jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> Every time I see an anecdote like this, A it reaffirms my belief that FAANG devs are fairly mediocre on the whole I think another (partially causal?) problem is how they're managed. The whole perf circus is just ridiculous, especi
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
From another angle that's maybe just a welcome excuse? Or it's some kind of more symbiotic malfeasance? Any way you slice it, it stinks. If it is actually about some misguided attempt at public safety or national security, what co
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Yeah, emacs is very competitive with "modern" IDEs. Even in JVM languages, which for a long time wasn't true. And I don't know of anything, anywhere that can rival magit. I've been using it for far less time than yo
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It smells an awful lot like the government is trying to pick a winner. Or, at least, a loser.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Before, when working on my car I would google bolt torque specs and usually the first result was authoritative--generally a forum post from a reliable, professional mechanic quoting the factory shop manual. Now the first result is an AI s
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Yes, I agree there are areas where it's undeniably useful[0]. But that's not going to satisfy market expectations. Devtools is not a large addressable market. It's hard to find examples of real-world applications, which don&#
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Just wait. It's becoming clearer by the day that tech has become a monoculture. It's basically to a first approximation just a crowd of frauds plagiarizing each other (with a few, rare exceptions). Monocultures collapse. To date,
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It's so refreshing to see emacs just sticking to its guns and getting solidly, steadily better over the years. Inspirational, even. This is how software should be. Can't wait for all the tree-sitter improvements!
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
This works especially well on an IBM Model M because there's nothing in the vicinity of either the left or right ctrl, you just chop your palm down and can't go wrong. I could also pretty reliably M-x in one hit by flipping my lef
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> I don't believe you.[0] [0] https://c.tenor.com/wuKJbik2LcEAAAAM/anchorman-ron-burgundy....
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
That's a good point!
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
And there are just tons of free engines sitting around that are basically almost as good as the newest ones...
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I do not think that means what you think it means
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I'm just here for Ed's victory lap.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I can't imagine there's a large variation in costs per token for inference and training costs between companies, and since they're all basically doing exactly the same thing, and competing on price... yeah.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Conceptually that makes sense, but has there been a supply chain problem lately? It's been a few years since I worked on a large rust project with tons of deps, but I don't recall there being a big problem. Especially with cargo v
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I don't get it, maybe my brain isn't wrinkly enough. Two things: 1. What problem does stdx actually solve? 2. Ok, it's a git dep, seems fine? Why is the choice to publish or not publish in crates.io a big deal either way?
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
I don't think the government is trying to protect anyone here, they're trying to punish a company for failing to toe the line. Antirez put it well in a comment here[0]. My point was more that there is no direct intervention that c
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
It seems at this rate to avoid a large tech crash in the near future we need to start seeing real, transformative value being delivered by AI. Like, the promises are coming due. From where I sit, I don't see that happening. That's
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
But then we wouldn't have had the metaverse, that was a barrel of laughs.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> this kind of AI psychosis might be the new normal for our industry, or at least one of the new normals That's possible, but don't underestimate the cleansing power of a huge market crash. I don't know how it'll shak
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Yes, and it's effective marketing. The war fighter vibes are thrilling. There's a tribal sense of us-vs-them, there's danger, there's the prospect of victory or defeat. Security products marketing is full of these ideas,
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
You can't really have one without the other..
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Question to folks building user-facing products on LLMs: How do you protect yourself against this kind of misuse/jailbreak? Is it just a bunch of prompts? It seems like the fact that LLMs are so trivially jailbroken really limits how y
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Best state in the country, jobs or no.
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
Yeah it's a fractal of wtf all the way down..
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
...but why? Seriously, this needs some more justification: > Only big and well-funded organization are able to build the internal tooling and libraries requireed to securely ship large Rust projects. Leaving aside the (real!) problems ot
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
As a kid, that's what I loved about computers. They were fair in ways society wasn't. The rules were clear, and breaking the rules resulted in badness. Unlike grade school, for example, where the rules were always changing and b
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
yes... ha ha ha... yes!
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by jcgrillo 4mo ago
> a live, running process that does useful things That is one of the things code does. It also communicates the developer's thoughts about how that process should work to others. If the latter is neglected, the code becomes very d

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