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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> any asshole with a basic understanding of a lathe and undergrad chemistry knowledge could conceivably run a munitions plant This makes artillery production fundamentally, physically different from nuclear bombs/subs/carriers
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
But on the timescale of tech it's a long time . When a service has serious availability issues for like 7 quarters straight that's.. I mean, it's why we're all talking about it.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Thanks for the info. Kill ring support is definitely a must for me, I care a lot less about macros. I'll keep an eye out for it!
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
How is their emacs keymap support? I tried VSCode for a while but switched back to emacs because it was so slow and the keymap was not very good. I've been intending to try Zed but emacs is working well enough so the motivation isn&#x2
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
More than half the companies I have worked for use Github. The others used Atlassian tools which were at least as bad from a reliability perspective and much less nice to use (IMO).
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> The issues they’ve had are almost all very recent. It has been bad for at least 18mo, maybe longer? I recall multiple work impacting outages at my previous employer extending back into 2024. Maybe even earlier than that?
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I'd like to see one of the major AI players demonstrate a successful exit. I don't think Coreweave counts here, because their long-term success is so tightly tied to the AI bubble continuing forever, which it probably won't.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's more of a slow burn than any big event you can point to, so it's possible nothing will get done. Hopefully the political pressure will develop as the political class becomes more tech savvy. They will, over time, as younger p
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
They should have just called it Clippy and revived the animated avatar.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's at least considerate of them to jump into the dumpster first, less of a mess to deal with.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
In some professions incorporation doesn't shield you from malpractice claims. We have a software quality problem in tech, to the point where buggy, broken software has become completely normal . Security vulnerabilities are so commonp
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
When did every company become a feature factory? Was tech ever not like this, or is it just how it works? It seems like they all end up this way, and it's really dumb.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Some people are claiming to use a billion tokens per day. According to Claude's API pricing page that'll cost somewhere between $3k and $10k per day . Leaving aside whether we trust Claude's API pricing model will remain con
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yeah I think if you could pull off a trick like that you could probably recover the necessary training data ;)
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
If that's the case we ought to be investing in technology that actually delivers results. Patriot missiles work. Javelins work. M777's work. AI? Dunno man.. Instead it seems like what's happening here is Google has found a gu
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
But are there any viable AI products ? That's, I think, the root of his claim that it won't ever be good for anything. So far I have yet to hear of a really good, successful AI product. Coding tools arguably kind of work, but tha
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's not looking great for a lot of them either :)
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I hadn't actually heard of this, I have never worked on safety critical systems, but doing some googling I found a reference to a "Designated Engineering Representative" in this article about the FAA's DO-178B: https:&#
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
The missing piece is the requirement for a certified Professional Engineer to sign off on the system. That decouples the incentives from the corporate objectives, and makes it personal . We need that kind of professional accountability in
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Yes, it'll generate a lot of super annoying paperwork. But, hopefully, it will also tighten up software engineering standards. It has worked well in other disciplines.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
The finding out phase has begun.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I don't think fines are enough of an incentive. They're too easy to evade and insufficiently consequential to the people who are actually shipping code. Moreover, making them enormous (as you put it well "valuation-cratering&
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
It's pretty funny how these guys are all becoming some kind of internet version of, like, Halliburton. It seems pretty desperate. B2C and B2B applications didn't pan out I guess?
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Fuck why didn't I think of that all those other times I fucked up in my life. Ctrl-z woulda done it every goddamn time.
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
I've got a 1995 FZJ80 and I am counting the fucking minutes until I can rip that goddamn forklift motor out and replace it with the 1HZ + HX30 + 1HD-T rods mashup I have in store for it :P
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
OK I'll raise the bar--make sure when you reassemble the coffee cup and put the coffee back into it, the coffee is the exact same temperature as when you threw the whole shooting match onto the floor ;) EDIT: and you don't get to
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
The jig is up!
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
Except... not at all? The vast majority of the training data required to create an artificial Aristotle has been lost forever. Smash your coffee cup on the ground. Now reassemble it and put the coffee back in. Once you can repeatably do tha
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
> choosing to outsource key dependencies to a vendor This is the entire thing. The author is basically slinging blame at a bunch of different vendors, and while some of the criticisms might be valid product feedback, it absolutely does
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by jcgrillo 6mo ago
There is no version of this that is the LLM's "fault" for any definition. This was 100% pilot error. When you fly the plane into the side of a mountain on autopilot, it's pilot error every single time.

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