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by jaza 1y ago
Because now it has been "unveiled"! I guess it was wrapped in cellophane before... Probably timed to coincide with the peak of the tourist season in Peru. Dry season is May-Oct (not at all advisable to visit Machu Picchu in the we
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by jaza 1y ago
I'm a notorious Apple hater, so I can't say I'll shed a tear if Apple does take a sizeable hit. But then again, I'm also a big sceptic of the AI hype wave currently gripping the world. My bet is that it's the latter
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by jaza 1y ago
I wouldn't worry, I forecast we'll have peace in the Middle East before we have true AGI.
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by jaza 1y ago
So then, is "headhunting" more or less bad?
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by jaza 1y ago
No, I'm pretty sure they're stealing souls. That or kidneys.
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by jaza 1y ago
Switched all my python stuff to poetry several years ago. Still kinda tired and shagged out from that endeavour. Yeah yeah, ok ok, if y'all keep raving THIS much about uv, I guess it must be pretty good ... still, sigh, yet another One
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by jaza 1y ago
Hahaha... so ChatGPT-generated Node / React apps is the new Excel with VBA macros!
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by jaza 1y ago
Please share your writings more often. Nuclear attack combines, bring it on!
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by jaza 1y ago
Sounds to me like "immigration in Lisbon or in Paris or in both cities or in neither city" is a trick question, because (on top of immigration in Lisbon as the Schengen entry point) surely the traveller also needs to clear immigra
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by jaza 1y ago
Thanks for this, it should be added to school curricula worldwide!
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by jaza 1y ago
Yep. The St Ives one involved a fairly protracted debate at the local council, with accusations of anti-semitism (whether warranted or not is a matter of opinion) being levelled at those who argued against it. Although I don't know if
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by jaza 1y ago
Imagine that a whole nation's statute laws, and associated common laws, were frozen in time for over a thousand years, because (the statutes were declared to be immutable canon, and) any judges with sufficient authority to strike out o
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by jaza 1y ago
My conclusion from this is: ChatGPT is the new Google, so LLM hints is the new SEO.
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by jaza 1y ago
It remains an unsolved problem! For example, Facebook's "solution" was to buy Instagram.
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by jaza 1y ago
Centralised and heavily censored, yes, but AFAICT the censoring by-and-large respects free speech and diversity of opinion, while effectively stopping spam / abuse, and thus maintaining the high quality of content that keeps us all com
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by jaza 1y ago
Ah yes, the ol' default empty list Python gotcha, it bit me I think about 10 years ago, and ever since, sadly I've written code like this so many times it's not funny: def fun(a = None): _a = a if a is not None
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by jaza 1y ago
Not me! For a number of years, I was like "what's with that domain, never heard of ycombinator, oh well, can't be bothered reading up on it right now, anyway, great content here, and nice minimal interface, I'll keep com
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by jaza 1y ago
Yes, I've tried AI image generation, and while it's impressive, it's also - at the end of the day - just as bland and unoriginal a mashup of existing material as AI text generation is. All humans (I believe!) have the potenti
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by jaza 1y ago
Back in my day, we also called it Garbage In Garbage Out.
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by jaza 1y ago
The "value of a human" - same in this age as it has always been - is our ability to be truly original and to think outside the box. (That's also what makes us actually quite smart, and what makes current cutting-edge "AI
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by jaza 1y ago
I worked for a large-ish software company that had paid for a WinRAR license once upon a time, and that AFAIK still uses WinRAR for certain mission-critical tasks to this day. We often joked that we were the only people who had ever actuall
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by jaza 1y ago
Valid points in the article and in many of the comments here. BUT: taken to the extreme, "yes, reinvent the wheel!" quickly becomes NIH ("not invented here") syndrome, which I've seen one too many times in enterpris
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by jaza 1y ago
As a (mainly) Python dev, I'm aware that there are DI frameworks out there, but personally I haven't to date used any of them. My favourite little hack for simple framework-less DI in Python these days looks something like this:
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by jaza 1y ago
I think I can understand the boat you're in, bro. Both of the things that you don't do, I also didn't do for quite a long time, and I didn't particularly see the value in doing them (once upon a time); but I've been
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by jaza 1y ago
Great that this is a library. Really need this as a SaaS too. iseven.ai anyone?
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by jaza 1y ago
Yes, there are a lot of people working in places in Sydney other than the CBD, and yes, a much higher proportion of those people drive to work. And yes, there are still enough people who drive into the Sydney CBD in peak hour, to cause mass
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by jaza 1y ago
Wow - there's free street parking in Lower Manhattan?! Yep, there's your problem! Here in Sydney Australia, we don't have any congestion charge (there's been some talk about introducing one, but it's not really on t
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by jaza 1y ago
My twins spent several hours in their stroller (bugaboo donkey) on many days, back when they were toddlers (a lot of that time being spent having their afternoon nap in the stroller). Living in Sydney Australia. Similar car-centric problems
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by jaza 1y ago
Thanks for the JoS link, a thought-provoking read as always! (And it doesn't feel like a 23-year-old blog post - love your work Joel).
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by jaza 1y ago
It looks like you're one of the 1% of humans who still write letters themselves! Dear me, imagine that, what do you think this is, the 90s or something?! Would you like to join the other 99% of humans and doomscroll and shytpost while

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