sure. In the best case scenario, LLMs might give you the same content you were able to find on SO. In the co
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by imiric 10mo ago
Rsync is one of my favorite programs. I use it daily. The CLI is a bit quirky (e.g. trailing slashes), but once you get used to it, it makes sense. And I really always use the same flags: `-avmLP`, with `-n` for dry runs. One alternative I&
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by imiric 10mo ago
That's neat, but I'm much more intrigued by your Concise Encoding project[1]. I see that it only has a single Go reference implementation that hasn't been updated in 3 years. Is the project still relevant? Thanks for sharing
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by imiric 10mo ago
I'm sad to read that. CC is one of my favorite shows of all time, and Stewart was the perfect host: engaging, curious, knowledgeable, kind, friendly, charming. Like a tech Bob Ross, Fred Rogers, and Carl Sagan. He and the rest of the t
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by imiric 10mo ago
The market has not settled yet. We're in the late 90s internet era when it comes to "AI". As with the dotcom bubble, real value will only become evident after the crash.
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by imiric 10mo ago
It's unfortunate then that the stomach is a bottomless pit for many people.
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by imiric 10mo ago
Popularity is not required for a language to be "successful". An argument can be made that popularity can bring fragmentation, a lack of focus, security and usability issues via poor quality code and outdated information, and over
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by imiric 10mo ago
> It's really hard to not become hateful towards a group of people when you are shoved information Yeah, psychological manipulation is a large problem that's mostly unacknowledged. Entire industries rely on it (e.g. advertising
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by imiric 10mo ago
I can guarantee that your codebase is spaghetti of conditional functionality that no developer understands, and that most of those conditionals are leftovers that are no longer needed, but nobody dares to remove. Feature flags are a good id
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by imiric 10mo ago
I don't see how you're avoiding development branches. Surely while a change is in development the author doesn't simply push to main. Otherwise concurrent development, and any code review process—assuming you have one—would b
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by imiric 10mo ago
> Sounds to me like you're trying to force your opinion on us right now... So sharing one's opinion is forcing it on others? That's silly. > I disagree and have noticed that people will still dislike you for any random
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by imiric 10mo ago
I don't think it's just a matter of liking or disliking people. Rather, there's a cultural trend in certain demographics of being highly sensitive and politically correct. Some opinions are "forbidden" if there is a
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by imiric 10mo ago
Why have we normalized "app stores" that build software whose authors likely already provide packages of? I've been using Obtainium more recently, and the idea is simple: a friendly UI that pulls packages directly from the or
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by imiric 10mo ago
"AI" is the next advertising frontier, no question. People are throwing themselves to feed you personal data. You no longer have to come up with sneaky ways to collect it, or build out their profile from inferred metadata. Less wo
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by imiric 10mo ago
The tech ouroboros manifest.
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by imiric 10mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by imiric 10mo ago
> You presented your point in a misleading way. I would classify this as collaboration/communication rather than politics. Collaboration and communication are key parts of politics, though. At its core, politics is simply the dynami
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by imiric 10mo ago
I understand what you and the article are saying, but what GP is getting at, and what I agree with, is that there is a difference between a photo that attempts to reproduce what the "average" human sees, and digital processing tha
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by imiric 10mo ago
The most insidious aspect is that tech CEOs and influencers keep parroting how "AI" will bring global prosperity and empower the masses. When it's clear to anyone with an ounce of reason that the exact opposite is happening.
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It doesn't matter who is on the receiving end of this. What matters is if this type of behavior is acceptable or not. Describing it as a "harmless experiment" and the reaction as a "hissy fit" shows a lack of critic
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by imiric 10mo ago
My path was similar, except with Spacemacs, which has excellent Vim-like modal key bindings. I've been using a custom config for many years now, but evil-mode has been a crucial part of my setup. A modal interface is simply easier to u
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by imiric 10mo ago
Because the porcelain is purpose built for a specific use case. If you need something outside of what its author intended, you'll need to get your hands dirty. And, realistically, compute and power is cheap for getting help with one-of

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