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by jdiez17 2y ago
In the wise words of Grug: > grug understand all programmer platonists at some level wish music of spheres perfection in code. but danger is here, world is ugly and gronky many times and so also must code be https://grugbrain.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Um, I would argue that what has helped society the most is agriculture, sewage systems, healthcare, electricity and heating, etc. All of which are technological innovations. Also, how many variations of a to-do app does the world need?
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Damn. Seems almost too good to be true. Let’s see where this goes in two weeks.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
> Welcome to France! France is built on the idea that the public can't be trusted, has not really reached adulthood (won't ever) and needs to be coached by an army of civil servants whose job is to protect the State and its fin
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Of course all software ultimately runs on hardware, which has things like registers and hidden internal state which affect how that hardware accesses or writes to physical memory and all sorts of other "unsafe" things. In a more p
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Please read this[1] while keeping in mind that a 14 year old does not fit into Stallman's definition of "child": > I don't think it is wrong to distribute "child porn" images, even when they [depict] childr
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by jdiez17 2y ago
It seems to me that the purpose of this report is not to say "look, that guy is a weirdo". But rather, to point out in excruciating detail how he is enabling vile behaviours (like normalizing possession of CSAM, pretending like ma
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Sounds like a great way to make sure we don’t learn the lessons from the FAA’s lax oversight of Boeing.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I have. Really enjoyed my time there. But obviously, there are no roads to the places where the endangered species live.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Okay, I read the FAA's written reevaluation (source: https://www.faa.gov/media/85696 ). My notes: - SpaceX requested to amend its existing "Programmatic Environmental Assesment" of 2022 to support jettiso
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I understand the US and Europe work differently. Although I am European, I also have a strong dislike of bureaucracy and am sympathetic to advancing society through technological progress. But there should be some oversight. You cannot just
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by jdiez17 2y ago
So in your opinion, as soon as SpaceX uploads a PDF, the launch license should be issued immediately? P.S.: I wish SpaceX succeeds in bringing down the cost of access to space.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I would guess SpaceX decided to provide everything the FAA/other agencies were asking for and thus their launch license was issued.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
True. Updated my comment.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Take that with a BIG grain of salt. When SpaceX says they are ready and the FAA is holding them up, it is actually Elon saying they are ready. For example, take a look at the "Starships are meant to fly" post from September: http
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by jdiez17 2y ago
> and you'll never be able to escape it. Slow down, cowboy. Getting a LLM to generate code for you that is immediately useful and doesn't require you to think too hard about it can stunt learning, sure, but even just reading it
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I did a similar calculation a few weeks ago: Humans consume about 100W average power (2000 kcal to watt hours/24 hours). So 8 billion people consume ~800 GW. Call it 1 TW. Average world electric power generation is 28000 TWh / (24
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your story! Reminds me a bit of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humanity.
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I would be in favor of some kind of state approved exam/certification to ensure programmers have at least some basic knowledge of computer security and engineering ethics. > making a large barrier to entry (which hurts a lot of us w
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by jdiez17 2y ago
FWIW I used various LLMs to draft a freelance work contract with good results. Of course I carefully read, thought about every clause, edited, etc. It’s probably not as bulletproof as something a lawyer could produce, but it was definitely
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by jdiez17 2y ago
It is quite similar but I found aider a bit clunky to use in that it creates a new commit with a huge message being the whole conversation and context. Which can be a good thing of course, but for most things I'd rather accumulate chan
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I have started using Claude Dev (an extension for VSCode - https://github.com/saoudrizwan/claude-dev ), and so far my impression has been very positive. It’s a full blown code agent that looks for relevant files in the
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Thanks!
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by jdiez17 2y ago
> VSCode is not open-source Partly true, partly false. VS Code is FOSS (MIT license). The VS Code binary that Microsoft distributes is freeware (proprietary license). > and neither is this extension Correct. > That's just prop
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by jdiez17 2y ago
I don't think it's deceptive to have an MIT-licensed core editor (which is distributed by MS under a custom license) and proprietary extensions. Like many OSS enthusiasts, I did some initial research on VSCode/VSCodium and de
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Interesting idea. If you had control over the whole software stack down to the hardware, you could organize it in such a way that all meaningful mutable state is kept in a contiguous region of memory - and then you could just download or sy
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by jdiez17 2y ago
> I got lost recently in how the Shuttle software was managed, mostly through IBM mainframes, and z/OSs facilities for all the above. I'm curious how modern development looks in comparison. Do you have any references for this?
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by jdiez17 2y ago
To the shock and horror of many programming-inclined people, it turns out that having "arbitrary memory read/write" commands on a remote computer that *must* keep the mission going is quite useful. I can tell you a little fir
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Linux on a satellite bus is definitely up and coming. For example ESA's OPS-SAT ran the NanoSat MO Framework ( https://nanosat-mo-framework.github.io/ ), written in Java and running on an ARM Linux OBC. It also makes a l
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by jdiez17 2y ago
Back of the envelope feasibility check: assume the cable is a cylinder with diameter = 1cm, length = 25km. The area of the cylinder face is A = 2*pi*r*h = 785.4 m^2. The thermal conductivity of water ice is approx. 2.3 W / (m K). So to

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