ironman1478

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by ironman1478 6mo ago
I have an all-in-one amp / pedalboard and it's just more practical, even though all I do is just pick an amp, plug in my guitar and play. They take up less space and cost less money in the long run if you actually do want to use m
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by ironman1478 6mo ago
I didn't realize how I learned to develop software from 2011-2015 was the old way lol. (Am I old now?). I appreciate that the author understands why doing everything "the old way" is good. AI is a tool, it can't be a rep
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by ironman1478 6mo ago
Maybe that's a good thing. I want people running my country to actually know how to do things.
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by ironman1478 6mo ago
Unfortunately no. It's all proprietary and locked up. However, I can say that the optimizations are not always about IQ (though that is a major factor). It's also about making things run fast enough in a low latency environment. T
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by ironman1478 6mo ago
I work in this field and this is 100 percent true. It's really hard to learn about too. A lot of textbooks go over the algorithms in the chips in an idealized form. The actual versions are so messy and different that the textbooks aren
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by ironman1478 6mo ago
There are stories about insurance companies using AI when determining if a claim should be let through or denied. https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/03/...
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by ironman1478 7mo ago
Verification has always been hard and always ignored, in software more than other industries. This is not specific to AI generated code. I currently work in a software field that has a large numerical component and verifying that the syste
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by ironman1478 9mo ago
So you basically have a CS degree. I learned C in 7th grade and was completely self taught. I then got a CS degree because I just wanted to learn more about it and be around people who were also enthusiastic about CS. There is something dis
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by ironman1478 9mo ago
I just don't understand how this is true unless you're doing something extremely basic. So much context is missing in this post. Having a CS degree doesn't mean much, but I don't see how a lit major is going to learn how
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by ironman1478 9mo ago
It's a valid concern, but with a doctor giving bad advice there is accountability and there are legal consequences for malpractice. These LLM companies want to be able to act authoritatively without any of the responsibility. They can&
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by ironman1478 9mo ago
I'm not sure what to make of these technologies. I read about people doing all these things with them and it sounds impressive. Then when I use it, it feels like the tool produces junior level code unless I babysit it, then it really c
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by ironman1478 9mo ago
The life of people on earth doesn't seem better than people now. For connected people it seems great, but for the average joe it seemed awful.
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by ironman1478 10mo ago
At least the contribution back can happen. You're right though, it's not perfect.
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by ironman1478 10mo ago
Open source has been good, but I think the expanded use of highly permissive licences has completely left the door open for one sided transactions. All the FAANGs have the ability to build all the open source tools they consume internally.
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by ironman1478 11mo ago
Something I haven't seen mentioned is that python is very commonly taught at universities. I learned it in the 2010s at my school, whereas I never got exposed to Perl. The languages people learn in school definitely stick with you and
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by ironman1478 11mo ago
I'm not a fan of rust, but I don't think that is the only takeaway. All systems have assumptions about their input and if the assumption is violated, it has to be caught somewhere. It seems like it was caught too deep in the syste
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by ironman1478 11mo ago
Corporations extract a ton of value from projects like ffmpeg. They can either pay an employee to fix the issues or setup some sort of contract with members of the community to fix bugs or make feature enhancements. There is precedent for t
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by ironman1478 11mo ago
Never work for free. It's a complete market distortion and leads to bad actors taking advantage of you and your work.
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by ironman1478 1y ago
LibreOffice Calc can do this already. The main issue is the collaboration aspect of LibreOffice. I imagine though with funding LibreOffice can be upgraded to do this. If countries are already trying to migrate away from US tech, they could
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by ironman1478 1y ago
The world has become very expensive and everything is way more competitive than it was in the past. To me, it feels like there is little room to make mistakes. If you get detailed it's hard to get back on track. That I think is the pri
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by ironman1478 1y ago
Having worked at Meta, I wish they did this when I was there. Way too many people not agreeing on anything and having wildly different visions for the same thing. As an IC below L6 it became really impossible to know what to do in the org I
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by ironman1478 1y ago
It's surprising to me macs aren't a more popular target for games. They're extremely capable machines and they're console-like in that there isn't very much variation in hardware, as opposed to traditional PC gaming
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by ironman1478 1y ago
It seems like it's just poor management. I understand they are not product lines, but a university has bills to pay. They have to pay people salaries, benefits, maintain those builds, labs, libraries, etc. The money to do that has to c
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by ironman1478 1y ago
In the article it mentions that Google felt pressured by the government to take the content down. Implying that they wouldn't have if it wasn't for the government. I wasn't accusing Google of anything, but rather the governme
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by ironman1478 1y ago
It's interesting you say that, because the government is saying Tylenol causes autism in infants when the mother takes it. The original report even says more verification is required and it's results are inconclusive. I wouldn&#x2
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by ironman1478 1y ago
There isn't really a good solution here. A precedent for banning speech isn't a good one, but COVID was a real problem and misinformation did hurt people. The issue is that there is no mechanism for punishing people who spread dan
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by ironman1478 1y ago
You're last quote hits the nail on the head. I've found that good libraries are written by people actually solving the problem and then open sourcing it. pytorch, numpy, eigen, ros, openssl, etc. these all came from being trying t
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by ironman1478 1y ago
It is well documented they have detained people who are here legally.
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by ironman1478 1y ago
Multiple family members of mine were killed and jailed by the Romanian government during that time. The damage the government creates can be felt in the people who survived it to this day. Their lives were miserable. Please have grace when
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by ironman1478 1y ago
The abortion ban in Romania was born by the children and effected them in innumerable ways. The consequences fell on the children. You can read all the text I linked. Romania had a huge amount of children who were abandoned because they cou

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